Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Topics Of the Times Given Ia Terse ana
Smiley Mnnnar.

land, has evaporated for O,O0O.
/ Stone lake, near Laporte, Ind. contains
good supply Of three year.old California
trout
DR.. Harvey Black, superintendent Of the
southwestern lunatic asylum, died at Rich
mond, Va
! The wife Of George Null, Of Rushville, Ind,
7 was thrown from buggy and is supposed to
lie fatally hurt
The Columbus centennial has closed, and
the question Of making up the financial de.
felt holds the boards.
! jeff King, a colored man. who died Friday
at Mamie, Ga, was l93 years old. He was
born slave in Virginia.
John s. Russell, of Middletown, left a
$4,000 bequest for tine building of Lemon
township orphan asylum
The coroner's jury in the Mud Run disas.
ter deliberated several hours at Mauch
Chunk Friday, but could not agree on a YER
dict.
Capt. Edward Porter Thompson has
been appointed to I'LL out Mrs. Hamson's
unexpired term as Kentucky state libra
rian
An infant child of J. w Stout, Of Amanda,
o.. while playing near tub of water, fell
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cued.
David Cushman was arrested at Hunting.
| ton, Ind, for robbing n railroad ticket
Office aud cash-drawer of 800 He con-
fessed
The corn crop OF Holmes county, Ohio, bids
fair TO reach nearly one million bushels,
being the largest crop ever raised in the
| county.
BY the runaway of horse at Troy, Ala,
Mrs. Harris Brennan was thrown from a
buggy and killed, and Mr.. Brennan knocked
insensible
As Alvin D. Hall was baling hay near
| Mount Gilead, O., he was caught in the ma
chine and had one of his feet torn off, and 10
now in a serious condition.
clergyman named Keith, who is also
principal Of the public school at Waldo,
Ark, fatally stabbed farmer named Joseph
Garrett, who assaulted him.
The defalcation of Joseph Fields as treas.
urer Of Wabaunsee county, Kansas, has been
approximated at $4,000. His bondsmen
have returned him to the sheriff
Caswell E, Brady, of French Creek, Up
shur county, West Virginia, was arrested by
] Inspector Broome for violating the pension
law. Brady was released on 81 900 bond.
| Daniel Sullivan, a lake crook, and James
Cline, stevedore were drowned by the cap
sizing Of boat between kenosha and Ra-
| cine, Wis, during heavy gale on the lake.
a large Kentucky wildcat, who probably
| didn't know that every stranger from the
blue grass region is looked upon by the
| Hoosiers as all imported voter, was shot at
| Upton.
The coroner's jury in the matter of the ac-
cident at st. Mary's Catholic church, at
! Reading, Pa, decided that it was due to the
incompetency of Master Carpenter Corne.
| Illus Fink
! Frank Bush, of Gallon, a brakeman on the
Erie railroad, was knocked from the top of a
| car at Mansfield, O., as 10 passed under the
wires OF the electric street railway, breaking
his right leg in the fall
The body of John Whisky, Of Goshen, Ind,
who disappeared last Tuesday, was found in
the canal Friday. Money was found in his
| pockets, so that the superstition that he had
met with foul play is false.
John Moscow, one of the victims of the
Tamanend railway disaster, died at the
State hospital at Ashland, Pa, Friday. This
makes total of nine dead, and another man
is said 10 be dying at the hospital.
DR.. James, Of New Albany, Ind, declares
that the published card in which J. w.
Rowlett and fourteen others accused him Of
| being an unmitigated scoundrel is q so, 900
| lie, and prayS the court to so decide
At Edwardsport, Ind, William Watson
shouted for Cleveland and Tom Mason exer-
ciSed his lungs in the intereSs OF Harrison
| Mason is dead with bullet in his back and
Watson is flying from the authorities.
The body of Mary Elizabeth Medley. Of
| CoShocton, was found ia a fence corner Fri
day morning She was subject to heart dis.
ease, and, it is supposed, succumbod to the
trouble while on her way to milk the COWS.
Midland City, O., warns the villain who
substituted Il skull and cross bones for the
star-spanged banner ON its Democratic pole,
that it will be satisfied with nothing less
than his whole skeleton when it catches
| him.
! W. F. Fri:ze, treasurer of Hermantown,
Mimi, was waylail Wednesday night by
four highwaymcn, who pulled him
from his buggy, beat and robbed him of
a money belt containing over $4,000 in school
funds
HaTodsburg. Ky, had case of "The
Lady or the Tiger Mr.. John Wallace
, started to shoe midnight narauler out Of
his hen roost, and was rapidly being reduced
to mince meat by wildcat, when Mrs Wal.
lace appeared with Il lamp and frightened
the animal away.
The Eleventh Indiana Regimenta nssocia-
ton held its reunion Mt indianapolis Friday.
Gid L. Thompson, Indianapolis, was elected
president; DR.. Samuel b Ensmjn-cr, Craw.
. louisville, vice president; Wil j. kcrcheval,
secretary, and Maj James l. Ross treas
urer This was the regiment commanded by
Gen. Lew Wallace.
Ada Nogan, alias Maud Plough, escaped
with Il light sentence for larceny a; Canton,
O.. because sho is pretty, inno"en: looking
AMI only seventeen years old. Investigation
shows that Il few items of her history con-
sist Of an eupement with book agent and
the robbery OF jewelry store and livery
stable.
rrrsrntimrDt of Death.