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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1878
Page
12
An old time advertisement and assorted items note cheap commercial printing services, a new type press, and a flood of political and foreign affairs mentions. Headlines touch on Plevna, Congress, and various incidents including yellow fever plans and a California constitutional pledge to stay in the union.
The Inter Ocean notes federal spending in the District of Columbia, including art purchases and statues, canal history, presidential funeral costs, and L Enfant’s payment. It cites debates on a national quarantine system, race relations in the south, and Indian affairs with President Hayes weighing transfer of Indian oversight to the War Department.
A Cincinnati survey of Southern views shows Democratic picks Thurman and Hendricks nearly neck and neck with Bayard in third. Pendleton and Hancock trail, Tilden absent. Republicans favor Grant, with Blaine second and Conkling barely visible. No new names appear, suggesting favorite sons may decide conventions later.
A New Bedford incident echoes a famed tale where doctors induce fear of death through imagined pain. A man, worn by a long drinking bout, begged his employer to shoot him deeming himself useless, pleading for death as a release.
Leary covered over 110 miles in first 24 hours. Russians retreat near Demotica. John G. Baxter elected mayor of Louisville. Jellalabad evacuated. No Afghans south of Cabul. Freshet at Solon Falls Maine destroys mill and tannery. President sent numerous appointments to Senate. New York dairy fair shows butter and cheese factory in operation. New Haven Republican city ticket elected. Bonanza Mackey gave Brass Band Gilmore 150000 to aid in Europe. Russian troops ordered from Odessa to Bourgas. Bishop J P Wilmack of Louisiana dies at 65. Potterers sub committee to return to New Orleans. Five boys in a skiff upset by towboat in Mississippi at New Orleans. English army division under Maude arrives at Peshawar. Troops returning from Bosnia ordered to rejoin regiments. National Academy of Sciences report on territorial surveys released. Tramp Holland kills man in Little Rock county and escapes. Albanians skirmish with Serbians on frontier. several soldiers killed. Accidents in St Louis coal tar refinery burn two men Leish and Weis. Lantern caused blaze in barrel of coal tar.
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