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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1878
Page
5
The Weekly Leader, issued every Thursday, offers affordable rates at $2.50 yearly and $1.50 half year. It advertises commercial job printing of all kinds including cards, bill heads, blanks, posters, and notices with new type and presses for handsome work at low prices.
General Grant has arrived at Alexandria amid reports of various Servyian reverses. Russia occupies Slatitza and Petruchev. Pottsville bank closes and the Second National Bank of St. Louis liquidates. Colorado’s gold and silver output last year totals 7 879 432 dollars. Peddecord & Burrows in Decatur fail. The steamer Moses returns to Bremen disabled. Indiana’s Fred Ruschaupt petitions in bankruptcy with liabilities 165 000 dollars. Kearsarge floats off Beacon Ledge as tides rise. I M Rice becomes storekeeper and gauger in California. Supreme Court rules on MacGarrahan vs New Idria Mining. Appleton fire damages several businesses, loss 45 000 dollars insured 30 000. Pierce Davies & Co of Liverpool fail with 750 000 liabilities. Ex Gov Shepherd breaks leg on ice in Washington. Chicago sees heavy bankruptcies and real estate decline. Sofia entered on the 8th after a Russian skirmish with 24 Russian casualties. National Trust of New York ordered 50 percent dividend. Fire sparks near Jersey City with few details. Abraham Lipman files bankruptcy in Chicago. Martha Innes schooner wreck near Cape Cod. crew of six drown. Fort Frank Senator ballot shows Williams 50, Lindsay 49, McCreary 24, Boyd 14. Mahmoud Damad ousted from grand master artillery in Constantinople. Several vessels driven ashore and foundered in Massachusetts gale. four unidentified bodies found in Barclay Street fire ruins. Five steamers sail from New York to Europe. space full. Montreal butter and cheese firm G A Cochrane & Co retires, liabilities 300 000.
A cab broke through the ice near Halifax on Sunday, drowning Flora McDonald and Ida Boutilier, both young women, and John Wilson the driver. Nearby reports note severe cold with New England readings from 24 to 42 degrees below zero.
A missionary in South America discovers a great remedy for youth errors and nervous weakness and offers a free cure. Send a self addressed envelope to Rev Joseph T Inman at Bible House New York for the receipt.
John F. Coad and Mark Coad listed with P O boxes in Cheyenne and Camp Clark Nebraska, indicating range from Sidney Bridge to Scott's Bluff. Converse and Warren note Bridger’s Ferry and North Platte range, with cattle branding details: wattle on the left flank or left hind quarter and horses branded on the right shoulder.
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