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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1878
Page
2
The issue compiles reports from 1876 about Mercedes, Spain’s queen, political shifts in the U S and Europe, naval and land concerns, and noted figures like Grant, Bismarck, and Beecher. It recalls assassination rumors, court intrigues, and legislative strains amid Anglo Austrian and Turkish-Russian diplomacy.
The President accepted the resignation of George R. Bacon of the First cavalry. Leave of absence for Lieut. W C Forbush of the Fifth cavalry is extended fourteen days. Col. T J Pitcher of the First infantry to join the Returning Board in New York. Capt. John H Donovan of the Seventeenth Infantry granted one year leave for sickness. Lieuts Edmund Rice and A H Jackson reassigned to regiments. Cadets Burnett and Taylor at West Point turned back to next class. Resignations of George W Crawford and Chas M Robinson at academy accepted. The public school to close July and August. Speeches and songs at a graduation event praised for order and education efforts. Peter Hamma notes Wyoming laws on compulsory education and urges attendance next term.
The piece portrays Mrs. Jenks as a witty force undermining a congressional committee once the Potter panel. Her deft jabs turn proceedings into farce, a rare spectacle of a political body made to laugh by a sharp wife who toys with investigators.
The passage describes the destruction of the Greasers citadel with nothing left standing. A committee appears in fool’s caps while Mrs Jenks is ridiculed for her role. Public scorn extends to the Democrats as the Potter’s wheel becomes a dunce block.
Mr. R. King of Texas, a premier stock and land owner, is in Denver. He surveys 360000 acres of ranch, 200000 fenced, with 60000 cattle 26000 horses and 100000 sheep. Wealth built in thirty years. offers of 1200000 for the ranch stone refused. About fifty or sixty, robust in appearance.
Bre身 Harte sailed for Europe on Friday. John Lane at Buffalo killed his father Friday morning while drunk. Shenandoah Valley bank of Pottsville Pa. closed Wednesday. Northumberland plate at Newcastle races won Wednesday by Grabby Sladstonebury. Pomeroy Ohio Iron Company assigned liabilities $75,000. Mrs Sarah Helen Whitman died Providence R I Friday evening. Wm Roots store Jacksonville Fla burned Friday loss $35,000, insurance $28,000. Frank Perrine hung in Savannah Ga for murder. General Land Office approved Meadore Wagner bond as Surveyor General of California. Democrats of Highth district Iowa met at Council Bluffs and nominated J H Keatley. Slosson defeated by Sexton in Chicago for US championship in billiards. Geo Fuster treasurer Stark County Ohio defaulter $60,000. Republican convention Iowa renominated Hiram Price. President signed commission of ex Lieutenant Governor Hahn mint New Orleans. B L Solomon & Sons assignment Liabilities $1,000,000. Peter Mueller & Son brewery Lincoln Ill destroyed by fire loss $60,000. President appointed Oliver Wood Indian agent and Wyman J Lincoln Gros Ventres agency. Judge Sidney Breeze died Pinckneyville Ind oldest judge. Fire destroyed Kent Baldwin Co wool machines Chicago loss $20,000. Vermont Novelty Springfield works burned loss $75,000, insurance $30,000, 125 unemployed.
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