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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1882
Page
4
A Deadwood meeting endorses opening the Sioux reservation as prime grazing land with room for one million head. Plan proposes ten cents per head to Indians for one year and to drive about one hundred thousand cattle onto the lands within a year. A committee will approach the Indians to discuss feasibility.
A boiler in Goodwin Bros. shoe factory exploded in Lynn Mass this morning, leveling the building and killing engineer John Moore and another man. Firemen recovered a mangled body and another shortly after. four workers missing as pieces of the boiler were hurled across streets near Exchange and Newhall to Barrett’s house.
The Deseret News reports that Mormons view the Edmunds bill as a ploy to place Utah public affairs under Gentile control, not merely to suppress polygamy. It warns that the measure departs from the constitution and could undermine the government by targeting a religious group.
J A Shuckers former private secretary to Chief Justice Chase confirms he gave a copy of the Garfield letter to Dana of the New York Sun. He says the motive is irrelevant and that others exist in a locked safe, provided to aid in writing Chase’s life at Mrs Chase request.
Charles Athens of Decatur Ill was pronounced dead and burial arrangements were made when he suddenly revived at 2 a.m. Thursday and reports himself better than he has been in months. Saint Patrick’s Day parade in New York was described as very fine and large.
Washington reports detail Senate actions on the second amendment about hiring labor for levees, a pension increase for disabled veterans, and a plan to fund education from whisky taxes. Other business includes post office facilities, franking envelopes, isthmian navigation, and Garfield memorial printing.
Washington reports Judge Blatchford has accepted the supreme judgeship on March 15, signaling a formal assent to the high court role. The move confirms his shift from prior duties to the nation’s highest judiciary position.
The entire incoming eastern night mail at the Madison Wisconsin post office was destroyed by a fire this morning, burning about 2000 letters and letters in transit.
In St Louis on March 17 a tunnel accident near St Joe left five boys trapped. Five bodies were recovered, Garrack showed a brief life sign before dying, and all victims were from well to do families.
A March 16 labor rally in Philadelphia drew about 3000 participants from local workingmen’s groups at the Horti cultural hall. Wm Mooney chaired the event with speakers including John Swinton and Philip Van Patten along with P J McClure. Congress man Brumm could not attend from Washington. Demonstrators carried banners mostly targeting the Chinese.
In New Orleans on March 17 a break 100 feet wide and five feet deep is reported at Storey's place on the left bank eight miles below Canal Street. Reed, the city surveyor, notes a break at Live Oak grove plantation on the right bank 25 miles below the city. The secretary of war orders 50,000 extra rations for Arkansas relief districts.
Crow Dog was arraigned in U S court at Deadwood South Dakota on the murder of Brule Sioux chief Spotted Tail last August. He pled not guilty and claimed he was tried under Sioux law. The day centered on jury selection.
The senate committee on territories unanimously instructed Saunders to report the bill admitting southern Dakota as a state. It requires a summer census to determine representation while the existing territorial government remains. the remaining area would be named North Dakota.
The Lowell Massachusetts paper cites P. H. Short proprietor of the Belmont Hotel in Lowell who endured seventeen years of rheumatism. After trying many remedies he reports St Jacobs Oil gave remarkable and instant relief. The Lyons Mirror notes the claim.
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