Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-29
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Topics Of the Times Given in Terse and
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Topics Of the Times Given in Terse and
Spicy Manner.
Cumberland, w Va, had 500, OOOtire.
Fourteen prisoners broke jail at Chatta-
nooga
Matte Davis strychnined hersslf at India
napolis
/ Its said a silk trust has been organized in
New York
Charles Stacker was burned to death in
! Bowery tenement fire
Ed Cullidy killed his friend, M. Q. Ed
4 wardt, at Carim, H. Woman.
The duclzing tub win be abolished at the
Ohio penitentiary the first of the year.
! Mrs John Priestly and her child persisted
I in their burning home at Forest, Pa Foul
1 play is suspected.
/ At Norristown, Pa, James Heneson,
colored shot and killed James r Murphy.
The killing was wanton.
] Officer William Waggoner, of Harrods-
/ burg, KY, shot and killed Joshua Bell, a
colored hoodlum, who resisted arrest.
Bob Holbrook hit Green Robinson with a
brick at Georgetown, KY, inaicting fatal
injuries. Both are prominent tobacco men,
Frank Myers, cook in a Toledo restaurant,
was instantly killed by touching an iron
shutter that was in contact with an electric
light wire.
Three fatalities and a number of minor
! casualties resulting from accidents at Christ
mas festivities, in the vicinity of Chicago,
are reported.
Andrew Grimes, drunken sailor, at At
lantic City, stabbed and killed John Martin,
the mate of a schooner, and then threw the
body overheard
Madame CASTOR DeFontilliat, nee Mime
Smith, a sister of Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt, has
joined the Catholic church Her husband is
Catholic French nobleman
John Creel wealthy citizen of Wort
county, West Virginia. accidentally shot and
killed his little child Christmas eve. The
parents ere almost distracted
Jesse j. Taylor, and old and highly re-
spected citizen living near Gadsden, Ala,
was shot and instantly killed by his nephew,
Arch Grace, a young man about twenty-five
years old.
Judge Robert A. Johnston, of Avondale,
Cincinnati, suicided Wednesday morning by
shooting The cause was mental depression
caused by the death of his wife about two
months ago, and his sou, some time ago
George Linsey was found on the PAN Ham
die railroad near New Castle, Ind, with his
leg so badly mangled that amputation was
necessary. He claims that the train men put
him off, and in leaving he fell between the
wheels
AT San Francisco Tuesday afternoon. while
a party OF seven was out sailing on the bay,
the boat was capsized and six of the occu-
George Stump and wife, Matt Cox and Mary
Morales, were drowned
AT 12 o'clock Monday night City Marshal
Meditation, of Vickshurg. Miss, shot A. G..
Clay and Newton Doolan while they were at
tempting to break into the Jail for the pur-
pose of hberating prisoner named Green,
charged with liquor selling.
At Danville, ILL.,, while impersonating
Santa Claus during the Christmas festivities,
the costume worn by T. w. Smith, caught
fire. Mr.. Smith ran out Of the house a living
mass Of flames. Before they could be sub
dued he was so horribly burned that his re-
covery is doubtful.
Charles T. Clement one of the widest
known real estate brokers, of Fargo Oak,
is missing, 1t is thought that personal in
jury received at the hards of a friend has
driven him insane. He has not been heard |
from since December 10, when lie dined |
with an acquaintance in Chicago
John NJ Stillwell was badly burned while |
Santa Claus in the Methodist |
church at Geneva, ILL., His cotton costume |
caught fire from a candle on the tree Quite |
a panic ensued, women, men and children |
running and screaming and jumping over
the seats, Mr., Stillwel will likely recover
Mrs. Ann Kelly walked into Church street |
police station, New York city, Christmas
morning and handed her babe to an officer,
saying calmly: lit is dead" The little one
mad died Of cold and exposure in its homeless
mothers arms within sound of the merry peel
IF Trinity church bells. The father could
get no work