The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-07-29

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can convention met yesterday.
Voltaire is the selling choice in the
2:20 race at Cleveland to-day.
Chicago: Wheat lower; winter, 99I
spring, 80; corn, 35t; whisky, log.
Lorillard's Pappoose is mentioned
favorably for the Savant stakes at Good
wood.
The taxpayers Of Fall River, Mass,
ask for protection of property against
the strikers.
Lacrosse, Wis: A fire yesterday de.
stroyed $50, 900 worth of property; one
third insured.
The congressional labor committee,
now in session at Chicago, commenced
taking evidence yesterday.
New York: Leight's large brewery
at East Williamsburg, was almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire to-day.
London: The Duke of Connaught
presented the Wimbledon prizes. Far
row, American, was greatly cheered.
Secretary Evarts has received a dis
patch from Minister Walsh, stating
his resignation has been forwarded by
mail.
Louisville A fire Monday evening
destroyed Henry Thomas pottery, and
three dwellings. Loss, S25, ,O0o; no in
surance.
Trieste There was a violent hurri-
cane Sunday, in this part of the Adri-
attic, several lives lost, twenty vessels
damaged and one sunk.
Chicago: The outlook for autumn
trade throughout the west and north
west is exceedingly hopeful on the basis
Of bountifnl harvest.
Halifax: The death sentence of JOS
eph Hirtel, who was to be hanged next
Friday at Lunenburg, has been COM
muted to Imprisonment for life.
Rome: Cairole, Italian premier, paid
a long visit to Garibaldi. 1t is be-
lieved he obtained from him promise
to support the present government.
(. New Orleans There was one fatal
case of yellow fever here to-day, and the
board of health report another case in
the neighborhood of the fatal case.
Peoria: Col. Dowall has arranged for
trot between Rarus and Hopeful on
Sept 23d Other speedy racers, in
Guiding Sleepy Tom, will be present.
London Lord Derby, as umpire in
the Durham miners dispute, has issued
an award, reducing wages II per cent.
in addition to the former reduction.
New York: OF the six carrier pigeons
liberated at Columbus, Ohio, at $50 a.
m. on Sunday, one arrived at Ills a.
M. on Monday, and the second at 2:5O
p. m.
Memphis The steamer Belle Mem
phis, from st. Louis, arrived Monday
night. She will discharge her cargo
and return to st. Louis to-day, taking
neither passengers nor freight.
Old Californians in the east propose
a social reunion on the 9th of Septem-
ber at Morristown, N. j., where Lieut..
Revere resides, who raised the flag at
Sonora in '46, and will superintend the
arrangements.
New York: John Hennessy, admitted
to the hospital from upper quarantine,
died last night. Two seamen from
Haytien ports were sent to the hospital
to-day sick with yellow fever. Michael
Fitzgibbons, Memphis refugee, died
here to-day of the same disease.
Seattle, Wash. Ter: A fire last night
originating in the American hotel,
burned the entire block, and crossing
Mill street, swept it on both sides. The
buildings burned were mostly business
houses. The loss will be heavy, but it
is not yet estimated; insurance light.
Washington The secretary of war
has telegraphed to the president of the
board of health of Memphis, in response
to an application for rations, that ra-
tions will only be furnished to persons
sick with yellow fever or In quarantine
camp, and who can be subsisted in no
other way.
Washington The contract bureau
of the post Office department to-day
completed the lettings of miscellaneous
routes under advertisement of May 10.
There were upward of 1900 routes
and about 19, 900 proposals for contracts
were made at unusually low figures.
Y Philadelphia During the storm on
Saturday evening, the Doylestown ac-
commodation and the Bethlehem ex-
press collided on the North Pennsylva-
mia branch of the Reading railroad,
completely wrecking both trains and
severely injuring a number of passen-
gers.
New York: Chas. w. S. Weston,
inventor of armor for iron-clads, states
that in '64 he sent the Herald of this
city proposition for a ship railroad
across Panama, about identical with
that of his friend Capt. Eads, but
which the Herald did not print, declar-
ing it visionary. He thinks it will yet
be built. The arguments in its favor
is unanswerable.