Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-14

Painters strike in New York is ended
being granted their eight hours work and
$3.50 err day.
Big American dealers are purchasing
Cana i'm tile, crushing out small Cana
dian exporters.
The escape of eight en- rejected imml
/ grants from the steamer Burgundia Is t.
be investigated.
A Cher kee Indian and negro werl
killed in "a quarrel at a dance at COLDER
Indian territory.
Postal Clerks w II. Hope and Il. J.
Brown were badly crushed by a collision
at Vincent, Iowa
Maj Mckinley has accepted an invita-
tlon 10 speak at the Brooklyn Union
League cub April %.
Frank W. Fitzhugh, broken down law
| yer, was found dead in the rear room of 4
! Newcastle, md., saloon.
! The Farmers Alliance of Kansas hag
| under adyisement the building of trunk
railroad line across the state
! MIR Il. ii. NebCcker, of Indiana, is said
to have been agreed upon as successor tO
United States Treasurer Huston.
Asher kellum, an old and influential
citizen Of PlGiuheld Ind, was fatally in
lured by tree falling upon him.
An enormous reservoir of water has
Deen discovered 100 feet below the surlace
III the midst 81 the Sahara desert.
Notwithstanding the instructions to
government agents, cattlemen continue to
ship cattle into the Usage reservation.
Rev, Joseph Cook was taken suddenly
III at Fort scott, Kan, while delivering a
sermon. Throat trouble and la grippe.
Delaney Mahan, prominent farmer of
hu3A county, Ind, has beon indicted for
obtaining money under false pretensea.
Robert Williams, who in November last
shot and killed A. b. Hayes at Pine Bluff,
Ark, has Leel sentenced to hang June 8,
The directors of the Washington Ma
tional bank, OF New York have decided
the bank should go into voluntary llquida-
ton
Essy Ssebert, iarmer, living ten miles
west Of Mansfield, o., got his loot cauK ID
in the 1y-wheel of a WOod-sawing machine
and was killed.
The wedding of Charges Heiser, of
Bloomington, md, was interrupted by his
arr,s, on the change OF seduction preferred
by another woman.
Col. Charles b. Stoughton, pension
agent Of New York, was fined $500 for
charging a soldiers widow $1,000 for
obtaining pension.
The Liberals under Gladstone and the
McCartyite Irish member of parliament
have agreed to act Conceredly in opposi-
to the government party.
Louis Bulliug, sentenced to hang ON the
l7ru o this month for wife murder, es-
capad from the jail at Savannah, Mo, by
cutting tue bars OF his cell
Near Spencerv,llc, o., 2-year-o old child
OF K. Winters was perhaps fatally hurt by
being struck on the head by hat-iron,
which fell from an Ironing board,
While assisting her grandfather in burn
ing stumps near Wabash, Ind, Minnie
Moore, aged Z, was burned to death by her
clothing iguiCing fiom the flames
Nearly LOO men and girls will be out
of emp.oym cnt in San Francisco by the
shutting down of four shoe factories in
the SDoe Manufactures association.
Alphonze S.ephani, who was convicted
of murder in the second degree for tbs
shooting Of eX-Judge Reynolds, at New
York, was sentenced to the state prison
for lille.
w llIlb lAbNdlb, VI ASuluGkN, WHO is
credited with killing twenty-one persons
was removed to Maries county, Mo-, as it
was feared that his friends would attempt
Il delivery.
John Ernst, h former member of the
Chicago fire department, while craaed by
liquor, fired two shots at his wife IN i'm
mediately afterward sent a bullet into his
own brain Mis-. Ernst was uniniured.
Heavy rains, beneficial to crops are re-
ported nom Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and
the Dallotas. A building was blown down
at Nevada, Mo, and several Others dam
aged, and at Landyale, Kan, similar
damage was done.
William S. Skaggs, a United States
prisoner en- route to the Ohio pennitenti-
AIRY, escaped from the guards at Lebanon,
Mo, by jumping through a car window of
the cannon ball train while the train was
moving at rapid rate.
The semi ,ntennial of the founding of
The New York Tribune, by Horace Gree
ley, was celebrated Friday night. Speeches
We're made by Chauncay Depew, William
Mckinley Jr., Charles A. Dana and
George William Curtis.
The convention of Arkansas colored peo-
pie at Little Rock to div clss the advisa-
bility of removing to Oklahoma on ac-
count OF the passage of the separate &C aoh
bill, failed to matcrlaliZe, but forty dele
gates putting in an appearance.
\ committee of the Salt Lake Chamber
Of Commerce and Mining Exchange has
made report ndorsing the dep mine
model exhibit at the worl IS fair rs worthy
of the hearty support of the citizens Of
every mining section of country.
Dr. Joseph c. Branuoek, Arkansas state
geologst, has been offered the chair of
geology in the Leland Stamford university,
# California. DR. Brannock is undecided
whether to Gceapt the position at orc, or
wait until he finishes his work in Ar
kansas.
Alice and Annie Knapp, aged IA and is
years, daughters of Ezra Knapp, Of Law
renceburg, Ind, are in Jail in Columbus,
that state, charged with stealing q SO
gold watch and SIS in money from Ed.
Robbins, in whose family they were work
ing as domestics.
Two negroes, names unknown, were ar
rested and jailed at Evergreen, Ala,
Thursday, charged with bing members
Of the band of train wrecbers who have
been operating on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad The others Of the
gang have been located and will be appre-
heuded.
4 Car Drivers story.
eyes; I'd rather be car driver than
private coachman in a swell family said
a stout, rosy faced young man on a Broad
Al