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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1882
Page
15
A digest from Port au Prince Tripoli Suez and New York reports including Arabi Pasha earthworks and Turkish tensions. UK and US rail and forestry policy headlines mix with crime notes from Ireland Sweden and Missouri as transport fares shift and steamer Mosell endures strain.
Chicago August 24 The national prohibition convention reconvened with new state representation. A telegram from the Knights of Temperance in Atlanta greeted the gathering. The platform calls for banning all alcohol trade and taxation, universal suffrage for women, abolition of polygamy and patronage, and strong public schools with alcohol education.
Agent McGillicuddy arrives in Omaha and meets Gen Crook on Indian business. He says Pine Ridge remains quiet but warns of potential trouble without decisive government action. He cites a Sioux confederation plan to make Red Cloud chief and reports life threats and possible resignation. An earlier petition against him is attributed to white men.
Ireland and London dispatch recount Trevelyan, Ireland's chief secretary, arriving in Belfast with a warm mayoral welcome. He warns of personal danger in governing Ireland and calls for a trusted tribunal to deliver justice, while vowing firm action against outrages. Kevelyan then tours ironworks as harbor flags fly in homage. Dublin report notes Judge Lawson praising jurors after a commission verdicts, with one case unsettled and a venue move deemed prudent.
Reports say Smith who tried to outrage a white woman was seized by a disguised party and shot dead. Other notes include Hungary court cases of poison trials, Mazatlan attack on Francisco Ascina, a horse thief pursuit in Arkansas, and Tennessee congressional nominations by rival factions.
Gen Crook returns to Omaha and cautions that Sioux unrest could grow if not promptly addressed. A letter from 52 chiefs demanding agent McGillicuddy's removal within 60 days has reached the Interior Department but not been made public. Dr McGillicuddy is expected from Pine Ridge agency tomorrow.
Col lector McMurtin reports from Pembrona mountains that chiefs Little Shell Little Ball and Red Thunder with seventy five Indians and half-breeds promised not to interfere with customs officers hereafter and admitted past interference was a mistake.
Sioux leader Red Cloud is forging a quiet alliance to seize power as McGillycuddy consults General Cook on a decisive action. Red Cloud would resign to avoid assassination, a move seen as harmful to the service and stability of the agency.
In Mountainburg last night three men Tom Sincoe David Pope and Frank Lane quarreled over cards Lane drew a knife and stabbed Pope in the abdomen and fatally stabbed Sincoe. Pope died within an hour Sincoe survived early today Lane was seized by a mob and believed lynched
Washington August 26 The Post says Hubbell's second political assessment circular will be followed by a Mahone directed circular to Virginia office holders who are Republicans or readjusters. It demands a voluntary five percent salary contribution to support the readjuster movement. The circular names the recipient's salary and the amount expected.
In Buffalo on August 25 five men died in the New York Lake Erie and Western elevator blaze. Names include Bonner engineer Kemp machinist Auto bach sweeper Lee and Criscoe. Two bodies recovered. cause not confirmed though gas explosion suspected. Losses total about 410000 with buildings storage and freight values listed.
A wide range of notes from the era recounts labor unrest and political nominations across the United States and Canada. The report mentions the American Forestry Congress meeting in Montreal, coal miners’ strikes winding down in Wilkes Barre and Cohoes with many looms active, and political moves including Maine independents nominating Warren N. Vinton and Indiana Democrats backing Luther Benson for Congress.
A London Times correspondent describes St Petersburg in summer as a vast, empty city of grand buildings and wide boulevards, where dust issues from Neva pumps and the Hotel de l Europe is overwhelmed by noise and activity. He portrays a sprawling, river spiral city with churches, palaces, and canals, a place of wealth and anonymity, its vast spaces and indifferent layout giving a sense of a city that “runs out” beyond its borders.
The article explains thunder as a phenomenon linked to air movement from electricity and notes the difficulty in fully explaining echoes between clouds and earth. It describes churning as agitating milk to rupture fat globules and form butter, with suggested milk temperatures of 60 to 62 degrees in heat and about 2 degrees higher in cold weather.
A California camp tale recounts how a sack of rice swells massively when cooked, filling the cabin. The narrator nearly consumes seven years of rice, then exchanges the sack, but the memory and embarrassment linger among the crew.
The house fly is praised as a summer scavenger that cleans dirt and may destroy disease breeding filth, yet its nuisance grows where dirt abounds. It champions human utility while provoking annoyance with leaps and whacks, possessing many eyes and a drive to reach light and warmth.
Lawrence Sterne muses on patience as Uncle Toby frees a fly at dinner while contrasting a diner's dilemma with a swarm of blue bottles. The piece jests about temptations and blasphemy while rendering a humorous, antiquated scene.
A garbled passage riffs on a shower scene and a sentiment about a woman with no umbrella. It shifts to misquoted lines attributed to Tennyson and mentions imagery of swallows and rye harvests. The text ends with a puzzling note about China and tombs for the wealthy.
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