The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-09-21
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st. Louis: A committee has been ap-
pointed to go to Washington TO confer
about the census.
Hartford: The greenbaekers Of the
first congressional district of Connecti-
cut have nominated Geo. w. Hewitt.
Columbus, o.: All is quiet at the
Corning mines to-day and the indica-
tions are that there will be no further
trouble.
Bay City, Mich: Rust Il Co.'S lum-
Der dock burned. Loss, $4,000; in
surtd. The city had a narrow escape
on account Of high winds.
Washington: The democrats are re-
joicing over an Augusta dispatch de-
claring on the best authority that
Plaisted will have $50 plurality.
Memphis: On Wednesday the city
will have a grand jubilee over the con-
tinued good health Of the city. Exten-
siye preparations are being made.
New York: The total aggregate of
grain receipts to-day was LAS, 4O3
bushels, including sos, 400 bushels of
corn, the largest receipts on record.
Havana: Garlic and the few remain
ing insurgents In the villas have sur
rendered, and now there is not an
armed insurgent in the whole island.
Washington: Fred Douglass, who
has been stumping Indiana, will return
soon TO remain till after the campaign,
He Is most confident of republican sue
cess.
New York: Plaisted won the three
mile rowing match ut Rockaway beach
for $1,000, defeating Lee, Biglin,
Tenyck and Daniel O'Leary, of Ohio.
Time, 2l:57.
San Francisco: A dispatch from Sac
ramento says: The state fair opened to-
day. The display is excellent and the
attendance large. Jennie B won the
mile pacing race in 2:422.
Washington: Commissioner Raum
will furnish sufficient armed force to
break up the band Of moonshiners in
southwestern Virginia who recently
fired upon government officers.
New York: A Washington special
says: Gen. Weaver, who is in town,
says the greenbackers will nominate a
straight electoral ticket in Maine to-
morrow and support 1t at the polls.
San Francisco: DIR. Samuel p. Chal-
FAINT, found guilty of murder in the
second degree, for the killing of Josiah
Bacon, was sentenced in Judge Ferral's
court to-day to ten years in San Quen-
tin.
Washington: The internal revenue
receipts to-day were three quarters of
million, the largest for the month.
The purchase of bonds and the decrease
Of the debt will be very large this
month.
Dayton, o.: This afternoon George
Ware shot and killed Lee Brumbaugh,
lawyer, for improper intimacy with
Mrs. Ware. He gave himself up i'm
mediately. He had found Brumbaugh
with his wife.
Greenburg, KY: At Milltown, on
Saturday. five men had a bar room quar-
rel on account Of an old feud, and John
Hancock was fatally shot, and four
others seriously wounded. Twenty-six
shots were fired.
New York: Gen. +. T. Dent, com
manding at st. Augustine, Florida,
telegraphs: Gen. Tonbert's remains are
here; will take them to Jacksonville.
and will see them on the steamer West
ern Texas all right.
Boston: Over half of the horses here
abouts have distemper resembling the
epizootic of 1872. Veterinary surgeons
say that in few days no horse will bc
left unaffected. Most of them are not
incapacitated for work.
Washington: A Fort Leavenworth
dispatch says: Paymaster Nelson, de-
faulter, has been arrested at Kansas
City and sent TO New York where he
will be tried by court martial. 1t Is not
thought he was trying to escape.
Montreal: In the Bank of Montreal
to-day, during the temporary absence
Of Paying Teller Padden from his stall,
n well dressed stranger entered by a
side door, picked up roll Of bill.
amounting to s7,07o, and escaped.
San Francisco: Monday morning the
president drove through Golden Gate
park and visited the conservatories
In the afternoon he went to the post
Office and inspected it. He inaugurated
the authors carnival in the evening.
Wilkesbarre, Pa: Mrs. Sylvina Car
and her sister. Mrs. r. S. Woodward
were fatally poisoned by using corr
meal in which arsenic had been place.
for the purpose Of destroying rats
Jemima Rowell, servant. is dying
Three others may recover.
Paris: The crisis in the cabinet re
suited in the formation of the following
ministry: Jules Ferry. premier and at
interim minister of foreign affairs
Dupre, minister Of marine, and Carnoi
minister Of public works. The othel