Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-15
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Topics of the Times Given in Terse an
spicy Manner.
The famous horse Volunteer is dead.
"old HUTCH" the great wheat broker Of
Chicago, is seriously H.
The Cincinnati club wants to dispose Of
weighing and O'Connor.
Edward Carroll was cut and dangerously
wounded by Harry Bickel, at Glendale, o.
Gophers struck a 81 900 gold mine in Cali.
fornia, o., by cracking the SAFE of o. E.
Emery.
Patrick English, aged twenty six, was
killed by the cars at Bellefontaine, o., while
stealing ride. ~ N
Lizzie Wagley locked her baby in her
room at a Columbus o., boarding house and
left for other climes.
Harry Smart, chared with the murder Of
Weisner Green and Belle Ward at Louis
vile, is sentenced to hang.
The Canadian Pork Packers association
is trying to have the tariff on pork increased
from one to two cents a pound.
Mrs Shoots wept bitterly while the states
attorney, in five hour speech, arraigned
her for the murder Of her child.
jeff Edmundson, notorious desperate
and horse and cattle thief, has been placed
in the county Jail at Helena, Mont.
A two-horse team belonging to William
Carneal was demolished by train at Guth.
RE, KY. Mr.. Carnsal was badly injured.
Gen. James G. Lane died at New York.
He was prominent in the civil war and o.
late mas been engaged in meteorological ST
vey
Will Cowery, aged twenty-one, was kill
by a fall of coal in coal mine ne
Shawnee, o. He was to be married Chri
mas.
William Conrey, Cincinnati painter out
work, begged to be locked up in the Centr
police station, as he could neither beg n
steal.
George Rosenberger, eighty seven, a
Della Key, Seventy-six were married
Columbus, Ind, after a courtship Of oy
forty years.
Whitley Ryan, of Brooklyn, knocked o,
Jimmy Ryan, Of Philadelphia, in a nine
round prize fight near Pelham, N. Y,
Thursday morning.
The boiler of the cotton gin in g. w. Tur'
ner's place. near Montgomery, Ala, exploded,
killing Georos Turner and two colored men
outright anu wounding seven others.
William R. Davenport, prominent citi-
zen of Erie, Pa, and president of the Erie
car works, died suddenly at Buffalo of heart
failure His age was fifty seven years.
DIR. j. L. NJ Curry addressed the Georgia
legislature Thursday strongly in favor OF
the education Of the colored people He in
sisted that white skin was only skin deep.
Women's Relief corps, of Columbus solicit
donations of books and pictures from the
patriotic women and men of Ohio to the
new soldiers and sailors home at Sandusky.
A reception will be rendered Vice Presi.
dent-elect Morton and Mrs. Morton in the
itol, at indianapolis, this evening from
s to 10 o'clock.
An attempt to rob the Peoples Savings
bank at Denver, Col, was prevented by the
teller, who caught one of the robbers in the
vault and covered him with revolver until
the patrol arrived
In collision ON the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul railroad at Wabasha Mimi.
Brooks, hind brakeman of a freight, was
killed, and Conductor Mead, of the passen
ger train, fatally injured.
William Thomas, who has been confined
in the Joliet penitentiary for seven years
will be set at liberty, as another prisoner has
confessed that he committed the crime fol
which Thomas was convicted.
John Shoemaker, Of Hamilton, o., has O
White Cap warning to straighten out within
twenty days; he has loaded shotgun ready
to practice the strengthening out process on
the midnight visitors when they choose tc
come.
Kentucky's late treasurer, Dick Tate,
writes from Japan and wants to come home.
A hundred barrels Of whisky belonging tc
him will be sold at the board of trade, Lou
isville Uncle Dick might as well remain
where he is.
Democratic soldiers organization at Indi-
annapolis had a scrimmage with its vice pres.
ident, Green, because he wanted to intro
duce a ritual and expensive degrees. lie re-
signed, and DR.. w. c. Thompson was elected
to his place,
Robert Judge, a saloonkeeper of Port
Huron, Mich, was convicted of counterfeit
ing in the United States district court and
sentenced to pay fine of 81, 000 and to i'm.
prisonment in the Detroit house Of correc'
ton for ten years.
Jack Demsey again offers to fight Mitchell
for the $1,000 prize off ared by the Cali
fornia Athletic club. He also proposes tt
meet Mitchell in ten-round contest al
Brooklyn or Jersey City after the California
fight
William Sweeney, Henry Carr and Walter
Macomber, of Providence. r. L., were badly
burned while filling a mattress with jute,
which became ignited and communicated
with some naphtha in the room. The two
former are dead.
Jacob Kern writes to explain a threc
months absence to his father in Harrison.
He claims that he was knocked down or
Ninth street, in Cincinnati, one night ant
recovered consciousness to find himself al
Galveston bay on the Gulf of Mexico
John Cakes, insane, fatally shot E. H
Morse, cashier of the San Bernardino, Cali
fornia National bank, Thursday. Morse
refused TO cash q check without identified
ton. Morse put two balls into Cakes, bu
the latter's wounds are not serious A dep
uty sheriff from Arizona, who accompanied
Cakes, was arrested.
Daniel Christman was murdered two
years ago at Eaton, o., and William MUSE
was lynched for committing the crime. Nov
on the clear glass of window pane of thu
Christman farm house appears picture O
Daniels face It is attributed to supernat
ural agency by the credulouS, but by thos'
ho ara 1stad sUiritualist