Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-24
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Topics Of ths TIme. olvsn In rerss ana
spicy Manner.

Not SALOON Ia Washington cisy was open
Sunday.
In Nebraska Sunday snow fell TO the depth
OF three inchos
Philip schwillInger, prominent Louisville
brewer, died Saturday.
Wabash county, Indiana, will turn out
fifty bushels Of corn TO the acre
Judge Thurman arrived home safely Sun.
day morning
The st. Louis exposition closed Saturday.
The net profits Of the six weeks season win
exceed s4s,0O0
Charles Genicr, Xenia, o., accidentally
upset kettle Of hot water and scalded bis
child TO death.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. noted
author, married Rev. II. d. Ward, of the
New York Independent.
Frank Ramp, travelling cigarmaker, at.
tempted TO board train at Napoleon, O.,
but was struck in the head and killed
Newark, o., highwaymen robbed Engineer
Harry Farrell! Of his months pay, besides
cutting and beating him nearly to death.
AT Xenia, Ind, Andrew Morgan tried TO
head of a couple of burglars who were rob-
bling Henry Ransman's store, and was shot
dead.
AT Memphis William Ragland was muir
dered by Tom Jefferson on account of a
woman. Both are colored. jefferson con-
fessed
Cambridge, o., will obey the injunction to
let her light shine and have high old time
simultaneously with her natural gas exposi-
tion to-day.
Two sentries, named Kennedy and Welch,
were fatally beaten at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo-, by two deserters, Thomas y. Lynch and
recruit named McCurdy.
Josie Dresbach, sixteen, adopted daughter
of Joseph j. Dresbach, Tarlton, O., gave
birth to child in an clubhouse anbimme
diately cut off its head with razor.
Mrs. Wilson, wife OF the late Judge Sam
uel Wilson, Of Charlottesville, Ind, was
found dead in bed Sunday morning at the
residence Of her daughter in Greencastle.
Competition is the life of trade, but was
the death of w. T. Graham, Louisville coal
weigher He shot himself through the head
because other coal dealers had put up rival
scales.
At Newark, O., Timothy Whalen's re-
markable success in picking locks from with
out is rewarded by three years scholarship
in the state penitentiary, in which he will
study the working from the other side.
At Youngstown, o., Peter Harekal, Hun
garian, was quarreling on the railroad track,
and when his companions pulled him out Of
the way of an approaching train, rushed
back in blind fury and was cut to pieces.
Four negroes are said TO have been muir
dered with the past ten days near Tusca-
loosa, Ala The throats OF all four were cut
and there were fifteen knife wounds on the
body OF one. Colored people in that vicinity
are badly frightened.
P. c. Halliday, of Cincinnati, Is requested
to come back to Oxford, O., and either de-
liver that promised lecture or the ticket
office proceeds, the horse and buggy his
hotel and printing bills, and several other
items that he seems to have forgotten to set
tie for.
The two-year old son of J. A. Henderson,
OF Harrodsburg, KY, got his clothing in q
blaze and was terribly burned. He would
have burned to death but for his sister, aged
five, who caught him in her arms and
smothered them. She said she lies Rugged
'em out"
Mayor Demsy of indianapolis, refused to
which to adjudge Sarah Baker, colored, g
| public character, adding that IL was toe
serious thing to women on trial, and ad
mits of grave injustice when such testimony
| is competent.
At Vincennes, Ind, during performance
of 1.-THE Mountain Pink" the manager and
the father OF the leading lady proceeded t.
paint the atmosphere behind the scenes 6
deep carnation in rough and tumble figh
over the proceeds. Curtain rung down, ant
belligerents rung off by an officer.
spectacle vender OF the indianapolis
lived on one meal day for the past year
saved $l23 u 20 into other business and re
turned home one night last week to find him
self robbed by his room mate. He wa!
almost crazed until an officer returned from
Cincinnati bringing the thief ana the Doodle
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., will, IL Ia said
bring suit through Col. Ingersoll, Gen. Pryo
and Gen. Mahon against James g. Blaine
ST., and wife, for 100000 damages TO
alternating the affections Of her husband. Sh
will not sue for divorce, as she Is
Catholic, and divorce is not tolerated by til
church.
John Foster and Barney Patterson, farm
els near East Aboga, Ala, were deadly enc
mics, but Patterson loved Fosters prett,
young sister, and met hor despite opposition
Foster claimed that Patterson ruined her
Finding the lovers together in a seclude'
spot, he shot Patterson dead and whippe
the girl into insensibility. A posse pursue
Foster, and it is believed he was lynchel.
Three Italians in the tombs at New Yor
city confess that Antonio Flaccimio, who's
dead body was found on the street nea
Coopers Union week ago, WINS murders
10y Carlo Quartenaro for betrnying secrets o
the "Mafien society to the police The organ
izatlon prescribed this penalty for traitors
} Blight Italians were present at the murder
but several claim that they tried to proven
It, Quartenaro has not been arrested.
Negotiations are In progress between tn
president Of the University OF California ar
) Alva Clark, of Cambridge, Mnss, for th
construction of forty-two inc lens for th
biggest telescope in the world, to De erecte
ON lofty mountain near i = Angeles
Clark says he can make such a lens in liv
years for $iUO,0Jl. IL will he eignt inane
larger than the Lick telescope len', aud wi
bring the moon within sixty miles OF th
earth.
State convention of childreu's homes \
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