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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1890
Page
2
Coroner's jury proceedings list Mrs Layton and Mrs Purcell inquest details held over the body of Mrs Eniffie. Sullivan Kilrain match diary noted. Weather bulletin reports Stewan Oreiex and observers in Kansas weather outlook with warmer trend and fair skies.
Telegraph in Condensed Form records a wild London stock market with large railway business activity. Mentioned are Charley Mitchell attacking Viscount Manderile and Mr Abington, Viscount Aundeville before contestants, Titston the treasurer ill, plans to travel to Portugal and Africa, and a Siberia exile order. A jailed murderer Wenson of Norway is mobbed and released by masked men in Hayou Sara 144.
A 15 year old Layton was killed after a New Year meeting with wife Libton and the mason Heikem Werk in Liberty Missouri. The inquest heard Layton had threatened to kill Shoots after a divorce dispute with his wife Mrs Layton. Five shots pierced the head and kidney leading to death. Post mortem confirms fatal wound and jury returns verdict unclear content.
In Texas at the court, Miss Purcell faces a grand jury amid a murder investigation while prosecutors seek sub rosa actions. Separately, a clash on the Llano River between smugglers and pursuers ends with casualties and several suspects fleeing the scene.
A Nevada man, Emil Drummelfess, was arrested in a Missouri river town, charged with swindling eastern investors out of 4000 pounds. He had hid in ragged clothes with 7000 dollars in large denomination bills. the arrest followed a scheme involving a Salted silver mine and sale to Allentown capitalists, with accomplices and later flight.
General Butler condemned the Australian ballot as a fraud against the poor and laboring men at a Parker House dinner attended by over a hundred. He lauded Jackson yet warned of the ballot’s perils, remarking it could empower white men to control government in the South.
Long article discusses improving urban water purity by electrolysis using electrodes in conduits. It explains decomposition of water into oxygen and hydrogen at electrodes, oxide formation on the positive electrode, and removal of impurities. The method claims to reduce reliance on frequent filter bed maintenance and to purify water for consumers with fewer overhaul needs.
An eyewitness account describes a brutal public murder and execution in a market area. It recounts the condemned man receiving a death sentence and being subjected to torture and beheading by blows before being rolled away to hospital or death. The narrative interweaves other historical anecdotes and mentions imperial figures, trades, and distant places.
A garbled excerpt hints at experiments and fame, naming places and figures in a Victorian style scene. The text references clinics, journals, and a struggle between science and acclaim, with scattered phrases about Europe and a dramatic public interest in discoveries and individuals.
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