Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-25


aged 20, was shot and fatally wounded by
her father, who mistook her for a burglar.
A colored woman, Mrs. Mary Stafford
living near Plainfeld, ind, died Mt the
ripe old age OF llS. She came from Vir-
ginia.
Elizabeth Hounold, charged with muir
dering her child, was bound over to await
the action of the grand jury, at Newark,
Ohio
Howard Rodemann, of Reading, Pa.
had his right leg crashed Off while
attempting to get on train at Newark,
Ohio
Robert Vincent, travelling man of
Erie, Pa, was robbed near Canton O..
and attempted suicide by taking NOR
phine.
Lena Meyers of near Danyile, Ind, has
disappeared The streams wells and cis-
terms have been dragged, but no trace can
be found
The stallion Palo Alto won q race at
Washington park, Chicago, in 2:l3, being
half second better than Maud SIS best
race time.
The English scheme to purchase Cana.
dian phospate lands has not proved sue
SN''1 NShag f%oHtSVV Va AtiG GJtuObtbOb MAS
subscribed
The Latter Day Saints" are astonish-
ing citizens Of Highland county, o., with
their fertile Christian fields ia the wilds
of that county
Frank NJ Allen, teller of the Capital
City bank, Nashville, Tenn, is short in
his accounts $4,000. He specialized in
Rock Island stock.
S f, Henry, township trustee, at Craw-
fordsville, Ind, is short in his accounts
$4,000 lie loaned $1,000 of it, but couldn't
get the money back
Archbishop Fabre will leave Montreal
"Wednesday for Rome. 1t is reported that
the archbishop will be raised TO the car
dinalate before his return
Willis Alexander, colored aged II, was
lynched in East Baton Rouge parish, La.
lie was accused Of having attempted to
rape an ll-year-old white girl.
At Martins Ferry, O., Charles II. Rau.
a brakeman on the Cleveland and Pitts.
burg railroad was struck by the mail
catcher aud his neck was broken
Joseph Forsythe. deputy sheriff of
Bourbon county, insulted some ladies at
the Maysyille fair, and was shot by u
friend of one of them, The wound is
fatal
William Christopher, while cleaning
out well, at Homesyille, o., was over
come by gas and was fshed out for dead.
Restoratives We're applied and he may re-
cover,
Mayor Hart, of Boston, has issued a
call for a public memorial meeting for
Sept to give expression to the loss
sustained in the death of John Boyle
O. Reilly.
The state board of pardons has refused
to interfere IN the case of "lirocky' Smith,
The Cincinnati murderer There is belief
that the governor will commute the death
SENTENCE
Madame Dis Debar was identified on
the steamer City OF Berlin, which
reached New York Friday. She was dis.
Bulsed as nun, and gave her name as Sis
ter lgnatius.
The investigation of the pension ofiics
administration of Gen Raum has been adj
journed nntil Sept /. The Democrats
have not yet proven any one of all the
charges made.
AT the sixty first wedding anniversary
Of Mr. and Mrs Stowts, in the village OF
Hersher, ILL.,, Tuesday, there were seated
at one table an even dozen guests whose
ages aggregated 500 years.
Barnum Il Baiiey's circus train met
with an accident, by the breaking of a
draw bar which pulled out part of
platform on which were "A number of men.
Martin Foley Of ST. Louis, is dead.
The most important action Of the
Georgia State Alliance, was the unani-
nous passage of resolution indorsing
the platform of the National Alliance,
adopted at the St. Louis convention.
George Healy. of ST. Louis, who is visit
ing his sister at Holyoke, Miss, was ar.
rested on the charge Of murderously as.
saulting James Grady. Both were under
the influence OF liquor. Grady's condition
is serious.
During n thunder storm at GulcClda
H., the front of the Washington hotel
was struck by lightning. severely ibjur-
ing Theo Mccoy. Charles Boiscourt and
George Fowler who had sought shelter ON
the sidewalk,
The republics OF Hayti and Dominica
are at war with each other over the
boundary line. On Aug - battle oc-
Cured in which twenty.three men were
killed anG many wounded. The Domini-
cans were repulsed.
The report of the Judiciary committee
Of the Mississippi constitutional conven-
ton. upon the act Of congress "rcadmit-
ting the state into the union" is that by
that act congress lost all Jurisdiction over
the reconstructed states.
Charles Baker. IL youth Of Anderson,
Ind, has no hair on his head, and his eye
sig Is gone. lie thought il was gas
that was escaping from gas box on the
sidewalk. He liz match and threw it
in. 1t was gas sure enough.
Rev L. t. Carpenter, of the Christian
church at Muncie, Ind. collected SOS for
the Bible association. and as he was
boarding a train a pickpocket took his
pocketbook. But people joined in the
chase and the thief was caught.
Harry j. Cline and Lettie Brown, living
near Delphi, Ind, ran off and got married
in the dead hour OF night. Tho girls
father threatens to kill both the preacher
and his new son-in-law The girls mother
is also lying at the point Of death.
Mr.. Paul, Of London, England, one Of
the directors of the prospective Labrador
railway. is in Quebec with six English en-
gineers awaiting the arrival Of the gov
ernment steamer Alert, which Is TO con-
vsy the party on a cruise around the Lab
rador coast.
The death Of Messrs Gates and Jader-
quest and Mrs. klingman, members of
tine party Of nine missionaries who left
the United States a few months ago with
the object Of teaching IN the Soudan, Is
Thev died NJ Sierra iroua