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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
1
Claudia Hains speaks of her husband and the court case as she prepares to testify. She describes him as kind and notes she will tell the truth on the stand to vindicate her and her children. The forthcoming testimony is part of a high profile trial involving a captain in the U.S. Army and his novelist brother.
Reports say Lowery and Askaki on the Minneapolis and St. Louis line were destroyed by fire in a mysterious raid by mounted men. The Lowery bank general store and pool hall burned. Colonel Holmes confirms the Lowery bank was destroyed. Details are scarce.
A five member special committee will investigate Saturday trading on the New York Stock Exchange where over a million shares moved in large blocks. The exchange authorized President R B Thoman to appoint the investigation committee after the day’s session ended.
Loveland Colorado August 24 The search for 4 year old George Henderson son of Mr and Mrs Roy Henderson who vanished while playing along the Bix Thompson river banks last Wednesday night has been abandoned with belief he fell into the water and was drowned. Search will resume after river recedes.
Forecast for Wyoming calls for generally fair weather Tuesday and Wednesday with cooler conditions in the north and west portions. Local data cover the 24 hours ending 6 p m August 24 1908 with a maximum 81 degrees and a minimum 48 degrees Palmer section director.
State Game Warden J Murray reminds hunters the duck season opens September 1. He urges compliance with gun license requirements to avoid trouble during opening polling period.
A 45 year old woman was killed after two men attacked her on Amsterdam Avenue at Nineteenth Street. Motorman Thomas Murphy tried to stop the trolley but could not prevent the two assailants from throwing her under the car. The attackers fled toward the Hudson river. In Albany, Richard L. Hands recommends dismissal of charges against District Attorney Jerome, noting that serious charges are disproved by the evidence.
Friends in Cheyenne of W. E. Brooks, formerly Armours vice representative, learn he has been promoted by Swarts child and Sultzberger to a general provision salesman role in New York City.
John Ben Czak was shot while fleeing three men he believed were attempting a holdup. He died at St. Bernard's hospital.
Denver officials arrest J J Henry promoter in Seattle backed scheme over $50,000 in bonds. He is charged as bailee after refusing to relinquish Big Bend Company bonds. The Seattle firm had sued to recover the bonds prior to today’s action. Henry says bonds secured payment for his promotion services.
Baron Speck von Sternburg the German ambassador to the United States died at the Hotel Victoria in Heidelberg after an operation on Lupus. His wife Lillie Langham, a Wyoming native, was with him. The baroness is described as a former Wyoming girl and daughter of Charles Langham. In New York a burglar robbed District Attorney Jerome at his Rutgers Street apartment.
The Cheyenne fire department staged a dynamic exhibition run as part of the street carnival on Saturday evening. Fire apparatus responded along Seventeenth Street from the Industrial Club to O Neill Street, drawing cheers for the team and their equipment.
In Frankfort on August 24 Herr Geltermann cashier of the coupon department at Huttedeutsche Credit bank killed himself after embezzling 125000 dollars. He left a confession letter indicating he gambled on the London exchange.
William J. Bryan and party reached Indianapolis to attend a notification gathering for John Worth Kern’s vice presidential nomination. The coliseum at the state fair grounds will host 16 000, with overflow possible. Theo S Bell of California will deliver the notification speech.
Denver hosts the sixth annual American Press Humorists association convention with Chicago and Pacific coast writers arriving. The event features a Baker theater benefit for the Bill Nye monument fund and a packed program of entertainment, mountain trips, and receptions showcasing prominent humorists and editors.
A masked highwayman stopped seven tourist coaches between Old Faithful and Yellowstone Inn in Yellowstone Park and seized valuables. He fled with four coach horses toward Jackson Hole as troops scour the area for the bandit.
Baltimore authorities report Mrs Bonnie Rosenbloom and her daughter Eva confessed the trunk murder near Camden New Jersey being Samuel J Rosenbloom of Windber Pennsylvania husband of the older woman. They claim he was killed by son Alexander around November 12. The two women, ages 56 and 16, were arrested at their home.
Maneuvers in the Crow Creek reserve end this Sunday and troops will march to home stations. Two cavalry units had joined Frontier Days at the reserve, while the artillery battery that drilled at Frontier Park will be stationed temporarily at Port Kus su l. An unidentified well dressed man leaped from Kade bridge into the Mississippi River and drowned after surfacing briefly. his body was not recovered.
Early yesterday Frank Lin Wilson, suspected pickpocket, was caught at the Pike saloon in the act of trying to steal a gold watch from a railroad man. Watchman Myers of the Cheyenne Detective Bureau nabbed him and he was arraigned in justice court. He pleaded not guilty and is bound to district court for December term.
Mrs Ray Pressler of Ault Cole visited during Frontier Days. She had not been in town since her husband was convicted a year earlier of murdering Policeman C. Edwards. He received a thirty five year prison term and she returned to her father's home in Ault.
A cottage local train wreck near Deer, Oregon, last night leaves four dead and many injured. An engine struck a wandering bull on the right of way, sending the engine tender baggage car and several coaches off the track. The wreck occurred after the engine and cars overturned, with a fireman injured.
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