06 Feb 1881
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1881
Page
1
Local notices describe barbershops on Dyers or Hall streets, groceries and medicines from Adams Glover and Webb, and lodging at the Herman Kimmel hotel. Also advertised are Skin cures, hosiery, clothing, and flourished offerings from various merchants. entries mention licenses, rail shipments, and the Weekly Leaper newspaper.
Inter oceanic canal hearings report favor from the assedt committee with a government guarantee of 6 percent interest on 860 million bonds for 16 years. Nominees for land offices, currency standard distributions, and Judiciary chairmanship talks are noted amid a multipart congressional update.
A Fort Benton Montana dispatch dated the 30th reports the river broke at one o clock this morning with water rising over the bank. Women and children were moved to safety on higher ground as the flood fell eight to ten feet by daylight. No damage reported. The Sun River bridge and the bridges in Prickly Pear canyon were swept away. The temperature has been about 50 below for three days.
In St Louis a grain train derailed with seventeen cars wrecked but no injuries. Melting snow in New Mexico and Southern Colorado is causing damage. A $45,000,000 mortgage covering M. E. T. rail road properties and bonds is being prepared. Senior Wilhelm, a solenist, killed his mistress Agalia Margot then shot himself. jealousy and drink cited as factors.
In San Francisco on February 6 the grangers convention endorsed the Nicaragua canal project and named committees to visit Sacramento to urge state lawmakers to seek federal aid. It resolved to form a California wheat growers association for mutual aid against middlemen, with an agency in Liverpool to handle freights and commissions.
William H. van derbilt buys the Manhattan market property bounded by Eleventh and Twelfth avenues and Thirty-fourth to Thirty-fifth streets for railroad purposes, paying 375000 dollars. He also acquires the land in front extending on the North river.
Reports from San Francisco dated February 5 describe a fair weather day yet extensive flooding across a portion of the state. Rivers and creeks are receding while about 600 square miles of the Sacramento valley remain underwater. Estimated losses are vast but not yet calculable.
Washington notes on the pension bill with Logan opposing the sixty surgeons amendment and the bill’s being laid aside after his speech. The electoral count resolutions pass the first branch with division in the second, while apportionment debates feature Colerick Hawley and others. South Carolina remarks stir partisan tensions as white supremacy themes surface amid census doubts. New York news reports Western Union consolidation with Gould and Sage joining leadership. Leadville ore strike boosts Little Pittsburg stock. Philadelphia notes John Brown’s sons’ liabilities and wage-cutting layoffs. New York suffers water scarcity and rising sickness.
A garbled OCR fragment references several names and terms likely from a local record or notice. The readable parts hint at people or places but lack coherent context or complete events to summarize a specific incident or item.
Foreign dispatches report three policemen badly wounding a suspect and one man taking his own life during arrests near the Edinburgh customs house. The men are believed to be Itiah Americans involved in robberies and nighttime assaults. Five more reports note a Hyde strike by four thousand weavers, idle workers, and German debates over gold standards and Irish political exiles fleeing to America.
Reports from London dated February 5 note Cunurred Batavia believed lost and sailing. The Times approves Davitt's arrest amid sedition and treason concerns while Nolan and Labouchere follow a memorial to the home secretary. Dublin reports the Land League fund in France facing signatures and leaders urging continued agitation among Irish women.
London reports the Ashantee king declares war on England after demanding a refugee chief's surrender at Cape Coast castle. Stores and ammunition ordered from Madeira to protect the west African settlement. Sierra Leone reinforcements are being sent. Jamestown woodenware factory burns with 30 000 dollars loss and 10 000 dollars insured. John J Berry sentenced to five years in penitentiary.
The Presbyte rian church Sewing Society at the parsonage elected officers for the year after prayer led by Rev J Cowdick. Officers include President Mrs D D Dare and Vice President Mrs G A Searight with other posts filled and committees named. Louis La Chappelle of Prairie du Nocher Ti died suddenly Monday. authorities suspect foul play by interested persons.
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