Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-11-14
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Topics of the Times Given In a Terse and
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James McNamee finished sp-es by dying
in the Steubenville, o.. prison.
Hon. w. II Barnum Is sinking fast, and
his death is only matter Of time
Carter Harrison, ex-mayor Of Chicago, has
arrived In New York from Europe.
Some Democratic guests at a Chicago
hotel sat down to a repass of dozen crows
as a result Of wager.
Hezelxiah Ryan, OF Sidney, O., found in
the bottom OF his whisky bottle the deliriuul
tremens and suicidal rope.
Miss Katie Coffman, aged twenty five,
was accidentally shot and killed at Repub-
lican demonstration at Nicholasville, KY.
The story that the Gettysburg, o., Repub-
licans burned the president in efigy is de.
nounced as a nade.up political scare crow.
Albert Showers, Of Kirklen, Ind, was seri-
ousiy, If not fatally, hurt by falling ok a
high load of straw and alighting on his
head.
The boiler of pile driver at work on the
new bridge between Detroit and Belle Isle
exploded. One man was killed and three in
jured.
A little son Of Archibald Ellison, OF Park
ersburg w. Va, fell from a tree, and sus.
tanned internal injuries from which the child
will die.
At Fostoria, O., Charles Andes, twenty
one, wealthy, suicided with poison Henry
Miller did likewise. Cause in both cases
whisky.
Peter Hosey was crushed to death in a
gravel pit near Peru, Ind, by a landslide.
He was from New York state, where he was
recently married.
George Ballard, OF Hopkinsville, KY, was
accidentally shot at the celebration of the
railroad election Saturday night and lies 10
a critical condition.
Findlay, O., postoffice employees have be.
come resigned TO the situation and have re-.
signed their situation in pursuance thereof
to take effect next spring
Bunch, lone hghwayman, who held up a
train in Louisiana and escaped with $2S, OOJ
will probably be captured to-day. Derec.
tives are close on his trail
Taylor Hubbard, q well known citizen of
Darlington, Ind, made a miserable failure
of an attempt at suicide by the morphine
route. the stomach pump saved him.
The trustees of the Journal of the Amer
lean Medical Association have elected DR..
Ne -.
as editor. The latter resigned last spring.
At an Anarchist meeting at Brooklyn
s. E. Schevitch predicted that the time was
not far away when 100000 men would
avenge the deaths Of the Chicago Anar.
chists
Three deaths and thirty-new cases of
yellow fever are reported from Jacksonville.
Five Few cases are reported from Decatur,
Ala. and one new case from Gainesville,
Florida.
Benjamin II. Stout, manager Of the South.
ern Express in Mobile, Aln., died Monday
night suddenly Of heart disease, aged thirty.
five years He was a native of Paducah,
Kentucky.
Thomas Duffy committed suicide in an
clubhouse at Steubenville, O., by shooting
himself twice in the head with a revolver.
Notice Of his marriage was announced in
church Sunday. No cause is known for the
rash act
A lot of Bellevue, KY, railroad hands
tried TO reconstruct colored voters by an ex.
ternal application of br!ckbats About fifty
engaged in the fight, and several were seri-
ously hurt
President elect Harrison paid to Mrs s.
G. Greene, OF Portsmouth, O., 81 bet on
Cleveland, with the mental remark that it
was just hts pssky luck to always bet on the
short horse.
A Laporte, Ind, coroner has developed
the fact that the death of Isaac Stewards and
the illness Of two other children of the fam
lily was caused by the arsenic administered
by their twelve. year-old sister.
Patrick Packham, who killed his wife, on
April 2, by cutting her on the back OF the
neck with u razor, from the effects Of which
she died, was sentenced by Recorder Smyth,
of New York, to be hanged on January 4.
The number Of vessels hailing from Glou.
cester, Mass, which have been lost during
the year is fourteen, one more than during
the previous year. The total loss Of life is
sixtX-three, leaving sixteen children father
less.
Charles Benson, Swede, who had charge
of the dynamite used in blasting rocks on a
new road near Kentner, Pa, was thawing
out the stuff when it exploded and his head
was blown off Two Italians, named An
thony Rendordie and Nicoli Beth, were
badly injured.
The aged father of Professor w. j. You
mans, editor of the Popular Science Monthly,
struck by the Boston express train
and instantly killed. He was ninety. six
years old and very infirm.
Lionel Burnes. aged twenty wears, and
Victor, aged sixteen, sons OF Rev Dr.
Burnes, Of kingtoR, Ont, started out in a
canoe to shoot ducks on Saturday last, and
have not returned Their canoe has been
found bottom up, and it is supposed that
both young men have been drowned.
The mayor Of Cleveland, O., has received
a letter from Thomas Axworthy, the de-
faulting treasurer, dated Montreal On re-
ceiving it Mayor Babcock went there, but
could not find him. Axworthy gives all his
property, which he values at S379, 900, for
the benefit of his bondsmen and the city. He
says he loaned the money to people in the
east, and that combination to ruin him
was formed.
Killed With IA Spittoon.