Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-11-03

for Washington to assume his new duties as
! General of the Army.
John carson was killed by william Glea-
son in quarrel over game of old sledge at
Gilmore Station, Ark, Monday.
Two men were killed and six badly in
jured by a fire-damp explosion IN coal
mine near Pittston, Pa.
Henry Irving's opening night at the Star
Theatre In New York was a great success.
He appeared in 'The Bells" as Matthias.
The British colonies of Australia are dis
cussing the advisability of forming con-
federacy. Their combined population is
5000, 90, and their territory very extensive.
The National Cotton Planters Association
has invited Wendell Phillips to deliver an
address at the annual meeting of that body
in Vicksburg.
John Murphy was found dead near Wal
lace, Ind, with three bullet holes in his
body, Tuesday. He is supposed to have been
murdered and robbed.
Mr.. Henry Irving, the great English actor,
was given a dinnerin New York Saturday
at which a number of prominent men were
present.
Mabel Stone, aged seventeen, the adopted
daughter of Joseph Stone, retired banker
of Boston, committed suicide by shooting
Sunday.
Pat Haley youth of eighteen, has been
arrested at Dallas, Texas, for the unprovok-
ed murder of an old colored man at Mem
phis several months ago.
Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry de.
lighted a large and fashionable New York
audience Tuesday night in ''Chanes IL
Miss Terry made her American debut.
Dispatches from Austin, Texas, Monday,
reported that 500 negroes were in arms in
Milan county in that State, and that Gov.
Ireland had called out the militia.
James White was struck by train while
crossing a high tresseli, at Flat Rock, ON the
Cincinnati Southern road, Tuesday, and
dashed to pieces in the gorge below.
Miss Mary Churchill, the st. Louis young
lady who mysteriously disappeared last
July, has written to her, father from Indian
apolis. She stated that she was well and
making an honest living.
missing wife at Waupun, Wis, where she
was masquerading as man, having some
six months before married Miss Gertrude
Fuller.
The weekly Nashville murder was COM
mitted by VIM. Sloan Sunday and Grub
Coleman was the victim. The latter refus-
ed to pay for the drinks and the former
stabbed him.
An accident occurred on the Northern
Railroad at Charleston, S. c., Tuesday last.
The engineer, p. B. stratton, was killed,
three colored men injured, and several cars
burned.
The surviving members of the First Ten
nesSee Cavalry had reunion at Columbia
Tuesday. The occasion was marked by
speech making, a big dinner, and a good deal
of hand shaking.
The dynamite fiends are again at work in
London and great excitement prevails. Two
explosions occurred in the underground
railroad, Tuesday evening. About twenty
i've persons were injured, but no one killed. |
The barkentine Jane Hunter, from Per-
nambuco to st. Johns, was lost Tuesday |
night, at st. Hotts; Capt. Bowden, the first |
and second officers, and all the crew except
two seamen persisted.
Judge Greer, of Memphis, believes that |
dealing in futures and lottery tickets is an /
tagonistic to the best interests of a COM |
and has instructed the Grand Jury /
to indict all who are engaged in that BUSH
ness.
Gustave Herman shot and killed Marten |
Hess on a farm near Cincinnati Sunday. |
Herman was hunting rabbits on Hess farm /
when the latter and his brother attacked |
him to drive him off with the result as no.
ted above.
The first bale of cotton ever picked from a
field by machinery was exhibited Tuesday
at the Charleston, S. c., Cotton Exchange
and attracted general attention. The con-
1ition of the cotton was pronounced by
cotton men as good as hand picked cotton
Of the same grade.
A terrible explosion OF dynamite occurred |
At Brooks tunnell on the Mobile & Ohio
Monday, near Confluence, Penn,
which resulted in the killing of five men |
The effects of the explosion are thus des- |
sribed Houses for fifteen miles around were
shaken to the foundation, and windows
distance of seven miles were shattered. |
Horror stricken, the people ran from their
houses, and upon investigation it was found
hat the dynamite had exploded with fear
'ul effect. Everything in the vicinity gave
evidence of the terrific force of the explo- |
sion. Trees were uprooted, huge rocks torn
lsunder, and telegraph poles for half mile
Frustrated. Nothing remained of the mag
zine, while the five men who were present |
v ere missing. 1t is thought that they have
Ill been killed. Portions of the bodies, legs,
arms, hands and heads have been picked
I'D half a mile distant but they were so
BADLY disfigured as to be unrecognizable.
One Saulley and his wife in Todd county,
dinn, killed a neighbor farmer named
Saturday. The dispatch which |
ives an account of the killing says:
AS he (Steinbach) crossed corner of
'ehle's field he was.met by Saulley and
wife, who were evidentaly lying in wait for
i'm. Saulley Immediately attacked him.
md he getting the betterof the fight, Mrs.
,aulley attacked him with pitchfork, two
# the prongs of which had been broken OF,
My leaving the center one. This had been |
happened to fine point, and with this
earful weapon the woman viciously stabbed
teinbach, whose whole attention was &C.
upied by Sankey's attack. She damned |
he pitchfork through his skull and down |
through his brain to the neck, whence 1t
rotruded. Another lunge sent the pitch
,rk through his nose. A dozen stabs show |
n his legs, and his head is terribly bruised,
here Saulley beat him with the pitch fork
andle.
Another farmer was found dead, shot
,.o,,ob With aavaraI nisfol halls in tho | 4.
ame county on the sameday. There seems
be an alarming amount OF lawlessness in
odd county MINI issota f