Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1896-08-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

In at Neodesha.
A 5.year-old boy at Leon is an ex.
pert bicycle rider.
Reports from Cheyenne county that
crops are failure are denied.
Eighty teachers passed the Bourbon
county teachers examination.
Miss May Juue is the appropriate
name of Parsons summer girl.
A curiew ordinance has been adopt
ed by the Fort Scott city council.
Wichita claims to have a citizen who
got drunk on common well water.
Kansas apple growers report par
ticularly large crop Of early varieties.
Alfred w. Baker was arrested in
Wichita for bigamy. He is 81 years of
age.
e. L. Steinberger, the fam GUS Kan
sas State University ball player, is
dead.
Walter Roth of Atchison was
drowned in the Missouri river while
bathing.
The Frisco will probably build new
passenger and freight depots in
Wichita.
About forty Kansas men got posi-
tions as employees of the st. Louis
convention.
Honeywell & Honey is the firm
name of the publishers of the James.
town Kansan.
Scott Mcdonald of Peabody myster-
iously disappeared July 96, while visit
ing in Eldorado.
Corn and wheat shippers of Reno
county are complaining of a lack Of
cars to haul grain.
d. NJ. Bender Of Parsons has been
renominated for state representative
by the Republicans.
Two Emporia women had fight.
Their names were Phodema Brown
and TrYphenia Phenis.
Out near Randall, Jewell county, is
a field of corn so tall that u siX-foot
man cannot reach the ears.
Vegetables are SO plentiful in To-
peka that the gardeners give away to
the poor all they can not sell,
w, d. Vincent of Clay Center has
been nominated fer Congress by the
Populists of the Fifth district.
Kansas occupied the best seats in
the ST. Louis convention, being di-
rectly in front of the chairman.
Three Wichita ministers, Revs.
Cakes, Hover and Johns, are charged
with disappointing church funds.
The Hutchinson school board com
PEELED the female teachers to enter
into an agreement not to get married.
William Tanner of Leavenworth,
president Of the first horticultural
society organized in Kansas, is dead.
Over 5000 people will participate
in the ceremonies dedicating the
Masonic home at Wichita, Septem-
Der 10.
Something is the matter with the
watermelon crop in Kansas this year.
1t is thought there was too much
water.
A Kansas exchange wants to know
whether a man who is half full all of
the time is better than a man full half
the time.
Wheat on the Marion county poor
farm averaged twenty-seven bushels
to the acre and was harvested by the
occupants.
DR.. Preston Bowen, aged IS, died
at his hame near Garnett, July 90. DR..
Bowen opened the first store in Gar
nett IN 1856.
Empty grain cars are in demand at
southwest Kansas shipping points. A
large percentage of the shipments go
to Galveston.
The Rock Island officials at Horton
received telegram from Harrington
ordering 500 cars to carry corn to the
eastern markets.
A tramp who attempted to assault
Mrs. Frank 0ldfield, near Canton, was
captured by a posse and barely es-
capped being lynched.
State board of railroad commission.
ers has made an order giving Abilene
a Missouri river iobbers' rate, based
on short line mileage.
The Kansas members of the Populist
national committee are John w. Brei-
denthal, j M. AL en- of Erie and w. d.
Vincent of Clay Center.
Railroad Comm issioner Samuel T.
Howe has been appointed to member
ship on the committee which will ar
range for the annual convention of
the National Railroad Commissioners
convention at ST. Louis in May, 1897.
Arkansas City Traveller: A Kansas
woman has made a great discovery.
At least she lectures on How to get
married and stay married.
The Sedgewicl1 County Grape Grow
ers' association, in their annual meet
ing at Wichita, decided to handle the
entire grape crop in lump.
Every building in the town of Por-
tbs, seven miles west of Atchlson, was
more or less injured by wind storm,
July 90, but no one was killed.
j. w. Eaton was arrested in Column
bus for assaulting colored woman.
He was only fined SO. The following
day Eatons house was set on fire.
The twentieth anniversary of the
johnson County Cooperative Associa-
ton of Olathe, was celebrated at that
place July % by nearly 1000 grangers.
Enterprising burglars took an 500
pound safe from Washington county
postoffice one mile from the place on
a handcar and blew it open, They
secured about 5000.
According to the Atchison Globe at
swell dinners in bingham, the guests
leave the table to eat their watrmelon
on the back porch, where they can