AELMER'S Makes Extraordinary Decision
An unnamed source states that Aelmer has decided to take an extraordinary step. The report notes the decision's significance and implications for involved parties, with emphasis on timing and potential outcomes.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
9
An unnamed source states that Aelmer has decided to take an extraordinary step. The report notes the decision's significance and implications for involved parties, with emphasis on timing and potential outcomes.
The seller announces unprecedented price cuts across a wide range of goods. With a large stock of ladies and children cloaks available at half the usual price, buyers are urged to visit promptly. The advertises a broad selection including silks, plushes, satins, velvets, dress goods, linens, underwear, hosiery, and household textiles.
Ex-President Cleveland reiterates commitment to tariff reform and the Democratic cause. Morrison Munford’s New York interview notes widespread party support, belief in reform principles, and a focus on 1892 leadership rather than personal power. He urges the party to press ahead until reforms are achieved.
Secretary Tracy Admiral Schufeldt and Captain Davis testified before the senate military affairs committee in Washington on naval policy. Tracy endorsed eight battleships at five million dollars each to form a capable fleet. steel works could supply materials in six years. Schufeldt argued against Monitor type vessels while Davis disagreed.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania the Polish church feud flared as Polish factions unearthed Lutheran graves under protection, breaking coffins and scattering bodies over grounds and beyond the cemetery fence. In Washington the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recommended an adverse report on the Cuba republic negotiations resolution.
The Fortughtly Review recounts a legend from the Torre-ne-Dom-Chama castle in Razos Montes Portugal. A Moorish maiden appears as a figure with a serpent tail and offers wealth if a peasant breaks a spell by accepting a serpentine form. He wounds the serpent, freeing the maiden who proclaims the curse doubled and then vanishes.
A gas leak in a three story building caused a violent explosion. John Slip, 28, was killed while Mrs Jeves Assess, 35, suffered critical burns and will die. Annie Slip was seriously injured along with six others. Mrs Ringer lit a candle as the blast occurred. Ten people were in the building. all but an infant survived with injuries.
The Freemen's Journal reports Michael Davitt spoke in Cork last evening and voiced unshaken confidence in Parnell along with steadfast loyalty to him.
Denver reports Nellie Bly will travel by a special train from Trinidad to Denver to Council Bluffs Chicago and then New York City. Bly arrived in Atauderque at 10 pm aboard the Atlantic and Pacific after an 815 mile run from Mojave in twenty five hours with officials guiding the journey.
Washington Jan 22 The subcommittee under Chairman Chandler met for about half an hour and debated the Springer proposal to choose a world’s fair site by ballot. It was evident the group was hopelessly divided and will report to the full committee tomorrow that no proposition was under consideration and no conclusion was reached.
A playful dog named Bologna follows Mary through town and meets a swift end on the railroad. A butcher cleans up the wreckage and Mary retrieves the pup next Wednesday, but he is never the same.
The Scottish American observes superstitions about the robin. In Scotland its song signals illness and anxiety near homes. A legend tells of a land of woe where a robin bears water to quench flames, earning the name bronphuddu. Another tale links the red breast to an attempted pluck from the crown of thorns.
A San Francisco family used a phonograph to cheer their mother during illness and to preserve her voice after death. The item highlights how sound recording comforted the family and captured her tones for posterity.
An Associated Press dispatch from Curiaco details widespread famine in nineteen counties of South Dakota. F. E. Paxton of Shabbona reports blank flour supplies, mortgaged farms, and shockingly low livestock prices as families face winter starvation. Mrs. A C Cleveland of Edmunds County corroborates the plea for relief.
Major Powell director of the United States Geological Survey explains drainage areas and artesian wells to the Senate select committee on irrigation. He offers a bill for topographic and hydrographic surveying to divide the arid region into irrigable pastoral and timber lands. Federal control would govern interstate waters while water districts form under state and territorial authority.
Tacoma dispatch reports the first Union Pacific train in ten days reaching Tacoma on January 22. Passengers recount terrible experiences with the blockade, three deaths, and many women and children falling ill with limited aid from fellow travelers.
The house elections committee voted to report in favor of unseating Democratic representative Jackson of West Virginia and to seat Republican contestant Smith. It marks the first of seventeen contested election cases the committee will handle and the first to have argument heard.
In San Francisco Mike Lucie of Philadelphia loses to Jimmy Carroll of Brooklyn after a seventh round knockout at the Golden Gate Athletic Club. Earlier Carroll pressed from the start and nearly had Lucie halted in the fourth round. In New York Eugene Hornbacker and Eddie Dally of Providence fought thirty rounds near Mortons Point with Dally finally knocked out.
The Senate discussed a concurrent resolution authorizing emigration committees to probe U S and state immigration laws. They considered a census bill on farm ownership and mortgages, debated tariffs and currency, and moved to recommit. The Blair educational bill faced postponement. other measures passed or advanced include land openings, water projects, and river snags removals. The House reviewed the Oklahoma town site bill as amendments were adopted.
Secretary Windom writes Representative Hind urging favorable action on bills to extend the transportation act to San Diego and Wilmington California. He sees no reason to designate Santa Barbara as a port of entry nor Los Angeles as a port of delivery or Port Harford as a port of entry.
The senate met in secret session and resolved to publicize the Samoan treaty negotiated in Berlin last spring. Also noted were the death of Ohio criminal lawyer John McSweeney from pneumonia and rumors of the pope's health status. Captain Trevier’s Africa voyage opinion and other local notices accompany this report.
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