Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-09-24

Two GrOnlDltlOn IacJlCnS IN hanSaS
now talk Of combination.
Twelve deaths occurred at the Sol
diers' Home during August
Several cases of diphtheria are
under quarantine in Topeka.
TIL State University at Lawrence
opened with an enrolment of 1000,
Topeka has thirty-eight miles Of
paved streets, which cost $l,000,OOO
rich strike of Jack has been found
on Mrs. Stewards farm near Fort
Scott.
Five car loads of -four were shipped
to London by Topeka milling COM
pany.
Santa Fe Railway Company has
bulletined ex-senator John Martina
pass.
Lanyon Spelter Company, Pitts
burg, shipped train load of spelter
to France.
The Soldiers home at Leavenworth
holds 1860 married men and 2,747
single ones.
A series OF revivals Is to be inaugur-
ated in Topeka by the State Temper
ance union. ,I
Or. William c. Merrill, one of the
best known physicians in central Kan
sas, is dead.
Kansas has 14,7lO members of the
G. A. r. Eight states have a larger
membership
The railroads have reduced the rate
In prOv,,, Knnpor Yoniufe tn
Louis and Chicago.
The Democrats and Populists have
fused in Atchison county and nomi-
mated county ticket.
Forty families have moved to Law.
renee to give their children the ad'
vantage of the schools
A new industry at Emporia is a
broom factory, the output of which
will be $4,000 brooms per year.
Coffeyville won the pennaut in the
Southern Kansas baseball league. II
got seventeen out of the twenty-eight
games.
This year the corn crop in the west
ern and southern portion of the state
has been badly injured by the hot dry
weather.
The Atchison GLOBE sagely observes
that during his life a man stirs up so
much trouble that he is willing to die
to get rid Of it.
John O'Neil, Beauties postmaster,
died ct his home at Beattie. Mr..
O'Neil had lived in Marshall county
thirty-hve years.
A Lyndon man takes pride in the
fact that he has shot gun that saw
service in the hands of bushwhacker
before Chickamaugua.
The property of the Harrison Tele-
phone Company in Topeka is to be sold
by the sheriff under Judgments ag-
gregating about 49,, 0O0
Allen Six, a travelling veterinary
surgeon, was arrested at Fort Scott
on a charge Of bigamy. 1t is alleged
he has seyen living wives.
The Standard Oil company has
chosen Wamego as a distributing
point, and begins this week the erec-
ton of suitable tanks and buildings
Eleven-year- old Tommy McCandless
of Marion lost the sight of his left
eye in few hours by grasshopper
landing in it and administering SO.
we're kick
A Paola man named Davis, who
went to Cripple Creek three years
ago, sold out his interests there re.
Gently for 100000 and departed for
Australia.
The State convention of the Kansas
Y. M. G. A. meets at Leavenworth 0c-
tober IS, continuing three days. From
$50 to 2OO delegates will probably be
in attendance.
Western Kansas papers are calling
attention to the fact that the I'M
precedented growth of prairie grass
will add greatly to the danger of the
usual prairie fires this fall, making 1T
necessary that all possible precautions
for guarding against their ravages be
taken without delay.
Speaking about the unhesitating
manner in which Kansas man looks
out for himself, the fact may be OBJ
served that Fort Scott man has just
filed his claim to an estate valued at
100000, the property OF Diamond
Joe" Reynolds, who died intestate In
Arizona in 1881.
When the improvements now in
progress at the Soldiers Orphans
home in Atchison are completed, the
institution will have accommodations
for caring for 275 children, and will
be, Superintendent Faulkner says,
one of the most modern and commodi,
GUS in the United States.
The September crop bulletin of the
state board of agriculture credits Don
iphan county with the highest aver
age corn yield in the state--forty-
eight bushels an acre.
The construction of the Kaw river
bridge and other public improvements
there will result in the distribution of
more than 100000 for abor in To-
peka this fall and winter
The skim house at this place has
put in circulation in this community
$4,000 between April II, 1885, and July
Is, 1895, and no one is out any money
on the enterprise except the few
stockholders. Who says Vt doesn't
pay to milk cows?-Greelsy County
Republican.