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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1889
Page
1
Philadelphia store launches a four week clearance to make room for holiday goods. Prices cut 20 percent on flannels dress goods underwear table linens towels and blankets with a grand drawing offering a one thousand dollar music box for every dollar spent.
A. Katz summarizes a large gift drawing at 405 East Douglas Avenue tied to an extensive prize event. Numerous purchases include gold watches, diamond rings, silverware, and clocks with winners drawn for items valued from tens to hundreds of dollars. Some winners' names are noted, others kept private for consent.
W T Sayre the new Cherokee commissioner arrived from Washington with formal directives from Secretary Noble. He will assess whether to press the 1.25 per acre offer or move to resettle tribes, prompting Kansas and Oklahoma protests and possible allotment and severance actions.
A long dispatch details state encampment plans at Salina and county clerks meeting in Toreka Kansas. It notes engineers and brakemen deaths, gas discovery, a suicide, Western matters at the capital, street car troubles, and a Kansas expositions crew. It also reports political sessions, railroad rates, and local incidents with names and places.
The Reichstag resumed debate on Herr Arth's motion to restrict cattle imports, while Wetseky urged free pig imports to slaughterhouses. both proposals failed. Reports from Madrid discuss Castelar's return and rumors of a republican revolt in Spain, with Brazil declaring a peace policy and provisional government actions following the Brazilian monarchy's collapse.
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