Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04

THE new headquarters of the Illinois
League OF American Wheelfnen have
been opened in Chicago. The division
con tfols $50, zoe votes and proposes to
inaugnrate an aggressive campaign for
good roads
TIE inspection of the 10e colleges TO
which regular army officers are at pres
ent detailed Gs instructors will begin in
May and eight line officers have been
detailed to assist the officers of the in
spector-geRerars department in the
work
PIER of the Erie railway at Jersey
City, n. j., was burned on the 3Oth, to-
gether with three barges- Loss $50, 900.
Peter Hogan, captain of one of the
barges, was burned SO badly that he
will probably die, and his son, who
d jumped into the river to escape death
by fire, was drowned.
AT a funeral at Cedar church. ten
miles east of Antlers, /. T., Isaac Reu-
ben shot and killed Sheriff Campson
Battiest, of Cedar county. Both are
full blood Choctaws. Reuben claims
that Battiest fired two shots at him
with pistol. that he then shot out
/ ter, and then dismcunted and kept on
| firing and reloading till he had put 81
bullets into the corpse.
THE Harrison elevator at Burling ton,
F Ia, was burned on the both. The loss
on the building ana grain was estimat-
ed at. $50, 600; insurance, '$26 600
An explosion of chemicals in the
| four-story building at 33s to 344 Wa
bash avenue, Chicago. completely de-
stroyed the bGilding together with its
contents Loss, 1925, 900.
THE gold reserve, as officially re-
ported on the a3Oth, was $12S, 711,956. the
highestlpoint reached during the pres
ent administration.
By a collision between car on the
I Evanston electrical line and heavy
| express wagon near Homan avenue,
Chicago, on the s3Oth one man was in
stantly killed and five persons were in
t jured.
PULASKI DUcKwORTH, prominent
| farmer near Bentonville, Ark, on tthe
| goth killed his wife by striking her on
| the head with an ak. He then attacked
hisffour-year-oldc child and inflicted IA
/ tai injuries, latter which he cut his own
/ throat, dying almost instantly. Duck
worth was undoubtedly insane.
FRED GoRREEI., a molder of West Co
fum bus, O..;aged 21,,shot his wife, who
was but II, and then stood before a
mirror and1cut his throat with arrazor.
The wife will recover. jealousy was
the cause of the aft air.
MELVIN o. DENNIS, of Denver, Col y,
rode mile unpaced on the Mont Clair
straightaway course in the phenomenal
time of 1:11%3-5. 1t was the fastest
time ever made on wheel. Theywind
was at his back, blowing at the rate of
nearly. so miles an hour.
THE annGal boat race between the
universities of Oxford and Cam bridge
took place. over the usual course from
T Putney to Mortlalke, ~ miles, on the
28th and was won by Oxford by afquar-
ter of length Time, 20:O1. Oxford
has now won,3O races and Cam bridge 90.
| AtcYCLoNE passed south of Alton,
ILL.,, recently and 20 box cars were
wrecked. Fences and telegraph poles
kwere blown down, but no fatalities re-
| suited.
AT Benton, Ark, a recent fire de-
stroyed dozen residences and nearly
hall the business part of town. Loss,
$40. 00O
MRS BAELENGToN BOOTH 1ectured on
the Goth at Pittsburgh, Pa, on ''Slum
and Shelter Work in Large Cities to
"a large audience, and broke the silence
as to the cause of herself and the COM
mander breaking away from the old
organization. She practically admitted
| that they had become too much Amer
| icanized to suit. the ideas of the powers
| in London.