Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-10-20
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Jacob BEEN, OF Newark. O., was struck
by the Baltimore g. Ohio train and almost
instantly killed.
john Whisky, aged sixty-five, we'll
known citizen of Goshen, Ind, has mysteri-
ously disappeared.
Frank Jennings got drunk in Upton, Ind !,
and awoke in a box car and an undershirt
That is all the thieves left him.
William Whitson fell from the scaffolding
Of the Catholic church at Martinsbnrg, w.
Va, breaking his left leg, and injuring him
self internally.
AT Portsmouth, o., the gas engine of Pa.
den Brothers shoe factory exploded, and
came near being the last of George Paden,
one of the firm
John Schulz was arrested at Tiffin, O., on
the charge of destroying fish in the San
duszy river with dynamite. He gave bond
for his appearance.
Aunt Kate Fay Ewing, the originator of
the first chldren'S home in Ohio, read pa
per before the state convention of children's
homes at Marietta.
Mrs. Amanda Moore, the oldest resident Of
Scioto county, Ohio, died Thursday of old
age She was born 1893, and was the mother
of Capt Enos Moore.
A Chinaman is ward of the Grand Trunk
railroad at Point Edward, Ont, being pre-
vented by the United States authorities
from entering the states.
At Alliance, O., Mrs. John LOTUS is pos
seSsed OF $500 financial vacancy and S400
regret that she rashly created that assure in
the local prohibitory law.
At Muncie, Ind, Lem. belong secured
the savings of an insane brother, since which
time the brother has not been seen. Lem
is under arrest upon suspicion of foul play.
The Mississinewa Mining company, of
Marion, Ind, has sold its natural gas plant,
four wells, twenty miles OF pipe, &c, to the
Citizens Gas company, of that place, for
$l0O,0
Rumor says that the Detroit League fran
chise will be sold to Cleveland, and Cincin.
natl take the place of indianapolis at the
annual meeting of the League on the Goth Of
next month.
The funeral of Mrs. Virginia Hanson,
state librarian, took place Thursday at
Frankfort, Ky. All the state departments
we're closed, the governor and state officers
attending III body.
A Milledgevlle, o., thief attired himself
in coat and pair of gloves found in the
depot, put $40 in his purse from the post
office Golfers, and departed to fill pressing
engagements elsewhere.
r. H. Kruger is under arrest in Chicago
for outra2ing twelve year-old Louisa Nc
Kay, OF Grand Rapids, Mich. The deputy
sheriff Of the latter place is afraid to return
him for fear of lynchng.
F. J. Simpson marine reporter at Mack
inaw City, Mich, fell out of his boat and
was drowned. Mr. Simpson was about
forty years of age, and had been engaged in
marine reporting at the straits for seventeen
years
The Indiana Baptist association accepted
the report OF its committee favoring the 10.
cation OF thoir Chautauqua on the banks Of
Pine Lake, near Laporte, and committee
of twelve active business men were appointed
as trustees.
Governor Gray has pardoned William
Race, of Elkhart, Ind, who was sentenced
to two years. Imprisonment for bigamy,
having run away from Syracuse, N. Y,
with another mans WIFE He is dying of
consumption.
John Green, Of Jeffersonvile, brings suit
in the United States court against Jeremiah
Dawson and ten others for hanging him on
the night of July II, 1896. He doesn't ex-
plain how he was enabled to return and ask
$50, 900 damages of the Ku-K lux.
Dr. j. J.. Cunning, of Amsterdam, Hol
land, who represents the Dutch bondholders
in the Maxwell land grant. says the govern
ment will indemnify the settlers on the
grant who bought their property when Sec
rotary Cox, of the interior department, de-
cided that the Maxwell grant was not valid
one
Attachments for large sums have been
placed on the property of the Atlantic Cigar
company, of We5tfed, Mass, and on the
property Of William A. Abbott, its presi.
dent. closing the factory and throwing 10
hands out of work The attachments are on
behalf Of the National and Hampden banks
and Il. C. Carpenter. The company is hope
lessly involved. The liabilities are SG0,0J0
or $40, 900 Abbott has disappeared.