Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-13
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Hon. Joseph Chamberlain has arrived in
America.
Steve Dorsey is said to have won $4,000
on the election.
Little Berthe Desdain was killed by the
cars at Newark, o.
Mollie Faucher, the wonderful fasting girl
OF Brooklyn, is dying.
Michael Creighton, sixty five, was killed
by the cars at Leipsic, o.
Mrs. Samuel Brown, insane, killed her
husband at North Liberty Ind.
Gen. and Mrs. Harrison attended church
as usual, Sunday, at Indianapolis.
Bunko artists at Taunton, Mnss, worked
Elisha Williams, aged fifty, foI $4,000.
One death and twelve new cases at Jack
sonville Light frost Saturday night.
Three millions six hundred thousand bush
els OF coal left Pittsburg on the present rise.
Col John Knapp the veteran newspaper
man of st. Louis, died Sunday, aged sew
enty.
Unknown men called Richard Mullins to
his door at Dayton, Tenn, and shot him to
death.
The old Sprague mansion in Washington
is being repaired, and will he occupied as a
club house.
The Richmond Wing nominates Sam.
Randall for the Democratic nominee for
president in '92
There were hundreds of Publications over
Harrison'S election throughout the country
Saturday night.
Mrs. Dr. George w. Cooper, of Terre
Haute, crazed by grief over the death of a
son, hung herself.
Fred. Knorr and his wife and daughter
were burned to death in their dwelling at
Vernon Center, N. Y.
Republican candidates for congress in four
districts in Virginia will contest the seats Of
the Democrats declared elected
j. 9. Anderson's fine new residence on Mis-
sionary Ridge, Chattanooga, burned Sum
uay. 1t was inaccessiblu TO fire engines.
The Nashville Daily Democrat has been
consolidated with the Daily American, leav-
ing but one morning paper in Nashville.
Huntington, Ind, burglars blew off the
outside doors of the postotIice safe, but gave
up when they saw another set in their way
1t is rumored that the Lehigh Valley and
Reading railroads have united with the
Baltimore & Ohio against the Pennsy lvania
system.
Gen. Bridenbacker, wealthy farmer near
Centralia, H., in family quarrel shot his
wife and three children. One of the latter
will die
Joseph and Samuel Logsdon, brothers,
killed George and Harvey Blesset, father
and son, at Millerstown, KY. Long stand
ing quarrel.
1t is said that the president and Mrs. Cleve
!aad will spend year or two travelling in
Europe before settling down to the quiet of
everyday life.
Richard HyleS, car repairer, was killed
and George Mitchell, fellow workman,
fatally crushed while repairing car on
side-track at Chicago
The favorite fall suit in Indiana seems to
be the damage suit over election arrests, for
which United States Marshal Hawkins is ex
pected to foot the bill.
Thomas Malone, William johnson and
John Gouriey fetched up in the indianapolis
Jail because they did not save their dimes
and nickels They were counterfeit.
At Williamstown, KY, Sam and Joe Logs
den and George and Harvey Blessatt traied
horses. They had diverse opinions and shot
at each other. The Blessetts were left dead
on the field
The property and good will of the Athens,
O., Herald, of which William G. Junod was
late editor and nearly sole stakeholder, has
been sold to l.. W. Hoffman and E. d.
Sayers, students of the university.
The Youngstown Evening Herald sus-
pended Saturday evening. A large amount
of money has been spent trying to establish
the paper. 1t had been in trouble with the
typographical union for some time.
The annual session of the general assembly
of the Knights of Labor will meet in In
dianapolis to-day to elect full list of the
general officers. Powderly declines re-
election to the office of grand master work.
man.
William Brown, dissipated grocery
keeper at Collamer, near Cleveland, O.,
attempted suicide by locking himself in his
store, setting it on fire, exploding two kegs
of powder and cutting his throat He will
recover.
Levi Overcast and Levi Bargenstock, of
Chambersburg Pa. were driving home in a
buggy late Saturday night, when the vehicle
was run down by train on the Western
Maryland railroad. Overcash was almost
instantly killed and Bargenstock seriously
injured.
w. A. Shumaker, of Carbon, Hill, Ala,
became respondent because he believed he
was about to lose the postmastership, and
compelled his wife to take a revolver and
shoot him, which she did, her husband dying
almost instantly. He threatened to kill her
if she did not do his bidding.
indianapolis Republicans cracked the
heavens with jollifcation rockets and plowed
up the pavements with cyclone of enthusi.
asm Saturday night, after which they an
nounced to the physically wrecked inhabi-
tants that on account of the weather the rat
iication proper was postponed until Wednes-
day evening
Wages Increased.
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