Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-10-08
Kansas Notes.


One hundred and fifty deaf and
dumb students are attending the in
stitute at Olatne.
Mrs. Plumb, widow Of Senator
Plumb, has contributed $500 to the
Bryan campaign fund.
Atchison Globe: Half the people
who pretend to make love could be ar
rested for counterfeiting.
Professor Dyche has been heard
from at some point In Alaska. He is
after natural history specimens,
A Shawnee county farmer has lost
several heads of hogs as result of
their having been bitten recently by q
mad dog.
The stock rush is still on. Within
few hours Monday night $40 cars Of
cattle passed through Emporia on the
Santa Fe.
II. L. Stevens, wholesale dealer in
farming machinery, harvesters, bug
gies and bicycles at Lawrence failed
for 100000.
lodge City will soon have fire pro-
lection. The city council recently
purchased Babcock chemical engine
and 200 feet of hose
Gate City Journal: - The electric
belt fakir struck Lyons last week and
and did the natives of that burg to
the extent of $76. Next! 8
The Santa Fe Railroad company has
cut l, 100 acres of hay near Frontenac
this summer and has bsled and piled
1900 tons under one shed,
The students In the Topeka high
school have begun the publication of
paper called the High School World.
Roy Short is editor-in-chief
In their street parade in Lawrence
Darlington Booths American Volun-
teers outnumbered their rivals of the
Salvation Army nearly two to one,
Twenty two years ago in Wilson
county w. A. PETER and s. s. Bene-
dict were rival candidates for the Re.
publican nomination for state SEN
| ator.
The widow OF the late T. Dwight
Thatcher is an inmate of Christ hos
pital, Topeka, where she is being
treated for severe attack of nervous
rrostration.
The wolf scalp industry hasn't yet
become extinct in Leavenworth coun-
ty, the bounty having been claimed
on three az the county clerks Office a
day or two ago.
There are at present SIS students in
attendance at the State Agricultural
college at Manhattan. This is the
largest enrolment of any year in the
history of the institution.
Frank Newlin, who up to within a
short time was engaged in publication
of newspaper in White Cloud, has
reformed, and is now personally con-
Quoting meat market there,
Miss Jessie Lewelling, daughter OF
Ex-Governor Lewelling, who taught
dancing classes at Wichita, Arkansl rs
City and z dorado last winter, will
teach in addition a class ct Hutchin-
son this year.
The Kansas Christian Advocate,
which has been published by b. f.
Randolph several years in Topeka,
has been absorbed bv the Central
Chr, stan Advocate of st. Louis.
The Topeka journal says that DR..
G. G. Allen of that city was the first
man to discover that tripoli stone
would absorb ink and could be used
as blotter, but failed to patent his
discovery. The man who secured the
patent is now millionaire.
At the suggestion of Athletic In
structor Cowan, numerous additions
have been made during the summer &c
the facilities for work in the gymna
SUM at. the university, and that de
partment has become one of the most
popular in the institution. Regular
work is required of every student
whether male or female, the only
ones excused being members OF the
teams when actively engaged.
Room No. L. of the Clifton house in
Chicago, the room which Mr.. Bryan
occupied when he received his nomi
nation, has brought good luck to 6
Wichita man. He was assigned tt
that room recently when the clerk
handed him a telegram. The dispatch
was a brief one announcing to him
that some investments in mining
stocks had turned out favorably, there
by netting him a fortune, which hi
estimated at 100000.
Upon invitation OF the nationa
committee Of the Peoples party, Sen
ator PETER has decided to speak il
Nebraska, South Dakota, North Da
kota aud Minnesota during October
A Kansas City, Kan, company ha'
contracted to furnish 100000 Orange
boxes for Tampico, Old Mexico, where
they will be filed with Mexican fruit
and shipped back to this country
The enrolment of students at the
university had reached 7O9 last week
divided among the different depart
ments as follows: School OF arts, 425
school of law, ll2; school of pharm
acy, "a; school of engineering, ~
schoo! of fine arts, 49,