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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1890
Page
1
A local retailer on North Main advertises a January sale of embroideries and torchen laces from Madame Liggett and Madame Smith. One line complete prices listed at 15 19.75 and 25 with claims of favorable trading terms and warnings that prices may not hold next week. The copy notes brisk sales even during a storm and promises benefits for shoppers.
Munson and McNamara promote heavy discounts with warlike sales rhetoric. The ad urges bargain hunters to visit the store for overcoats heavy suits underwear fur and winter goods advertised as marked down to sell quickly.
Fragmented report details a wreck near Wellsboro Pennsylvania with the wrecking car plunging, Mullen and Daniel Howard killed, others injured. Separate line notes two trainmen killed in a South Cheshire railroad collision. Travel resumes after heavy Sierra Nevada snows impede Central Pacific travel.
Ontario railway officials report a large eastbound grain movement with Canada Pacific handling export cargo. The bulk of shipments are grain exports loaded at the port and routed to overseas destinations.
Retail listing shows drastic markdowns on fabrics and garments. Damaged OCR reads prices cut on cambrics silks broadcloths hosiery underwear and dress goods with general call to hurry and sell at any price.
At Rocwateren N Y Jan 6 a meeting of the American Base Ball association elected Syracuse admission on Fraaier’s application while Baltimore’s membership was tabled with a 12 club limit. Washington Newark or Brooklyn likely next. Brinker appointed vice president. directors and a rules joint committee elected.
National Bank of the Republic in New York President John Jay Knox drafted a bill to authorize national bank issuance backed by silver bullion. The proposal would require banks to maintain capital and deposits with the U.S. Treasury, with silver or U.S. bonds as collateral, and establish a National Bank Safety Fund to cover depressions. Also notes provisions for solvency, depreciation triggers, and asset handling. The measure aims to strengthen the banking system through a silver standard and regulated reserves.
A Kansas tariff debate unfolds with Representative Peters asserting sugar and silk potential for his district. He cites sorghum sugar yields and beet sugar prospects, warning a bounty would draw capital away, while witnesses urge protective duties to support silk and sugar industries amid national unrest.
Jan 6 dispatch reports the Oklahoma territory statehood bill sent to subcommittees with a plan to report next week. Idaho Mormon delegates urged postponing admission, while Wyoming's admission decision was also deferred. Delegates appointed for Wichita immigration meeting on the 18th urged broad county representation and rail concessions. Separate notes describe Noble town removing Chickasaw control and growing home site activity, with citizens ready to discuss notices and telegraphs.
A garbled but era style dispatch reports Santa Fe Railway extending from Chicago to the coast and reorganizing management in Topeka and Chicago. It mentions vice president and general manager changes, extended operations, and the relocation of headquarters to Topeka, with further notes on other officials and apparent confusion around the Pope and Archbishop Ireland. A separate item notes a hydrochloric metal casting accident in Hetheringuie with workers injured.
Judge David J. Brewer is sworn in as associate justice of the U S Supreme Court. The Interstate Commerce Commission reports its third annual findings proposing law amendments including abolition of commission pay nects, end to ticket brokerage, extension of the law to water routes, and new sections on through traffic, witness deposition, and carrier responsibilities. Numerous bills and petitions are noted in Congress.
The senate opened with less than a quorum as petitions from Kansas and Texas urged Chicago and St Louis as expo sites. Numerous bills and nominations were referred including ocean service aims, anti bribery measures, and public land/rail questions. Legislators discussed state finances and the creation of committees while calls for accountability and enforcement appeared.
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