Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-13

William Davis, a Brooklyn millionaire
non-merchant, fell from the deck of
iron and was drowned.
At Brooklyn, Robert Lace shot and IA
tally wounded his sister during an alter
cation with some roughs.
Mrs. Fannie Decker of Scranton, Pa,
confesses to having performed more than
hundred criminal operations.
Another strike is probable on the Lake
Erie and Western railroad The firemen
have been refused their demands.
Leavenworth, Kan, will soon try COM
pressed air as a method of furnishing
power to factories and street cars.
The anti-lottery campaign opened in
New Orleans Sunday night. The Baptist
church has Joined the anti-lotteryites.
At Manchester, O., a two-year-old child
of Pleasant Garner was burned to death
by its clothes catching fire at an open CRATE.
At Shelbyville, Ind, Ralph Edwards and
Artie Wilson, boys, quarreled and fought
Edwards cut Wilson severely in the back.
The Daughters of the Revolution have
been granted 10000 square feet in which
| to make colonial exhibit at the worlds
fair.
Mrs. James Clark, of near Newark, O.,
fell down stairs, dislocating her left hip
bone and inhictng serious internal in
juries
Professor Benjamin Jowett, the dis
tinguished Greek professor of Oxford uni
vsrsity, is very i'll, and is not expected to
recover.
ST. Louis Elks unveiled a beautiful mon
un1ent Sunday. 1t was the gift of Colonel
John A Cockerill, of the New York Ad-
vertiser.
San Francisco merchants have organized
a railway traffic association and offered
the craftsmanship to j. S. Leeds at $1,000
per year.
Fire destroyed Forbes & Brothers livery
stable at Hopkinsville, KY, together with
eight head of horses. Loss, $4,000. In
cendiary.
New Temple theater, Owensboro, KY,
burned Saturday. Loss $685. 900; insurance
$4,000 The Greenwood Opera company
lost 900 worth of property.
The Baltimore and Ohio road is said to
have secured large quantities of Nebraska
corn by adopting the same rate-cutting
tactics it employed last year.
At New Brighton, Pa, Widow Susan
Harrison died of a broken heart, caused by
So says the attending doctor.
At Owensboro, KY, Dave Pruitt, col
ored, of Calhoun, shot and probably
fatally wounded Ben Adams Old quar-
rel. Both had been drinking.
Further hearing in the celebrated Searles
will case, at Salem, Mass, has been post
poned to Oct. 90 1t is thought that set
tlement outside of court may be reached.
A wagonload of clocks, valued at 81, 100,
and $500 in cash, were the spoils carried
off by burglars, whe are now being hunted
in the mountains near Hollidaysburg. Pa,
by an armed posse.
Mrs. Sedgewick, of Kent, O., an Erie
wreck victim, will have to have one of her
legs amputated This is the result of burns
received while holding up stove to save
the life of her child.
In his lecture at Cooper Union Sunday
night DIR. McGlynn criticised Archbishop
Corrigan for giving the pope "taffy," and
that he had advised the pope not to listen
to Corrigan's batteries.
b. Spiro, whose warehouse was burned
at Middlesboro, KY, had an encounter
with James Powell, the insurance adjuster
from Lexington, which resulted in both
men being badly injured.
At Champaign, Ills, Royal Voorhees,,
Robert Creque and young man named
Renner quarreled. Voorhees, was shot
dead and Creque seriously wounded. Rem
ner is in Jail. All were drunk
The United States steamer Despatch ran
ashore near Assateaque shoals, Va, Sat
urday. The life saving crew saved the
crew Of seventy-four. At last accounts
the indications were that the vessel would
be total wreck.
There are 768 Indians attending the Car
Isle pa school, many of whom are de-
veloping traits of wonderful thriftiness.
During the past year the students have
earned over SIC, 900 outside of the school,
and have nice bank accounts to their
credit.
The Northwestern Underwriters asso-
citation, in convention at Chicago elected
Howard p Gray, of Chicago president;
w. p. Hartford, of Morrow, O., vice presi-
dent, and II. V. Mum, of Beloit. Wis,
secretary and treasurer to serve during
the ensuing year.
District Judge Goodrich, of Waco, Tex,
holds that the alien land law passed by the
last legislature, is unconstitutional and
void. The law excluded foreigners from
buying or loaning money on Texas land,
and created a severe money stringency
throughout the state,
The senate of Georgia has effectually
killed extreme anti-railroad legislation in
Georgia by defeating bill known as the
Berner bill, which passed the house re-
Gently. This bill was aimed at the West
Point Terminal company, and if passed
would have involved the railroads in liti-
cation.
The remains of Alexander Dutton, who
disappeared from Morgan county, Ala,
last June, were found near Mount Nebo
church A bullet hole was found in his
skull, and when the skeleton was raised
and shaken three more bullets dropped on
the ground. r. l.. Castleberry is sus-
pected of the crime He is missing.
Unless the railroad coal miners strike in
the vicinity of Pittsburg is settled within
a week some interesting times are looked
for in that section. Sixty of the largest OPP
orators have signed an agreement TO hold
out against the advance for three years if
necessary. The operators say they will
give the strikers another week to return to
work. If they refuse, the tactics of the
coke operators will be adopted and for
eigners impc tied to start the mines. The
miners do not appear to be frightened at
the threats, and say they will stand out
until the demands are granted.
Reindeer have been introduced into Alas
ka from Siberia The matter of the intro.
duction of the animals into Alaska has
taken such hold upon both natives and