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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1911
Page
13
A sensational appeal touts a home recipe to cure nervous fatigue and circulatory issues. It promotes secret preparation from drugstore ingredients and claims to relieve overworked, despondent individuals and dissipation victims. The piece cites a medical expert warning of dormant blood circulation and nervous impairment as the underlying cause.
Topeka reports thirty banks robbed in Kansas over three months, about one every third day. Safes cracked yield about 100000 dollars. Robbers not captured. two major gangs operate on northern and southern borders from Nebraska and Oklahoma, targeting small Kansas towns.
Milas Annie Hemworth Hollins, 66, daughter of the late George and Lydia Hollings, died of heart failure yesterday afternoon in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J Iles at 1718 West Lombard Street. She had been riding a Frederick Road car to a women’s club gathering when she fell ill and asked the conductor to stop.
May McCarthy asked the San Francisco board of supervisors to pass an ordinance to ban bucketshops and make entry a crime with penalties up to $600 and six months in jail. The mayor’s message says bucketshops prey on small savers and spur crime, with the plan modeled on federal law and now before the judicial committee.
Springfield Mass Jan 4 The oldest residents of three western Massachusetts towns died on New Year’s Eve. Mrs Catherine Cuddihy of Northampton 107 probably the oldest woman in New England. Edwin Stratton of Greenfield 95 with faculties unimpaired was first to traverse the Hoosac tunnel. Mrs Julia Kiley of Cheshire died in her 100th year.
In Wheeling West Virginia on January 4 Thomas Black, who underwent the removal of his right lung for tuberculosis, shows signs of recovery after a surgical procedure described by Dr. Maskine as a precise mechanical operation. Dr Haskins states the operation could cure and would be similar regardless of which lung was removed.
Former heavyweight Gus Rublin known as the Akron Giant was seriously hurt when an unknown man struck him with a club in Brooklyn doorway. He suffers a brain concussion and cannot identify or explain the assailant.
January 4 Sioux Falls report says Sherman State Bank in Sherman near here was raided last night by robbers who escaped with $2000 in cash. The incident occurred in the town of Sherman, with police continuing to investigate.
Senator Stephen B Witcing of West Virginia died at midnight after lingering illness. Born 1841 in Ohio, he moved to Missouri as a youth then to New Mexico where he held multiple legal posts and advocated New Mexico statehood. He served in Congress and the Senate, chaired national committees, and influenced Hepburn rate and Panama Canal related actions. In his life he escaped guerrilla execution when two former students aided his escape.
Washington January 4 War department officials discussed punishing Felipe Buencamino, the Filipino assemblyman who told the legislature that Japanese would possess the Philippines by April. Officials doubted if treason charges could be brought under U S law. Buencamino is a noted orator, long known as ardently pro Japanese.
Katie, a runaway girl in Newark Minnesota, received a letter in Oakland California from a man calling himself F Chinell offering marriage and paying travel to Oakland. The letter, written on Argentine Concrete Paving stationery, names Chinell as president and manager. Police plan inquiries into his status as the girl weighs the proposal.
Washington reports preliminary estimates from George Roberts director of the mint show world gold production declined in 1910. The United States minted over 96 million dollars, Africa led with over 175 million, Australia 65 million, and California topped the gold output among states. Silver production totaled about 56 million fine ounces led by Montana then Utah.
Augusta Stetson, excommunicated founder of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in New York, dictates a statement asserting that Mary Baker G. Eddy will arise from the tomb and resume leadership. She argues followers will accept her final demonstration as corporeal senses fade before spirit.
In Greeley Colorado on January 4 John Ath berlin 24 a Wiggins homesteader appeared with his wife in an assault case. He acted as his own attorney, they examined each other, and the couple declared they would make up as the wife admitted her affection while reaffirming allegations of a knife injury. Magistrate Uotch noted reconciliation and allowed the parties to proceed toward settlement.
A couple found dead after a kiss in Keyser, West Virginia, as autopsy shows cyanide poisoning. Police investigate whether chewing gum or poison supply in the Blosser home sparked the tragedy, with motives and hours of death under careful review.
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