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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1910
Page
9
Supporters of Mullen for governor engage in a new issue that widens factional tensions within the campaign. The strategic move signals shifting alliances and potential impacts on primary dynamics.
In Chenidan Wyoming July 25 a faction of Republicans seeks to push the liquor question in the governor race. They favor repealing the anti liquor law affecting country towns to change sentiment and aid Attorney General Mullen. Church groups and many oppose the move, promising a primary battle to defend law and order. The schism shocks Sheridan county party leaders.
In Cleveland on July 24 29 female workers at the American Obtole Company chewing gum plant demanded higher wages from one dollar to one dollar twenty six per day. When refused they walked off the job and gathered at a nearby dancing pavilion to press the wage issue. The plant superintendent announced he had filled their positions.
Fully 100 per sons are dead and 1,000 injured in northern Italy as hurricanes wreck towns. Many more are homeless and property worth millions destroyed. Dispatches warn the death toll may rise when country districts report in. Troops and army supplies moved into the affected region.
In Missouri near Troy, Brice Wommack and Mollie Anderson leapt from the Chain Docks into the Mississippi with improvised flotation and ropes. James Linders, a city employee, aided by reaching the drifting pair as they sank, saving Anderson while Wommack perished.
Sheridan, July 25. J C Weltner reports finding the skeleton of Nathan A Lindsay, who vanished May 14, 1910, north of Cedar Creek in Big Horn county. Bones of two horses and a live horse with a saddle were nearby, a pup starved and later named Faithful by Mrs Weltner. Lindsay left with a letter to his wife, tried to warm himself with matches, and died of exposure after carnivores fed on his remains.
Chicago July 95. The Chicago Building Trades council split on a sympathetic strike by 18 100 construction mechanics. The measure, decided at a secret meeting, targets the Oya Elevator company to reinstate striking elevator constructors.
A description notes shifting winds and a spreading forest fire near Vetton threatening woods and hillside areas. Authorities report efforts to contain the blaze as flames advance under difficult conditions.
Wireless reports from warships off the Korean coast say at least 200 passengers and crew perished when the Tatsurai Maru went down near Kobe and Daten after striking treacherous rocks. Only forty were saved. British vice consul W Cunningham survived and is in Gake with friends.
In Lincoln Nebraska July 26 William J Bryan three times a presidential candidate faces likely rebuff from Democrats in his home state His aim to secure a county option plank at the state convention in Grand Island hinges on rallying delegates many former Bryan allies now oppose him as the party debates the platform and county option policy The convention follows district caucuses where Bryan propagandists appear doomed to defeat.
Rawlins July 25. W. Persons, who recently shot and killed Robert Temple, a prominent elder of Baggs, will remain in county jail until trial. A first degree murder charge has been filed under Wyoming law. Court action may affect bonds, with hopes among friends for a lesser charge.
New York police issued a general alarm today for Erwin Wider the missing cashier of the Russo Chinese bank. The case tops Wall Street defalcations since Cornelius Alvard stole 608000 from the First National bank. The bank later revised the loss to 4900 in walsh aids and customer shortfalls. Brokers hold the stolen bonds as suits to recover proceeds proceed. Wider is described by bank officials as exemplary but under strong influence from a more powerful mind.
State Chairman Ward announces the appointment of Senators Thomas McCue and Tully Ccott and Representatives Thomas Wenceshaw and William McCaskill to form a joint legislative committee. The panel will gather Democratic views on platform measures for the extra session and report to a caucus before the session opens.
Reports from Guthrie Oklahoma City and New York describe extreme heat with highs from 91 to 111 degrees in the shade. Deadly and prostrating conditions are noted in New York and Chicago with hospital crowding and sweltering fatalities. Kansas City and Philadelphia also report near peak summer heat and crop damage from hot winds.
Chicago July 25 Efforts to impanel a new coroner jury to hear evidence in the Rawn shooting mystery will resume at Winnetka town hall Wednesday evening. Insurance interests allegedly offered about 1 000 000 to Illinois Central directors to drop civil and criminal suits over a supposed conspiracy involving Rawn. The railroad says Rawn owed them hundreds of thousands and faced ruin, with death by his own action as a possible outcome. The alleged co conspirator with a million dollars remains unnamed.
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