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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1890
Page
2
Severe winter conditions halt trains on the Central Northern and Southern Pacific Lines. Telegraph links between Washington and Oregon are limited. Idaho storms devastate cattle and crops with extensive property damage. Record cold, shifting winds, and heavy snows impact the West as forecasts predict warmer conditions in parts.
A heavy storm and a wind driven gale disrupts Minnesota and the northwest with dense rain and winds. A German field forces retreat while the Sheral party in the German Fileietag suffers. The pope has sent his blessing. Thirty men, mainly Polish and German nobles, banished from Flusala.
Blocked by heavy snow, Central Pacific and Northern Pacific routes halt all through service. Telegraph wires down across Washington and Oregon cut New York contact. only a single line between San Francisco and Portland remains. Snow and washouts cause massive stock losses and stranded travelers with hundreds of derailed and stalled trains.
Severe winter conditions halt overland trains around Tr with several lines blocked from Colfax to Shady Ren. About hundred workers shovel snow as crews struggle to clear tracks toward Summit. Weather disrupts service, with access limited to remote towns and medical aid routed to stranded passengers.
Heavy snow blockade disrupts Union Pacific routes between Huntington and Portland with no through trains for days. Westbound service expected to resume tomorrow morning as weather improves, while Northern Pacific lines report limited interruptions and ongoing recovery efforts.
In the French Chamber Paris minister Conatuns said municipal credits in the Rhone were annulled for overreach. Boulangists interrupted Joffrin’s speech with protests, leading to suspensions and arrests as Millevoie and de Roulde clashed on sovereignty and authority.
In Water street a horse collapsed after an electric wire sagged from a post and struck the animal. The handler Thomas Dawson and bystander Thomas Saltz aided before authorities concluded electrocution caused the death. Multiple bystanders reported injuries from the shock but recovered. Local digger Dawreou and others noted dangerous urban wiring and urged caution near buildings.
Iron Works at Front street and Nebraska avenue in Kasess City burned last evening leaving a conservatively estimated tubhe and machinery loss near eighty thousand dollars. Fire started around the office, wind drove flames to the works delaying water supply and fire department response. The one story brick structure housed patterns and machinery valued at about ten thousand dollars. exact insurance status unclear. The origin remains a mystery with no incendiary signs evident.
The Iowa county house of representatives resumes after failed attempts to form a permanent leadership. After seventeen ballots the body remained split with Democrats backing a live speaker and Republicans resisting to cede the post. The roll call count stood 40 for Wilcox Republican and 40 for Lehman Democrat. The session adjourned to 1:30 tomorrow.
A woman in New York killed herself by jumping from a roof amid a city where genteel poverty limits respectable work. Her store ownership and wealth contrast with bleak jobs, illness, and a fatal despair. A found letter laments poverty, urging honest labor while noting widespread economic pressures.
Judge Gresham upholds sections of interstate commerce law in suit by Keenan & Sons against Lake Shore Railroad. Case centers on overcharge freight and disputed weight including alleged forty pound per head shrinkage. Court allows recovery of the excess under federal commerce statute.
George Damov, 40, New York agent for a western land company, shot himself at 445 Kiehth avenue after failing to pay about $24,000 due in December for land purchases. He had been missing two days, lived with his wife in Port Chester, and had been staying at the Moriton hotel. He left letters to his brother-in-law and his lawyer, citing wearying struggles and concern for his wife’s legal rights.
A federal sale order in TorEena Kansas requires auctioning of the Fort Scott and Western railroad and its property on February 3 at the U S courthouse. The listing includes rolling stock, equipment, lands, and franchises, with about 1,000 miles in operation from Fort Scott to Ellsworth via Newton and El Dorado.
A distorted passage mixes names and events in a chaotic scene. It mentions a city, a tense evening, and cryptic references to a “germets newspaper” reporting a macabre incident and a fearful apprentice. The text torques between dialogue and description with unclear chronology.
A fragmentary hunting tale describes a late night stand off between elk and wolves. Wolves attack a fawn, elk surround and repulse the predators with antlered defense, multiple wolves slain, and the mob dispersing after a brutal, chaotic confrontation observed by the writer and a companion.
A detailed, if fragmented, portrait of Mexicans along the Gulf Coast border from Corpus Christi to the Texas coast. Describes labor, farming, ranchero life, and social dynamics amid cross-border culture, with emphasis on daily work, women, families, and tensions of frontier society.
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