Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-24
NEWS N BRIEF.
A Condensation OF Int resting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Charles jackson stabbed Name Murphy
to death in a saloon in Now York and es-
capped
New York felt slight earthquake shock
Tuesday. One chimney and a sca.toiding
fell in consequence.
A man named George Smith, wealthy
farmer of Joppa Ill, was drowned from the
steamer Gus Fowler near Cairo.
Five Chicago iiremen fell with floor of a
burning building Tuesday night into the base
ment, and three were badly injured.
At indianapolis James r. Graham, de-
tective, was declared insane. Anxiety to
figure as ''sleuthn unbalanced his mind.
Samuel Nelson, of Hespera, Mich, shot
his sweetheart, Annie Nelson, and then
committed suicide, because the girl would
not marry him.
John Lemon, Cleveland peddler, aged
about 40 years, was arrested at Mansfield,
O., for rape committed ON a 10-yaar-old
girl at Cleveland about two years ago.
Randolph Dubois, who murdered his wife,
two children and mother-in-law, i'll the vii
lage of ST. Adams, Qusbec, a couple of
months ago, has been sentenced to be hanged
on June 20.
A report comes from Cattletsburg, KY,
that Col w s. Smith, manager Of lumber
company near Pineville, on Saturday shot
and killed Frank Phillips NTH was a
colonel in the Confederate army.
John Beecher, miner, was murdered and
afterwards robbed near elephant Furnace,
Pa. He was found lying by the roadside
with his skull crushed in by fearful blow
in the back of his head His pockets were
emptied of his wages.
Lizzie Dear, of Syracuse, N. Y, hand
some girl of % years, was walking with
Joseph Kearney, son of William Kearney,
the brewer, when she drew a revolver and
shot him twice in the head. Jealousy is sup
posed to have been the cause.
man either jumped or was thrown from
the wharf near Rush street bridge, Chicago.
A card in his hat left behind was marked
&C K Davidson, with James A, Miller in
surance agents, Nos. 1859 and III La Sale
street" Foul play is suspected,
Chicago city council has directed the cor
poration council to proceed against city
treasurers for the past ton years, who have
drawn and pocketed the interest on the city
funds deposited in various banks. Tho
amount ranges from $50 900 to $4,000 annu-
ally.
Two men were killed and five injured
one probably fatally-by the falling of g
rock in q shaft of the Great Eastern mine,
near Norway, Mich. The victims were Capt
William Hooper, one of the oldest mining
superintendent on the Upper Peninsula
and James Martin, a miner.
Gen. John G. Fremont has received ovel
1000 congratulations on his retirement, with
rank as major general One of them reads
''God bless the man who was the first candi
date for president of the Republican party
and also the Republican president who
signed his commission of retirement
Charles Brownell, aged 80 years, is said to
have confessed to a Lake Shore detective
the attempt to wreck a train on that road
near Andover, few days since. He will
probably not be prosecuted, as few years
ago he prevented serious smashup on tht
road No motive is assigned for his con
| duct.
The governor of Ohio, on order of the cir
cult court at Cleveland, has granted respite
to June 20 in the case of Otto Leuth, the boy
murderer, who was to have been executed
Friday next. Isaac Smith, sentenced from
Pike county to be executed Thursday next
has been reprieved, and date of execution
| not fixed