Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-25
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Spicy Manner.
a. @. O'Donall has been appointed United
States gsuger at Sandusky, o.
Senator Beck arrived in Savannah Monday
and viii spend some time there
A wealthy and fashionable lady of Chicago
pleaded guilty to the charge Of shopiifting.
President-elect Harrison will go TO Wash
ington five or six days before his inaugural
ton.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis, of West vir-
ginia, was one Of Gen. Harrison's visitors
yesterday.
A son of the late Gen. Mcclellan has been
appointed an aide+le-camp on Governor
Hills staff.
Governor Foraker says that in his opinion
there is no organized white Cap" move
ment in Ohio.
Electric motors will be substituted for
horses on the Fourth Avenue Surface road,
at New York.
The prosecuting attorney of Franklin,
county, Ohio, has nollied the indictments in
the tally-sheet cases.
Thirty-ave is said to be conservative esti-
mate of the number of lives lost by the disas-
1t is said that Canadians have been en-
ployed at Detroit, Mich, to break down
American labor unions and lower prices.
The Pastors union, of Columbus, O.,
adopted a resolution protesting against the
giving of a bah at Gen. Harrisons inadgura-
ton.
Mr. Townsend Smith, the Harvard student
whose death on board his yacht Norma, in
the West Indies, is announced, died from
typhoid fever.
Quarters have been engaged for Gen. Har-
rison and party at the Arlington hotel in
Washington, prior to tic Inauguration cere-
monies next March.
Col. John A. Bridgcland, of indianapolis,
will go to Washington to arrange for the ac-
commodation of Indiana people who will at
tend the Inauguration.
A st. Paul family was poisoned by eating
cream puffs, and three of them are likely 70
die. The victims are Mrs. r. S. Orenson and
her three children, John, Nels and Peter.
Frederick w. Aims, of Cincinnati, pre-
sented a valuable lot to the English Luth-
eran church in that city Mrs. Aims will
donate the sum of 81 900 for memorial win
dow.
st. Marys, Ohio, to the insane asylum, at To-
ledo, Monday. She became insane by her
son dying in the Ohio penitentiary some time
ago. tsa
Hastings saw-mill boiler near Coldhill,
Col, exploded Saturday, instantly killing
Andy Mcdonald, A. Garnard and two men
named Nodlett and Niles, and fatally scald-
ing Mike Barnard
At Royal Center, near Logansport, Ind. 4,
Miss Emma Pherson committed suicide by
taking strychnine. 1t was the result of a
lovers affair, in which young man named
Solomon Berkshire was involved.
William Dempsey, who shot his elder
brother James, and killed him, accidentally,
it seems, at their home in New York, on
Saturday, is held in $3.50 bail to await the
result of an inquest on Thursday.
While n gang of men were at work Mt the
Ohio Coal Company dock, at Duluth, Mimi,
one of the bins, holding six hundred tons of
stone coal, burst and buried John jackson
and John Oleson. Both were killed
1t is rumored at Washington that Senator
Sherman, i'll the interest of harmony in Ohio,
has suggested that Maj. Mckinley be made
secretary of the treasury. Maj Mckinley
says that he is not aware of any such move
ment.
Indiana Democrats are now claiming that
the Dudley letter was scheme to divert at
tention from New York, in order that tho
Republicans might carry the state while
their opponents concentrated their efforts on
Indiana.
Dudley Luttrell shot and instantly killed
j. M. Meyer and MORALLY wounded John
Christian at Harneyville Chickasaw Nation,
Sunday. Meyer and Christian were two of
the most prominent cattlomen and merchants
in the Chickasaw Nation.
1t is announced that the defeated Demo-
cratic candidate for governor of West Vir-
ginia has completed his notice of contest, and
that it will be served on Gen. Golf Mt an
early date. Republicans are preparing to
meet the Democratic charges OF fraud.
Representative Wydman will introduce
bill at the next session of the Ohio legislature
providing for the relief of firemen disabled in
service and who may be retired owing to
physical disability or old age after twenty
years continued service in the department.