Telegraphic News In Brief March 1 1883
The lower Mississippi has made crevasses in levees. Tuilleries ruins sold for 600000 dollars. Mally Mills at North Adams burned. Little Rock river risen four feet. Widow of Marshall Jewell died of heart disease. Waterbury land league sent 2634 dollars to famine sufferers. Rhyland sighted icebergs from Antwerp. St Louis expo funds rise toward 600000. Haley family suffocated by coal gas in Madison. Robbery at Newcomerstown priced 1200 dollars. Michigan senatorial votes show Lathrop leading. Clark Fork last spike driven at Weeksville. Margaret Mather seriously ill in Boston. Kuh 15 with funds exchanged unseen since. Bomaitre mills of St Joseph lead destroyed by fire. Lawrence Catholics alarmed. Milwaukee water famine fears rise. Belford letter dispute with Dorsey. Howell shooting suicide in Chicago. Jones & Laughlins firm denied failure. Mapon Banking fraud charge in Ontario. Florida bill creates railroad and steamship venture Florida governor signs. Key West route planned. Luke town bruisers fight ends with arrests. New York brewers win arrest of Driver & Cooper for barrel sales. 50000 dollars barrels sold yearly. Merino Guillot shot killed in Dallas. cause unknown. Frank H Matthews arrested in Chicago for fraud. 32 Germans injured in Hawley sleigh accident. Reinhardt Warg dies from injuries.
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Newcomerstown
Ohio
Bixley
Michigan
Lathrop
Palmer
Stockbridge
Willets
Ferry
Weeksville
Mont
Margaret Mather
Boston
John Kuh
New York
St. Joseph Lead Company
Bomaitre
Lawrence
Mass
Milwaukee
Belford
Dorsey
Berdell
Albert J. Howell
Howell, Crapser & Co
Chicago
Jones & Laughlins
Cattle Losses and Drive Trends Dominate Texas Market
Private Idaho letters report heavy losses and a bleak outlook with southwest Texas losses at 3 to 4 percent of cattle as of February 18. Wyoming reports no losses in Mabry’s herds while Searight’s De Witt county ranch notes active spring drive contracts from 12.50 to 13 for yearlings and up to 20 for two year olds, with most stock headed to northern ranchers. Saddle horse prices surged from 20 to 25 in 1882 to 85 to 45 this year, tying up supply and signaling a tougher year ahead. mares shipments have reduced breeding capacity and broke horse availability will decline next year.
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Texas Live Stock Journal
Keb
Idaho
Texas
Mabry
Cheyenne
Wyoming Territory
Searight
Searight & Caruthers
Dewitt County
Dodge
Indian Territory
Jess
Railroads Cut Soft Coal Price In Beatrice
Beatrice market reports soft coal selling at five dollars a ton amid railroad competition. Lincoln restaurants are buying eggs at fifty cents per dozen. Valparaiso farmer Slaughter harvested 13 000 bushels of corn this season. A West Point man with five children has named them all starting with Z. A Harlan county well reaches 245 feet after three weeks of digging. Valparaiso plans a forty horse hen ranch producing 600 chickens per crank cycle.
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Beatrice
Men
Lincoln
Valparaiso
Slaughter
Harlan County
Flood Fears Rise in Arkansas Sink Lands
Memphis report notes rising Mississippi backwater threatening sunk lands in Arkansas with water advancing at about one inch per hour. Communication to inundated areas is nearly impossible as the river near its record highs climbs three inches here and remains nine inches below the peak.
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Memphis
Arkansas
Advertised Letters at Cheyenne Post Office 1883
Weekly list of letters remaining for the Cheyenne post office for the week ending February 28, 1883. Inquiries must state the letters are advertised, with separate gentlemen and ladies lists including names such as Anderson, Barrett, Brice, Born, Cornell, Clark, Chamberlin, Carroll, Defreest, Ernst, Ferguson, Hilton, Hancock, Haley, Hellery, Ingraham, Jones, Jenks, Landrett, Lester, Lilly, Mayo, Miller, McBride, McFadden, McGill, McKenzie, Packard, Patrick, Pettersson, Raymond, Swazey, Slater, Turrill, Vedder, Vincent, Whitney and Miss Bell, Cash, Concord, Dixon, Howard, Til, King, McGovern, Willis, Webber, Mrs., Jonsson.
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Cheyenne
H Landrett
C H Lester
ES Lilly
WS Mayo
E B Miller
H McBride
M McFadden
F McGill
P McKenzie
GS Packard
Patrick
J Pettersson
V Raymond
J W Swazey
E L Slater
F F Turrill
A & Vedder
R Vincent
O L Whitney
Health tonics advertise Wells health renewer and pest cure
An 19th century style advertisement promotes Wells health renewer claiming to restore health and vigor and cure dyspepsia impotence and sexual debility for $1. It also markets Rough on Rats pest killer clearing rats mice roaches bed bugs flies ants moles chipmunks gophers for 15 cents.
Wells May Apple Pills for Bilious Conditions
An old advertisement promotes Wells May apple pills as anti bilious and cathartic remedies priced at 10 and 25 cents. The copy targets sufferers of thick heads and heavy stomachs seeking digestive relief.
County Commissioners Act on Bridge Bids North Platte 1883
The Cheyenne board in special session on Feb 27 1883 instructed the clerk to advertise for bids to build a North Platte River bridge near Fairbank with 4 tubular iron arch or a truss design. Bids due March 22 1884. cash payment on completion. bonds required. A memorandum with the Wyoming Copper Company promises warrants be paid at face value and outlines a parallel Laramie river bridge project.
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Cheyenne
Black Hills
Fairbank
Millersburg
Hartville
Muskrat Oxtion
Rawhide Buttes
North Platte River
Wm. G. Proyines
Wyoming Copper Company
Board of County Commissioners
Laramie County
A. J. Babbitt
Laramie River
Laramie
Highth Legislative Assembly
Platte River
Promising Filly Precious to Race at Sheepshead Bay
A sportsman reports Stanford's racing filly Precious will travel east this summer for fall engagements including the four mile race at Sheepshead Bay. The ex-governor is quietly developing his young stock on the road, pursuing a theory to surpass the famous contenders in time.
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New York
Stanford
Precious
Sheepshead Bay
Global Press Roundup Finds Turbulent News Across Lands
Reports detail a busy London wool market and Clemenceau's Paris talks with Grevy. In Winnipeg, John Colley James, CPR chief engineer, dies. Boers reportedly defeat and capture leaders in Africa. Brussels notes arrests over a dynamite explosion as anarchists test devices. Madrid covers a foreign minister denying talks of Fernando Po sale to Germany. Rome reports the pope praising Mexican piety. Paris recounts scientists urging Kropotkin's release. Ireland's Gweedore faces extreme distress with scarce food and emaciated children. Dublin notes a violent attack on bailiffs and Joyce family witnesses in Mayo households.
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Paris
Gladstone
Grevy
Clemenceau
Winnipeg
John Colley James
Canadian Pacific Railway
London
Dunbar ‘Pays
Wapach
Mampoer
Brussels
Madrid
Senate
Marquis de Savega Dearnijo
Fernando Po
Germany
Rome
Mexico
Vatican
Prince Kropotkins
Gweedore
County Donegal
Ireland
Dublin
Ardilwun
Flynn
Clonbur
County Mayo
Joyce
Churchfield
Joyces
Cheyenne Advertises Broad Stock and Cabinet Shop
V Baker announces moved premises at 324 Seventeenth Street offering complete stock across departments including stoves tin ware crockery china wooden ware mirrors clocks and more. Cabinet work and repairs offered with both new and second hand goods bought and sold. February 20 1883.
Notice of final proof for William Fleet in Wyoming land claim
Notice is given that William Fleet has filed intention to make final proof to support his claim. The proof will be before the Register and Receiver at Cheyenne Wyoming on March 12 1883. Witnesses to prove residence and cultivation include John Morrison Gee Charlton I Bettelyoun and J N Thompson all associated with Wyoming locations.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
William Fleet
N.E
S.E
Township
Range 66
John Morrison
Gee
O. Charlton
I. Bettelyoun
Fort Laramie
J-N. Thompson
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Arge
Aratus
Ompany
Warren
Cation
Meshkiy
Telegraphic News
Mississippi
Mally
North Adams
Little Rock
Ark
Marshall Jewell
Land League
Waterbury
Conn
Rhyland
Antwerp
St. Louis
Haley
Madison, Wis
Mapon Banking Company
Ont
Internationa Railroad and Steamship Company
Florida
Key West
McGaw
Kelly
Luke
Driver & Cooper
Merino Guillot
Dallas
J. Chiefly
Sweetwater
Frank H. Matthews
Brown, Bonnell & Co
Youngstown
First National Bank of
Hawley
D. and H. Canal
Reinhardt Warg
Trekas Cattle Notes
Nebraska Noter
West Point
Bell
Cash
Concord
Dixon
Howard
Til
A King
G McGovern
F Willis
A Webber
R. Jonsson
P. M
the Board of County Commissioners
John K. Jeffrey
Laramie Co
Campage Baking Powder Co
Wall Street
Hales Honey
Gilead
Hale
C.N. Crittenton
N.Y
Vike
Osetiss
Seventeenth Street
Crockery
China
V. Baker
Aregory Ss
Caravouly
Whd
Burbank
Marblehead
Jamesd.h. Gregory
Rae Iat Bens
Land Office
Epvaan W. Mann
Register
Arizona
OuivErr 8
Tat
Tucson
Care C Hudson & Co
Bankers
Alyon&healy State
Monroe Sts
Willen
Aba
Kline
Druypiet
Bescare
Froude
Mary Michaels
Eldridge Michaels
Aldridge Michaels
District Court of
First Judicial District
A. D
W. P. Carnoxn
H. Dorznimann
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