Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-30


Gather set the jail on FIRE, hoping to es-
cape, but be was burned to death with the
jail.
The German National bank of Evans
vile, Ind, has been reorganized under the
state laws, and increased its capital stock
$4,000,
The J. ". Damn Manufacturing COM
pany's carriage and wagon wood
works at Columbus, o., burned Sunday.
Loss Sis,o00.
1t is developed that Nellie Hawthorne.
10. in crazy fit at Hamilton o., tried
Christmas eyeto poison her fathers family
with rough on rats
Big Foot and his band have been cap
tutel. The hostile Indians in the Bad
Lands have surrendered and will reach
Pine Ridge Tuesday.
A Berlin letter says that Emperor Will
lam is following the example of Frederick
the Great in enllsting the tallast men he
can find for his guard.
7. l. Hoon, aged %, died very suddenly
at his home, Bethal, Bath county. His
death is a mystery, but none suppose that
lit resulted from morphine.
Snow has fallen in the West Virginia
mountains TO an average depth of thirty
six inches, and in some places is banked
to the height of eighteen feet.
Being q coward, Farmer Christian
kaylor beat his wife and then beat re-
treat elsewhere when the Nashville, o.,
White Caps sent him warning.
Hon Il. J. Kinney, a prominent Repub-
lican politician and lawyer Of Usage Mis-
sion, Kan, was found dead beside the rail
road track near that place Sunday
Italian railway travel is much impeded
BY the floods which have followed the
heavy SHOWS. In the district of Naples,
traffic is almost completely at stand
still
A Dakota justice has ruled that Ignatius
Donnelly's "Cryptogram" is a meritorious
work and that the cipher can be found in
Shakspeare's plays, as claimed in the
book
Professor Orton, state geologist of Ohio,
in his report to Governor Campbell, gives
warning that the supply Of natural gas is
not inexhaustible, and urges greater
economy in its use.
A new silver dollar is TO be created by
the Pan American monetary conferercs
which assemblies in Washington next
week. 1t will circulate throughout the
American republics.
Rev. William Mccoy preached his fare
well sermon at the Millcreek baptist
church near Salem, Ind. last Friday,
after continuous pastorate over that
charge of forty-seven years.
A receiver has been appointed for the p.
X. Starley Winston Real Estate com
pany, Of Chicago. Stanley, the presiden
is charged with squandering $4,000 of th
firms money in speeulating on the board
of trade.
w. H. H. Murray believes that Sitting
Bull was unwarrantably sacrificed,
and has registered vow to set up 4 me-
mortal stone on the spot where that once
extremely troublesome Indians body is
now at rest.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mrs. r.
A. Parker wandered out on the prairie near
Ness, Kan, and froze TO death. She had
started to find her papa, who is in the
penitentiary for forgery. The mother has
become deranged,
In a letter to Thomas Mann, the labor
leader, Cardinal Manning says; II fully
agree with you that the public authorities
ought to find work for the unemployed
/ advise you to consult the mayor am
trying what can do"
At his home near Shepardsville, KY, e.
II. Chill, a prominent and once wealthy
farmer, was found dead in his room. He
was 20 years of age, suffering from rheum-
atism and in debt, and it is believed ho
committed suicide
On Bennet's Fork, about three miles
from -Middlesboro, KY, Robert 10 ward
killed Louis Roeberger with hatchet, un-
der no provocation whatever. Howard es-
capped into the mountains, and up to the
present has not been apprehended
Ohio State university has an income Of
over $4,000 per annum, and wants over
$4,000 more in appropriations, Last year
$40. 352 II were expended and s51 ,0o0of this
was paid in salaries. This leaves $4,000
for running expenses. 1t looks as If an
investigation and an expense regulator
was wanted by the State university rather
than more money
Home Secretary Matthews has been in
consultation with the magistrates of Ian
cashire in regard to the establishment Of
the whipping-post as a penalty for the
crime commonly called "scuttling,n or
running amuck, which is becoming alarm
ingly frequent in towns of northwestern
England. The present law is said to be
inadequate as a deterrent.