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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1888
Page
2
A brutal morning in Wallace Missouri and surrounding Indian Territory features a policeman killed in Wallace after a carbine-wielding assailant enters a police station and fires. Parallel reports describe a gang torture of Reuben Williamson and family in Indian Territory, plus other violent incidents, fires, and crime notes across the region.
January notes from Vermont department sessions with new posts and a large St Paul carnival parade in bright weather. Prisoners loitering and a fire at Fort Leavenworth claim horses burned, with arrests at the post office for a mail fraud case involving a woman using decoy letters.
Fragmented OCR yields a dense mix of names places and events. Mentions include WICHITA, WATER streets, Kal St. Pereusanins, Gary Wate Falriuont, and Kansas Pains Mie Co. plus references to convicts and executions and a freight rate fight. Also cites advertisements for groceries and builders in Wichita dated Feb 1, 1858.
A stark account describes longshoremen at Buffalo and Toledo, Irish laborers toiling in extreme heat and fatigue on docks. The piece notes relentless work shifts, widespread drinking of whisky to sustain effort, and looming health decline as foremen demand relentless output. The narrative highlights brutal manual labor, shipboard loading, and the aging, exhausted workforce facing early mortality.
A fragment describes an Autumn Festivation with a four day religious rite. Dances, sacred ground, bitter medicine, and feather regalia mark rites led by a chief. crowds of men women and children perform ceremonies around a central post. The piece notes dramatic purification acts, water diving, and year round grounds kept sacred. nearby tribes attend and a leadership succession occurs upon death.
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