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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1878
Page
15
The Leader Printing Company ends a year and a half publication cycle amid scattered adlines and partial notices. Neely supplied by carrier, a lone courier delivered remaining issues as delays and typographical errors surfaced in the final batches.
The Emperor William is recovering rapidly. The international copyright convention sits in Paris while West Point sees the President review the cadets. Guatemalan businessmen face severe financial distress and the cotton strike in England nears an end. The Minnesota Republican State Convention is set for Sept. 4. Edward Beaudoire is named the minister killed in the Quebec riot. Russia and Powmaks reportedly suspend hostilities. L. W. Thomas is Greenback nominee for Michigan’s Second District. U.S. agricultural losses from insects are estimated at least 150 million dollars annually. A blaze on Poydras Street, New Orleans destroys multiple buildings with losses around 50 thousand. Quebec remains quiet and workers return to labor. Some locales receive promised protection from authorities. Wolf’s saw mill boiler explosion at Buffalo kills Wolf, his son, and another man, injuring several. Virginia City miners protest wage cuts. John Parker, colored, hanged in Cincinnati for a Somerset murder. Isaac White & Sons stock destroyed by Albany fire, losses 50 thousand, insured 25 thousand. Wallace C. White, a scalper, sentenced to two years in prison and fined 500 in Baltimore for conspiring against a railroad. Dr. Carver demonstrates rifle prowess before five thousand in New Haven. Two Quebec rioters arrested. Flour theft by four hundred barrels from Renard’s store blamed on starvation. Ger B. L. Bonneyille dies at 85 in Fort Smith. Brig. Gen. Bonnevile, oldest U.S. army officer, dies at Fort Smith after entering West Point in 1813. A West Point cadet class headlined by the late Lieut. Berby’s son, a Pacific Coast humorist figure, graduates as top of class.
Letter from J A Tyner of Wilson North Carolina touts London Hair Color Restorer curing a chronic scalp condition and restoring grey hair. He sends $8 for twelve bottles by express, lists price 75 cents per bottle, notes Dr Swayne Son Philadelphia as proprietors and several wholesale agents.
Earmarks for cattle and horses noted with left and right ear splits. brands listed for JOHN FF. COAD and MARK COAD along with P O addresses in Cheyenne and Camp Clark. Range covers Sidney Bridge to Scott's Bluff through Laramie County and nearby locations in Wyoming and Nebraska.
Ida M Buckingham filed a bill in the First Judicial District Wyoming Territory on May 3 1878 seeking divorce for extreme cruelty adultery and custody of their child. Buckingham must answer by June 23 1878 or the bill will be confessed.
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