Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-24
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Mrs. Grover Cleveland is in Philadelphia.
An effort is being made to establish a
Southern buse ball League.
The Augusta, Ga, National exposition
closed Tuesday night at O'Clock
Governor Gray has appointed Ex-Governor
Porter to represent Indiana at the Inaugural
ton.
Jordan Page fell from scaffold while
painting chimney stack at Louisville, and
was killed.
I Samuel Law, the murderer OF Mrs. Clista
Laruc, was found guilty of manslaughter at
Bellefontanc.
A formal transfer of the Bolton steel works
of Canton, o., was made to Pittsburg COM
pany for 100000.
Joseph Livensberger. of Crestline, O., was
assaulted and robbed Tuesday night of Sl35
and "A valuable watch.
Addison Goodman, of Otway, O., is dying
from knife wounds i'll the abdomen and wrist
inflicted by young man named Patton.
Leslie Keys aged fifteen, was shot md
killed near Hopkinsville, KY, by the a,''i-
dental discharge of pistol in the hands OF
Hern Vance.
The New YORK. supreme court has decided
IndU JHllltN W. I1lllS COHlTdCl VIII
Mather, the actress, holds good and she must
return to him.
7 Ellis Emmert, Of Clarksburg, Ind, had
some trouble with his father, and shot him
self with a revolver, dying instantly. He
was about twenty years old.
At Jonesboro, Ga, jeff Lee a constable,
went out to arrest Homer Griffin, colored
who had stolen a horse Griffin attacked the
constable with a huge stick, when Lee shot
him dead,
Chief, Adam Forepaugh's big elephant,
which was strangled on Sunday last, is to be
dissected. The animals brain is supposed to
have been affected from blow received sew
eral years ago
Gen. Harrison has peremptorily declined
the invitation to the Loyal Legion banquet
greatly to the disappointment of the large
concoulsc of prominent men who are at In
| dianapolis to attend.
Hon Matt. Quay and ex-Prcsdent X b.
Hayes reached indianapolis at II Tuesday
night. Mr. Quay, though chairman Of the
Republican National committee, had never
met Mr. Harrison before.
| Sunday, at Blackville, S. c., Dewitt
white shot Tyler, colored, who had armed
himself with q double-barrcled shotgun t.
kill Dewitt Tyler had been suspected OF
killing mule of Dewitt's.
The case of Asa Cutter against Kent Jarvis
and others, lcssees of the state public works
at Canton, o., for the loss of a canal boat in
1865, was decided in favor of defendants
| The case has been on the docket for thirteen
| years.
| Another Of the opium smugglers WIS ar
rested at Battineau, Oak, Tuesday night. His
| name is A. G.. Curran, and he was the agent
| through whom opium was shipped from
Manitoba to interior points in the United
| States
Ed. Mccullough, a brakeman on the Chi
cago g. Indiana Coal road, fell from fla
loaded with coal at Coal Bluff, Ind, while
the train was under full Roadway, and sus
tanned injuries from which he will likely die
File lives at Goodland, Ind
The Democratic senator's violently opposed
the night session resolution, and intimated
that il it was passed they would consider it {
scheme to railroad the tariff bill through
and would Illustrate it by abscnting them
selves and preventing quorum, or by fill
clustering Further discussion will be had
The committee from Alabama Tuesday pre-
scnt4l their memorial TO Gen, Harrison, an,
they were received most courteously by tn,
president elect. In reply to the committed
request that the south be represented in tn,
cabinet, Mr. Harrison replied simply that HI
would appoint only good officers in the soutl
! and good Republicans
A man n1med Charles Dewitt Taylor
representing himself as a minister, and ac
companied by two young girls, registered a
the Gilsey house, Now Philadelphia, O. HC
was arrested on suspicion, and it was founC
that the girls were Cora Lee Stone, aget
fifteen. of Cincinnati, and Costello Pende
grass, aged twelve, of St Louis They hat
been cnticel from home OH the promise of
! paying position.