29 Jul 1902
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1902
Page
1
New York July 29 reports indicate outside buyers push Colorado Fuel and Iron stock higher with heavy trading while Osgood group maintains influence. Closes doors for the annual meeting set for Thursday and voting requires stock ownership by Wednesday night.
Frederickstown July 2 Governor Leedy of Kansas responds to a query on silver and the money issue urging Democrats to restore Jeffersonian values, oppose imperialism, resist royal catering, and let the money question take care of itself as part of a broader anti imperial stance.
Poultry men in New York discuss introducing ostriches for food. California rancher Edward Lawston offers to ship a carload of birds weighing about 100 pounds each for tasting on the West Side. Central Park Superintendent Smith doubts ostrich meat will be eaten in city kitchens.
Four boys aged 9 to 12 secretly hid beneath a lifeboat for four days aboard the liner Civic to evade the journey from Liverpool. Thirst forced them to emerge and seek aid upon arrival at New Work.
Washington July 29 The Central Labor Union adopted a resolution asking President Roosevelt to remove Judge Jackson for jail sentences against union miners for contempt Delegate Hubbard charged Jackson with bias toward the mines.
Boston July 24 six hundred workers at the American Tube Works Saberville faced a union dispute as the union committee sought discharge of certain Italian laborers for alleged abuse toward union men. The management fired two committee members and kept the Italian workers.
Dannemora New York July 29 George Middleton a wife murderer was electrocuted at 11 40 today and pronounced dead 84 seconds after the current was turned on Middleton pursued his wife to her parents home and shot her after she refused to return to him
Des Moines leaders and most of the congressional delegation arrived for the Republican convention set for tomorrow. Contests focus on supreme court clerk and reporter and railway commissioner. A bitter platform fight looms over tariff modification to curb monopolies, with Governor Cummins leading one side against the delegation.
Denver reports Charles Green and John Richards captured in jail for the Buffalo New York murder of Austin J. Crowe with a $1,000 reward offered. Richmond dispatch notes Washington Guards traveling from Fredericksburg to Alexandria to Montrose to escort the negro prisoner John Lomax for attempted assault near Potomac. Atlantic City bulletin says Charles M. Schwab has recovered and enjoyed a porch ride while his wife departed for New York.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with local thunder storms. Low pressure over Miles City stable with cloudiness and rain mainly at Moorhead and Duluth. Temperatures rise southeast of the low, cooler in the extreme northwest, general fall weather across the region with light to scattered rainfall yesterday.
In Pittsburg the July 29 storm killed Mrs. Kate Walsh and three Italian boarders, bringing total fatalities to four. Numerous homes were wrecked and the affected neighborhood shows a striking aftermath. Six others were injured but expected to recover. A separate New York report notes rumors of an Anglo Japanese alliance over Corea sparking Paris unease.
Denver mourns Alderman Kelly killed in a Saturday afternoon runaway. Public buildings closed as a record funeral draws extraordinary civic ceremonies and a monster benefit plans to raise thousands for the bereaved family. London tickets for the Westminster Abbey coronation bear no date prompting talk.
Tombstone July 29 A Denver firm secured a contract worth nearly 750000 to build a forty mile El Paso Southwestern railroad branch from Fairbanks to the city tapping the rich mining region. Thirteen miles of towers for the Southern Wyoming tramway are in place with three miles left. Power station machinery is moving with boilers for the third and fourth stations en route. About half the cables are strung.
Denver reports the peace convention aimed at unifying labor factions has failed with the state Federation of labor named as the obstacle. San Francisco notes the City of King steamship from Hong Kong damaged, nearing the Inland Sea after a shaft break. Madrid reports cabinet talks on a Cuba commerce treaty referred to the foreign minister, Duke of Almodovar.
A brief prompt urges readers to express desires and requests through The Leader. It frames the page as a conduit for wanted notices and community inquiries.
A band of thirty Yaquis Indians attacked the Carman ranch near Hermonilla Mexico driven by hunger. Mexican troops arrived and killed five men and two squaws while rescuing the ranch family.
John Rosas, one of three DC district commissioners appointed by McKinley, died today at age 62 from a kinder disease. In Washington a naval academy board report urges a more permanent teaching staff, Spanish language inclusion, and French curriculum expansion, while endorsing overall academy management.
A blaze at Denson Bros. paint shop and warehouse in Pittsburg caused about 65000 dollars in damage. Five firemen suffered injuries from flying debris and burning oil as crews tackled the flames. Mayor Schmitz to Hear Evidence in fight-fake case in San Francisco. A requiem mass for John Mackay, the American millionaire, was held at St Marys church with Ambassador Choate among attendees in London.
A dynamite blast during Park Avenue subway construction injures four men and alarms bystanders. A separate report notes cholera deaths in Manchuria totaling 160 Russians and 276 Chinese, while a Bermuda sea creature, channomuraena vitata, dies after transfer to Battery Park aquarium and is sealed in formaldehyde.
New York July 29 Mrs Mary A Meade who murdered her two children at their home in Brooklyn last Saturday died at the hospital today.
Washington July 29 Charlee Penrose assistant paymaster of the navy has been ordered court martialed on a charge of carelessness in keeping his accounts He is attached to the cruiser Michigan at Erie Pennsylvania Odessa Russia July 29 The corn beetle has done immense damage to crops in districts of Khernon and a large area of Bessarabie Two hundred thousand acres ravaged Pembroke Georgia July 26 John Wise a negro who last Wednesday assaulted Mrs John Smith a young White woman was lynched here last debt For Rent or Wanted in The Leader brings quick results
Local fans raised funds after the Park Association disbanded the team, guaranteeing enough to carry the Indians through the season. No changes to the roster. Phil Kerrigan and Joe Cahill led the fundraising effort securing support for Cheyenne’s summer struggle and success.
Two boilermakers arrested at the depot with the Union Pacific train will not be prosecuted as they committed no offense. A crowd gathered at the courthouse for a trial that had been expected, but the case was dismissed due to no complaint filed. They were present as strike pickets on the south side of the Denver train, watching for strike breakers.
A foreman and about 100 workers pass through Cheyenne heading to Tie Siding to rip up the line between Tie Siding now Hermosa and Laramie. Separately, crews at Allen Junction to Carbon on the Sixth district remove rails on the old Laramie line, eighteen miles long between Tie Siding and Laramie.
Baroness Von Trotha and Baron Von Trotha who wed in Cheyenne last December have reconciled and will reside again at the ranch near Greeley. The baroness had filed for divorce in Denver but withdrew the action after a quarrel, and the couple remain together.
Louis Kirk returns home from Laramie while Charles Kitamiller heads to Denver on business. Numerous names report trips to Denver and Colorado Springs, visits from Rawlins and Kanes City, and a church paper solicitation. A light note laments baseball crowds and a magazine excerpt Uplifting prayer ends with a wish for stylishness.
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