The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-02
TELreRApHlc NEWS IN BRIEF.

known lawyer, died yesterday, aged As.
Business failures of the past week
reported to New York are 102, a slight
reduction upon last week.
Oregon wheat prospects are natter-
ing. The amount available for export
is estimated at 2s5, 900 tons.
President Arthur and a large party
of guests left. Yesterday morning for
Squantum and Providence.
The yellow fever is spreading in
ranches above Brownsville, on the
American side of Rio grande.
Forest fires are all around Portland,
Oregon. Several farm houses have
been burned, and great deal of wood.
The coinage executed at the mints
during August is valued s9,310.672 of
which 81, 425 900 are standard dollars.
In New York, the dry goods trade is
particularly active just now, and the
fall season may be said to be in full
force.
The New York freight market in all
its branches remains quiet, and the
outlook is not very promising for any
immediate activity.
President Arthur accepted an invita-
tion to attend a centennial meeting on
the Webster farm at Marshfield, Mass,
the nrst week in October.
A number of persons who left Pensa-
cola have returned, and not able to
find a bedding place as elsewhere ae-
counts are Of rigid quarantine against
Pensacola.
DIR. Bliss who has a claim for S25, 900
for professional services during the
sickness of Gen. Garfield, has gone to
New Mexico, while the board of audit
considers his claim.
May cases of yellow fever are extend I'd
along the ranches toward Corpus,
Chisti. Three deaths are reported in
Matamoras, and ten new cases and the
weather is very hot.
Two norman missionaries, who have
been making many converts in
York Co., S. c., have been notified by
the citizens committee to leave at once
or they will be hanged.
News from the Indian territory say
that Dave Kemp, and nephew Henry
Lemp got into a dispute at a ball at the
Bloomfield academy Monday night, and
hot each other to death.
Near Da nville, Illinois, a heavy
freight train uf seventeen cars was
wrecked yesterday, on the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad. A little boy
was crushed to death; damage large.
One light British and one German
steamship cleared from Baltimore on
Thursday, with full cargoes for France,
Great Britain and Germany. Among
the exports were s43. 100 bushels of
wheat.
The California republicans have de-
clared in favor of public school system,
and of submitting to the legislature a
proposition for the state to print school
books and furnish them to the children
at cost.
At Ishpeming. Michigan, two en-
ployes of the Cleveland mine were
killed yesterday by a fall of rock, being
buried three hours. John Harvey, one
of them, lived under the mass in agony
nearly an hour.
At Albuquerque, New Mexico, a
heavy rain in this part for the last
three days was finished up to-day with
a srow storm in the mountains. The
peaks of the Landie range are now as
white as winter.
About 100 persons were drowned by
the Concho flood and $4,000 sheep, cat
tie and horses lost. Losses of property
range from $40, 900 to 100000. The
river rose fifty feet. Bodies are COM
ing to the surface daily.
The tariff commission has received a
communication from Maxwell Wood
hall of Fargo, Dakota, forwarding and
endorsing petition for north western
farmers, that steam ploughs and tackle
be admitted free for FIVE years.
The Utah commissioners have made
the appointments Of twenty-four regis
ters for twenty-four counties under the
Edmunds law. Their appointments
consists of seven gentiles, nine apostate
mormons aud eight mormons.
The Germania, a German newspaper
of Milwaukee, says the newspapers
which represent the Germans as I'M
alterably opposed. to the temperance
movement falsely denominates the
views of the German element.
1t is reported that the great organ in
the music hall Boston, has been sold
to a western city and will soon be re-
moved and that a new organ will be
built in the alcoye where the predeces-
sors of the great organ formerly rested.
A resolution has been passed by
three hundred policemen at Dublin ex-
pressing deep dissatisfaction at not re-
receiving grant similar to that received
by the constabulary; and hoping Earl
Spencer will consider their case and dis
claiming aAy disloyalty.
Charles E. Locke, formerly manager
of the Bush street theatre, San Fran
cisco, and now charged with being a
fugitive from justice, was remanded