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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1882
Page
8
The piece analyzes The Cheyenne Sun's editing practices and telegraph reports, criticizing sensational headlines and misedited dispatches. It notes omissions of major political news, misleading headlines, and poor layout while praising improvements in train car designs and passenger accommodations on a Pullman sleeper.
Fragmentary advertisement lists tonics like Buchu and Parker items. Mentions lung disorders and dyspepsia cures. Text reads as a revision of multiple remedies and self treatments with vague medical claims.
The article explains Hellmans new block growing around an old building creating a house in a house. Carpenters fit off the eastern half for stock reception while crews in the old building prepare to tear it down for the west walls. Completion will hasten once the old structure is removed.
Charles Andrews and his father returned from Belle Fourche country with buffalo heads after a hunt. The party also killed elk and antelope. Andrews says the cattle business is at its liveliest in the region with new capital and better prospects though prices have fallen slightly. Calf numbers are rising as grass is good and prairie fires loom as the only fear.
Thirty four members of the Monachie bands of Southern Utes attend the Denver exposition with twenty two men five married women five children and two girls. Fort Collins Courier calls forest destruction at the headwaters of the Poudre a public calamity. Jack Brown a colored man nearly sawed himself out of the Colorado Springs jail with a saw from a steel boot shank.
W F Hamilton reports miners hold rosy view of the camp's future as frequent new strikes occur. The successful smelter has stimulated the district with prospectors and mine owners entering discovery and development activity. A large influx of strangers from the north and south accompanies the boom.
The New York Times describes the Edison lamp as a bright steady electric light with no flicker or odor, turning on by a thumbscrew and producing daylight-like brightness in editorial and counting rooms. The piece notes minimal heat and a gentle glow suitable for long writing. It also reports a Western Union Atlantic cable test linking Torbay Nova Scotia to San Francisco over about 4000 miles.
A Harlem train and a following train collided in a tunnel near 86th Street. Five dead, about twenty injured, including several women and a schoolteacher. The Harlem engineer faces arrest for criminal carelessness as investigators probe signals and occupancy. Witness accounts describe chaos, escaping steam, and darkness.
The steamer Picton of the Quinte Bay Navigation line ran ashore at Ronden Point while en route from Owen Sound to Sault Ste Marie. It was a total wreck with no passengers aboard. Valued at 26000 dollars with 10000 dollars insured.
Chicago September 22 The threat of a wage war on rates to northwestern points among the four great rail roads in the Town pool has been averted as they signed passenger and freight agreements today.
Locomotive engineers on the Gould system west of the Mississippi threaten to strike and halt traffic except on the Wabash and enough to carry the mails on other lines, authorities report from St Louis dated September 22.
In New Mexico Territory a twelve man duel between cowboys from the Howard and Keeley herds resulted in four deaths, two sides trading gunfire then agreeing to settle the dispute by battle. After deaths and a split, Keeley proposed final combat but Toward declined. An equitable cattle exchange followed and parties dispersed.
Boston Sept 22 demand for wool remains firm as sales reach 2.6 million pounds for the week. Ohio and Michigan lots show light activity with prices rising for fine and choice grades. Delane and combings command higher bids while washed and pulled wools hold steady or firm on select qualities. Foreign wools quiet with holdings light. total sales around 180 thousand pounds.
Abdoratiman Rouchdi Bey, Maltese renegade and minister of finance, is named to prosecute June outrages. English abandon Port Said earthworks. marines reembark. Rebel officers freed at Ramleh, 50 prisoners released. Damietta expedition underway with expected little resistance. Household cavalry to demonstrate in Arabs area after dark amid ruffianly conduct. other quarters reportedly friendly.
Secretary Folger said he did not know when he should resign as secretary of the treasury but expected it after the New York elections. Friends of assistant secretary John Co Nieh assert he will succeed Folger and had been promised promotion to the treasury role if Folger leaves Governor of New York was anticipated.
In Hot Springs this morning Charles Mathews editor of the Hornet was shot four times and killed following a bitter newspaper controversy. Col. I W Fordyce vice president of the St Louis and Texas Narrow Gauge Railway and Col. Rugg proprietor of the Arlington hotel were involved. it is unclear who fired the fatal shot.
A side wheel steamer named unknown went ashore four miles off Ron deng light, Lake Erie, on Wednesday night and became a total wreck. The location is inaccessible and particulars cannot be learned.
Colorado Democrats in Denver on September 22 named J. B. Grant for governor and selected 8.8. Wallace of Las Animas County for congressman, F. Johnson of Gunnison County for secretary of state, and Dennis Sullivan of Arapahoe County for state treasurer.
In Nashville on September 22 a distressed daughter of James Cleveland poisoned six family members by adding strychnine to their coffee. Mr Cleve and one daughter died, another daughter remains in a critical condition. The poisoner has disappeared and is believed to have died by her own act.
Syracuse reports that on the final ballot at the Democratic state convention Grover Cleveland won the nomination for governor with 211 votes to Slocum 156 and Flower 15, total 382. The ticket was completed with David B. Hill for lieutenant governor Henry W. Slocum for congress at large and William C. Ruger for judge of the Court of Appeals.
Jerry of the Omaha Herald describes the Montgomery stock car and a trial train from New York to Chicago. The article details car construction for cattle, folding partitions, gates, feeding troughs, water piping, and the Westinghouse brake, with a 53 hour Chicago to New York run and record weight losses and savings per head versus ordinary cars.
The estimate shows net saving per car under new charges with 10,000 cars annually and 24 trips of 1,000 miles each totaling about 9.59 million in annual profit. The figure could double if cattle are shipped from feeding grounds to New York.
The New York Sun critiques the President's free travel and paid comforts, cites Bill Chandler and Robberson as political influencers, links navy yard casualties to Republican support, and accuses the President of steering the party machine while facing calls to reform his methods.
A compilation of brisk quips and anecdotes from old papers. Jokes about elopement costs taxes and weights abound. References include Jambeau-Fimira Tele gram and comments on large individuals and weights.
Two young men from Missouri and Iowa met two strangers in Omaha who posed as fellow Montana travelers. After inviting them on a walk, the con men borrowed 85 and 55 dollars on false drafts, claiming to have railroad passes and plans to ride the evening Union Pacific emigrant train. The two victims returned to the depot to find they had been swindled.
A tourist in Palestine pays ten shekels for a sea excursion from a boatman who defends the price as the going rate since the sea's origin. The traveler protests but the skipper remains firm, alluding to historic pricing. The scene closes with the voyager muttering about Peter attempting a walk to the sea.
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