Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1903-01-15

| DASSo' Ing pitSS Hdu peculiarly IT.
rltating effect on Mann. Infamma-
ton was started and blood poisoning
was the result.
DR.. Andreen, formerly vice president
OF Bethany college Of Lindsborg, but
now president of Augustana college
at Rock Island, ILL.,, left for Stock.
holm, Sweden. He took along 10000
crowns in gold for the famine strick-
en- Swedes. This money was all
raised among the Swedes of the Cen
trail West.
A st. Louis dispatch said Governor
Stanley had gone to st. Louis to see
David R. Francis on exposition bust
ness, and that Stanley was miffed be.
cause MIR. Francis was out of town at
the appointed time Governor STAN
ley disposes of the matter by saying
that he hasn't been in st Louis since
seven months ago.
The Codding railroad in Pottawat.
omie county enjoys the distinction of
being the only railroad in the United
States which does not issue passes.
The line is thirteen miles in length.
Senator J. K Codding is general coun-
sci and general manager Of the road,
vet he has to pay his fare just the
same as the humblest citizen.
Ut is told OF a Western Kansas
man elected justice Of the peace that
at his first marriage ceremony he be-
came so badly ratified that after he
had pronounced the couple husband
| and wife he remembered one phrase
he had forgotten and said: Does
anyone know of any reason why this
couple should not wed? If they do,
it's too late now"
At the home of Herbert Levett, in
Emporia, an upset lamp caused an eX-
plosion which resulted almost fatally
for Mrs. Levett. In trying to prevent
the flames setting fire to the cradle
which held her 6-months-old child
Mrs. Levett's clothing caught fire
and she was perhaps fatally turned.
She put out the fire however, and her
child was uninjured. r
Mrs. Jennie Springer, a Doniphan
county widow, is in hard luck. Her
husband sold his farm for cash and
soon afterward they quarreled and
she threatened a divorce. Fearing
that the money would be taken away
from him for alimony he buried it, and
died without telling anyone where it
is buried. Now the widow is hunting
for the money, without much hope of
finding it.
The body Of Del Mahan arrived at
Emporia last week from West Point,
Ark. where he was killed by lhis
cousin and business partner, Orlando
Miller Letters from relatives in West
Point state that the tragedy is yet a
mystery, as Miller is unable to tell
about it. Miller wrote a brief letter
to his aunt, Mrs. Mahan, stating that
he killed Mahan in self-defense. NH
Ter was shot by Mahan but is not dead
yet.
The Christmas dinner of S L. Scott
and his family, near Abneyville, was
ended tragically by the killing of
their little girl through the accidental
discharge Of gun. The family with
several guests were at dinner and g.
year-old Mabel Scott and her two
brothers, 6 and years DID, were play.
ing in the other room. A report was
heard. The diners found the little
girl dead. Neither Of the other child
rem was injured.
Governor-elect Bailey told r. B.
Splitter of Atchison on a train recently
that his latest letter proposing mar.
riage was from young woman who
lives in Illinois. She sent her picture.
and Mr.. Splitter says If it does her
justice she is a very pretty girl in
deed. Mr. Bailey told Mr.. Splitter that
he has received fully 500 of these let
ters He thought at first they were
from practical jokers, but lately he
believes that some Of them are genu'
inc.
A Philljpsburg merchant whose
safe has been blown open a time or
two, has a way of sticking what mon
ey comes in after banking hours
around in odd places, One night re-
Gently he buried it in the bean barrel.
When he came to look for it in the
morning he found that a clerk had
weighed it out with a measure OF
beans he had sold. He took the trail
and followed the beans to custom
er's house, where the money was re-
covered.
Henry Hagner, about twenty'seven
years old, was found unconscious on
the Santa Fe tracks near lndepend-
ence last Friday morning. He had
come in on the midnight train intend
ing to be married. 1t is supposed that
while walking along the track on his
way home he was slugged and robbed
and thrown on the track. One hand
had been cut off bya passing train
and a cash was cut across the back OF
his head where he had evidently been
hit. He cannot recover.
Miss Blanche Hines OF wilson ana
Lieutenant Bates Tucker OF Sault Ste
Marie. Mich, we're married last week
at the brides home. The marriage
was the result Of an acquaintance
formed about three years ago, while
Lieutenant Tucker, then a private,
passed through Wilson on soldier