Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-24
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Ranzil p Barwick died at Brookville, Ind
Gaffney refuses TO serve as al Association
umpire next season.
Denver base ball club viii DO admitted to
the Western Association.
Mrs. Margaret H. Carey, formerly Of
Wheeling, w. Va, died at Petersburg,
aged Ill years
Annie Seyman, aged ten, was killed by be-
ing run over while picking up coal on the
railroad track at Urbana, o.
At Findlay, O., John Kepner, saloon
keeper, shot James Bann three times. Baun
will die. Kepner is in custody.
Andrew Mitzel. grocer, of Clean, n Y,
killed himself by blowing out his brains with
pistol. Business trouble was the cause.
Hon. George w. Marvin, of New Hamp-
shire, former distinguished member
of congress, died at Manchester, aged seven
ty-nine.
All the switchmen in the yards of the
Union Pacific road at Denver are out on a
strike for an increase of wages and the dis
charge Of an Objectionable local agent
The National council of administration of
the Grand Army of the Republic decided the
date for holding the next encampment at
August ~, the location being Milwaukee.
Isaac H. Knox, president of the National
stock yards at St Louis, is dead For many
years be was a member of the firm of Boor-
man, johnson q Company, New York brok-
ers.
The county board at Chicago has decided
to turn James Dargan, the insane Irish con-
stable, over to the emigrant commissioners
of New York for transportation back to
England
The French steamship Marseilles, from
Bordeaux November % for New Orleans,
with merchandise and BIS passengers is sew
eral days overdue, and fears are entertained
for her safety
! d. E. Shook, agent Of the Red River Val
ley Elevator company at Stephens, Mimi,
has skipped with 5000 Of his employers
money, and 1000 borrowed from the bus
mess men of Stephens. He went to Canada.
In a fight opposite Elizabethtown, H.,
Elias Hemper was stabbed to death by Will
lam Ellington. The dead mans brother pur-
sued the murderer and received severe cut
in the arm. Ellington escaped by secretinS
himself on boat at the landing.
The breach of promise case of Vertie G..
Ellis against Herbert S. Taylor, Of Corners
vile, Ind, has been compromised by the pay
ment of $3.50. The divorce case of Mary E.
Moffett against Oliver Moffett was dis
missed, the parties having agreed to make
up.
While the jury in the White Cap cases at
Batavia, O., was taking its noon recess,
Theodore Cramer, an artless young man
from the woods, tried to coax one of their
number to return a verdict in favor Of the
accused A $40 fine and eighteen hours in
Jail took off one layer of his greenness for
ever.
Ed b. White, middle-weight pugilist Of
Cincinnati, and Richard Heating, heavy
weight, of Lafayette, Ind, fought to finish
with two-ounce gloves Marquis of Queens
berry rules, at Brookston, near Lafayette,
Friday morning. Nine rounds were fought,
when White quit and Heating was declared
the winner.
Z. H. Flynn, merchant of Coxenhole,
Spanish Honduras, is under arrest for the
murder of Capt r. Gustaven, of the Ameri-
can schooner Santo Oteli, committed OH the
night of December 6. Gustaven had a
large amount of money on his person, which
was missing when he was found dead on the
streets from numerous knife wounds.