Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-21
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Huntington, Ind.
The canals OF the state OF New York viii
be closed at midnight, November 80.
A petition is being circulated throughout
Ohio asking for the pardon of Mrs. Garrett
the Medina county murderess
Capt John Spence died in Accomac county,
Virginia, Monday. He was born in 1916.
and voted for Thomas Jefferson
In the vicinity of Staunton, Va, snow fell
Monday night to the depth of two inches.
followed by sleet and drenching rain.
Thomas J. Good,n, embezzling treas
urer OF Rawlins county, Kansas, has been
arrested at Portland, Ore. He was short
$4,000 s5t u4 Ra trFfg
James Gilerain, aged forty five, com
mitted suicide by drowning at Blackstone.
Mass, while temporarily derangsd by pain
in a wounded leg. 30
The Umbria broke the record on her last
trip out from New York, making the passage
to Queenstown in six days two hours and
twenty-five minutes.
The Pittsburg coal operators have resolved
to cease mining after December |, owing to
the depressed condition Of the Cincinnati
and southern markets.
William Leighton, who stole a team, shot
and killed John Shine, pursuer, at the lum-
ber camp OF Rowe 81 McKeon, sixty miles
from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
While S. c. .Whitford, aged seventy-6ve
years, who lived near Demossvle, KY, was
walking on the track, he was struck by
Kentucky Central freight train and instantly
killed.
Oscar Carmichael, a convict, killed
Guard Gresham with stone at the camp
near Sunnyside, Ga, and, with other con-
victs escaped The pursuing posse riddled
him with bullets.
The senate special committee, appointed
/ under the Vest resolution OF May IA to in
vestigate questions pertaining to meat and
cattle transportation, held its first session in
! St Louis Tuesday. e s
/ Smith Book, a laborer, while walking along
the track of the Pittsburg, Youngstown &
Ashtabula railroad at Youngstown, o., was
struck by passenger train and soon after
ward died in the hospital
Wilson Arnold, colored, was taken from
Jail at Yazoo City, Miss, by party Of
men bent on revenge for the killing of Capt
Robert johnson, white man. The lynchers
have not since been heard from.
The young girl found murdered ON a Chi
cago boulevard has been identified as Eva
Mitchell, aged nineteen. lately from Wash
|
ington, Iowa. She was domestic. Several
arrests have been made on suspicion.
white man named Nolan aud a negro
named Cicero Bowen became involved in q
quarrel at Henderson, Tex. Bowen will
probably die Later Amos Graham, colored,
cut the throat of an unknown negro.
John Phom became jealous Of Mrs, Kate
Malesch at dance at Freeport, near St
Cloud, Mimi, because she danced with other
guests, and on the way hong shot her dead.
Both are Slavonians Pfom escaped.
Hon. Solomon Scheu, a wealthy Buffalo
malster, and prominent in Democratic cir.
cles in the state, Is suffering from o
stroke of paralysis II a recurrence of the
attack is avoided, physicians think he will
recover.
At Nassau, N. p, Pilot Evans and his
boats crew of four men were drowned off
the bar on November IL by the capsizing
Of their boat during a squall They were
attempting to speak the steamer Cienfuegos
from New York.
A Cuban named Isidor Cejas committed
suicide in his cell at Nassau, N, r., by hang
ing himself with strip Of canvas He was
arrested on q charge OF murder committed in
Havana in February, 1885, and was being
held for extradition.
About 100 bales of cotton aboard tho
steamer Elphinstope, loading for Bremen,
we're damaged at Charleston, s. c., while u
fire in the vessels hold was being extin-
guished. The cargo was insured partly in
the Atlantic Mutual of New York and partly
abroad
The bursting of the blowing trough at
Whitney's glass works in South Camden N
j., released forty tons of motion glass, which
ran in a fiery stream, setting the works ON
fire and causing CONSERVATION among the
workingmen. Their escape was almost
miraculous.
Benjamin Mckinley, married man, at.
tempted to outrage Myrtle lively on the
farm of ]. V. Porter, near Gallipolis. o.
Failing in this, he cut her throat-it is
thought fatally. She Afterwards identified
him, but he escaped, with the iynchers in
hot pursuit.
A stockman, William Duceut, was bru-
tally murdered Mt his home near Tushomma,
Indian Territory, Friday night last, being
called from the house by a party OF men,
who shot him in the yard, riddling his body
with bullets Silas Jetfries and Abs
Davis, suspected of having led the party,
we're hunted down by the neighbors and
killed.
Porteriield Brock, well.to-do widower
living near Gilbert's Station, Albemarle
county, Virginia, was to take unto himself q
second and young wife, Miss Norfolk, Of
Albemarle. Upon returning home with his
wedding suit he was shot and killed by his
son, q married man, who lived with him.
During the night the patricide blew his own
brains out
The National convention OF the Youths
Home and Employment association met in
indianapolis Monday. The principal feature
was the address by President Hoagland and
the reading Of encouraging autograph letters
from Governors Hill, Of New York; Ste
phenson, of Nevada; Beaver, of Pennsylva-
mia; Green, of New Jersey Foraker, Of Ohio;
Stephens, OF Maine Larrabee Of Iowa; Lee.
of Virginia. Briggs, Of Delaware; Lowery.
of Mississippi, and Gray, OF Indiana. The
object of the association is furnishing EN-.
| ploymens 10 boys, and teaching them habits
\ Of industry and the elements of English
education.
Murdered In Court.
MACON, Ga, Nov. 2l.-The Brunswick q
Western Railroad company has been missing
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