Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1873-02-08
WESTERN NEWS.
Missouri.
Rolla has an Enoch Arden case.

Rolla has an Enoch Arden case.
Kansas City wants waterworks.
The wheat crop in st. Charles looks
promising.
Springfield wants its streets named
and its houses numbered.
A house was struck by lightning in
Clark County ON the 18th inst.
Three stumps in the streets of Kan
sas City unwheel farmers wagons.
Smallpox prevails to an alarming
extent at Portage, ST. Charles County.
Three prisoners burrowed their way
out of the st. Joe Jail On Sunday
night.
Kansas City is to have rolling and
smelling mill with a capital of I 500, :
900. AS EiFFfi
An effort is being made to establish
car shops, with capital of 0,000,
at St. Charles.
The Dentist Convention for North
west Missouri and Kansas was held at
Kansas City last week.
A butter and cheese factory capable
of using the milk of 800 cows is being
erected in Galloway.
Springfield and Jefferson City, two
of the best paying Post-ofices out of
St. Louis, have Postmistresses.
The Macon City election passed off
quietly, and the Republican ticket was
elected by the usual majority.
The Pineville Democrat says ten
year old boy, Of that place, recently
killed a full grown deer with a stone.
Isaac May, an old and wealthy far
mer in Buchanan County, was proba-
bly, fatally injured by falling from a
hay-mow.
Iron ore containing 20 per cent. of
pure iron has been discovered on Col
VIM. Bishops farm near Clark City,
Clark County.
A man was accidentally suspended
eight feet by one foot in Poplar Bluff,
Butler County, the other day. He
remained eight hours in this condition
before he was rescued.
A whitehead factory for the con-
sumption of all the lead produced
there is now talked of, and may posi-
bly, be built during the coming sum-
mer, at Joplin.
The spotted fever according to the
Usage County LEADER is raging in
Usage County, and several deaths
have occurred in ChamOis and yicini-
ty.
The Stockton Journal learns that
some seventy German families, from
Ohio, are expected to buy land and To-
cate in the vicinity of Montevallo and
Virgil City, next spring.
4 st. Joe young lady declined tax
leg part in private theatricals, inferior
to the part offered to another young
lady, because the father of the former
was colonel in the war, while the lat
ter's was only major
We are glad to learn that Mr.. p. B.
Sibley, of Seneca, has struck fine
vein of lead in his shaft about three
quarters Of mile from town. 1t is
about two feet in width and of remark
ably fine quality Neosho Journal.
From the Kansas City Times we
learn that Buckley, the defendant in
the suit, has made application for a
new trial in the famous $4,000 breach
of promise case, wherein Mrs. Mary
Sackett, of Kidder, Mo, is plaintiff
Two old trappers, Alex. LeFaivre
and o. Fessin, few days since, trap
ped two beavers in the Missouri River
not far from st. Charles. One weigh
cd forty-eight and the other fifty-five
pounds. Old residents say those are
the first ever caught in that vicinity.
The trial of Mrs. Gasche, for the
murder of her husband, Henry Gas
che, in September last, was commenced
in the Jefferson Circuit Court on
Thursday of last week, and concluded
Saturday night just before midnight,
the jury bringing in a verdict of not
guilty; plea insanity.