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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1894
Page
6
Home seekers' excursion to Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, Louisiana and southwest Missouri. Tickets good for twenty days. One fare, two dollars for the round trip. Santa Fe route.
Fashion notes describe a renewed interest in Ulster coats and opera cloaks with plaits, heavy trimming, and gigot sleeves. Details include brown satin brocades, velvet accents, guipure, and pearl beading. Wraps feature moire astrakhan, ermine, and Tibetan goat fur with varied collars and plumes.
A widowed Cherokee woman relates the death of her husband and a curious tale of a tenderfoot’s arrival. The speaker, harrowed by loss, notes the crowd, a telegraph pole, and a satire on ambition as she recalls the bereaved and the strange epitaph.
A Local correspondent reports two rare death cases within ten days. In New York a derailed freight car struck a locomotive cab, killing a fireman as a train passed. In New Jersey a bicyclist collided with a carriage at night and an iron bar pierced his abdomen, causing instant death. Similar rail incidents have occurred on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore line near Northeast, Maryland, on October 22, 1889.
A northbound express collided after a loose freight car door fell on the track ahead of the engine. The crash left two dead and 17 badly hurt. The article then recounts morbid anecdotes of unusual deaths and bizarre accidents from various places, including a Brooklyn minister choking on a cork and a Milwaukee woman dying from maggots in the nose after a fly infested with eggs. It ends with brief advertisements for vinegar and medicines.
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