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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
1
AELMER S decision leads to surprising action described in local notices. The article notes sudden plans and an important move by a named individual affecting the community. Further details remain readable in the fragment.
The seller guarantees the lowest prices locally with a large stock of ladies and children's cloaks and a wide assortment of silks plushes satins velvets dress goods and linens. He urges customers to visit now to secure half the price charged by rivals and to consult hand bills for specifics while stocks last.
Ex President Cleveland, in an interview relayed from New York, defends tariff reform as essential to the Democratic cause. He says the nation’s thinking men favor reform and leadership should be principles driven, not personal. He notes the party’s unity and aims for full policy adoption by 1892.
Secretary Tracy Admiral Schley and Captain Davis testified before the Senate Military Affairs Committee in Washington on naval policy. Tracy backed eight battleships at five million dollars each to ensure offensive strength, with steel works able to supply materials in six years. Schley opposed the Monitor type, while Davis disagreed with him on vessel type.
In Plymouth a Polish faction attacked a Lutheran burial ground digging up coffins and dragging bodies across the ground and over the fence. In Washington a senate committee ordered an adverse report on a resolution to press Spain to allow a Cuban republic.
The Fortoughtly Review recounts a haunted well in Torre-ne-Dom-Chama, Razos Montes. A Moorish maiden appears as a woman from the waist to a serpent, offers wealth if disenchanting her, and upon a failed ritual she winds around a peasant, then vanishes after a grim end.
A natural gas blast in a three story building in Pirrswure Pa this morning killed John Slip 28. Mrs Jeves Assess 35 died after severe burns. Annie Slip suffered serious injuries. Six others were wounded. The blast was due to a cellar gas leak and a candle ignition. The building was blown apart and eight residents were hurt.
The Freemen's Journal reports Michael Davitt speaking in Cork last night with unwavering support for Parnell and firm loyalty to his leadership.
Denver reports Nellie Bly will travel by way of Trinidad to Denver on Thursday then to Council Bluffs Chicago and New York by a special train. In Atauderque New Mexico Nellie Bly arrived at 10 PM aboard the Atlantic and Pacific after an 815 mile run from Mojave in 25 hours with officials and local citizens giving her attention.
The subcommittee of the special house committee on the world’s fair met under Chairman Chandler to discuss the Springer proposition for a site by ballot in the house. After about half an hour the group was clearly divided and will report to the full committee that no proposition was under consideration and no conclusion reached.
A stray pup named Bologna follows Mary and causes mischief until a fast express on the railroad track ends the puppy's journey. A butcher cleans the scene and Mary retrieves the dog but it is changed, not responding to her call.
The Scots reveal superstitions about the robin's song portending illness and anxiety near sick houses. A legend speaks of a far land of woe where the robin bears water to quench a burning stream, earning the name bronphuddu or burnt breast. Another tale credits the red breast to a failed attempt to pluck a spike from Christ's crown.
A San Francisco family used a phonograph to cheer their mother during illness and to preserve her voice after death. The national flower debate also notes neglect of the muzzy murry gold and teddy blossom varieties according to Time magazine.
An Associated Press dispatch details severe famine across nineteen South Dakota counties. F. E. Paxton, visiting from DeKalb County, reports widespread destitution, mortgaged farms, and livestock slaughtered for sale at tiny prices. He warns of deaths from starvation if relief is delayed, with corroboration from Mrs. A. C. Cleveland in Minneapolis aiding sufferers.
Major Powell of the United States Geological Survey tells the Senate select committee on irrigation and reclamation of arid lands about drainage areas and artesian wells. He presents a bill for topographic and hydrographic surveying to divide the arid region into irrigable, pastoral and timber lands with federal and state controlled water districts.
Tacoma report of the Union Pacific line reopening after ten days of blockade. The first arriving train carries passengers who describe dire conditions with three deaths and many women and children sick, lacking adequate attendance beyond fellow passengers.
The committee voted along party lines to report favorably to unseat Jackson of West Virginia and declare Republican contestant Smith entitled to the seat. It marks the first of seventeen contest cases the panel will handle and the first with arguments heard.
In San Francisco Mike Lucie of Philadelphia met Jimmy Carroll of Brooklyn in a midcard middleweight bout Carroll pressed from the opening bell and Lucie seemed nearly overwhelmed by the fourth round but Lucie recovered until the seventh when a right hand to the jaw KO ended the match. Later in New York Eugene Hornbacker and Eddie Dally from Providence fought thirty rounds with Dally knocked out near Morton's Point early morning.
Washington news outlines a concurrent resolution to study immigration laws, while the Senate weighs farm ownership figures and mortgage data. Debate covers tariff, silver, overproduction, steamship subsidies, and farm prices since 1879, with recommittal favored. The Blair educational bill is delayed, and several public works measures advance, including river snags removal and western land and water projects.
Secretary Windom writes Representative Hind urging favorable action on bills extending the transportation act privileges to San Diego and Wilmington California. He sees no reason to designate Santa Barbara a port of entry or Los Angeles a port of delivery or Port Harford a port of entry.
The senate decided in a secret session to reveal the Samoan treaty negotiated in Berlin last spring. Obituaries note John F. Belcher, famed Montana safety leader and former deputy U.S. marshal, died of pneumonia. Captain Trevier weighs Africa voyage prospects and social leaders Heaters and John F. Belcher are mentioned in pause reporting.
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