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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1889
Page
1
An old-time shop bulletin notes rising activity in dress fabrics. Madam Liggett faces crowding as customers order before her October 1 departure, urging quick work and highlighting brisk sales of imported Charlies, Ginghams, Streens, 21 inch Plushes, and broadcloths at strong values.
Fragmented dateline style report mentions a convict named Taylor tied to a Palvasi direit case and a man named Sam Jacks, with prison terms and local arrests. It blends sensational crime notes with brief references to a known convict and a sentence in a penitentiary amid scattered details.
Special Dispatch reports Oklahoma Territory voters faced a bitter, lengthy session as suffragists lost a push to insert voting rights for women. The constitution was adopted and a ballot measure set for October 7, 1889. The text outlines a territorial government with a governor, bicameral legislature, and judicial system, including property and tax provisions and town-site issues unresolved.
The second day of Oklahoma convention politics erupted in chaos as debates on woman suffrage devolved into a roaring, crowded scene. Speakers attacked, fights broke out, doors were barred, and a lone boomer-chaired faction led a chaotic session while discussions on safety appliances and state actions continued behind the bedlam.
Home Secretary approves life penal servitude after medical testimony on poison death, with no further appeal. Debates overshadow Nagel case as lawyers push continuance to allow defense to review law. Reports also detail a Chicago style mystery, race tensions in St Louis laundry trade, and a fatal burglary in New York with a boiler explosion aftermath.
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