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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
16
The Omega club meeting is postponed until Monday evening due to Mrs. McNair illness. Mr and Mrs McNair will host at 621 West 20th Street Mou Beta Club. The Mu Beta lab meets this afternoon with Mrs J C Thompson Jr at 2115 Howse Street.
Congregational Missions reports its annual meeting to be held this afternoon in church parlors with full attendance expected. Members of the Congregational Missionary Society will discuss church missions and activities.
General Salazar, wounded in the shoulder, is reported in California after crossing near Douglas and taking a train to Los Angeles. El Tiro mine bullion shipments arrive. $25 000 in bars found and recovered near the camp. General Orozco is said to hold over a million dollars in European banks. Campa accuses Salazar of looting and murder.
An advertisement claims Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy darkens hair quickly and effectively reducing gray or faded tones. It promises fast results tonight and within a week, restoring natural color and promoting healthier growth with a money back guarantee if not satisfied after a fair trial.
The Guild of St Mark's hosts a bake sale and tea at the Parish House on Saturday afternoon with hostesses Mrs Hradley and Mrs Oster. The South Cheyenne WCTU holds a bake sale at Ohienstein's Grocery tomorrow. Baptist ladies serve meals to delegates at the convention this week with rotations by committee daily.
In Bingham Utah on September 26 four hundred deputy sheriffs are on duty and conditions are peaceful. Copper miners on strike push for settlement as organizers of the Railway Switchmen Union of America prepare a meeting to discuss strategies. General Manager Jackling claims no change to plans to resume ops and promises protection for workers. An organizer of the Western Federation of Miners arrives at Ely Nevada with other supporters expected, warning of possible strike action if strikebreakers are moved to Bingham and Nevada interests pressure consolidate mines.
William Marconi, famed wireless pioneer, was hurt in a two car collision near Borgietto in the Vara valley. He suffered a wound to the right eye and facial bruises. his wife was uninjured. several others, including five women in the other car, were severely bruised. He was brought to the naval hospital and an eye specialist halted guessing about optic nerve until swelling subsides.
Chin Shue, first Chinese nominated on a U S political ticket, seeks admission of Chinese women to the United States. He is active in Chinese circles and business, favors tariff revision, direct senate nomination, and life judges to remove judiciary from politics.
Fall River Mass September 26 Wilson campaign tour draws enthusiastic crowds in Springfield and other towns. He interacts with supporters passing out campaign buttons from the train amid continuous receptions.
A Wyoming man lost his marriage license but after hours and a call to Deputy City Clerk Clarence Moorhouse a duplicate license was issued. The couple then reached the minister’s home where the wedding proceeded without further mishap.
In San Francisco on September 26 an unidentified bandit, linked to a prior San Mateo line holdup, was shot and killed after hijacking a trolley, robbing the conductor of 33 dollars the motorman of 22, taking a passenger aboard, and leaping from the car near Barbary Coast as pursuers fire at him. Special Patrolman Al Kuffmann was wounded but not seriously.
Kansas City Missouri September 26 three switchmen M A Neal F F Siepert and Joseph Perron were killed when a northbound Kansas City Southern passenger train collided head on with a switch engine on the eastern outskirts of Kansas City. The engineer and fireman were slightly bruised and no passengers were harmed. A misunderstanding of orders caused the crash. Chattanooga Tennessee September 30 a Southern Railway passenger train from Cincinnati to Jacksonville derailed twelve miles from Rome Georgia killing J B Mitchell Gould Tennessee James and Essie Scott of Rome. Los Angeles California September 26 John C Driver aged 70 a wealthy man married Miss Naomi Ter water after waiting nineteen years for the girl he once dangled on his knee and will take her to Elden Missouri as his bride.
Cambridge reports Gale's comet observed with a six inch telescope at 7 30 o'clock Monday night in Houston Texas according to a telegram from W F Carothers Harvard College Observatory The tail appeared uncertain and the nucleus indefinite and the comet was invisible to the unaided eye under moonlight.
Otto McKnelly aged 21 was arrested in Wellington Kansas on September 26 charged with murdering his father mother and sister in a tent on the outskirts Tuesday night. A revolver and ball bat were the weapons used and bloodstained clothes were found among the son s belongings at his workplace.
United States Senator Joseph M. Dixon authorizes Mrs. Medill McCormick to lead a country wide movement among women to observe October 28 as founders day in honor of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive party. This year the colonel's birthday falls on Sunday and is moved to October 27.
Taft and Wilson met for the first time since the campaign began at a Boston hotel. They greeted each other warmly and chatted for several minutes in a cordial encounter.
Collier's Weekly accuses Warren of surrounding himself with Wyoming lieutenants named to top judicial posts in Washington. The piece notes Senator Clark as judicial committee chair pushing for confirmation, casting the area as a political ring aiming for power in the national capital.
Philadelphia widow Mary A. Shar writes to Denver police chief asking to find a Western husband. Rancher William Lunn from near Denver replies with photo and wealth invoice. She planned to marry in Denver next week, leaving behind a divorced status and two children.
Bryan ends his Nevada tour with addresses in Virginia City Silver City and Carson and finishes in Reno before a large crowd. He accuses the steel trust of watering stock and claims the Comstock mines required decades of labor to match that value. He cites alleged federal press manipulation by Warren and notes Wyoming editors holding land office posts.
Illness from rough Channel crossings may end as Compagnie Generale Trasnsbaenne of Paris and Folkestone council announce a regular hydro airplane service. Sheds and sufficient machines to carry many passengers are planned.
Police on the Brooklyn Bridge formed a special squad to prevent Rose Pearlstein from harming herself after a note pinned to her two months old baby's dress stated the mother could not support the child and planned to jump. The infant was found unharmed in a Pike Street hallway.
Hot Springs Ark Sept 26 George W Howell captain of police who aided in Bam Schepps arrest and testified Becker Rosenthal murder case received two anonymous letters threatening death One letter accused him of taking a payoff and warned of dire consequences including physical harm The threats reference Whitman Nes Ohio club and the Becket case details
Saratoga N Y Sept 26 Jacob Gould Schurman president of Cornell University was named in gossip as a possible candidate for governor at the Republican state convention. State Senator Edgar T Brackett chaired the session as officials opened the meeting with a recess planned after the chairman's remarks.
One hundred striking miners armed with rifles halted a train at the Roserun Iron mines in Bath County late yesterday. Advices received today state the confrontation occurred as workers lined up on both sides of the track and attacked the train during the incident.
Ten guards confront strikers on a train threatening a clash. The engineer was ordered to drive through the men with iron plate protection on the guards’ car. Fire is exchanged but no injuries reported.
In Wuchang on Sept 20 more than 200 mutineers were summarily executed by loyal troops under Gen SA Yuang Heng following an outbreak among cavalry units outside the city. The rest fled into the countryside after the assault and defeat.
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