29 Apr 1869
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1869
Page
1
The piece laments rapid town building and fire risk in Helena Montana and warns against crowding houses to save land. It surveys national talk of army reorganization and hints at broader political and military rumors, including Cuban affairs and Quaker agents. It notes sensational crime near St Paul and a gold purchase proposal at the Treasury.
The article explains that nominations withdrawn after submission to the Senate avoid rejection. It cites The New York Journal describing how withdrawals occur to spare the nominee and the President from public rejection. It notes long‑standing Senate practices and occasional misunderstandings as causes of withdrawals.
The Crescent reports Mrs. Kate Herbes of Covington La committed suicide on the 12th. She pressed a pistol to her breast, fired, failed, then used a lighted candle to ignite the charge, dying almost instantly. Insanity is suspected to have prompted the act, and she encountered several children during the incident.
A blaze starting in Chinatown, Helena destroyed ninety eight business houses and about forty dwellings across three blocks along Main Street and adjacent streets. One man died in a drunken altercation during the disaster. Funds and property losses exceed a half million as rails, telegraph offices, and multiple firms are left in ruins. The fire crossed bridges and consumed most structures from the Muterto Bridge area to Joliet street, sparing only a few.
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