13 May 1874
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1874
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows a mix of street names and business labels including dentists dry goods fruit markets furniture and general stores. Names such as Myers Wood Leibel Whipple Housman and Cribee appear beside streets like 16th and 17th, with several indecipherable gaps.
May 12 dispatches report Brooks facing Cabinet scrutiny over the Arkansas settlement. government actions likely soon. A District Attorney office safe burglary is under secret investigation. Bedford nominated for Colorado Associate Justice. Mrs. McCook dies in Washington. Senate committees push rail tax and finance bill amendments. Utah election ruling on Cannon up for a committee probe. Hazleton-Harrison votes split on the minority amendment.
A building collapse in Little Rock kills Nagle Buckham five, and Prof Buckham's fourteen year old son. Emma Mores fourteen loses an arm and suffers a fractured skull. Min Buckham breaks a leg. A crowd of about thirty watched as a wall support failed during construction. A striking of the balance leaves a town watching a fragile cease.
New York editorials blast the mayor as dishonest and disreputable, questioning sanity as a defense while Aldermanic investigators link reformers to the street cleaning frauds. A hotel facade collapse on Malo Street injures several occupants and damages nearby shops.
Four convicts seized revolvers and holsters during a visitor exit at Jefferson State prison. They rushed the door, knocked down the turnkey, and escaped. Warden Schultz, guards, and the turnkey pursued. a fight left the turnkey and one convict dead, with the remaining two captured.
Maileon May 12 reports Attorney General Sloan declares the Wisconsin railroad law constitutional and Governor vows to deploy full state power to enforce it. The note also mentions unrelated items: famine in Anitalia, Senator Mellish in New York, Grand Duke Nicholas arrested in St Petersburg, Durham colliery strikes resuming, and a fire destroying half the business district of Butternut, New York.
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