Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-03-19

AH"b cAAiOllf anu llub uCtu
by Judge Bashore and County Super.
intendent Gebhardt.
The two Bellams, t. j. and e. p,
who died in Topeka, left estatates val.
ued at about 100000, rnd there was
no will in either case.
State Fish Commissioner O. e. Sad.
Ter OF Eldorado says he has received
over 900 applications for fish to be
used in stocking ponds.
A canned goods club has been or
gained in Atchison. The members
meet once week and invent new
ways for cooking canned goods.
The Hiawatha Democrat prints the
names of $50 citizens of Brown coun.
ty who have lived there over twenty.
tve years The oldest settler arrived
in 1854.
Chancellor Snow Of the Kansas uni
versity says that only six Februarvs in
the past twenty-nine years have had a
higher mean temperature than the one
just ended.
A number of hust!ing young bust
ness men of Olathe and neighborinp
farmers have formed stock company
and will establish creamery in
Olathe at once.
The Salvation Army is given such
thorough protection in the cities of
Kansas that a number of prisoners
are now serving Jail sentences for dis
turbing religious worship.
Miss Maud Stratton, a pretty school
teacher of Vernon county, Mo-, is
under arrest at Fort Scott, charged
with disturbing religious meeting at
country church near town.
Samuel R. Wood of Wichita was
awarded $1,000 damages in his suit
against Dr. Albright, corn doctor.
Blood poisoning resulted from the re-
moval of a wart by the doctor.
1t is said that an Atchison girl re-
Gently advertised for position as
housekeeper, and had such good
recommendations that a man who
went to employ her married her in
stead.
Kansas congressman are pushing
the States claim for reimbursement
for the $350,000 allowed for destruc-
ton of property in the Quantrell raid,
with apparently some prospect Of
success.
The Eldorado G. A. R. post has
been granted one of the governments
condemned cannon and a supply of
balls for use as monument to the
memory of the deceased veterans
buried there.
The postoffice receipts at Parsons
are now averaging from $1,000 to
81, 200 a month, considerable increase
over any previous period except during
the height of the boom, and but a
trife below that.
II. 7. Lamey of Denver, general
manager of the British American AS
surance Company, has addressed let
ter to the agents of the company in
Kansas, requiring them to secure tar
if rates on future policies, giving as
his reason that the Kansas Insurance
laws are unjust, and that it would be
suicide for the company to cut the
tariff rate. Insurance Commissioner
Anthony, when shown copy of Mr..
Lamey's letter, said several of it's
statements respecting the Kansas laws
are false and unjust.
Many of the farmers and business
men who rushed away from Washing
ton county and sought localities in
Missouri, Arkansas and elsewhere last
season, are coming back already with
an acquired experience that will in
cline them to recognize and hold onto
a good thing hereafter.
Fredonia Citizen: Nathaniel John.
son, aged Il years, son of j. A. John
son of Colfax township, met death in
a singular way at the Shinn school
house. He left home for school in
boyish glee with two sisters, and when
about one-half mile from the school,
house he remarked that he would run
ahead and beat them. Arriving at
the schoolhouse and finding no one
there, as it was early, young John
son raised the lower sash of one
of the windows, putting stick under
it to hold it up, then placing his toes
on the pEotruding rock foundation, he
gave spring to get inside. His elbow
striking the stick that held the sash
up, knocked it out and tho sash came
down on his neck, breaking it and
causing almost instant death. When
his sisters arrived few moments
later, as did also the teacher, they
saw him hanging in the window, his
body outside and armsand head on the
inside.
United States Senator Baker intro
duced bill to appropriate $1,000 for
the benefit of e. L. Kornes, late post
master at Phillipsburg; also bill to
grant pension of SO per month to
Mary Williams and the same amount
to Margaret ]. Verbiskey
An Atchison woman with five mar
riageable daughters has notified the
committee that she will take six min
listers as guests during the conference
provided they are single. Otherwise
she will not take one She says that
these are such hard times that even q
minister with his doubtful and uncer-
tain salary is better than no man az