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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1889
Page
2
Reports describe vigilantes capturing and stringing up a suspected raider near Arkansas City while townspeople greet oilmen. Other items include a fatal stabbing and an incident at Leavenworth. A steamer wreck near Lake Abspalla, Mexico is noted with 50 plus deaths. weather notes from multiple stations follow.
A collection of brief items reports unrest in the Chickasaw nation over property thefts. In Leavenworth a man is stabbed by a colored assailant. a man named Gordon is fatally stabbed in Kansas. A steamer, a convict’s confession, a murder tale, and a weathered crime roundup fill numerous short dispatches.
A man in Guelph Ontario murdered his wife and two daughters in a single morning, then fled with a revolver. Police tracked him to Toronto and he was captured after sending a message to his son. The incident sparked a citywide manhunt and strong suspicions of insanity.
Sherman reports abroad plans for Senator John and family for rest. Mallory Line officials in El Paso probe railroad options to El Paso and San Angelo, seeking Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe access. They weigh building a new line to reach tory and the Mexico trade, while the Texas and Pacific and Southern Pacific routes stay in use. In Detroit, a homicide case involves arsenic poisoning, with Mrs Zshoegner and daughter Emma dead and John Zshoegner under coroner inquiry. A separate banking scandal in Provo involves Pattie Fleming in a failed hay business scheme with Canadian banks, leaving $80,000 in unsettled drafts and a looming court case against the roads.
A scattered digest reports births surpassing deaths in London for a recent week, a proposed near forty million dollar spend to extend Prussian railways, Britain's agricultural returns showing vast land under cultivation, and a mix of other global notes. It notes female physicians in Russia restricted by sex, a granite monument to Jenny Lind in Aberdeen, slave ship actions near the Red Sea, and various European civic and political items including elections, taxation, and new religious structures.
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