13 Nov 1869
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1869
Page
1
A Mexico letter reports that on the 8th, a silver mine at Guangate collapsed during dinner, killing a hundred people. The next day a river drowning near Samana involved sixteen women and twelve men among others. The events occur amid broader naval and political notes from Washington and Mississippi elections.
San Francisco reports a surplus of 150 to 200 unemployed printers as the Typographical Union plans to help with costs. California sees many itinerant tours and a surplus of supply across trades. San Francisco hosts German doctors to curb quack practices. Madame Methua Scheller arrives for a Maguire engagement. Nevada notes a silver spike for the Virginia City & Truckee Railroad, a shooting near Austin results in a bystander death, and a semi weekly Elko Cope stage line. Carson River fishing with giant powder angers residents. bullion thefts from California mill total 2000 ounces with six hundred recovered. Washington Territory property valuation reaches 20 million dollars.
The obituary honors a venerable veteran whose fifty years of service included the storming of Queenstown in 1812, ground selection for Buena Vista, and a Brevet Major General salute from Congress. He helped organize the Greyregiment of Volunteers and led a Norfolk capture in 1862 before retiring to Troy where he died. Democracy as a political label is denounced by the Toursville Courier-Journal as misused and tainted by treason.
Chicago learns the new tunnel is a direct tea supply route to Hong Kong China run by the Great East India Tea Company. Twenty men have completed most of the work at the far end while proposals include a corps of reporters as bartenders at midway stations. In Poughkeepsie a vagrant, Peter Perdon, died after a steam pipe boiler blow released scalding water and steam.
Samuel, a veteran printer at Haven, Connecticut, describes the flat composition roller used in a New Haven printing office. It was cast in a segment of an Alove pipe about forty years ago.
A curious, garbled slice of news items mixes places and odd facts. References include London finances, cheap potatoes, contested elections, a new Massachusetts legislator, blossoms in South Boston, a Maton Georgia fair building, a 720 foot long structure, a Kentucky printer’s apology, Thomas Peabody tomb, Evanston women’s college baseball, Bible exclusion in Cincinnati led by a Universalist, Cardiff stone exhibit in Onondaga County, a New York Nor- flower growth with a dove, and reflections on graves and mourning in old local culture.
Mr Wilson introduced FL Bh No 2A a DI for an Act to prevent stock stenting land and to provide for the punishment of the same. Best first and second time and referred H.R No 2 a bill for an Act for the protection of gan and fish was taken to amended and passed. HH B No 8 0 Will for an Act to encourage the growth of trees in the Territory was taken up and passed. Adjourned.
An old advertisement promotes Golden Remedies by Dr Rach and Reddington, listing cures and tonics for various ailments. It claims mercurial health tonics, nervine helpers, and blood purifier claims with pricing per bottle and per set. The copy names locations in New York and mentions proprietors and agents for distribution.
Government proclamation states the President designated the eighteenth day of November as Thanksgiving time in Wyoming. Wording references the territorial governor J A Campbell and acknowledges national holiday recognition.
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