Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-18

The switchmen of the Wabash railway
in Chicago went out on strike because
their wages are not paid promptly
Mrs. Henry Schuler of New York city,
disappeared with $1,000 of her husbands
money. Another man is suspected.
The closing evening of the Grand Army
encampment, Friday, was devoted to the
camp fire of the Woman's Relief corps
Secretary Window says he is consider.
ing proposition for the redemption OF
the four-and-a-half per cent loan at par.
Executions aggregating $SS,665 have
been issued against the South Brunswick
Terminal Railroad company, of Chicago
The dead body of Robbie Nelson, an
amateur hunter, was found near Hopkins
vile, KY, with a gunshot wound in his
breast.
j, j. Kirkland, foreman of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway
carpenter shop, at Crestline, o., was found
murdered.
Teamsters working on the Camden pike
near Portland, Ind, have struck, and the
farmers are backing them in their demand
for more cash.
| Richard Cronan kept a boarding-house
man years but succeeded in finding q
| poison that killed him in Respondent tit
at Steubenville, 0.
Capt. Puloit, commander of the fishery
protecting cruiser Connaught, has been
dismissed from the Canadian service fol
derelection of duty.
John Phillips, colored, aged IS, was exc
cuted at Boydton, Va, for the murder OF
Capt. Robert c. OVERLY, prominent CHI.
| nf mol l,,,i
Shelbyville, Ind, consumers declared in
indignation meeting assem- Uled that il the
company doesn't lower its prices they, this
people, will shut OF the gas.
Wilmington, O., people have had sc
many visits from midnight callers who
persist in inviting themselves that they
are really getting to be bore.
| G. b. Holmes, of Chicago, has made the
final payment, $537 ,404 necessary TO close
the deal, and has assumed control of al
the street car lines of Memphis
At Wheeling, w. Va, Mrs. William
! Gibson was shot and mortally wounded
| by her insane brother who had been re-
leased from the asylum as cured.
An attempt was made Friday morning
to wreck an excursion train on the Balti
more and OHIO, near Pittsbarg, Pa. ThC
engineer and u tramp were killed
AT Danville, ILL.,, Col. w. c. McReynoldi
died while an operation 10 relieve necrosi:
of the jaw-bone was being performed
from the effect OF the ether administered
Comte de Paris and son will have theil
baggage passed duty free on their arriva
in this country on the counts promise not
to write a book of his views of the United
| States.
Ida Redman was found fatally
| wounded in bed at Winchester, Ky, with
a bullet through her temple John Moore
with whom she was intimate, is sus
pected.
Mrs, Ida j. DiXey has instituted a suit
in the supreme court of New York for q
limited divorce from Henry Il, Dixey, the
comedian, on the ground of abandonment
and non-support.
Near kennard, Neb., a rejected lovel
shot the girls father and when she raj
away shot her through the back. lie was
captured by the girls brother, and il
threatened with lynching.
Mary Weldon, of Rockford, H., gave
birth to a child whose paternity is attrb
uted to the Holy Ghost. There are people
in the community who are heartles,
enough to not believe her.
BY the explosion of centrifugal hydro
extractor in the loom at the Tillit sill
mills, at Pottsville, Pa, Theresa Libener
aged 10 years was instantly killed, ant
Fred. Spescht, aged ~ years, was fatally
injured.
The Dominion government will investi
! gate the complaints Of the Canadian In
dians at Lake of the Woods, that Ameri
can fishermen threaten the eXtermina
| tion Of fish by methods of wholesal,
slaughter,
A revolving faction in the German
Luthern church, at Terre Haute, Ind, ha.
organized a new church. The secession il
on account Of the refusal of the pastor u
| allow members of secret societies to wea
their regalias at funerals of deceased
members.
j. Harry Ward a well known member
of the Baltimore Corn and Flour ex
change. committed suicide by cutting hiI
throat with razor lie had been suffer
ing from melancholia. He was 4S year.
| old and unmarried.
Peter Burns, a heavyweight fighter o.
New Orleans, met Professor A. Bernau
Galveston celebrity, at the latter place
|
weston Athletic association. Burns wa,
knocked out in the fifteenth round
On Aug the schooner Richard Tomas
son, Capt Joseph o. Green, left PictoI
for Summersde, p. 4. |. Since then moth
ing has been heard of the vessel or crew
and it is believed the vessel was struck b,
lightning ON the night she left port.
Mr.. Shoemaker, of Claypool, Ird., not
only made no objection whom his wifi,
elopcd with his neigbor Ward, but wher
she died, shortly after, attended the fun
eral wept with the bereaved No. 2, anC
divided her effects equally with him.
Hard times the coming winter are an
ticipated at Ottawa, the chief center of tn,
Canadian lumber trade. The business II
very slack this season, and there Is a large
quantity of lumber unsold Consequently
| the cut next winter will be smaller thar
usual
ID. b. Martin, general passenger agent
of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago ane
ST Louis railroad has been arrested upoI
| complaint Of the interstate commerc'
commission, charged with issuing passes
from Cleveland TO San Francisco. Th,
information is furnished by a discharged
erpploye.
Capt Marshall, U. S. A, in charge ol
the river and harbor improvements al
Chicago, in an interview, declared thai
the outer harbor OF Chicago, which It Ii
proposed should be filed up and used fol
a worlds fair site, has long been worth
less FOR navigation purposes. Its only
present use he said, IS to protect the iii
nois Central Railroad company's docks
He advises its Abandonment by the gov
eminent