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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1882
Page
9
In Brownsville a cholera outbreak prompts the Texas Governor to issue an aid appeal as 500 cases are reported. Tensions rise between two Mexican generals risk a bloody sectional clash. News also notes the Nile War, and a severe French railroad disaster with hundreds dead.
Despatches report nine engines en route from Suez and Port Said to aid transportation near Ismailia and Tel el Kebir. Wolseley optimistic, Arabi Pasha facing setback. Salihiya reconnaissance shows Tel el Kebir abandoned. Bedouins seen along the canal, and a Dublin police strike issue features with reinforcements and rioting details.
Galveston reports an urgent appeal from Thomas Carson, mayor of Townsville, claiming 500 fever cases and a sharp rise in mortality. He asks state judges and city officials to send relief funds to Ball, Itchin s and Co. in Galveston, to be wire-drawn and allocated for sick and destitute residents.
Lars Eckland and Oscar Anderson brothers in law in an iron foundry quarrelled on a Saturday night and Eckland was shot. Anderson confessed to murdering Eckland and Rand reported the tale. Anderson later died by hanging near the lake shore while Eckland was found with three bullet wounds.
John W. Rhoades, treasurer of the New York News Company, says Egyptian war has caused only a small rise in newspaper demand, not more than one or two percent. He notes overall demand remains steady, with English papers dropping about half as Atlantic cable use grows.
In Mexico Missouri on September 4 George Green a foreman whose divorce allowed him visiting rights shot his two children aged four and nine after a visit then killed himself. Neighbors pursued him as he fled and he died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
The critics in New York fault Wolseley for not using more than four or five guns against Arabi and for not reclaiming four captured guns. Continental reviewers fault him for artillery omissions while home critics cite the cavalry charge that chased Egyptians and allowed 12 enemy guns to be withdrawn.
Dispatches from Port Said to London report Arabi Pasha threatening the canal with Saaleibeh while British forces under Wolseley strengthen positions at Alexandria and Ramleh. Telegraph lines, rail links, and canal water levels shift as battles and sieges continue near Tel El Kabir Kassasin and Zagazig.
In Mt. Vernon Indiana a mob threatened Cincinnati Ohio and incited violence over Sunday saloon closures and a late night prohibition. Early yesterday a mob fired and burned the home of the city marshal John Paul after beating the deputy marshal. Telegraph lines and telephones were guarded to bar neighboring towns from reporting.
New York dispatch notes Gen. Merritt assumed command at West Point yesterday while Gen. Howard was assigned to the Platte department with headquarters at Omaha.
Washington dispatches report that about one fifth of Brownsville’s population suffers from yellow fever. Dr. Hamilton, supervising surgeon general marine hospital service, says measures to stop spread are nearly perfect and the epidemic is not expected to extend beyond current limits.
Col Swinley of the English royal artillery subscribes to buy five hundred mules in St Louis for use in Egypt. The animals range from 5 to 9 years old and 14 to 15 hands high and are praised as the finest seen. Rail shipment to New York will precede steamship to Alexandria.
Sergeant Mason’s counsel Mr Bigelow plans to apply for a writ of habeas corpus in the U S district court for the northern district of New York if his client is not released. Judge Advocate General Swaim’s opinion to the Secretary of War contends the court martial lacked jurisdiction and finds no evidence Mason committed the charged offence.
To Visit Wyoming, a notable English party now in Chicago includes John Prender, M. P., Jed J. Fuller, Hon Abrams, Hewitt, BF. F. Bayard, and Lieut. Commander Gorringe. They travel to Yellowstone Park at Mr Hewitt’s invitation.
J D Cruise reveals Ross ticket scam after returning with 900 counterfeit tickets worth about 25 dollars each. Tickets printed by W H Folsom in Quincy. Ross operated from Hannibal to Kansas City, with Hooper and St Joe agents uncovering the scheme. Ross faces bail and new charges as authorities trace tickets to multiple lines and intermediate points.
Our readers will notice advertisement of the Markham Hotel in this issue. The new and elegant Denver hotel is magnificently furnished and first-class in every respect, opened to the public for a trial. An exe cutive decree forbids importation into Egypt.
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