Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-27

directly opposite lady, but did not pass
quite through. The train was running so
fast that the shooter, although seen, could
not be identified.
A movement has been inaugurated to
erect at Chattanooga an equestrian statue
of the Confederte general, w. b. Forrest.
Capt. Michael bravo, OF Pittsburg aged
SO years, died suddenly while visiting his
son, Capt, Frank bravo, near Louisville,
Kentucky.
At Providence, r. l., Louis Millard,
aged Is, was shot and killed by Charles H.
Higgins, the result of the careless hand
ling of a rifle.
AT Chattanooga Saturday, desperate.
Fat Evans, in the act of insulting Grip
pied fisherman, Z. T. Norris, with knife,
was shot by the latter, probably fatally.
The Chicago Socialists say they believe
the bomb found at the Haymarket monu-
ment was placed there by men opposed to
the pardon of Fielden, Schwab and Neebe.
The American School Book company Is
reported to have purchased that branch of
the business of Harper Brothers, for com
sideration of between $T50,0OO and 81 ,00O,-
600.
AhN StntCthNhb 10 Iil6b 1Llb AIlll-
tyville, n. ", asylum, on Long Island. to
which Miss Harriet L. Coffin has been
sent, is conducted in a scandalously in
human manner.
In accordance With President Harrison's
orders the United States flag win here
after fly over the White House daily from
sunrise to sunset, instead of on special oc-
casians as formerly.
Mary Regan, pretty young Irish girl
who arrived from Cork last week, was alb
Quoted from the barge Office, drugged, as
saulted, turned out ON the street, and is
now insane at the home of her uncle at
Perth Amboy.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COM
pany contemplates new issue of $150O0,-
600 common stock, for the purpose Of pay
ing the floating debt of the company, and
acquiring additional terminal facilities at
different points on its line.
Saturday nights storm struck Blocks
hardware store at Lucas, O., and fired the
building. Citizens began removing the
goods, when fifty pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded, killing Jerry Jones and John
Smith and injuring twenty others
Samuel Whittles, his wife, Henry Whit.
ties, aged 10; Samuel Whittles, Jr., aged
12; Levina Buckley, aged 80; Fred, Buck.
ley, aged 8; Willie Buckley, aged 8, and
Willie Turner, aged 8, were drowned at
Watuppa, Mass, Sunday, by the capsizing
of boat
At Lydia, Darlington county, S. C., ON
Saturday, two brothers. young white men,
Murray and Ben. Knots, were workingin
a field, when an aid quarrel was renewed,
and Murray shot Ben. to death Murray
is ready to surrender whenever called upon
and is not afraid of trial.
A drunken man, William Kinney. OF
Nashville, Tenn, was elected from an
electric car, and in mad frenzy swore he
would kill the first man he met. He
opened his knife and stabbed a young col
ored man, William Thompson, to the
heart, killing him instantly.
The report on the duties ON spirits has
been adopted by the anti-slavery confer
ence, and the various governments inter
ested have been asked by their representa-
tives to instruct them as to the line Of ac-
tion to be pursued by them towards Mr..
Sanford's proposition to graduate duties.
james Slocum, the base ball player in
Sing Sing, under death sentence, has been
permitted through threats of his lawyer
to write letter to the outside world from
his underground cell for condemned, the
awfulness of whose silence he says Is
worse than death. They are living tombs.
Mansfield King, sick and in Jail at
Clayton, county seat of st. Louis county,
has confessed to murder, horse-thieving
and divers crimes, among them to the
robbery of Moffatt, cashier of the First
National bank of Denver. Mansfield has
been recognized by Otis, assistant cashier
of the bank, as Wells, the bank robber.