Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-26
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The National house Is now wrestling
with the National election bill.
Hot enough to ''kill a horse" at Column
bus. Ind, Wednesday; four men killed
while at work.
At Cincinnati Wednesday three cases OF
prostration from the heat, two Of them
fatal, were reported.
In Knott county, KY, last Sunday, Al
fred Draughn shot and killed John Haw-
horne, his second cousin.
John Van Horn, of Catlettsburg, KY,
is dead because he slapped the child Of
Alfred Draughan when Alfred was pres
ent.
j. B. Hutchinson, of South Orange, N. |
j., to escape the pain from liver cancer,
thrust knife into the afflicted parts and
died
At Louisville ten cases of prostration |
from the heat and sunstroke were re-
ported Wednesday, four of which resulted
fatally.
Rev DIR. r. Hicks, of st, LOUIS, pre-
diets for the days between the 9th and
18th of July the warmest weather of the
summer
The wholesale liquor dealers of New
York failed to bring the whisky trust 10
terms, and have resolved to build distiller-
les of their own.
Richard Baughman, of Dalton, o., died
from having too many stomach teeth. He
swallowed his plate of four false teeth
eight years ago
The census returns from some parishes
in Louisiana indicate that the whites are
| increasing in a greater ratio than the
blacks in that state.
The amount collected by means of the
Chinese poll tax at Vancouver last month
was 81 ,42l, as compared with 5000 for the
same month last year.
At st. Paul arrangeme is are about
| completed for the great convention OF the
National Educational association to be
held there July to IL.
A passenger train on the Wabash road
was wrecked, seriously injuring Engineer
W. r. Rogerson and the fireman The
latter was fatally scalde
Father c. w. Bohmeil, priest at Ocean
Springs, Miss, after consulting physi-
clan at New Orleans, returned home and
shot himself through the head.
The North American Turnerbund, in
session at New York, resolved to include
in its curriculum boxing, wrestling, swim
ming and the massage treatment.
Joe Howard says there are 100000 men
in New York city who drink spirituous
liquors every day in the week, but never
think of touching drop on Sundays.
AtSpokane Falls the fight between the
street railway companies has now
ouieted down, and both sides ait action
of the court, to which the case was re-
ferred
Passenger officials of roads from Chi
cago to the Ohio river, and lines south,
are in conference at Chicago with prob
, ability that new association will be
, formed
J An electrical storm struck Dubuque
J Wednesday morning Two inches of rain
J fell in as many hours, causing many
! washouts. The damage is estimated at
: 100000
) A wreck on the Chicago Rock Island
: and Pacific railroad resulted it the death
of Brakeman Charles Rider, of Chicago.
A freight train broke, and the sections
came together.
: DIR. Matthew ID. Field, medical examiner
\ in lunacy cases for the commissioners OF
! charities and correction in New York, says
{ that in that city alcoholism may be cited
Q as leading cause of insanity.
0 Rev DR. Reuben Thomas of Brookline,
e Mass, has accepted an invitation received
t by cable TO preach sermon before the
Y Universal Peace association at Westmin
i ster chapel, London, on July IT,
t Victor De Bules, alleged son of Ger
t man count died Thursday in n furnished
e room in Philadelphia, with the last cent
o in his pocket. He was an expert chemist
but could not retain his positions.
Q Brazil, Ind coun il passed an ordinance
$ that 81. yard gates must swing inward
9 The Brazil young man complains that IL
J. case of fire" this ordinance will be in the
y interest of the old man and the bull dog
The match between Salvador and Tenny
:, y the great 4-year-olds, run at Sheepsheat
Il Bay Wednesday. was won by Salvador
y who made the mile and a quarter in 2;O5
y beating the record by one and half sec
:. onds.
!. The interstate commerce commission
Il has fined Agent Street, of the Michigan
= Central railroad, $1,000 for carrying grail
n from Chicago to New York at cut rates
70 and he is allowed sixty days in which Il
. pay it,
Joseph Butler, an employe of the street
cleaning department of New York, wa
IS attacked Wednesday with cholera. /
IF was a relief when DR.. Henderson pro
k nounced it sporadic and not Asiatic. II
" will recover.
u The United States district attorney o
+. Kansas has given his opinion that tn
t. Kansas prohibition law has been rendered
G. absolutely void by the recent suprem
h court decision, and the prohibitionist
t. wear long faces.
Of At Grundy, Va, two brothers cut Tx
ne Sumpter fatally, nearly severing his hea
es from his body The reports state that tn
murder was caused by a "slight ill-feel
er ing" What do they do down there whe
st they get real mad
Ut State Factory Inspector Connolly, o
y New York, who proposes to appoint eigh
~ female f1sctory inspectors, draws the lin
~ on grass widows, of whom there are 10
le applicants one of whom are backed b
W fifty labor societies.
AZ AZ Young Harry Holden left his clothes o.
- a North river, New York, dock, and too
- the water route because Lillian Goss,
." chorus girl in Conreid's Opera compan
would not bestow upon him more than
conventional stage smile.
T. The engineer in stave mill at Ithica
he Mich, didn't attend to his boiler, whic
ot protested against neglect with an explC
~ sion. Two mill hands have left thi
m. world in his company, and the mi
no owner and three more are expected to TO
N. low.
nd r'he directors OF the Chicago board {
re- trade adopted a resolution urging upo
in congress the necessity of an early compl,