Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-23

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Near Mansfield O., Mrs Wilson Good
hart suicided by poison because her hus-
band discovered she was unfaithful and
upbraided her.
James Dunlap one of the Northampton
bank robbers, having served fourteen
years at Boston, will be released on
Christmas day.
Henry L, Stoddard, in the Jersey City
Jail for forgery, tried to escape by forging
a letter from Governor-elect Mckinley.
The scheme failed.
/, Strauss & Company, wholesale crock
cry dealers, and the A. Lusk Canning
company, of San Francisco, are fnan-
cially embarrassed.
George Lawrence and Charles M0Ches-
ney were seriously scalded by boiler ex-
plosion in the Wardlow-Thomas paper
mill at Middletown, o.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy
and Greece have signified their willing
ness to continue their present commercial
! treaty relations with Spain.
I The Brooklyn New England society
celebrated the anniversary of the landing
of the pilgrims by grand banquet, Mr..
/ Cleveland was in attendance
/ The dog diet cure for consumption
proved of no benefit to Sam Burnett and
/ Charles Fisher, of Anderson, Ind, and
both abandoned the treatment,
1t is stated with much positiveness that
the president has decided to appoint ex-
! Congressman j. H. Baker, of Indiana, to
the vacancy on the court of claims,
Fire at Columbus destroyed the resi-
dence of Health Secretary Probst and
Jack Sneed, the base ball player. Loss in
each case SC, 600, small insurance
| Ex-Mayor Parsons, Mayor Wyman and
other Allegheny City (Pa) officials haze
been indicted by the grand jury charged
| with embezzlement and extor on.
The mills of Buffalo will contribute
100000 pounds of flour to the northwestern
millers' cargo for the peasants of Russia.
The total amount subscribed now exceeds
100000 pounds.
At Youngstown, O., William Haney,
wealthy, but wayward, was fatally shot
by notorious woman in her resort. Both
claim it was accidental, and the woman
was not arrested.
Justice McEnery has accepted the nom
ination for governor of Louisiana on Ae
Democratic pro-lottery ticket, notwith
standing the fact that he was against the
lottery, while governor
Lyman J. Gage, president of the First
National bank, of Chicago, and the first
president of the board of directors of ne
worlds Columbian exposition, is seri-
ousiy i'll at the Holland House, in New
York
S. V. White e. Company, bankers pud
brokers, 36 Wall street, New YORK,
whose schedules, filed on Saturday show
liabilities unsecured amounting to 81 ,O13,-
b43 and actual assets of $353, ,225 hope TO
resume business.
Captain Johnson, of the steamer Forest
Holme, arrived at Philadelphia from
Hamburg, reports that a few days ago
while off Georges bank his vessel ran
into an immense whale, a school of which
had been sporting around the steamer.
The family of E. j. Vaughn, of Nash
vile, consisting of six persons were acct
dentally poisoned from eating souse at
dinner. Med cal attention was summoned
and the entire family saved, An inye5ti-
cation will be made by the board of
health.
There is q row in the New York Grant
monument committee, and it is stated
that the next legislature will be asked to
disband the present organization aud
start the committee on q new basis, 1t is
claimed that the idea Of the present con-
mittee is to build much smaller tomb
than had beea expected.
Attorney General D. X. Watson, Of
Ohio is stopping at Che Losellam. Wash
ingtOn. He is a candidate for the position
of solicitor general in place of Hon. Will
lam II, Taft, who goes to the United
States bench. General Watson is the orly
candidate SO far named, and his chances
are said to be very good.
In DewitC county, Ark, Nose Hendor
son, man named Smith and his son in
law, named Gregory were shot to death
by mob that broke into the Jail. Hender-
son, it appears, had been arrested for at
tempting to assassinate the divorced wife
of Smith ald made confession impli-
eating the ex-husband and his son-in-law.
-Four carloads of negroes came into
Oklahoma Monday Oh the Rock Island
railroad from Memphis. Half of them,
being about twenty families, or an
aggregate of about eighty persons,
stopped there and the others went to El
Reno. They are all we'll clothed and ere
evidently superior class of colored peo-
pie.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Iewa, the cele-
brated temperance advocate, attended the
obsequies at the senate chamber Monday.
She laid aside her fur coat, and, when the
ceremonies were concluded, walked down
to the gallery railing to obtain closer
view of the distinguished assembly upon
the floor OF the senate When she re-
turned she discovered that her pocket
book, containing over $780, and diamond
cross valued at $1,000, had been pilfered
from her coat.
An investigation begun at the custom
house at Chicago, is expected to show ex-
tensive frauds by tobacco importers. TIE
large importation of "fllers' from Ha-
vana are believed to systematically con-
ceal quantities of leaf suitable for wrap
pers, which take a much higher duty. A
difference of S146,000 would be made in
the collections on the invoices now in
custody Similar investigations are un-
derstood to have been commenced in New
York and New Orleans.
Two unknown men committed a bold |
robbery on one of the busy streets Of Ken
sas City and made their escape They |
stood before the window Of 3, Sidler's |
iewelry shop on East Eighteenth street, |
long enough to see that no one WAS within, |
then one of them, with a glass-cutter, de- !
scrihed a circle of fifteen inches diameter /
The other pushed the glass in with his +.
elbow and at the same time, seized a hand /
full of watches, which were displayed in |
the window. Both men then made their |
escape.
Death Roll.
Henry c. Gibson, millionaire whisky |
distiller, of Philadelphia.
Jerome J. Case, the well known horse /