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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
1
In Providence Rhode Island a starch factory mixer exploded causing a major fire. Five workers are believed dead. three others injured, with a total property loss about 100000 dollars. Several missing remain buried in rubble as officials investigate the blast.
Adenia De Zavala, president of the Dezavala chapter of the Daughters of the Republic, holds the Alamo against an injunction with no food or water for over thirty hours. She refuses to surrender, citing a factional dispute over control and relying on the legacy of the Texas state defenders.
Four U S senators and several congressmen attended the Pittsburg chamber of commerce Lincoln day banquet at Hotel Schenly in Pittsburg. Senator Knox of Pennsylvania delivered the chief address to a crowd of prominent local figures.
Berlin February 12 state attorney declares Otto Hugo faces 1461 years and two months imprisonment for breach of August 1904 prohibitions on selling non Prussian lottery tickets. Hugo has mailed 40000 lottery circulars and faces fines totaling 2 million dollars.
Reports from Montreal say nine men were killed at the Standard Explosive works near Vaudreuil when thawing dynamite caused an explosion. The plant manufactures high explosives and the incident details remain limited.
Forecast calls for fair in the north and snow in the south Thursday and Friday with warmer conditions. Local data show a 34 hour period ending Feb 12 with a maximum of 24 degrees and a minimum of 17 degrees and no precipitation.
Chicago reports a joint conference of Western Passenger and Central Passenger associations agreed to grant summer tourist rates for the coming season. The Chicago to Colorado common points rate is expected to be $30, a key move in the Western transportation situation.
Coroner Cameron held an inquest into the death of 7 year old John Book in Cincinnati. The jury found myocarditis and stated that a patent medicine used in the family contained 15 percent alcohol and opium per ounce. The coroner warned continued opium use in remedies is harmful to infants and children.
London February 12 nearly all the women suffragists who raided the House of Commons were arraigned in police court and sentenced to pay a fine or one month in jail. All but two chose imprisonment over the fine.
San Francisco Feb 1 mining engineer Johno Hays Hammond was operated on today for chronic appendicitis. His secretary reported he was resting easy tonight and the chance for a speedy recovery is good.
Cheyenne High School fell 39 to 24 to the Greeley Arrows in a hard luck contest. Greeley led 23 to 13 at halftime with Woodbury earning the feature basket. Cheyenne’s Jones and Boice stood out on defense while Hanson was strong on free throws.
In a Brooklyn supreme court session Judge Harrin reviewed Alexander McKinney’s report on Otto Kensey and Edward Riggs as receiver for the Republican Savings and Loan. After eight years in receivership assets fell from 1,050,000 to 36,000. cash realisation totaled 276,000. Distributions left 193,000 for counsel and receivers’ fees.
The Republican state editors met in Denver on February 12 and elected officers. President A. D. Dickson of Glenwood Springs. recording secretary Guy A. Hardy of Canon City. treasurer W. T. Sherman of Grand Junction. vice presidents Charles A. Adams of Montrose, Otto Wanzelin of Boulder, A. T. Brelnel of Fort Collins, and John E. Engliah of Trinidad.
The Cheyenne Athletic Club basketball team defeated University Prep by 18 to 1 in a game played in Laramie. The match was reported from Cheyenne with coverage dated February 12.
Arrangements are set for a February 22 basketball game in Laramie between the Cheyenne Business College team and the University of Wyoming. The matchup pairs the local college squad with the statewide university in a regional event.
Herman Helman released from Cheyenne city jail plans to travel to Ogden Utah to rejoin his 15 year old sweetheart Ruth Gaston. Ruth and her father fled Ogden after their elopement two weeks earlier, and letters from Ruth and Herman’s mother warn of possible capture as authorities move to separate them.
Washington February twelve Misa Maud Ashford of this city announced she was no longer engaged to former United States Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, the Democratic vice presidential candidate. She said she broke the engagement last night and cited publicity and family opposition. Davis declined comment.
Max Morris of the AFL and Retail Clerks Union plans a wage and conditions campaign against several Denver department stores. He says some wages are below what clerks need to live on and that organizing among women workers has built enough support to drive demands.
Washington D C February 12 members of the house debated the executive and judicial appropriation bill with tariff and the president s message as the main topics. In the senate Senator Rayner of Maryland criticized the currency bill and the president for his banking methods amid the recent panic. The session included two hours of discussion on the criminal code bill.
Five masked bandits dynamited the Farmers and Manufacturers bank in Rich Hill Missouri at 12 30 this morning destroying the two story building valued at nine thousand dollars and entering the vault. Authorities estimate about twenty three thousand dollars in coin and currency stolen as a posse forms to pursue the robbers heading north.
Reports from Douglas Arizona describe two dynamite blasts at the Santa Rosa mining camp eighteen miles south of town. No one was injured as workers stood away from the blast site. A half burned fuse and a heavy charge were found under the boarding house, suggesting Mexican anarchists were involved and the Mexican government aims to capture them.
Carl Ludwig Von Veltheim a German born naturalized American also known as Frank Kurtz and Carl Sneiderich Mauritz was sentenced in London to twenty years penal servitude for attempting to blackmail Solly and Joel a wealthy Londoner and South African mine owner out of forty thousand pounds. Previously linked to a 1806 Cape Town murder and later found serving in Bechuanaland police the adventurer faced a complex past and multiple aliases.
Washington D C Feb 12 Mrs Nora Sammon has been appointed portmaster at Kemmerer Wy in Weston county.
Denver on February 12 reports a Republican state central committee session where the state convention date was chosen and Secretary Taft was endorsed. Governor Henry A. Buchtel spoke on Abraham Lincoln as harper served as toastmaster at the Albany hotel banquet where no wine was served.
New Orleans Feb 12 After years away from the ring Jack Everhardt former middleweight contender returned and won the decision over Jack Graham of Kansas City in a ten round bout.
Pittsburg Feb 12 One man was killed and a dozen workers burned in a terrible explosion at the National Tube Company Monongahela blast furnace as molten steel sprayed the yard.
A Mack, Colorado dispatch reports at least two men killed and several others seriously wounded by a dust explosion in the Gibonite mine at Dragon Utah. Two bodies have been recovered and others are believed trapped as the mine burned with scarce water.
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