Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

| A strong company has been organized to
build another railway bridge across the Ar.
kansas river at Little Rock.
Chicago has been again selected as the
place for holding the National Republican
| Convention,
Rioting against the Jews continues in Rus
STA. In the province of Podlia drunken
soldiers killed a rabbi and wounded several
of the race.
Austria has begun the importation OF
American wheat. A consignment of ten
thousand hundred weight has been landed
in Bohemia.
The latest scheme at St. Louis is a COM
pany to build another bridge across the
Mississippi two or three miles above the
present structure.
Hon. Dudley C. Haskell, Member of Con-
gress from the Lawrence, Kansas, District,
died, in Washington, on Thursday of last
week.
Speaker Carlisle stated to the Washington
correspondent of the Courier-Journal that
he was not q candidate for United States
Senator from Kentucky, and that his name
The steamer Josie Harry was burned and
completely wrecked at Reeves Landing,
sixteen miles below Memphis. Six hundred
and fifty bales of cotton, nine hundred sacks
of cotton seed and three thousand feet of
lumber were burned. The boat originally
cost 100000
ODonnell, the slayor of Carey, the in
morning at o'clock. He made no state
ment on the gallows. Shortly before his
death he virtually confessed himself an
Irish Invincible and said he had no regrets
for killing Carey. The United States Gov
eminent requested respite for O'Donnell,
who was a citizen of this country, but Home
Secretary Harcourt declined to grant it.
A young man named George Orr, nineteen
years old, went to the house of Monroe
Tumble, an old blind man living half q
mile from Paoli, Kansas, on the 18th inst,
and, after short casual conversation, shot
and killed him, brutally beat Mrs. Trumble
in the head and face, and robbed the house
of eighty dollars. He then fed. A posse
of twenty-five are searching for the MUIR
derer.
Levi JaiIloS, Il CnOcIaW convicted
last November of the murder of James Full
som, was shot on the 18th, at Scullyyille
court house, Indian Territory, in accordance
with the Choctaw law. James sat upon a
blanket, the Sheriff held one hand and
deputy the other. Another deputy took his
position five PAGES distant, and with Colts
revolver deliberately aimed and shot him
through the heart. He died in two min
~
and leaves a white wife and five small chill
dren.
A difficulty arose in New Orleans, at the
Democratic primaries, Saturday, in which
three men were killed and several wounded.
1t appears that a man, whose name is I'M
known, came up to vote and was challenged.
Capt. FOrtier and his brother, it is stated,
tried to get the man from in front of the
poll, but the man was finally knocked down
or fell down. A shot was then fired, which
seemed to be the signal, as the firing imme-
diately became general. The greatest ex-
element prevailed, the police being power
less against the combatants. When the
shooting ceased it was found that Captain
NJ. j. Fortier, a prominent Ogden champion,
was MORALLY wounded. He was removed
to his residence, where he expired in few
minutes. He leaves wife and three child
rem. Capt. Fortier was well-known as COM
mander of the battery in the competitive
drills at Nashville, Indianapolis and other
points. Gus Renaud, Superintendent of
Streets for the Seventh Ward, under Com
missioner Fitzpatrick, was picked up in an
unconscious condition and taken to the
fifth precinct station, where he died In
little while. Four wounds were found on
his body. He leaves a wife and one child.
Edward Mason, Deputy Constable, received
three balls in the leg, which severed the
artery. He survived a short time. He
leaves wife and two children. The follow
ing named were wounded Sheriff Robert
Brewster, bullet in the leg; John Brewster,
shot in the side, dangerous wound; Gus
Peardeon, Mike Early and Peter Brannon
received wounds with blunt instruments.
John DOminick was also wounded in the
leg.