Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1889-02-25
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK.
NEWS IN RRIEE.
Of Interesting Itoms ON

a Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.
Hon. John Ault, of Wayne county, Ohio,
died Friday.
Undertakers of Northern Ohio organized
at Canton Friday.
Robert Hudson, fireman, was killed near
Sunbright, Tenn, Friday.
Simon Brasher was kicked to death by q
horse near New Albany, Ind
Napoleon Bonaparte Shackleford colored,
is in Jail at Ripley for stealing hog.
Wabash, Ind, gets the strawboard and
pany.
Henry Bell treasurer of Monroe township,
Holmes county, Ohio, has been arrested for
embezzlement.
William Messenger, Jr., committed suicide
at Findlay, o., by taking poison. Too much
whisky was the cause.
Mrs Nellie Goodwill, Detroit widow, sues
Millionaire Maxwell NJ Fisher for $50, 600
for breach of promise.
At Greencastle. Ind, Tuesday, Milt. Craw-
ley was sentenced TO one year in the peniten-
tiary for petit larceny.
At a Hungarian wedding near Houtzdale.
Pa, Mike Rusnak, alias, 'Liverpool,n . killed
another man with an AK
The Republican league, of Michigan,
elected Junius A. Beals, of Ann Arbor, pres.
ident for the ensuing year
There is strong opposition among Pennsyl-
vania oil men and oil brokers TO the pro-
posed bill taxing oil and gas leases
At Milroy, Ind, Perry Rice was required
to answer to the grand jury for stealing four
dozen chickens of James W. Anderson.
Joseph Longs general store,at Centerville.
o., was entered by burglars Tuesday night,
who carried of about $50 worth of goods
John Craft, who stole calf in broad day.
light, has been given one year in the peni-
tentiary by Parke county, Indiana, jury.
While John Ostien, Seneca county, Ohio,
farmer, was hauling hay his team tried to
run away and upset the load on him, killing
him.
Col. Stewart, of Nevada City, has pro-
vided in his will that his body be cremated
and the ashes dumped into the river at mid
night.
G. c. Corbett editor of the Providence
Evening Dispatch, was taken to Jail Friday,
having been surrendered by his bondsmcn in
libel suit.
Rumors which have gone abroad that the
Knights of Honor are about to withdraw
from the state of Missouri are without
foundation.
Mrs Adelaide Crezier, of st. Cloud, Mimi,
aged sixty, claims to have been the first wife
of Commodore Kttson, and wants one-third
of his estate
Nathan jenkins, young man working at
M. Kelly's Grape creek coal mines, near Dam
vile, ILL.,, was fatally injured by the roof
ia ling on him.
A fellow giving the name of James Patter-
son, of Pittsburg, attempted the confidence
racket on half dozen of the leading cts
zens of Newark, o.
Eugene Matthews, of Clyde, o., has sued
Ben. H. Horn, of Tiffin, for 81, 200 damages
for injuries sustained by the bite of vicious
dog belonging to Horn.
At Lafayette, Ind, ON Thursday, John
Snyder's three year-old daughter was play.
ing with matches, when her dress caught fire
and she was burned to death.
Fifty men in the employ of Charles Irwin,
an ice dealer of Goshen, Ind, struck on ac-
count of refusal to advance their wages.
Their places are being filed rapidly.
The officers of vessels on Puget sound de-
clare that coolies are being constantly snug.
gled over the border, and when once In this
country they can go anywhere they please.
John II. OKeefe, after a sojourn in Can
ada, has been arrested under the name of J.
H. Conely for swindling l.. M Hartley, of
Iowa, in cattle transaction to the extent of
5000
Rev. Peter Bishop, pastor of the Catholic
church at Millersburg, o., has resigned, and
Rev. "A. L. Leminget, OF Navarro, o., sue
ceeds him. Father Bishop is now in Holton,
Kansas
Incendiaries in Pennsylvania by the use of
\ chemical compound consisting of powder
md some other unknown substance have
caused the destruction of about twenty
buildings
Frederick Buz of Red Falls Lake, Mimi,
and agent for G. Aultman e. Company, who
recently ran away with S25, 900 of the COM
Danys money, and later was arrested, had
lis case called for trial Friday. Failing to
appear, his bonds have been declared for
eited e-f
At meeting of representatives of the va
'ious Republican clubs of Cincinnati, held
N the 22d inst, a resolution was adopted
equesting congress to make the 30th of
April, this year, National holiday, it being
he centennial anniversary of the inaugural
ion of President Washington.
William D. Mudgett, railway postal clerk,
Iohn Campbell, English mail clerk, and
Harry Goodman, fireman, were killed and
'urned in a wreck on the European e. North
American railroad near Boyds, Me-, Sat
rday. The engineer was seriously injured.
he cars caught fire from the locomotive
nd the mail, baggage and parlor car were
urned, together with express and mail mat
er and baggage.