Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — A PERILOUS FEAT. [ARTICLE]

A PERILOUS FEAT.

A One-Legged IlleyclUt Ride* Down the Capitol Step* at Washington. Charles G. Kilpatrick, the one-legged bicyclist from Davillc, 111., has made him self famous with the thousands of wheel men at the National Capital. He has per formed the most daring feat ever witnessed on a cycle. It even surpasses the act of riding a distance of 350 feet on th< guards of Cabin John’s bridge, a feat performed some years ago. The bridge If over one hundred feet high, and the guard of rough stone but twelve inches wide The Danville bicyclist has ridden down the steep steps on the west side of th< Capitol. The hight and distanco is over one hundred feet, and the Incline an angle of about one-third a perpendicular. There is a clear descent of about fifty feet, and the work of coming down on a wheel is wildly dangerous, Before attempting the feat Kilpatrick took out a life ind accident insurance policy, which he mailed to his mother in Danville. The precaution, while sensible, was needless, is he rode down without a hitch. Lockport Is scandalized by the quarrel between heirs to the estate of tho iate Dr. Robert I. Wilson, a pioneer of that place. Dr. Wilson sent for a favorite laughter to wait upon his dying wants, >ut other relatives, fearing she would exercise unduo Influence over him, moved nto the house and maintained a ceaseless vigil. The dying man intrusted his pockitbook to this daughter, and to avoid forcible dispossession she ran to the home >f a friend, two miles away, and gave it into his keeping. After Ills death there was a violent squabble over the funeral lenrices, and on* woman Is said to hav< lad her eyes blackened, while several others were scratched- The late Dr. Wilson est an estate valued at $25,000.