The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-04-03

The new headquarters Of the Illinois
League of American Wheelmen have
been opened in Chicago. The division
controls 10000 votes and proposes ia
inaugurate an aggressive campaign for
good roads.
The inspection of the l06 colleges to
which regular army officers are at pres
ent detailed as Instructors will begin in
May and eight line officers have been
detailed to assist the officers of the in
spector-generars department in the
| work.
PIEE 5 of the Erie railway at Jersey
City, N. j., was burned on the 3Oth, to-
gether with three barges- Loss $56, 900.
Peter Hogan, captain Of one of the
barges. was burned so badly that he
will probably die, and his son, who
jumped into the river to escape death
by fire, was drowned.
AT funeral at Cedar church. ten
miles east of Antlers, L T., Isaac Reu.
ben shot and killed Sheriff Campson
Battiest, of Cedar county. Both are
full blood Choc.aws. Reuben claims
that Battiest fred two shots at him
with pistol, that he then shot out
the sheriff's brains with his Winches-
ter. and then dismounted and kept on
firing and reloading till he had put 81
bullets into the corpse.
THE Harrison elevator at Burlington,
Ia, was burned on the 3Oth. The loss
on the building and grain was estimat.
ed at $50, 900; insurance. $40. 600
AN explosion of chemicals in the
four-story building at 33S to S44 Wa
bash avenue. Chicago, completely de-
stroyed the building together with its
contents Loss, SECS. 600
The gold reserve, as officially re-
ported on the 3Oth, was SIPS. I'll .956, thu
highest point reached during the pres
ent administration.
By a collision between car on the
Evanston electrical line and a heavy
express wagon near Homan avenue,
Chicago, on the Goth one man was in
stantly killed and five persons were in.
jured.
PULASKI DUCKwORTH, a prominent
farmer near Bentonville, Ark, on the
goth killed his wife by striking her on
the head with an ak. He then attacked
his four-year-old child and inflicted ia.
tai injuries, after which he cut his own
throat, dying almost instantly. Duck.
worth was undoubtedly insane.
FRED GoRRELI., a molder Of West Co.
lumbus, O.. aged 81, shot his wife, who
was but II, and then stood before Q
mirror and cut his throat with a razor.
| The wife will recover. Jealousy was
the cause of the air.
/ MELVIN o. DENNIS, of Denver, Col +,
rode a mile unpaced on the Mont Clair
straightaway course in the phenomenal
time of I'LL 3-5. 1t was the fastest
time ever made on a wheel. The wind
was at his back, blowing at the rate of
| nearly so miles an hour.
TUE annual boat race between the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge
took place over the usual course from
Putney to Mortlake, AZ miles. on the
| 2sth and was won by Oxford by quar-
ter of length. Time. 2O:O1. Oxford
| has now won 80 races and Cam bridge 22.
A CYCLONE passed south of Alton.
ILL.,, recently and 20 box cars were
| wrecked. Fences and telegraph poles
were blown down, but no fatalities re
suited.
AT Benton, Ark, a recent fire de
| stroyed dozen residences and nearly
all the business part of town. Loss
| $4,000
MRS DARLINGTON BOOTH lectured 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.
THE failures for the week ended
March 81 (Dun's report were $50 in the
United States, against 234 last year,
and 80 in Canada, against AZ last year.
The badly decomposed body of an
unknown man was found on the Goth
in trunk bought at an auction sale of
unredeemed property at Chicago.
FOREST fires burned over large ter
ritory to the east of Black River Falls,
Wis, recently. doing damage to the
extent of many thousands of dollars,
They have destroyed the prospects OF
the BURBERRY crop in the burned re-
employment to hundreds of berry
pickers.
THREE hundred Chinese were re-
| OAOWh W oIOhiS W 1AC PAOoAOu
of a magazine at the fort at Kiangy in
China. The disaster was the work OF
mutinous soldiers, who were preparing
ito join secret society rebels in an at
tack on an adjacent town.
THE worst windstorm experienced in
Denver, Col, in two years prevailed on
the eth, the wind reaching a velocity
Of 62 miles an hour. The telegra oh
lines on all the railroads in the south.
srn part of the state were demoralized.
At Cripple Creek the shaft house on
the Little Daisy mine blew down, kill
ing John May and severely injuring
John Harmon.
A TRAIN on the Indiana, Illinois &
Iowa railroad, loaded with grain and
dressed beef, was wrecked near Toto,
ind. The wrecking train. in cleaning
ap the track, found the dead bodies OF
four unknown men in a car of oats.
They had evidently died from suffoca.
ton.
MATT MoorRY, negro. was hanged
at Georgetown, Tex, on the eth in
the presence of 1000 people for the
murder of Andrew Pickrill. q Bohemian
farmer, last May. Attended by two
negro preachers, he sang a hymn and
| prayed, and then made long talk.
confessing his crime, but did not seem
to think it justified hanging.
| In several towns in the Indian terri.