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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1884
Page
6
Fort Smith Ark December 26 Chatubbel and another Choctaw Indian violated the intercourse law and were killed Sunday at Double Springs Indian territory while resisting arrest by Kis Yarby of the Choctaw light horse.
Cincinnati reports that Reuben R Springer bequeaths his valuable art collections to the Cincinnati Art Museum and including pictures willed by his niece Mrs Mills. He also leaves funds for the college of music to construct new buildings.
The Republican's Alma special says a snow slide half a mile down the mountain near Montezuma trapped miners John Headstrom John Ahlstrom and John Ling. Ahlstrom and Ling were found badly frozen and likely to die Headstrom remains missing and presumed killed.
Moss Hannan December 26 reports likely broad coalfield unrest in Westmoreland Blair Huntingdon Bedford Center and Clearfield counties. Wage cuts in 911 departments after December 31 are expected. Miners 15 000 to 20 000 strong may join a general strike starting January 1 amid unresolved Rochester and Pittsburgh Company tensions and rising district insecurity.
A rescue party of 31 from Ouray, Colorado, battled a fierce storm to reach the Virginius mine near Ouray after Friday's disaster. They cared for the wounded and salvaged the dead, but a second avalanche sent sleds with bodies 2000 feet down a cliff. The party barely escaped, reaching Ouray exhausted and near collapse.
In Yazoo City Mississippi on December 26 a deadly nighttime conflict left T Posey John Posey Carnot Posey and Jasper Nichols dead from buckshot. I C Ell et and Frits Halden were wounded. James was killed while resisting arrest after firing three times. The city council blamed a personal quarrel not politics or race. One of the involved negroes was captured.
Cleveland report confirms John B. Austett and his two daughters were struck and killed by the Lake Erie & Western express while crossing the tracks during a sleigh ride near Bluffington yesterday afternoon.
An Orangemen's procession in Harbor Grace St John s New Brunswick was attacked by a mob. Three men were killed and several more wounded. The riot, at 8 p m, remains active as infantry cavalry and police are being dispatched by train and steamer to the scene.
The Railway Age reports six months of building shows 6,600 miles of main track laid at about $165,000,000. Total U S railway mileage reaches roughly 120,000 miles. 1882 construction hits a record 11,600 miles, marking the busiest period in the nation.
Wm McCaffery a ward politician and markets official was mortally wounded early today in a gambling saloon by Budd Renaud one of the proprietors. After a quarrel McCaffery was refused entry and shot in the forehead. Renaud is held in jail.
In Sherman Texas on December 26 a band of desperadoes killed an unoffending negro at Pottsville and since then murdered a white man at Dexter in Cook county. They burned a church and schoolhouse. Deputy sheriffs May and Kelly urge a citizen posse to scour the brush this evening. Suspects in Pottsville murder are known and identifiable.
Nashville. December 26. At about 7 o clock tonight August Jonnard a collector for the First National Bank was assaulted at his gate and struck on the head with a stone losing the mail bag. A son attempting to aid was pistol whipped. the assailant fled with the bag. Jonnard is seriously hurt and the mail found later in an alley partly opened.
A midnight lynching of Henry Pfeiffer Wright McLe more and Thad McLemore occurred when fifty masked men hanged them near a saloon. A subsequent gun battle left Jack Bayley Asa Bayley and Hayward Bayley wounded or dead. Willis Griffin was mortally wounded, five corpses lay in the market house and further trouble was feared.
A meeting of the Marguerite Gold Mining and Milling company stockholders will be held at the company office in Cheyenne Wyoming on January 24 1884 at 2 oclock p m. The purpose is to increase capital stock to fifty thousand shares with a par value of twenty dollars each. Existing stock is twenty five thousand shares at twenty dollars par. Trustees JOHN BRYANT Royal E Robsts CHARLES ALBERT PRINCE.
Three new coal diggers were buried by falling earth near Girardeille Pennsylvania on December 27. One man died, and two others were seriously injured in the accident.
A private dispatch from Hanover Germany reports Colonel Henry R. Rathbone killed his wife and then died by his own hand. The Rathbones are connected to prominent Albany families, and Mrs Rathbone is described as a daughter of ex United States Senator Harris.
In Bozeman Montana on December 27 A Clark was executed at 11:30 AM for the June murder of Thomas Rogers. He proclaimed his innocence as he died. Frank Young was slated for execution but received a sixty day reprieve from the President to present his case before the supreme court.
Near Rockton a sleigh carrying four couples from Rorring Creek ran away and fell over a precipice. James Smith broke leg and arm Henry Green broke an arm Mary Krohner sustained internal injuries and several others were slightly hurt.
Paris December 27. The government will prohibit American salted meats until the chambers decide on the bill to be introduced at the next session. The ban excludes Havre Nantes and Bordeaux ports where arrival will face strict scrutiny and chambers of commerce must cover inspection costs.
The eminent Methodist divine Bishop Henry W. Warren of Georgia and Mrs Elizabeth Lliff of Denver were married at Evans Memorial church with Right Rev Bishop Simpson officiating. The reception at the bride’s palatial home followed, and the couple depart tonight for a trip to New and Old Mexico and Cuba.
A Paris dispatch quotes Dr. J H Detevers denying a report that diseased dogs toured Chicago and that carcasses were shipped to Europe. Officials in Washington refute the claim, stating no widespread swine disease and that healthy hogs are sent to market.
General Butler explains substituting Stickney for Pond in a pardon case, saying he remitted thirty days for Hathaway and calling it a memory lapse. He cites confusion among Republican officials tied to mills and prisons, and asks public sympathy for the difficulty in handling high grade convicts seeking clemency.
A. A. Thomson of Cheyenne states that the at will agreement with Andrew Frazer governing an interest in profits from a herd of cattle branded fat land grazing in Carbon county Wyoming Territory is ended and Frazer has no further control or interest in profits. Dated December 18 1883.
Montreal December 29 Archbishop Tache of St Boniface Manitoba is arranging to establish industrial schools for Indians across the northwest. Oblat fathers oversee the boys schools and Grey Nuns manage the girls schools throughout the territory.
New York reports that six U S army officers and a prominent bridge builder, famed for New York elevated railroad work, boarded the Pennsylvania Railroad at 3 this morning bound for San Francisco. They travel under commission from the emperor of China to participate in the anticipated war between France and China in Tonquin.
Captain Alphonso Budd Smith, a noted inventor from San Francisco, visits Chicago to establish an inventors' institute modeled on the San Francisco organization. He brings models of his inventions and plans lectures on inventions and patent laws before departing.
Sixth It is a fact that the legal profession always use the Court Seal as well as the best business men. Seventh Pensions vouchers Government bonds and all U S Government business will be attended to in the same manner as has been done in the past twelve years. Eighth No papers going to Washington or elsewhere ever come back when completed in Bruner's office. Ninth Depositions and copying of records a Sprciaury either by typewriter or other wise. Seay Office hours from 9 am to 6 pm in Room No 14 Carey block Cheyenne Wyoming Territory.
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