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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1883
Page
1
Rates for Daily subscriptions range 10.00 yearly in advance, 25 cents weekly, with six months and monthly terms listed. Advertising prices scale by line counts from 10 to 5 cents per line, with official notices at 8 cents per line and weekly or longer runs discounted. Publisher: J. B. Rorrow, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Notice warns readers to keep current payments for the WEAKLY LEADER to avoid discontinuation. It urges subscribers to pay ahead to ensure uninterrupted delivery and continued receipt of the paper.
To prove the wonderful power of the Great German Invigorator a two dollar bottle of either number will be sent free of charge. Persons ordering a free bottle will only have to pay expressage on delivery. Most powerful electric belts free to patients. Consultation examination and advice free and private. Call or write Dr Libberg and Co 400 Geary Street and 403 Mason Street San Francisco Cala.
Physicians are startled by a new remedy claimed to daily cure consumption and throat and lung diseases once given up as hopeless. Hundreds of doctors are reportedly using this treatment, with trial bottles offered free at Gray & Pearse's drug store and regular bottles priced at one dollar.
An old advertisement for Bucklen's Arnica Salve proclaims it the greatest medical wonder, guaranteed to cure burns brusises cuts ulcers fever sores cancers piles chilblains corns tetter chapped hands and all skin eruptions. Sold by Gray and Pearse for 25 cents a box with money back guarantee.
Fritz Ave, aged fifty, was struck on the head by a stone during a brawl at Friedman's garden picnic of the Deutsche Maennerverein. Charles Smith and Tom Johnson were arrested for the missile throw, and crowds nearly lynched the suspects amid widespread excitement.
General O. W. Bromle, said to have killed the Seminole chief Osceola, buried today in Darby a suburb of Philadelphia. Osceola, born 1817, declined a commission years ago and lived in retirement with pay. He served in the regular army for forty eight years.
Secretary Folger, with Collector Schalding, sails from Chicago on the cutter Andy Johnson for an excursion to Lake Superior. He will visit Pictured Rocks, return to Detroit, then proceed to Geneva New York and Portsmouth New Hampshire. Secretary Chandler arrived this forenoon and has boarded the Tallapoosa for a summer trip.
A syndicate signs a contract to build the island railway within three years and nearly secures the coast's only true coal seams. Sir Alexander Campbell told a deputation the last session bill for a railway to the boundary line would not be allowed. Sir Alexander leaves on the 28th. An understanding between dominion and provincial authorities is reported.
An unknown three hundred ton steamer sank five miles off the Atlantic City coast after being pursued by another vessel. Both ships were near shore under sail and steam when the schooner disappeared with all hands. The schooner reportedly flew the black flag and the other steamer steamed away eastward after half an hour.
In Chicago on a Saturday morning, eight men checked in as Mr Crowley and wife at the Commercial hotel. Gas was escaping from a closed room. the man died before a patrol wagon arrived and was taken to the morgue, while the woman was hospitalized and could not identify herself. The clothes marked Tracy suggested a possible self harm death.
The Western Union line reaches Cinabar Montana fifty miles south of Livingston on the Northern Pacific railway. Messages to Hot Springs hotel Yellowstone Park will be sent free by pony express from that point. Dr Marvin Green president of the Western Union company is back from a long overseas trip and reports his health improved.
A hurricane swept over the Duluth area last night causing heavy damage along the north shore. The Williams & Upham dredge and a scow loaded with lumber belonging to Perton, Kimball & Barber were wrecked and sunk at Agate Bay.
A Cleveland report debunks circulating word that cholera has appeared in Akron. The story originated from a sensationalist correspondent whose haste outran truth. No events or pretext support the rumor.
In Addington a drunken white man named Bridgeman assaulted a Black man, shooting him multiple times. When Edwin Hawkins, Hawkins’s half brother, tried to intervene Bridgeman turned and killed Hawkins. Bridgeman is jailed amid threats of lynching by Black residents.
Boston August 21 Joseph F Paul and Co extensive lumber dealers suspend business. The embarrassment is temporary. Paul was largely interested in the Boston Sewing Machine company recently established. Although the company is doing a good business it is scarcely time to realize from the investment. A large note due today caused the suspension.
At 6 this morning a fire swept the operating room of the Western Union telegraph company in Chicago. The blaze, likely from a defective flue, burned the floor and flooded the room. Crews worked to restore duplexed lines to New York and expect normal service by tomorrow morning.
Four Reading railroad laborers arrested on Sunday the 12th faced a hearing in Philadelphia. Testimony claimed the work could not be done other days due to frequent train traffic, and the magistrate, considering necessity, discharged the defendants.
Baton Rouge reports Governor McEnery asks the Attorney General to file proceedings to annul land entries tied to scrip issued to his brother John McEnery. The move challenges the legality of scrip issued under Governor Wiltz and responds to New Orleans Picayune charges that the scrip was illegally issued or misused to divert funds from the state treasury.
A rear collision near Struthers Ohio involves the Youngstown passenger train striking a standing freight train on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie yard. Engineer Rose escaped unharmed. fireman Louis Kerter and express messenger William Johnson were hurt. brakeman Charles Walsh severely injured. The train caught fire but passengers extinguished it. about 100 people aboard with no fatalities.
Under Lieutenant West the United States lighthouse board with Senator George Congressman King and local commerce and marine groups conducted an evening inspection of the Foster gaslight buoy and the beacon off Sandy Hook. Officers reported the beacon sighted three months ago is in full force and brilliancy and unfailing.
A seventeen year old girl, Mary Church, daughter of Col James O Church, VP and manager of the Western Anthracite Coal Co, is missing after a family drive. Detectives search since last night, abductions suspected. she was last seen near the gate at 7 pm.
Rufus Hatch reports from Fargo on August 20 that foreign press in London and Paris express high interest in the Northern Pacific railroad project. He notes crops are good and cities prepare for the road’s opening, with all parties pleased by the advance.
A Dallas visit by Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe officers suggests earnest consideration of a northern outlet. Reports claim plans to extend from Dallas through northern and eastern Texas, Kansas and Missouri to join the Chicago Burlington & Quincy system, with possible Santa Fe and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe negotiations.
Telegraphic news in brief reports the death of Boston author Wm M Baker. Also noted are a Danforth New York fire destroying two homes with $20,000 loss, Boston lumber dealer Joseph E Paul facing $70,000 liabilities, two men arrested in Buffalo for a Swede murder, a large shipment of 180 Percheron stallions from Havre to Wayne Illinois with two lost, and the incorporation of the National telegraph company at $25,000 capital with potential to $10 million and a list of stockholders.
Reports from Alexandria Constantinople Vienna Madrid Dublin and Luxembourg describe cholera deaths brigand kidnappings demands for ransom language protests riots and political pamphlets. The items note British troops cholera tolls local unrest royal visit plans and guards.
London correspondent profiles Aspinwall and the Panama railroad with vivid notes on growth, dirt, and crowding, then describes canal work, tropical scenery, native life, and a detailed look at Bronson Howard's theater drafting method and skeleton play planning for Mr Wyndham.
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