Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-25

less he was given all the money he
wanted.
Near Mansfield, O., Mrs. Wilson Good
hart shielded 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 g. Company, wholesale crock
cry dealers, and the A. Lusk Canning
company, of San Francisco, are finan-
cially embarrassed.
George Lawrence and Charles MoChes-
ney were seriously scalded by boiler ex-
plosion in the Wardlow-Thomas paper
mill at Middletown, o.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy
and Greece have signifed their willing
ness to continue their present commercial
treaty relations with Spain
The Brooklyn New England society
celebrated the anniversary of the landing
of the pilgrims by a grand banquet, Mr..
Cleveland was in attendance
The dog diet cure for consumption
proved of no benefit to Sam Burnett d
Charles FL her, 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.
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dence of Health Secretary Probst and
Jack Sneed the base ball player. Loss in
each case s., 900, small insurance.
EX-Mayor Parsons, Mayor Wyman and
other Allegheny City Pa.) officials haze
been indicted by the grand jury charged
with embezzlement and extortion.
| The mills of Buffalo will contribute
| 100000 pounds Of -four 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 hayward, was fatally shot
by a 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 re
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 sei-
ousiy ill at the Holland House, in New
York.
s. V. White & Company, bankers end
brokers, SO Wall street. New YORK,
whose schedules, filed on Saturday, show
liabilities unsecured amounting to 81 ,013,
543 and actual assets of 1858, 22S, 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 po oned from eating souse at
| dinner. Med cal attention was summoned
and the entire family saved. An investi-
CATION will be made by the board of
health
There is row in the New York Grant
monument committee, and it is stated
that the next legislature will be asked to
disband the present organization and
start the committee on new basis. 1t is
claimed that the idea of the present CO ~
mittee is to build much smaller tomD
than had beeA expected.
Attorney General d. K. Watson, OF
Ohio, is stopping at the Losekam, Wash
| ington. He is 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 Only
candidate so far named, and his chances
are said to be very good
In DewitC county, Ark, Nose HendGr-
son, II man named Smith and his son in
law, named Gregory, We're shot to death
! by mob that broke into the Jail. Hender.
| son, it appears, had been arrested for at
tempting to assassnate the divorced wife
of Smith ald made a confession, impli,
eating the eX-husband and his son-in-law
Four carloads of negroes came irto
Oklahoma Monday on 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 III
Reno. They are all well clothed and are
evidently a superior class of colored PEG
pie,
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, of Iowa, the oele-
brated temperance advocate, attended the
| obsequies at the senate chamber Monday.
She laid aside her fur coat. and, when the
ceremonies We're concluded, walked down
to the gallery railing to obtain a closer
view of the distinguished assembly upon
the floor OF the senate. When she re-
turned she discovered that her pocket
book, containing over 500 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 OK
tensive frauds by tobacco importers. TIE
large importation of oilers" from HR-
vana are believed to systematically con
ceal quantities of leaf suitable for wrap
pers, which take a much higher duty. A
| difference of $4,000 would be made in
the collections on the invoices now in
custody Similar Investigations are un-
derstood 10 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