Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-11-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

nc recOllecUS OF INC urSt VerrlVorlul leg
islature.
When the judges pass around to
award the blue ribbon for beauty we
trust and pray they will not overlook
Mr.. Moddlemug Of Mcpherson county.
A carload Of mules the other day was
brought up in Emporia and shipped
out on the, Katy" railroad.
r. Pl Sample, Rock Island brake
man, fell from train at Oklahoma
City and was killed, His residence
was Mt Topeka.
Recently man out in Hamilton
county was tried for insanity, and con-
victed on the evidence that he had been
trying to do business without advertis-
ing. --Atchison Champion.
People are not generally aware that
the tornado insurance companies will
not insure church spires or towers. If
the church building is damaged by
spire or tower falling upon 1t, remarks
the Hiawatha World, the companies
will not make the damage good. The
Seneca Methodists found out this fact
to their great surprise.
An Atchison county farmer has
large orchard which is yielding the
second crop of apples this season. AL
though the last crop has not produced
as large apples MS the former, yet they
are said to be sound and Of good flavor.
Hog cholera is raging in the vicinity
of Downs, one farmer losing a hun
dred head. A strong effort Is being
made to hold the disease in check.
The appearance of the disease is es-
pecially unfortunate, MS the farmers
were fattening great many hogs for
the market.
M H. Stevens, boolSieeper for the
past ten years for the Neosho Valley
Bank and Investment company, COM
m tied suicide by shooting himself
through the right temple with pistol.
He was the finest penman in Kansas.
His affairs were arranged to indicate
generalization. Poor health was sup
posed to be the cause.
The Florence Bulletin has observed
that the man who shuts one eye when
he squirts tobacco juice is liar.
In the yard of Sol Miller ut Troy
grows tall chestnut from which this
fall large number Of nuts have been
gathered. This disproves the state
ment of Fred Wellhouse, tho orchard
man, who says chestnuts cannot be
grown in Kansas
John Casad of Lnbette county is the
father of nineteen sons and six daugh-
tiers, all of whom are alive, The local
paper declares that at ~ years of age
Mr.. Casad Is MS vigorous and happy as
though he had never been worried by
the bringing up of a single kid.
G. W. Katsung, the prominent Fort
Scott merchant who fell dead with
heart disease last week, provided In
his wiz that his body should be cre-
mated. 1t is understood that his fam
lily will obey his command, conveying
the corpse to the crematory at Wash
ington, Pa.
Eli Snider Of Osawatomie, who was
an associate Of John Brown In the bor-
der war took wife to comfort his old
age one day Inst week Mr. Snider Is
aged So, and the bride Of his choice
was q widow of So,
II may not always be safe TO reason
from cause to effect, as, for instance,
in the case Of Mrs. George jacobs Of
Atchison, who two months age gave
birth to twins and who Is now being
sued for divorce by her husband.
The first annual log rolling of the
Interstate Logrolling association of
the Woodmen of the World, compris-
ing Kansas and Missouri members, was
hold In Fort gnott last Xvnale
Alta dance in the country near Hutch
inson, James Stanley and Tom Turner,
. young farmers and intimate friends,
were scufiling. A revolver in SANKEY'S
pocket was discharged. The bullet
struck Turner in theNforehead, killing
him almost instantly. The dance was
, stopped.
The supports to ball room gave
way while 1t was being filed ut Flor
ence last week, and three boys were
badly hurt. One was severely injured
on the head, another had his arm
. broken and the other one was badly
hurt about the face.
Beloit Gazette: A Norton county
: couple have produced the phenomenal
baby girl. She is "a years old, weighs
1852 pounds, still creeps, and can speak
but few words. The parents are me-
. dunn sized, the mother being rather
small.
The telegraph dispatches of q few
days ago announced the death alta
coma, Wash. Of Colonel J. M. Steele,
the manner of his carrying off being
. an attack of heart disease. Colonel
Steele was for many years prominent
In Kansas business and political circles,
having been chief engineer of the fa-
nous Wichita boom and once or twice
candidate for governor before Re-
publican state conventions. lie went
to Tacoma in 1882 and at once became
: prominent in the politics of Washing
ton Territory.
Rees & Downey, who own an orchard
OF $50 acres near East Atchison, made
, SEA, 1000 clear on their crop last year.
Although Rees s. Downey are referred
: to as the owners of this orchard, Will
, Jam Recs is the largest owner, John
, Downey having less than fifty acres
devoted to apples. William Rees
planted eighty acres of apple trees last
spring, and will put out an additional
eighty acres next spring. He proposes
to continue until he has 800 acres.
Rccs Is the second richest man In Platte
, county, and Downey is also well to do.
J When they sold their fruit in the or