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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1910
Page
9
A Parisian singer Mme Cavalieri, famed beauty, allegedly impoverishes her future husband Henry Chanler by manipulating legal papers before marriage. The tale includes a vow to declare a 16 year old’s paternity and transfer of property, with siblings present urging signatures.
Cardinal Vannutelli led a grand pontifical mass atop Mount Royal before a 76000 strong crowd in the Eucharistic Congress. Earlier, 20000 attended the Cathedral of Notre Dame for the congress’s first public session with diverse language groups.
James McLachlan, a bar tender, was deemed to have killed his wife with murderous intent before shooting himself. An inquest, led by Justice Padgett, found death from a pistol wound, and the witness list included three physicians. The funeral was planned from Early Chapel West Street with $3.41 reportedly found on the victim.
Early returns show Republicans fell about twelve thousand votes versus 1908 as Dems held steady. John A. Mead elected governor in Vermont and New Hampshire, beating Charles D. Watson by a large plurality. Prouty’s 1908 showing cited as comparison. Wisconsin sees La Follette gains and Heiling rerouted to support for Senate. Michigan reports a close battle between Townsend and Burrows with Burrows defeated.
Laura Belle Taylor, a 17 year old Pueblo County girl missing since August 31, surfaces with Benny Jones. She claims she was drugged and abducted while unconscious and spirited from Arkansas River by boat toward Horace. Sheriff’s office maintains she left home voluntarily. Jones fled eastward after release.
In Pittsburg Col Roosevelt’s western tour ended with two addresses and a civic dinner. He praised Pittsburg for purifying civic life and urged calm, then spoke in Columbus, denouncing streetcar strike violence and calling for order and responsibility as crowds cheered.
A white male laborer, likely a foreigner, was struck and killed by eastbound Union Pacific train number near Borie ten miles west of Cheyenne shortly after 6 am yesterday. Engineer Meyerly sounded the whistle but the man did not step clear and was dragged under the engine. The body was recovered about 2 o'clock at Cheyenne station by agents of the railroad and taken for inquest.
New York reports the Metropolitan Parapsychology Society offers 1000 dollars to any medium who can relay from the spirit of Prof William James a statement about the content of a private letter he sent to W S Davis before his death. Davis alone holds the letter.
In St. Paul on September 10, reports say Franklin D. Roosevelt rejected a $200000 annual offer to head the University of Minnesota. Endowment talk linked James J. Hill to a $90000000 fund, with Kellogg noting higher public office pay might attract him.
Newburg a farmer George W. Baker invited neighbors to his funeral earlier this week then was found dead in his home from suicide by laudanum. He was 40 years old and gave no reason for his act.
A complete victory for the miners of District 22 followed a conference with operators in Cheyenne. The miners won most demands including a general wage increase of 312 cents per ton over the prior contract. An agreement was signed Friday night and parties then adjourned, with a special meeting held yesterday to sign the contracts and end the strike in Superior.
Cheyenne announces that Judge Carey, a Republican, declares his bid for governor. He says he will express convictions on policies for the state and will not pledge support to any other office or candidate, aiming for the best administration. The notice notes sectional politics and party loyalty.
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