Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-01

water on them
Frank Shelton, colored who murdered
Louis Thomas, a colored fiagnan, in
Memphis last Tuesday night, was shot
and killed at Holly Springs, Miss, While
resisting arrest.
The fact has leaked out that sneak
thief sneaked 500 from the county treas
ury at West Union, o., several weeks ago.
and the secret has been kept in hopes OF
catching the thief.
A state board of trade has been formeu
by the business associations of Aassacilu-
setts at Boston. There We're ninety-nihe
delegates present representing thifuy-
three associations.
Stories of outrage and ill-treatinent are
coming from inmates of the Richmond
insane asylum in addition to the story OF
the violent death of Lawyer Blount, anu
will be investigated
S, 5. Simmons, of Nashville, colored,
was convicted of pension fraud in the
United States district court, and SEN
fenced to fifteen months in the peniten-
tiary nt Columbus, 0.
The census Office Friday aRnounced the
the population of the United States to be
62, 4S0, $40. These figures are exclusive OF
white persons in Indian territory, indians
on reservations ard Alaska.
Andrew Smith, who tried TO get away
with valuable gold chain from the
Hellebush jewelry store, Cincinnati,
without paying for it, was sentenced to
the work house for thirty days and fined
$1,000 and costs,
At a special council OF the Episcopal
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Rev. DR.. Henry Melville jackson, rector
of Grace church, Richmond, va, was
elected assistant bishop OF the diocese to
assist Bishop Wilmer
The Havana Weekly Report says: Ithas
continued to rain in most Of the sugar
producing districts, and the appearance of
the cane ia daily becoming more and more
promising, imparting stronger hopes fora
large yield OF sugar next year,
At Leayenworth, Kan, Postmaster
Ritchie excluded from the mails the en-
tire mail edition of The Leavenworth
Times, because it contained list of arti-
cIes won at rattle at Catholic church
fair during the early part Of the week.
While George Krein and party were
hunting near Scranton, Pa, they found a
sack in which was the body of a child. A
mark on the head showed where the blow
had been struck which killed it. The an
thorities are investigating the mystery
Bozeman's big Touring mills ut Marion,
Kan, were wrecked by the bursting of
the boiler Cy Allen, the engineer, was
taken from under the debris with the up
per portion OF his body cooked. X. Boze-
man, one of the proprietors, was terribly
burned
Ex Governor Baldwin, Of Michigan,
who is in Washington, says that there il
no question of the ability Of the Republi-
cans to elect the state ticket in Michigan
this fall He says the Democrats will not
get more than two congressman. He may
be mistaken.
DR.. William N. Hibbard, young ply
sician of Hyde Park, Chicago, died at his
home from most peculiar case of poison
ing Some days ago DR.. Hibbard partook
of some oysters at restaurant. The oys-
ters had been kept so long that they de-
veloped a poison known as ptonain.
Erie, Pa, has suffered severely recently
from the work of iirebugs, and Wednes-
day night fires broke out in four different
parts of the city. In one instance three
families barely escaped with their lives.
Ferdinand Fescher was arrested ON sus-
picion and other arrests will follow.
The Russian director general of police,
Gen. Groesser has instructed the police
to rigidly adhere to the letter of the anti
Jewish Law The police are also directed
to compel the families of jews, expelled
from the country, or transferred from one
portion of it to another, TO depart with
them.
A week ago Il. A. Beatty, of Joliet,
Ill.,, went to Chicago, having in his pos
session considerable sum Of money, and
nothing has been heard from him since.
Beatty left his wife and family in strait
ened circumstances, He has always led
respectable life and his friends think
some harT has befallen him.
AT Galltzen, Pa, two Hungarian men
became involved in fight. They were
struggling on the ground when woman,
who was boiling clothes near by, took up
bucket of scalding water and dashed it
over them. One of them escaped, but the
other was almost boiled, tye, flesh coming
off his body in strips. Hcis now in the
hospital in critical condition.
During country dance near Carthage,
ILL.,, bloody row was caused by a young
man named Moses Printy, who had been
ordered out of the house. Fifty couples
engaged in the affray. Knives, brickbats,
sticks and chairs were the weapons.
Josesh Munson was probably fatally
stabbed and Moses Printy was also seri-
ously cut There were no arrests.
Van Abel, the confidential clerk of T.
H. Harris Drug company, tittsburg, is
missing, and his accounts are $4,000
short, For the past year he has lived be-
yond his means. Harris & Company say
they know where the young man is, but
do not care TO prosecute Abel confessed
and turned over his household goods.
This will cover about one-third OF his de-
talcation.
Secretary Blaine desires the statement
made that he did not request the recall of
Senior Muruaga as minister of Spain TO
the United States. He says II is not true
that the relations between himself and
the minister had become strained, aud
that on the contrary their relations were
friendly and pleasant The minister's re-
call, Mr.. Blaine says, was due solely to
the change Of administration in the Span
ish government.
James Wall, a clerk in the surrogate's
office, New York, had a sore on the bot
tom OF his foot, from which gangrene set
In. This necessitated g surgical onara-
ton, and he was taken to the city hos
pital, where the doctors gave him an
enmsshetie lie did not rally from the
effects Of the drug though the doctors
worked over him for nearly two hours
The dortors said that death was due TO
paralysis of the heart.
Accumulated sewer gas confined IN the
sewer Pipe under Kansas avenue. near
Brent street. In Kansas City, Kan, ex-
ploded Thursday with terrific force The
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