Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1889-02-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.


and the seats Of the four retiring members.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a COMPENSATION stf' Inter6ssing item. ON
T$oaH-ous Subjects.
John Bingham aged fourteen was crushed
to death by horse near Canton, 0.
A fve-year-old boy fell down. stairs at
Tiffin, O., and was fatally injured.
Hon. }. D. Cox pioneer resident Of
Miami county, Indiana, died on the 18th
inst
Henry Schneider was instantly killed by
falling rock in coal mine near Coshocton,
! Ohio.
DR.. J. II, Darsey, whose wife deserted
BIN, attempted to commit suicide at Xenia,
Ohio.
Confederate veterans have organized a
relief association in Fayette county, Ken.
tuchy.
The assassns of Hon. John M. Clayton ar
known, and it is expected that they viii be
arrested shortly
The American Unitarian Missionary asso-
ciation have voted to appoint d committee
of twenty to raise S1O0 ,000
A Afifteen-month-old child, left alone in the
>,
was burned to death at Newark, O.
Patrolmen Mcnamara and Schmidt of
Cincinnati, are charged WITH bac,mailing
proprietresses of houses of ill-fame
It is Ieported at St Louis that Hon.
John w. Noble has been offered and bas
accepted the'position Of secretary of the i'll
terror
Near Shawan, KY, White Caps stripped
colored man named Goodman, and gave him
one hundreg ashes Another man got forty
lashes
The residence Mrs.-J. Lamar Coleman, of
Springfield, o., was entered by burglars
Sunday night and articles valued at $3.50
STOLEN.
Frank Schloss, aged sixty five, a ilagman
employed by the Pan-Handle railroad i'll
Chicago, shot himself with suicidal intent.
HeswiAs Asprobably die.
T The statue of Lewis Cass, presented to the
2aoRle ,of the United States by Michigan for
~ isl:ss.7 a StasaaFJ had, was unveiled at
sagsgn Monday
Y ses Haas AZ Tor the Central railroad
II .Sek yeg v bloomsbury, N J, has
safisI geg@ hyAllsred Iollars OF
There's coal water az Fittsburg, over six
teen feet, with all tributaries bank-full, in-
cluding both kanawhas, Big Sandy, Cum
berland and Tennessee riveys
In shooting affray at Lansing, Tenn,
Dock Burns was killed, Henry w Burns was
fatally wounded and storekeeper named
Quinn was seriouS '@ounded
Luther Reynolds, a young colored man,
was shot through the heart by Walter Scott,
another colored man, during a quarrel over
a gambling game in Chicago.
About one hundred pilgrims of the Catho-
lie church, two of whom are bishops, will
sail from New York ON the 2lst inst, on a
journey to Rome and the Holy Land
Joseph Rupponi, who has kept barber
shop in Boston for some time past, has been
arrested, charged with numbering Joseph
Marsolo in Italy in May last lie confesses.
A New Yorker, who resides in Florida dur
ing the winter, has offered a promium OF
81 900 for the city or town in that state
which, on July l., 1889, shall present the most
cleanly condition.
During fight between John Germs and
Sam Ferguson, at Franklin, Ind, over
bottle of whisky, Germs bit a piece from
Fergusons cheek about the size of u silver
dollar and swallowed it.
Hattie b. Stevenson, charged with taking
money from letters while clerk in the
postofiice at Wellsyille, o., confessed and
said that she had secured between four and
five thousand dollars in that way.
G. A. Wight, a prominent citizen of Par
kers station, Il suburb near Birmingham,
Ala, was arrested on three warrants charg-
ing him with perjury, adultery and being
accessory to the murder OF child.
Paul Grottkau, the Anarchist, spoke in
Turner hall, Chicago, Sunday, against the
Blair bill and religion in general Sacrileg-
ious sentences ran into ear splitting billings
gate directed at religion, morality and legis-
laton.
James Elliston owner Of the great Cimar-
ron ranch in western Kansas, was shot and
killed by G. l.. Baldy, his superintendent.
Elliston accused Badly of improper relations
with his wife. Badly claims he acted in self
defense.
The New Orleans cotton exchange adopted
a resolution requesting Governor Nichols to
reconsider his action in removing DR.. j. Y.
Ably, quarantine physician at Mississippi
quarantine station. The only apparent
cause for the removal of Dr. Ably is a desire
on the part of the Governor to give ,he place
to an old friend,
Miss G. Horton, a passenger on the steam
ship NueceS, which arrived at GalVeStOn
from New York Sunday, committed suicide
by jumping into the gulf on arrival. Miss
Horton had been a patient in New York
hospitals under treatment for an injury to
her spine. Physicians finally pronounced
her case hopeless.
Drillyrs for gas near Litchfeld, H., when
the drill was some three hundred feet down,
felt something unusual, and, Withdrawing
the drill, found it covered syith blood. A
voice came rumbling lip from the hole,
saying, you've killed some one down
here A panic followed these supernatural
occurrences, but it later turned out that the
drill had entered mine and killed a mule.
Shooting ARRAY in Louisville Saloon.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Feb 20--Joe Kain, fire
man on the Short Line railroad, and Il noto-
riousy tough citizen, was shot late Monday
nigh by Harry Nottingham, a barkeeper.
The bullet entered the left side, between the
tenth and eleventh ribs, but the doctors are
yet unable to determine whether the wound
will prove fatal. The shooting occurred in
Kessier's Green street saloon an was the
result Of a drunken row.
Blizzard at Buffalo.
BUFFALO, Feb 20.-A blizzard swept over
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