Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-07-18
KANSAS NEWS NOTES.

John Johnson. son of colored
preacher OF Atchison, was accidentally
killed by the cars,
Police court collections at Fort
Scott for the last month were a littl
over 5000.
Elijah Morrison, who lives at Little
Valley, has been arrested for cowhid.
ing preacher.
Burgoyne Baker, son of Senator
Baker, is telegraph editor ON the Leav-
enworth Times.
Kansas state officials seem to have
technically violated the law in order
ing too much printing
Pete Weggen of Reno county has
harvested 260 acres of wheat that av-
eraged twenty-five bushels.
Grasshoppers are reported quite
numerous in Finney county, but no
serious damage has yet been reported.
At "a saw mill near Atchison two
live four-pound catfish were taken
from hollow log that had just been
taken from the water
Ex.Judges Horton and Valentine
agree in the opinion that an extra ses-
sion of the legislature is both unnec-
essary and undesirable.
Some unknown misereant exploded a
lot of dynamite in John VOLTS fish
pond, at Ellinwood, and killed more
than thousand of the fla.
A Shawnee county man measured a
selected cornstalk in his field two days
in succession and found gsowth of
seven inches in twenty-four hours.
Judge Chandler is coming back from
Washington for u long rest at his home
in Independence, and may remain per-
manently. overwork has impaired his
health.
Joe II. Borders and w. Il. Carr have
shipped the printing material of the
Great Bend Register office to indie
pendence, Mo-, where they will start
u new paper.
The l{aw valley from Lawrence to
Kansas City will this year produce
almost double the crop of potatoes
that has been grown there in any
previous year
At Falls City horsethief was SEN
fenced to four years in the peniten-
tiary, bicycle thief to two years, and
a man who bit off another mans ear
was given year.
A letter received from ex-Congress-
man Bryan of Nebraska, states that he
will accept the invitation of the silver
league to address a Wichita audience
in August.
The creditors of Wesley Davis, the
absconding grain dealer of Rossville,
have instituted suits in the shawnee
district court to recover property.
Davis left debts amounting to nearly
SIS $1,000.
Emporia Knights Templar will not
attend the Boston conclave on account
of the exorbitant rates, unsatisfactory
conditions as to tickets and unreason-
able Pullman eXtortions.
Receiver j. j. Hit of the United
States land Office has been notified
that the Pottawatomie Indian lands
in Jackson county will not be opened
to settlement until further act OF con-
gress.
A hot box in the "smutter" caused
the complete destruction of the McHale
Touring mill at Blue Rapids and also
the wooden mill formerly operated by
the Buell. manufacturing company.
The total loss was about $4,000, with
only 81, 900 insurance.
Miss Chatlin Hobson, a Paola girl,
has been elected to the chair of elocu-
ton and physical culture at Glendale
female college, a Presbyterian institu-
ton near Cincinnati.
ANY Kansan who wishes to make an
exhibit in any line at the Atlanta ex-
position should communicate with
John @. Royse, Phillipsburg, the Sec
rotary of the Kansas commission.
The thirty-seventh annual catalogue
of Baker university shows that insti-
tuition has just closed a most prosper
GUS year. For the first time in years
the expenditures have been within the
income.
The ninth biennial report of the
State Historical society contains list
of the 7sS newspapers and periodicals
of Kansas. Of these AZ are dailies,
634 weelllies, semi-weeklies, 80
monthlies. semi-monthlies, BIZ
monthlies, 4 quarterlies, and 2 octa-
slonal.
Every joint in Atchison is closed and
the indications are that they will not
be allowed to reopen. Two hundred
men are out of employment as a re-
suit. Joints have been source OF
SIS, 900 revenue annually to the city.
Judge Hazen has refused to grant
the order asked for by e. II. Snow to
restrain j. X. Hudson from assuming
the office and performing the duties of
state printer. This was preliminary
case, and it is understood it will now
go to the supreme court to be decided
on its merits.
Fred Pritchard, professional pc
destrian, started from Wichita for New
York, on a wager of $500 put up by
Richard X. Fox, editor of the Police
Gazette Pritchard must accomplish
the distance between Wichita and New
York, estimated approximately at 1,5OO
miles, in sixty days.
Attorney General Dawes il an OPT
ion relative TO the bills of $l,53u.7o,
presented by the directors of the state
reformatory, besides declaring that
they may not be paid out of funds APP
propriated for the fiscal year which
began july /, informs the auditor OF
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