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Newspaper
Wichita Eagle
Location
Wichita, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1887
Page
1
Many new arrivals this week in all departments at Wichita Dry Goods store. Largest and best selections of dry goods with Dress Making Department employing 44 staff, promising high ideals and strenuous effort to serve intelligent buyers seeking fashions and fabrics.
Dispatch from Washington reports Crow Todlans returned from a Montana agency raid and fired on the agency buildings. General Terry endorsed delaying arrests, sending troops to monitor the situation while avoiding further escalation. Recapitulation of Utah commission details population, property, and legal issues.
Lyons 15 Harper 12 in a tight match between Lyons and Harper, Western League players from Essporla and Wichita clubs. Also notes an electric light plant expansion in Kesomas and a new $70 000 Opera House contract in Arkansas Orry. Daily papers report courthouse actions and a Leavenworth Times sale to a stock company for 100000 dollars.
Cuicova October reports a full day program with governors and generals escorting foreign officers to Missouri headquarters, a baptism of the camp ceremony at 2 PM, dress parades, and a monster military review amid bands. An explosion at Geo P Piast’s mill kills several and injures, with extensive damage and multiple victims.
The long awaited presidential party arrived in St Louis for a grand city welcome. Crowds exceeded 60 000 on fairgrounds and streets as President Cleveland spoke at Merchants Exchange and Mrs Cleveland greeted by groups of women and children at the Scanlan mansion and Lindell hotel with a day of receptions and parades despite a later mob incident that night.
A mutilated female body was found near Inti village on Long Island. The deceased is identified as Francis Hawkins, a wealthy widow residing at Lip. Suspicions point to a local figure as investigators guard the scene and seek motive amid rising public tension.
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