Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-24
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Topics of the Times Given In "a Terse AMI
Spicy Manner.
Peru, Ind. ia now supplied with natural
gas.
Ripley's new mayor is Col Orange Ed
wards.
Dphtheria is epidemic at Athens, O. Pub
lie schools closed.
The government mounted patrol is guard
ing Jacksonville, Fla.
Christ. Meyer, Of Fort Wayne, Ind, killed
himself because OF family troubles.
Mrs Dorcas Probasco, pioneer mother
Of Lebanon, o., died Monday, aged seventy.
two.
Mrs Matte Weaver drank herself to death
at Greensburg, o. She was found dead in q
barn
c. C. Wilson, late proprietor of the Bissell
hotel, Columbus, Ind, died suddenly OF
hemorrhage.
J. H. Maloney was drowned Sunday even
ing while trying to cross Worthington creek,
near Parkersburg, W. Va.
Mr. w. Il. Grady, of Atlanta, Ga, will
deliver the annual address at the Texas state
fair, in Dallas, on Saturday next
Two domestics at Greensburg, Pa, agreed
had fashionable clothes. One died
James Booth, farmer aged sixty-two
years living near Winfield. W. Va. dropped
dead Sunday night with heart disease.
The Presbyterian synod, Of Pennsylvania,
in session at Erie, has adjourned TO meet in
Altoona on the third Tuesday Of October,
| 1889
Little Bobbie Heffinger was crushed to
death Dy an engine at Tffin, o., while steal
! ing coal, his parents having sent him Oh the
errand.
At Crawfordsville Ind, Jack COMBS was
bound over to court in the sum OF $500 Tor
cutting with intent to kill Alvin Gray. He
went to Jail.
The Akron, O., Ministerial association has
adcpted the Womans Christian Temperance
union pledge, which declares against Sun
day newspapers.
Edward o. Daley, one OF the Ankeny-
town wreck victims, who sued the Baltimore
81 Ohio for $1,000 damages, settled with the
company for $50.
Advces were received at Lynn, Mass f,
that the Hon. John j. Alley, in Europe, has
had two strokes Of paralysis, and that his
life is despairei Of
herman naTneu A5lBleT, Iosiu'lS HC"'
Fort Ripley, MINI, WAS assassinated by
Frank Reynolds, aged sixteen, who had
grudgs against him.
Mrs. Martha J. Weaver was found dead
in barn at Greensburg, o. A post mortem
showed that death was caused by heart fail
ure, superinduced 10y drink.
Charles Il. Ebann, clerk in the mailing
department Of the Boston postotlice, arrested,
charged with stealing letters, pleaded guilty,
and was held for the grand jury.
The remains of five-months-od infant
child were found at Sweetzer, Ind, i'll al
abandoned well. They had evidently beer
placed there only a short time before.
Omer Lines. from Williamson, Ind.
guilty of attempting to pass forged checl
on the Second National bank OF Danville
H., was awarded one year in the peniten
tiary.
Patrick H. Mcnamara, postmaster anC
city treasurer OF A1inot, Das., has lied t.
: Canada. His postal accounts are 81, 5G
., short, and his city defalcation is expected t.
! ba more
. Henry Shaffer. his sons Henry and Per
|, cival, and his stepson, David Mink, wer
. instantly killed by a locomotive. Will
crossing railroad track near Omaha
. Nebraska.
: BENZ min Jackson and Gilmes Bolton, o
+ Baltimore, both colored, quarreled Monda
v over six cents. Bolton, VINO is Il notoriou
# tough, stabbed Jackson under the RICH
l. shoulder, sevcring ar artery and penetratin
0 the lung the wounded man died in an houl
Bolton escaped
y A sensational incident happened Monda
l. at Chicago at the funeral services OF Z.
:. SquireS, who was assistant postmaster
: Chicago for nineteen years, after havin
e worked his way up from errand boy in I'll
5. postal service. Mr. Squires was reduced NJ
:. long ago to n CHIEF clerkship and subs
d quently suspended After preaching tt
,s funeral sermon Rev. DR.. Lorimer, in touci
d Ing language, declared his death was due
1t the workings OF the civil service. II
statement was loudly a2p!auded. Rev. 10
l. inner is a Democrat.