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, 1888-09-15
A Pleasant Caller.

E. B. Miller, editor and proprietor of
the Pierre (Dsk.) Signal, called at THE
LEADER Office yesterday afternoon and
made a most favorable impression. Mr..
Miller, who is a brother of Mrs. J. c..
Abney and Orrin Miller, left the east
bound Dakota Press Association excur-
sion at this point to visit his relatives, but
will oyertake the iunketers at Denver to-
day. he is a young man of ability and
an enthusiastic Democrat. 1t was he who
established the first Democratic daily
paper in Dakota. Mr.. Miller has been in
harness many years, although yet a young
man. He was a Deadwood newspaper
man in the stirring times of the Black
Hills excitement.
, 1888-09-15
A Fremont County Killing.

The Lander Mountaineer reports a kill
ing on the Little Popo-Agie river last
Sunday afternoon.
Robert Bull and Joseph G. Ferris,
ranchmen. are neighbors. The former
keeps bachelor hall, while the latter is
married and has several interesting chill
dren. During Ferris absence Bull took
the lady and the little ones to Lander on
a shopping expedition. All returned to
Ferris house at the same time. Ferris
took Bull to task for interfering in his
family affairs and ordered him to leave
the place. Bull responded that he would
return armed and spill blood before sun
down" Ferris thereupon fred upon him
with a shotgun. Bull was instantly killed.
Justice Frank E. Coffey summoned a cor
oner's jury, which concluded that ''de-
ceased came to his death from a gunshot
wound inflicted by j. G. Ferris"
Ferris surrendered to the authorities at
Lander and is awaiting a preliminary hear
ing,
, 1888-09-15
In a New Field.

Hon. John Hunton has secured a Jewel
in the person of W. A. Richards, who
will hereafter act as manager of the post
traders store at Fort Laramie, which
business was recently purchased by Mr..
Hunton. The popular Dick will be
personally acquainted with every resident
of that section within thirty DAYS, and
will pauperize other storekeepers by
charming their customers away. For a
time Mr.. Richards will doubtless be some
what lonesome, but he is one of those
good natured individuals who can accom-
modate himself to circumstances. They
do say that it will be necessary to enlarge
the store on account of Dicks" man.
moth proportions.
, 1888-09-15
TODAY AND TOMORROW
Two Fin Games of Bail TO be Played
at the Fair oun

There will be a fine game of base ball
at the fair grounds this afternoon and the
exhibition will be duplicated to morrow
afternoon. 1t will be the Denver Five
Points, champions of Colorado, VS.. the
Cheyenne Red Stockings, who hold the
Wyoming pennant, and the struggle will
be a sanguine one. The visitors come
flushed with victories, but the home team
has been practicing industriously for some
weeks and has been considerably strength
ened by the enlistment of a change catcher
and short stop.
Following are the positions of the two
, 1888-09-15
Prepare for a Cool Snan.

The approach Of the cold we Their
brings to mind the necessity for securing
fur goods. Articles of this description
are always expensive, but an opportunity
is sometimes afforded for securing bar.
gains. A very rare chance is now afforded
at Whitcomb's closing out sale where fur
goods, including caps, gloves, etc, are
being sold for fifty cents on the dollar.
Tho chance to get good goods cheap is so
rare that no one should neglect the oppor-
tunity thus afforded.
, 1888-09-15
A Long Train.

Twenty nine cars of cattle, hauled by
three locomotives arrived from the North
on the Cheyenne & Northern last evening
and were started toward Chicago. The
shipment included consignments by the
Swan Land and Cattle company, H. B.
Kelley and Meyer Bros. 1t was one of
the heaviest loads ever hauled over the
road.
, 1888-09-15

Sept. IA, 1888. Whereas, j. r. Dix
on, county and prosecuting attorney OF
Carbon county, has this day made appli.
offering of a reward for the murderer or
murderers of s. Morris VAIN and Harry
Strong: Now,
Therefore. L, Thomas Moonlight, gov
ernor of Wyoming Territory, by virtue of
OF the authority vested in me by law, do
hereby offer a reward of five hundred
($500) dollars each for the delivery to the
proper authorities of Carbon county of
the murderer or murderers of the said
s. Morris VAIN and Harry Strong.
Given under my hand at Cheyenne, the
capital of the territory, this 18th day of
September, A. D. 1883.
Seal THOMAS MOONLIGHT.
, 1888-09-15

In a few days the large Inter Ocean
billiard room is to be cleared of tables,
ETC., and the walls covered with black
boards. 1t will be a pool room of the
modern sort and all desiring TO place
money On either the election or the races
to occur during fair week can
be accommodated. AS intimated
once before mo Denver business goes. -
There is no liability of anyone a~bsconding
with the cash box.
, 1888-09-15
To be Buried at Denver.

The remains of Mrs. j. w. Laporte,
who died at Wendover last Thursday alter
a brief illness, arrived from that place
last evening over the Cheyenne & North.
ern, enroute to Denver, where they will
be inferred near the home of relatives.
Mrs. Laporte's sister reached Wendove1
from Denver Thursday and accompanies
the remains to the burial place.
, 1888-09-15
Laramie Horses.
Yesterdays Boomerang.I

Joe Fisher has entered his horse,
Marquis de Perie," in three races at
Cheyenne-the half mile dash, half mile
heat race and n mile stralghtaway.
Frank McGuire will be represented in
two, Blue being entered in the half
mile heat race, and Bobby in the COW
pony.
, 1888-09-15

j. q. Baird will deliver an address this
evening at the headquarters of the Ban
dana club in the Cheyenne National bank
building. All Democrats, whether mem
bers of the club or net, are cordially in
vited to be present as they are assured of
hearing something which will prove both
instructive and entertaining.
, 1888-09-15
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

Emigrant travel is on the increase.
Barkalow Bros. sleepers are receiving
liberal patronage.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was &c, minimum. 45o.
Company B, the Cheyenne Guards,
were abroad last evening.
A train load of Streets stable cars is
taken West nearly every day.
t. w. Rutledge and wife have sold lot
6, block 33l, to j. A. England for 81 900.
A complete line of fur samples is being
shown by Mr.. billiard at Whitcomb &
Co.'s.
The Douglas-W william Sartoris Horse
company has opened a livery stable at
Laramie.
Fine felt children's hat worth 81 and
$3.50 for Is cents at Whitcomb Il Co.'S
closing sale.
Union Pacific officials are consulting
with Central Pacific moguls with a view
to improving the service of both roads.
Call on the agent for the reliable fur
house of H. Leibes & Co. He may be
found at Whitcomb & Co.'s.
Trains will be run to the fair grounds
this afternoon, the first leaving at 2
o'clock. The game will be called at 2:30
O'Clock.
Mr.. billiard, agent for the great fur
house OF H. Leibes & Co., is showing
samples at Whitcomb & Co.'s.
The next attraction at the opera house
is the famous Mexican band, which will
give a concert Wednesday evening, the
Goth inst.
Underwear worth 81 and IS for 81 and
IS at Whitcomb & Cos closing sale. The
stock must be closed out as soon as pos
sible.
See the great ball game at the fair
grounds this afternoon. The Denver
Five Points and the Red Stockings will
cross bats.
Boys neutra fur caps worth So for 81;
gentlemen's seal caps will be sold fifty
cents on the dollar at Whitcomb & Co.'S
closing sale.
This is the season when the good house
wife reduces 81 worth OF sugar, SO worth
of fruit and 50 worth of coal to six bits
worth of preserves.
Richard Murphy has filed for record at
the Office of the county clerk his United
States desert patent for GAO acres of land
in Laramie county.
A woman with three children was beg
ging about the streets yesterday. She
solicited enough to purchase a ticket to
some Western point.
Shepard. the Omaha fugitive recently
arrested here, will be returned to that
place by an officer who will arrive from
Omaha this evening.
AT the request of Prosecuting Attorney
Dixon of Carbon county, Governor Moon
light has offered a reward of $500 for the
apprehension of the murderer of VAIN
and Strong.
AT the regular meeting of the Bandana
club this evening Hon. j. G. Baird will
deliver an address. All Democrats are
invited to attend. The club rooms are in
the Collins block.
The Dakota Press Association excur-
sion, eighty-five strong, came in from the
West and went to Denver yesterday.
They have taken in" the Yellowstone
park and Salt Lake since leaving home.
, 1888-09-15

Rapp is in fine form and will doubtless
pitch a splendid game. Bates is the
twirler who faced the Philadelphias for the
Five Points and forced several of their
crack sluggers to pile up a score of goose
eggs.
, 1888-09-15
Fresh oysters at the Saddle Rock.

Mr.. Carr would like to show you those
new nobby suitings at Hellman's.
, 1888-09-15

81 boys suits selling at IS now at He'll
mans.
, 1888-09-15
Collie, diarrhea and summer complaints

Collie, diarrhea and summer complaints
are dangerous at this season of the year,
and the only way to guard against these
diseases is to have constantly on hand a
bottle of some reliable remedy. Beggs'
Diarrhea Balsam is a positive reliet in all
these disagreeable cases and is pleasant to
take. 1t will cost you only 35 cents. w.
N. Hunt druggist.
, 1888-09-15
A HeaNX Yield.

Hon. T. A. Johnston. who arrived
from Wheatland on the Cheyenne &
Northern last evening reports that throsh-
ing on the farms of the Wyoming Devel-
opment company is now well under way.
More than 5000 bushels of oats have al
ready been sacked aid there is several
weeks work ahead for the machines. The
result of the seasons work is in every way
satisfactory. The yield per acre is unpre-
cedentedly large and the quality of the
grain prime.
, 1888-09-15

A large line of fall o~vercoats just re-
ceiyed at Hellman's.
, 1888-09-15
sunday Ball PLAYING.

There are a number of people in Chey-
ems who affect a fondness for base ball
but who refuse to attend the Sunday
games. Nearly all games played here
have been contested on the Sabbath for
the simple reason that they could be ar
ranged for no other dav. At the fair
grounds this afternoon one can see a good
game without desecrating the day of rest.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-22
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FOREST fires destroyed the village of
East Rawdon, n S., on the 14th, and were
doing great damage in other places. Four
persons were burned to death.
Tue death of Emperor Frederick of Ger
many occurred at eleven o'clock on the
moring of the 10Th at the Freidrichskron
Palace, Potsdam. The dying monarch's
last hours were watched over by the mem
bers of his family and the royal physicians.
The direct cause of death was suffocation,
the doctors being unable to keep the
passage of his throat open. Frederick
William, the only son Of the late Emperor
William, was born on the 18th of October,
1881, at Potsdam On January Is, 1855, he
married Victoria Adelaide Princess Royal
of Great Britain, and she and seven chill
dren survive him, the eldest son, Prince
Frederick William, now becoming EN-
peror.
A TRAIN on the Northern Pacific when
near junction City, M. T., on the 10th was
stopped by eight masked highwaymen, who
broke into the express-car and secured
s400. The male passengers were also
robbed of about 5000
On the 10th a post-mortem examination
of the late German Emperor was made,
and it was found that the larynx was com
pletely destroyed by cancer. The court at
Berlin was ordered to go into mourning for
three months out of respect to the late EN-
peror.
EMPEROR WILLIAM issued proclama-
ton on the 18th in which he said "Called
to the throne of my fathers I have as
sumed the government, looking up to the
King of Kings, and have vowed to Coo
that, after the example of my fathers, I
will be a just and clement Prince to my
people; that will foster piety and fear of
God; that will protect peace and promote
the welfare of the country, and that will
be helper of the poor and distressed and
true guardian of the right"
On the 18th the funeral service over the
remains of the late Emperor Frederick, Of
Germany, took place at Potsdam.
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...s.I.a.El.E NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches,
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.


THURSDAY, June 14-Bills were passed
TO all persons now in the employ Of
the Government and VINO were present at
the battle Of Gettysburg to attend the re-
union there on July next; appropriating
s275,00 for the reconstruction of the Gov
ernment dam at the Rock Island arsenal,
and the Agricultural Department and Post
Office Appropriation bills. Adjourned to
the 18TH In the House bills were reported
providing for an Assistant Secretary of
War, and to retire General Alfred Pleas
anton. The Tariff bill was further consid=
cred.
FRIDAY, June 1a-fne Senate was not
in session. In the House motion to CON
slider the Army Appropriation bill was de-
feated, and as no quorum was present no
business was transacted
SATURDAY, June 16-There was no ses-
ssion of the Senate. In the House the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill (s23, 764,
S9S) was reported and the Military Appro
priation bill was passed.
MONDAY, June 1S.--In the Senate the
conference report ON the Indian APP
preparation bill was agreed to, and the
treaty providing for an adjustment of the
Venezuelan claims was ratified. A bill
was passed for the representation of the
several departments at the Columbus CEN
tennial, with an amendment appropriating
$1,000. In the House bills appropriating
$40 900 each for the erection Of public
buildings at Faribault and Red Wing,
Mimi, were introduced. The Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill was considered.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

A GAMBLER named Schenck shot and
killed George Davis aud fatally wounded
an unknown man in a saloon at Monarch
Col, on the 14th, A mob then took
Schenck and hanged him to a telegraph
pole.
A STORM on the 14th at Tiffin, O., caused
much damage to grain and fruit.
AT Jacksboro, Tex, Sheriff John Rains
and his son were killed on the 18th by w.
w. Terrell. An old family feud was the
cause of the fight
MISSOURI Prohibitionists met at Kansas
City on the 14th and nominated E. NJ Lowe,
of Kansas City, for Governor.
HOUSES were blown down by a severe
storm on the 14th in Big Bend, Mandt and
GAINESVILLE and other towns of Northern
Minnesota, and several persons were in
jured. The damage was very great.
THE Mississippi river at Aitlzen, Mimi,
had on the 14th completely submerged the
residence portion of Hungerford's addi-
ton, and many families had been COM
PEELED to vacate their homes. The back
water in Mud river had caused hundreds of
families along its banks to leave
N. E. WoRTHINGToN was on the 18th
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
OF the Tenth Illinois district
E. I. PLANK, of San Francisco was
elected president of the International
Typographical Union on the 18th at Kansas
City.
On the 14th Bert Stewart. of Decatur.
ILL.,, who was nominated by the Union La
Dor party for Secretary of State. declined
the nomination.
On the Wisconsin Central road train
wreckers turned switch on the 18th at
Westboro, Wis, and sleeper was thrown
from the track, severely injuring several
persons
MoLLIE GARFIELD was married to j. Stan
ley Brown, formerly President Garfeld's
private secretary, at the Garfield home
stead in Mentor, O., on the 14th, and her
brother Harry married Belle Mason, eldest
daughter of Hon. James Mason, famous
as railroad LAWYER.
In the Armstrong cement works at Kan
sas City a powder explosion on the 18th
killed three men.
MILLIONS of grasshoppers appeared in
southern Indiana on the 18th and were de-
stroying all vegetation.
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AT Lexington, Ore, wind storm on the
18th wrecked seven buildings and killed
two persons. The school-house, contain
ing many pupils, was totally destroyed and
many pupils were injured.
NEAL STARK, aged sixteen years, was
convicted at Atlanta, Ga, ON the 18th, of
numbering his elder brother, and was SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
LANE BRITToS, a notorious desperate,
who had been fugitive for five years and
who was wanted to answer for the killing
of eight men, was captured on the 18th at
Mansfield, Mo-
THE death Of Benjamin T. o. Hubbard,
the defaulting cashier of the Monmouth
Gill; National Bank, occurred in the Joliet
penitentiary on the nth of heart trouble.
A TRAIN on the Midland road ran off the
track on the 10Th at Popes Head Run, Va,
and four men were killed and several per-
sons badly injured.
The record of the base ball clubs in the
National League for the week ended on the
10Th was as follows: Chicago (games
won), 49,; Detroit. 26; Boston, 26; New
York, "a; Philadelphia, %; indianapolis,
Is: Pittsburgh, IA; Washington, IS. The
American Association clubs stood: Brook
1
delphia, 25; Cincinnati, 26; Baltimore, %;
Cleveland, II; Kansas City, 10; Louisville,
Ii. In the Western Association the fol-
lowing was the order: st. Paul (games
won), 81; Des Moines, 10; Milwaukee, 80;
Kansas City, 20; Omaha, Is; Chicago, Isl
Minneapolis, is; ST. Louis, IA.
On the 10Th the wife of Joseph Holmes,
a we'll TODD farmer residing near Ran
dol b in IF oil oil,
took her children, one aged ten months
and the other girl of ten or twelve
years, and drowned them in Billiards.
slough.
AT Bailey Bros. & Co.'s warehouse at
GAINESVILLE, O., an explosion on the 10Th
killed two men and seriously injured sew
eral others.
THERE was great excitement at Ishpem-
ing, Mich, on the 10Th over the discovery
of a rich vein of pure gold in the mines of
the Lake Superior Iron Company of that
city.
AN express train on the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railroad was robbed by seven
masked men at Verdigris Bridge on the
10th, and one passenger was killed and the
mail agent and train boy were wounded
The amount Of money secured was not
known.
On the 18th Washington Ives (colored),
who recently attempted to outrage a white
woman, was lynched near Natchez Miss.
FIRE destroyed the Sparta House at
Wakefield, Mich, owned by Edward Bow
Ter, on the 18th, and his two little boys per-
ished in the flames.
MARY AULIs, wearing mems clothes. was
arrested in ST. Louis on the 18th with a
man named John Orrick. Under pressure
the woman said Orrick had murdered her
husband and stepson at Gad's Hill, Mo-, and
she had eloped with him.
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fought to preserve; lives in the blessings of
down-trodden race, whose freedom he so man
fully struggled to achieve, lives in the future
song and story Of hero-worshiping world;
and along the highway of the Nations glory,
side By side with old John Brown, Abraham
Lincoln and Ulysses S Grant, his soul goes
marching on.
'The other that gallant leader, the chevalier
OF American politics, the glory of Republican
ism and the nightmare of Democracy; our
Henry OF Navarro, is seeking in foreign travel
the long needed relaxation and rest from the
wearisome burdens OF public life and service
With the sublime magnanimity of his incom-
parable greatness he has denied us the infinite
pleasure of supporting him in this convent on.
Desiring above all things party harmony and
success, he has stepped from the certain lad
der of his own laudabe ambition that some
other man may climb to power. AS his true
friends we can not, dare not commit the po-
Htieal crime of disobedence to his expressed
will. We can not place him at the head of the
ticket, but We will make him commandments
chief at the head of the forces in the field,
where he will be inyincible. And though
James G. Blaine may not be our President, yet
ne remains our uncrowned king, welding the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-06-22
THE EAST.

WILLIAM WARD, of Newark N. j., was
chosen Supreme Chancellor, at the session
of the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
at Cincinnati on the 14th.
On the 14th Tim Williams, a Lebanon
Comm hermit, aged seventy-six years,
was stung to death by bees which he was
trying to hive.
ON the 18th Isaac Bronson and wife, Of
Pokeville. Conn, were found dead in their
farmhouse. 1t was thought Bronson
killed his wife and then took his own life
The windoWglass factories of Pitts
burgh, Pa, and the West closed down on
the 18th to remain closed until September
l, or longer, unless the workers and en-
ployers agreed on scale of wages.
A FIRE destroyed twenty four freight cars
filled with general merchandise on the 18th
at Phi iladelphia. Loss, 100000.
On Staten Island, N. Y, tempest ragged
on the 18th, causing great destruction of
property.
On the 18th Mary N. Prescott the gifted
and widely-known authoress and poetess,
died at the residence of her brother-ir law.
Richard S. Spofford, at Deer Island, Mass.
OK the 18th bronze equestrian static
of Israel Putnam, the Revolutionary hero,
erected by the State, was unvailed at Brook
lyn, Conn.
THE ice-house of English & Best, at AL
bany, N. Y, was struck by lightning on the
18th and burned. Loss, 100000
On the 18th the American mills at Fall
River, Mass, were struck by lightning and
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
GREAT damage was done by cloud. bursts
at Titusville, Pa, and Vicinity on the 10th
Ten miles of track of the New York &
Pennsylvania railroad south of Titusville
were piled up with dirt, rocks, fallen trees,
etc.
On the 18th Albert E. Purdy, prominent
business man of Perry, N Y, and Miss
Lettie M, Strauss were drowned in Silver
lake by the upsetting of their boat
Mrs. FRIEDMAN, of Providence, r. l., or
the 10th poured kerosene over her bed and
burned herself and an eight-year-old
daughter to death She was crazed with
grief at the reported death of her husband
In the Connellsville (Pa.) region seven
coke works shut down on the 18th on ac-
count of a strike of the employees. Two
thousand men were thrown out of work.
MAGGIE WELLS, aged eleven years. ar
rived in Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th from
Yorkshire, England, having made the trip
unaccompanied by any one. Her father
fastened a tag to her dress, bearing the
address of her uncle in that city, and by
this means she arrived safely.
A FIRE at Danbury, Conn, burned over
twenty acres on the 18th, destroying a
number of business blocks and lumber
yards. Loss, S125, 900.
On the evening of the 18th Captain Will
lam A, Andrews started from Point of
Pines, near Boston, on avoyage to Queens
town in his fourteentfoot dory Twenty
thousand people saw him Off He crossed
safely ten years ago in a similar boat
DUBOIS Pa, was almost wiped out of ex-
istence on the 18th by fire. Nearly three
hundred houses were in ruins and four
thousand people are homeless.