Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-01-23

trict convention.
Pittsburg employees thirty-Avo
teachers and Girard fifteen.
More than 10000 OF Labette county's
2102S inhabitants are native Kansana.
Atchison bankers have offered to
take 100000 worth of the new bonds.
Topeka school board has adopted
Cranes Excelsior readers for the pub
lic schools.
The additional cost of entirely fin
ishing the capitol at Topeka is now
6gured at SEAS, 200.
A new disease has broken out among
horses and cattle In the vicinity Of
Cullison, Pratt county.
There are about fifty Methodist
preachers in the Sixth district who re-
ceive salary Of $3.50 year.
1t is rumored that tho Hutchinson
and Southern is about to pass under
the control Of the Union Pacific.
It's no great trick for half dozen
sportsmen to go out from Larned and
bag half hundred jack rabbits.
The family of the late Receiver
Wilson OF the Santa Fe, will soon be
paid $s9, 2l6balance due him ON salary.
Topeka mon pluclSed the Santa Fe
for 100000 in fees during the PEN
dency and settlement of the receiver.
ship.
Veterans at the Dodge City Soldiers
home will not be permitted to keep
their families ut that institution here
after.
A FIRE in Saint Cloud recently de-
stroyed drum belonging to Oscar
Sloan, which he had carried all through
the civil war,
1t requires seventeen men to edit
the Washburn Reporter. This is the
largest staff acknowledged by any.
Kansas college paper
The directors of the penitentiary
have been over into Iowa and Illinois
on tour of inspection of the penal in
situations in those states
The local Office Of the Santa Fe at
Florence has graduated three superin-
tendents and general yardmaster
within the past few years
Rev. Louis McCreary, aged "A, who
has been q Baptist minister in Kansas
City for the past twenty-five years,
died at Leavenworth January Z.
Judge O. A. Bassett, Of Ellsworth,
had one OF his legs ampututed ON &C.
count of the development Of gangrene.
The doctors say that he will recover.
Frank Mccain, with his wife and
seven children, formerly Of Atchison,
are reported snow-bound and starving
In the mountains near Winthrop,
Wash.
The defaulting city treasurer of Ia
coma, WASH, who has just been sem
fenced to term OF five years in the
penitentiary, formerly resided at
Stockton.
Frank Brown OF Fort Scott will
leave next month for China TO do mis-.
sionary work lie will take his car.
pointer tools with him to help build
churches
Kansas has s,235 school houses, and
the school property Of the State is val,
ued at SO,791, 900. Kansas may be hard
up, but she keeps her schools going
right along.
Mrs. Lynch OF the Leavenworth
Standard thinks the newspapers are
making as much fuss over Satollis
red hat as woman do0s over On
Easter bonnet
Five thousand persons at Fort Scott
guessed on the length of time big
candle would burn. Ten guessed eight
days and twelve hours which turned
out to be right
The Ness county rainfall for the
past Ave years has been MS follows:
1891, 1896 inches; 1892, 1907 inches;
1923, 1857 inches: 1884, z04 inches;
1895, 20, 90 inches.
The wife, of Judge Buck, editor OF
the Winfield Tribune, is suing for d.
vorce, $50 month alimony, final
judgment for homestead, $4,000 cash
and attorneys fees.
The Wagner Sleeping Car Company
has asked for an injunction restrain
ing the treasurer Of Bourbon county
from attempting to collect the taxes
assessed against 1t there.
Professor d. A. Ellsworth of the
State normal at Emporia will engage
In newspaper work at the end of the
present term of school. ID. A. is an old
and proficient pencil pusher.
The Fort Scott city council has au-
thorized the street commissioner to
give employment TO men out of work
in that city In breaking rock tor use in
repairing the macadamized streets.
There is said now to be no hope for
the recovery OF Miss Marshall, the
Nashville young lady TO whom Ellis
worth ingalls, was soon to have been
married. She has been dangerously
i'll for some weeks.
Grandmother Ulz gathered her chill
dren, her children's children and her
children's children's children, aggre-
eating forty-nine souls, about her at
Sedgwick the other day, the occasion
being her 00th birthday. - ClaAip
Leader,
The Topeka Mail prints the pictures
Of Judge Vandivert, Judge Peters, w.
B. Sutton, Justice Johnston, Barney
Kelly, .ex-Chief Justice Horton, Major
Calvin Hood, Farmer" Smith and
Governor Morrill, as senatorial posi-
bilities.
At Leavenworth little girl named
Sarah Bromley, aged 2 years, was
seriously and probably fatally injured
by an explosion. She was biting on
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