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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1889
Page
1
A local store touts an upcoming Dress Goods season with a fresh assortment of dress stuffs and new weaves. Promises fine greys and dark tones in fabrics like Flannels and tangerine pretensions. Readers urged to visit this week to see value and styles arriving rapidly.
A Frisco switch engine and tender derailed on the North Side after a high speed collision with a frog crossing. Three workers were killed instantly and several others injured. Eyewitnesses report the engine traveling around 20 miles per hour before the wreck. A wrecking crew cleared debris and began track relaying as authorities investigated the crash.
Despite rough weather on Monday a large crowd attended the Muslin Underwear sale. Shoppers praised the low prices and handsome goods, hearing that the sale lasts only a few days and urging immediate attention to these great values.
Our Great 25 Cent Line presents well made items of the best material at 25 cents each. Sizes are full and large with superior quality.
Our Fine 50 Cent Line offers elegant underwear trimmed and worth 75 cents. A massive sale line provides savings with 26 cents off every garment.
Survivors worked to extract wounded and dead in a railway disaster. Names like Browning and Edward Fane died, coroner testimony cited excessive speed. a separate Yukon Canyon City tragedy saw four Chinese miners perishing in a heated tent setup near a boiling spring. Reports also note labor unrest and naval cadet study concerns in various cities.
The Herald reports a coming joint effort of American and European labor movements. August meetings in Paris will unite diverse groups from socialism to Knight of Labor under a common labor policy to protect members' interests and promote an international association of wage earners. In New York Brooklyn unrest grows as a strike era intensifies with frequent pickets and police involvement.
In Topeka Kansas the legislature unanimously backs Senator Plumb for the treasury post. A Senate joint resolution calls for a constitutional convention and House sessions run night through Thursday. Osborn criticizes the inspection bill while reform rhetoric dominates discussions on taxes and public finance.
Senate committee report details alleged fraud and violence in Washington County Texas. It cites executions and raids at polling sites, implicates lenders, and connects mob action to suppression of Republican votes. The document links murders to the attempt to influence the Congressional election and notes wider implications for electoral integrity.
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