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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1908
Page
1
The Cheyenne club reports two days into its membership drive with 216 to 320 on pace. Committees race to recruit as 40 new applications arrive in an hour and officials aim for 500 members before Friday’s end.
In Allentown, a man named Robert Bachman of Nazareth killed Councilman Henry Smith’s five year old daughter May Irene during a religious sect gathering at Bachman’s home. Bachman, head of a new praying band, was said by his wife to be God. He was arrested.
Lisbon reports great concern over the reopening of Parliament as King Manuel faces potential threats. Troops fill the city and the route from Necessidades Palace to the Cortes will be lined with soldiers. The king will travel in a closed carriage guarded by lancers.
Rome April 28. Mme Anna Gould now in Naples with Prince Helle de Gagan wrote to the American consul in Florence seeking the formalities for an American woman to wed a French gentleman in Italy. The consul advised performing the marriage under Italian law, which would be legal and valid worldwide.
Henry Hicks a Douglas Arizona mechanic returns home to find domestic distress. He shoots his wife with a rifle killing her, then kills James Alexander and fatally wounds himself after shotgun blasts from George Phillips. Phillips arrives with a gun as Hicks dies. Domestic troubles are blamed.
News from Victoria B C dated April 28 reports a series of devastating conflagrations at Pekin causing many deaths due to arson. The incidents spanned late March to early April with dynamite rebels blamed and widespread arrests following.
The Interstate Commerce Commission forwarded to the Senate a report on railroad discrimination in coal and oil transport in Colorado Utah and Nebraska. It alleges Utah Fuel and Pleasant Valley Coal controlled by Denver Rio Grande gained land via low payouts from entrymen including young women, with 30 000 acres acquired amid fraud claims. It asserts favored rates, hidden earnings methods, and union Pacific dominance of mining and sale along its Wyoming line, warning public land withdrawal would worsen monopoly.
New York April 28 Samuel Gompera president of the American Federation of Labor calls on organized labor to pass resolutions urging Congress to vote for labor bills. Members pledge to exert political and industrial activity to aid the election of labor-friendly candidates for president and Congress and other offices to safeguard workers' interests.
Colonel Myron H McCord collector of customs at Nogales died in Phoenix from Brights disease aged 67. He was a Civil War veteran.
Weather report from April 28 1908 lists Wyoming forecast as fair with warmer conditions in the north and west for Wednesday and Thursday. Data shows April 24 to 6 pm readings with a maximum of 67 degrees minimum 28 and precipitation of .04 inch.
Washington April 28. House sessions focused on the sundry civil appropriation bill and the president's special message. Representative Leake of New Jersey condemned Roosevelt for seeking to perpetuate himself via proxy, while Madison of Kansas praised forestry achievements and predicted Roosevelt policies would bolster the next Republican campaign. Senate passed pension and District of Columbia appropriation bills and House approved cyclone relief aid and government measures.
The convention opens at the First Congregational church with a three day program spanning nine sessions. About 500 men from across the United States are expected to attend and more than 200 are present at the opening, with addresses by national figures.
A horse kicking a lantern in the Gallagher livery stable in Peebles caused a blaze last night that destroyed fifteen buildings. About six firefighters were overcome while battling the flames. The loss amounts to about $50,000 and is partly insured.
Senator Teller denounces federal timber rules and forest reserves, arguing government authority over timber is overreaching. He cites Colorado sawmills and miner payments, condemning restrictions on cutting and sale of timber while defending forest protection in a balanced, practical light.
Mrs. Augusta Reska testified in probate court that she married her adoptive brother August Reske after being raised by August Wolfe in Cheboygan and Milwaukee. She claimed she did not know he was her brother and financial guardianship of her two young sons was placed with the humane society.
Dispatches from Teheran say Kurdish raids around Urumiah in Persian Armenia killed about 2,000 villagers after sacking 36 villages. Parliament read the dispatches to the day’s session.
The American Federation of Labor urged Governor Post to reappoint an independent to fill one of three open seats on the national executive council. The panel now has two unionists, two Republicans and one Independent. The governor plans to drop the Independent and add two more unionists.
A delegation of British Columbia coast Indian chiefs will depart Vancouver on May 26 to meet Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Ottawa. They aim to alert the government to what they call a deliberate attempt to rob them of their lands, representing every tribe in the coast area.
A head-on crash between two interurban cars on the Detroit, Jackson and Chicago line near Ypsilanti, Michigan, killed nine and injured about thirty. A motorman's alleged order error is blamed, with the limited car crushed beneath the vestibule and passengers widely injured.
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