Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-17
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Topics of the Times Given in IA Terse aa
Spicy Manner.
Fraud is claimed in the securing Of natur-
alization papers for a number Of Italians at
Chicago.
Bernard Kimball, elected to the Massachu.
setts legislature, severed his juguIar because
of i'll health.
AT Vandever station. Ala, William Block.
ley, well TO do young farmer, was killed by
falling tree.
Mrs. w. o. Shepherd, we'll known lady of
Rosedale, Kas, has become maniac because
of the death OF a friend.
F. w. Morgan, a grocery man of Erie,
Pa, suicided by shooting himself. He had
been unfortunate in business
A woman at Anderson Ind, gave birth
to child half human, half horse. The
mother was thrown from carriage some
months ago.
A boy named Conklin, aged eight years,
was mangled, disemboweled and killed by
an Erie yard engine at Gallon, o., while
picking up coal.
Horse thieves last night stole $500 mare
from Samuel Rudy's barn, in Summit
county, making the fifth horse tnat has been
weeks.
Rev James P. Boyce, president Of the
Southern Baptist Theological school at Louis.
vile, who has beon residing in France some
time for his health, is reported dangerously
i'll in Paris.
Gen. Harrison has received an invitation
to attend the centennial anniversary of the
Inauguration OF George Washington to be
help in New York, April 20, but has deferred
"a final answer.
William Hunnicutt noted character OF
Carter county, Tennessee. has been arrested
for the murder OF Deputy United State:
Marshal Tom GoodSon. Hunnicutt is in jill,
with strong feeling against him.
Sheriff Smith, of Birmingham, Ala has
given bond for each of the four warrants
charging him with murder, and was on the
streets Friday. No one offered to modest
him. The coroner is still investigating the
riot
James Marion, with his wife and two.
year old child, driving into Chicago in q
wagon, were thrown into ditch by the
team running away. Marion was instantly
killed. His wife had leg and arm broken,
but the child escaped unhurt.
The United States secret service oifics Off
GERS at ST. Paul, MINI, are on the track OF a
gigantic opium smuggling conspiracy.
They have learned that an organized and
we'll equipped band Of smugglers has for
years been operating across the northwestern
border
A bottle was picked up on the beach at
Sand wich, Mass. containing a note saying
that the bark J. r. Humphrey, of Bath, Me-,
had been caught in the storm of November
Goth, and was rapidly going to the bottom.
The note was signed by the captain and four
of her crew.
The United States detectives have located
gang of counterfeiters in the Willis of Mer.
Ger county, Pennsylvania, and captured
three of the leaders, VINO give the names Of
Reigeiman, Thompson ami Martin, with
nearly half bushel of spurious coin and all
the apparatus. They are i'll jill at Titus.
Vile
The American Federation of Llb)r in SEES.
sion at ST Louis Saturday elected the follow.
ing officers: President, Samuel Comp lrs,
New York. first vice president, Daniel Nc
Laughlin, Braidwood, ILL., second vice presi.
dent. William Martin, Pittsburp; secretary,
F. J. Mcclure, Philadelphia; treasurer,
Henry Enrich, New York; trustees Huge
Miller, August Delabar and Josiah z. Dyer,
of New York. By close vote L ,ston was
selected as the place where the next annual
meeting will be held.