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Newspaper
Cheyenne Weekly Sun
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1890
Page
9
New York dispatch reports the grand jury’s presentment condemning the sheriff’s office as a black record of corruption and delayed justice. It calls for immediate reform and sends copies to the governor and state legislature.
Washington March 25. Bills introduced include Morrill’s fund from public lands for education and Faulkner’s pension proposal to General rook’s widow. George presents a joint resolution to empower Congress to curb restraints and monopolies. Hear delays Montana election case until Monday. The anti trust bill is taken up as George speaks to the Senate.
The house committee on elections disposed of two cases Hosey vs Parret from Indiana and Bowen vs Buchanan from Virginia. It will recommend that the sitting members retain their seats. Of seven cases so far, four Republicans and three Democrats have been favored.
A Denver dateline reports an epidemic of fatal accidents and shootings in Colorado over 36 hours. Victims include Charles Swanson hurled from a runaway car at Aspen, Charles Hart mortally wounded by a cafore, and McDermott killed by a collapsing mine roof at Trinidad. Idaho Springs saw Nels Olson with a fractured skull after a horse kick, Crested Butte foul play left John Plead and John Pogna dead, and Colorado Springs witnessed a fatal skull fracture after a pub brawl. Walter Kellogg, a rancher near Glenwood Springs, suffered a deadly fight after drinking, and Durango saw J. Parchden die from a fatal head injury. George C. Freeman blew out his brains in Greeley, while Cooper Peppermeyer died in Colorado City while attempting to stop a runaway team.
March 15 report states Count Herbert Bismarck’s resignation was accepted and Herr Von Alvensleben named to succeed him as imperial secretary of foreign affairs. Bismarck said he will retire, keep no uniforms, and will not return to Berlin, having deposited his medals.
The treaty published in Washington on March 25 expands extradition to include manslaughter, counterfeiting, embezzlement, frauds by agents, perjury, rape, burglary, piracy, high seas conspiracies, sinking ships, assaults on ships, and offenses against both nations. It also excludes political offenses from surrender and bars trial for political crimes after surrender until return.
In Washington on March 25 republican Ways and Means members faced pressure over sugar tariffs. Refiners protested heavy rate cuts while western members urged deeper reductions. The House committee on invalid pensions favored a bill granting disability and service pensions to soldiers aged 62 and older.
Washington March 25 Amendments to the world's fair bill were adopted calling for a board of lady managers and allowing female labor in exhibit production. A government exhibit selection member to be chosen by the fish commissioner is named. The bill passed the house with a revised schedule and a later opening date requested for exhibitors. The Wyoming admission bill yielded no result in committee. A separate report notes a Northern Pacific wreck near Noxon with cars burned and two sleepers saved. an express messenger named Mandle is mentioned.
Mephive Lopee March 25. A house owned by L. B. Root burned while the father was away and the mother milking. Mrs. Root suffered severe burns attempting to save her three children aged six four and two who perished in the blaze.
Laramie plans an electric motor car line while La Grange reports industry activity and Cheyenne broadens its boom. Newcastle notes dispatches about printing outages and a boy losing a hand on a moving car. Engineers finish a water line and a section house works near the Jumbo canyon. Prof Ricketts, territorial guest, visited Newcastle last week amid modest expectations for summer progress.
Telegraphic notes report Bromberg theater fire in Germany and Kochs shipyards in Lubeck burned. Prairie fires in Kansas subdued. Palo Alto trotter sale in New York with good prices. Tianguistengo New Mexico town hall and archives burned killing four. French cabinet discusses tariff protest. Astor plans bronze doors for Trinity Church at 100000. Boulanger offers return if court trial allowed. Buffalo case verdict guilty for grand larceny. Crete mob drags priest from pulpit and crowds jeer. Sixty four villagers starve in prison.
In Devon on March 25, 150 Riley & Co. workers on the North Denver sewers quit and demand higher pay. Diggers on ten hour shifts earn 175, pipe layers 2, seeking an extra five cents per day. A housekeeper mentions a Warren Mercantile offer with tableware, as the note references a hole in the ground and a hole in his pocket.
General Mizner denounces The Leader for misrepresenting his treatment of Cheyenne residents who waited for a train after a post cotillion. He says he offered hospitality and assistance, and that the attack lacks merit. The Sun reports strong support from Cheyenne residents for Mizner and Fort Russell officials.
The New York Star praises Hoyt's Hole in the Ground to play at the Bijou theater next Saturday night amid a strong farce comedy season. The venue drew a large audience and the company includes many returning performers from last season with the popular new baseball song Slide Kelly Slide delighting the crowd. The show will run for two weeks.
A team from Organ and Hamlin ran away yesterday afternoon on Fergusson Street. The runaway overturned a garbage wagon and damaged a light delivery wagon. The team halted near the Catholic church after the mishap.
The Methodist congregation will relocate the frame church to the Swan lot at Severe teenth and Central tomorrow or the day after, and immediate work will start on a new structure. The old building will be used for services until the new one is completed.
Kelley and Parshall Yeates sold forty acres north of Lake Minnehaha to Underwood and Spyder for 8000 dollars in cash. A second buyer quickly offered for the property, prompting a tense bidding moment before sale completion.
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