Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-30
NEWS IN eaIeE.


was burned.
A miners strike is imminent in tn,
Hooking Valley.
At Tiffin, o., Oliver Rex was crushed t
death by rolling log.
Kentucky's new constitution is now II
force. 1t was signed by all the members O
the convention.
Mrs. Margaret Ulmstead, colored, dieC
at Laporte, Ind. at the age OF one hundreC
and two, SO 1t is claimed.
Montana cattle sales will reach 1872, 90
this year, for which the ranchmen will ge
an average of $S5 head.
At Findlay, O., John Dedivay threw
| cup at his wife, missed her and probabl,
fatally injured his three-year-ol son.
Indiana's wheat crop is estimated at owe
81, 600, 900 bushels-the largest crop sine,
1879, when it was over II 200, 900 bushels.
During storm at indianapolis the mer
curry fell twenty degrees in as man
minutes. Considerable damage was done
Massachusetts Democrats nominated
William e. Russell for governor, anC
General John w. Corcoran for lieutenan
| governor
George c. Halliday, agent for Memphi
grain firm, Is uEder arrest at New York
charged with obtaining money on worth
less draft.
At Circleville, o., the safe in Mrs
Frank Hawkins grocery was cracked b,
burglars and $500 and other valuable pa
pers secured. No clew.
Andrew Anderson, Martin Nelson ard
man whose name is unknown were drowne,
by the capsizing of rowboat near Made
line island, Lake Superior.
Governor Hovey, of Indiana, will visi
his old-time friend Minister Ryan, at tn,
City of Mexico. He has invited numbel
of friends to accompany him.
Near Durango, Colo, Ralph Ray
twenty, killed his mother because she OBJ
jected to him going to town. The father
is insane over the act of his son.
The Ohio secretary of state has recog
nized the Veteran Republicans as party
and where organized their candidates viii
be placed on the Australian ballot.
At tShawneetown, Ills, Mrs. White shot
and killed Miss Belle Jamison, a dis
charged servant, who attempted to shoot
her Coroner's verdict: Justifiable hom
eide.
A masked man bound and gagged the
jailer at Laramie wy, and released G
nun, Der OF pris )ners, among them, Miller
the boy murderer. The latter was re
captured.
The shade trees at Brownsburg, Ind
have become veritable blackbird roosts
and many of the branches have been brokeu
by the great weight Hundreds are killed
every day.
AT Laurel Grove, Va, Robert Wilkinson
while drunk attacked his son, who shot
him five times, inficting fatal wounds
The dead man shot his son seriously about
year ago.
During dock laborers' riot in Chicago
James Kelly, white, was stabbed to death
by Joe Bales, colored. An unsuccessful
attempt was made to lynch Bales, but the
police rescued him.
The Louisville grand jury hRs returned
two indictments against Major William
Tillman for grand larceny and embezzle.
ment, charging him with stealing 81, 800
from the Falls City bank.
Major J. w. Hopkins, for many years a
prominent business man In Memphis, blew
out his brains with a shotgun at Red Boil.
ing Springs, Tenn. He had become
respondent because of i'll health.
In the Frankfort (Ky.) penttentiary
Life Convict Kingbird, ,colored, deliberately
placed his left hand in a machine and
allowed it to be amputated in order tu
escape hard labor. He was successful.
Near Macksburg, o., Rosewill Walters,
during a fit of jealousy, attempted to>kill
his wife by crushing her head with bar
of iron. Supposing that he had succeeded
he drowned himself in a well. Mrs.
Walters may die.
David Evans, Esq, who represents
Castle Baynard Ward In the board OF
aldermen, has been elected to succeed Sir
John Savory as lord mayor of London.
The mayor-elect, Mr. Evans was elected
alderman In 1886.
Louis H. Hadden, assistant county So
licitor, and Cal Tucker, ex Jail guard, have
been indicted at Cincinnati for assisting
Burglar Anderson to escape from the Ham
ilton county Jail. Mr.. Hadden has re.
signed. He is prominent politician.
Farmer William Brown sold load of
wheat at Laporte, Ind. On his way home
sparks from his pipe set fire to the empty
sacks This he supposed he extinguished
and drove into the barn. The barn and
contents were destroyed. Loss heavy.
Near Ironton, o.. Officers Young and
Mulligan sat on the track to wait for a
man they wanted to arrest. Both went to
sleep, were struck by train and may die
Tom Bear, the man wanted, had stabbed
William Gands, who is not expected to
live.
At Hollandale, Miss, Grant White, col
ored, shot Barkeeper Davis dead while the
latter was talking to disreputable quad
room named Stevens. White and the
woman were lynched, as it is alleged the
murder was the result of a conspiracy be-
tween the two.
Henry Jandorf, young white man SEN
fenced to years imprisonment in the
Albany penitentiary for compelling his
young wife to live in notorious house,
was killed in the District of Columbia Jail
by Samuel Moore, a negro desperate who
is serving a term for assault ON his wife.
At Chicago Driver Rufus Terry, white,
attempted to cross the river while the draw
bridge was open. The coupe, containing
Isaac Shelton and Carrie Green, colored,
was procipitated into the river. Terry and
Miss Green were drowned. Eye-witnesses
say Terry acted as though he was drunk.
At Alton, Ills, George E. Cochran, a
travelling man from Mulberry Grove, Ills, q,
was shot and killed by Mrs. Celia A. Phil
lips, whose house he attempted to enter.
She warned him to leave, but he persisted
claiming that she was Sadie" and that
she refused to recognize him. He leaves
a wife and child.
Philadelphia had $500, 900 fire. Among
TIM buildinps destroyed were phillins &