Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-01-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
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o fall on the pavement.
j. N. Van Holsen of Lawrence was
lsphyxiatod in his office by coal gas.
Mrs. Margaret Wyckoff, Atchison,
vas found dead in her chair. Apoplexy.
Kansas produced 1,OO0,OOO barrels Of
salt in 1895.
The Indian school at Lawrence is TO
have newspaper.
Atchison has two gambling houses
running wide open.
Armourdale wants to divorce itself
from Kansas City.
Fire destroyed the Markham hotel
at Hanover Loss $1,000.
The two children of Editor II. J.
Allen, of the Ottawa Herald, died from
diphtheria.
Three car loads Of Jack rabbits have
been recently shipped from Larned to
New York.
Fire at White City destroyed a
whole block. Loss $4,000, insurance
S2, 900.
Elisha Graham, charged with the
murder Of Jacob Hopkins at Cummings,
was bound over to the district court
without bail.
Twenty-Five converts of the Baptist
church at Halls station, east Of Atch-
ison were baptized in pond covered
with four inches of ice.
Robert Snapp fatally shot James
Xix at literary" at Fall Leaf and
escaped.
Representative Hackney, of Yelling
ton, is in favor of establishing state
printing office in the penitentiary and
have the convicts do the states print
ing, thus doing away with regular
state printer.
Two hundred bushels of peanuts
were raised last year by Ben Thompson
near Arkansas City.
The railroad contracting firm OF
Monroe &c Lee, of Lawrence has closed
contract with the Kansas City and
Northern road for the building OF
twenty-four miles of railroad from
Plattsburg to Pattonsburg, Mo.
A township in Mitchell county has
elected the same man to the Office OF
township trustee for twenty-four
years, 1t is not positively known
whether he is man who can please
everybody at all times or whether he
is the only man in the township who
can ''read writin' "-Arkansa City
| Traveller
The Western Kansas papers are com.
planning of man by the name OF
Pulse who has been working conf.
dence game on the rural population.
What is pulse for if it isn't to beatH
Miss Anita Anthony, granddaughter
and for many years the private secre-
tary of the late George L. Anthony,
will go to New Orleans to reside at the
expiration Of her term of service in
the Office Of the state superintendent
of insurance.
At Wamego they are demonstrating
the practicability of good roads by &C.
tual work on the boulevard connecting
that town with Louisville, three miles
north. Nearly one mile of graveled
road sixteen feet wide has been con.
structed. On November 81 q GOOD
Roads" society was organized, with
w. W. Shortt president, D. A. Rogers
secretary and A. T. Mcmillan treas
urer. Nearly $500 in cash. work and
material have already been subscribed.
Gravel beds have been opened Just
west OF town and much interest is
taken by Wamego and Louisville PEG.
pie in the road, The Wamego Times
runs Good Roads" department.
Kansas City Star
Fritz Schooster is the name of a
Fort Scott man who has brother
living in Pennsylvania The other
day he received a letter from his
relative, and we extract the following
sentence in demonstration of the fact
that Pennsylvania Dutchman is not
entirely without perspicuity: 81 can't
explain what Jake died with, but the
doctor thinks his sickness had some.
thing do with it, for he was not well
for long time before he died"
Over one-half million bushels of corn
are cribbed on the townsite of Leb
anon.
The Sedan Times.Star says corn is
selling at Is to II cents at railroad sta.
tons in Chautauqua county, and at
same price to cattle feeders with re-
ports of large sales and shipments.
The same is true of other Kansas
points and the Arkansas City Demo.
GRAFT predicts that the farmer who holds
his corn until next summer will get 80
cents and probably more for it.
Church people have their troubles
just as well as the sinful. At Atchison
the other day the Presbyterians held
meeting to determine whether Pastor
Howie's resignation should be accepted
One of the elders made speech, in
which he declared that the meeting
had been packed and that voters were
present who had not paid dollar or
been to church before for more than
year. One woman said that Mr..
Howie was without doubt fine
preacher, but she was not
going to vote for man who didn't
recognize her on the street, and whose
wife didn't recognize her, either. A.
Howieite defended the preacher by de-
claring that when man got up two
such fine sermons as were given by the
pastor every week he didn't have much
time fUr social affairs or gadding with
everybody he met on the street. When
the vote was taken it stood 1903 to 81 in
favor of the preacher, but he declares
that he is going to resign anyway, as
he does not like a row.
The county of Allen was named for
William Allen of Ohio, at one time
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