The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-22
.BRIEF rELEGRAMs.
Harrisburg: No quorum.

Cincinnati: -Four hundred moulders
struck for 25 per cent increase. The
union ordered the strike.
New York: Fifteen collieries in
south Yorkshire and 1900 men are
idle. Great distress exists.
New York: VIM. Ellis, the writer on
social science, is dead.
Buffalo: Kellogg & McDougall's lin
seed oil works across the. river. burned.
Loss, S76, 900; insurance S5S, 900.
Detroit:The people had a rousing mass
meeting for the purpose of surpressing
low concert dives, saloons and other
disreputable places. The result will
probably be salutary.
New York: Secretary Evarts, on be-
half of the Khedive, will present the
obelisk to the city tomorrow. The
ceremonies will take place indoors, the
secretary objecting to make an address
in open air.
Montreal: Body snatching from the
village church yard in the neighborhood
of the city has been extensively carried
on of late. The police recovered the re-
mains of woman in the dissecting
rooms of Bishops college.
New York: The secretary of the pro-
duce exchange says the French author
tiles predetermined to injure the Amer
ican pork trade. Exaggerated reports
on diseased meat have been circulated in
France. The representatives of Fowler
Bros don't doubt but what some dealers
have shipped bad meat to France, and
their carelessness has caused the whole
trade to suffer. This is severe blow
to the trade and some cargoes now en-
route there will be total loss.
New York: There is a war in the
steamship immigrant passenger rates
from the old countries TO this between
various English and continental lines.
The rate is S15.
Harrisburg: The senatorial commit
tee held three hour session to-day.
The resolution for a general caucus at
which neither Beaver or Bayne should
be voted for was defeated. Senator
Cooper offered substitute providing
for a general caucus, but after heated
discussion, during which Senator Herr
charged several of the Bayne members
with perfdy, Cooper withdrew it. A
resolution that no member of the con-
ference be voted for was adopted.
New York: Salvani appeared as
Othello at McVicker's tonight before a
large and enthusiastic audience, and
although speaking his native tongue
with an American speaking company,
made fine impression.
San Francisco: To-day being legal
holiday the stock exchanges, public
offices, etc., will be closed.
Painesville, o.: Garfeld's inaugural
will be practically rextemporaneous.
The republicans of northern Ohio think
Levi p. Morton will be secretary of the
treasury, and that neither Ohio nor
Pennsylvania will be represented in the
cabinet.
New York: Judge Friedman dis
missed the suit brought by Theo. A.
Havemeyer against Lawson N. Fuller
for 100000 damages in connection
with the investigation relative to the
tax on sugar. Judge Friedman said
that the evidence taken did not tend
to show the remarks injurious to the
plaintiff were made by the defendant,
and thre is nothing in the evidence
injurious to the plaintiff.
Richmond: Negro laborers in the to-
bacco belt are forming league which
prohibits members from hiring to
white planters, the object being to force
the land owners to work tracts on
shares.
New York: The failure of Emanuel
Morris, wholesale dry goods dealer,
with the New York Office at 300 Canal
street and stores at corpus Christi and
Loredo, Texas, and at New Largo,
Mexico, is reported. Liabilities $780,
900.
Philadelphia: Senator Allison de-
clares that he knows nothing of the in
tention Of Garfield to give him posi-
tion, and does not think there is much
chance for secretary of the treasury for
the west.
Harrisburg: The probable retirement
of Beaver and Bayne from the senate
rial contest will leave the fight between
Schofield and George Shiras, jr., with
the chances in favor of the latter.
Boston: The national bank officers
have been discussing the question Of
Withdrawing their circulation. The
Merchants National will withdraw
$50, 900. Others are undecided.
Cleveland: The city banks Joined in
kilograms to the representatives, sena-
tors and president, protesting that the
funding bill, as it now stands, would
prove fatal to the national banking
business and to the prosperity Of the
country. They urge the president to
veto it.
Rock and Rye, at Addoms u Glover's.
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