Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-01

not return his affections. He stepped in
front of train and was almost instantly
killed.
Two oil drillers were terribly burned in
an explosion at the Forest Oil company's
well near CoraOpolis, Pa.
Wheeling has voted to put in
an electric light plant to be owned by the
city 1t will cost $50, 700.
There is some talk of building new
bridge over the Ohio river between Bel
laire and Benwood, w. Va.
Addison Younker, timber contractor,
was instantly killed in the woods near
Warren. o., by falling log.
The first train through from Wheeling
to Steubenville, o., over the Wheeling and
Lake Erie, will be run July 6.
Steven Trice, a Missouri farmer was
bilked out of s., 800, together with a team
and buggy, by confidence men.
The jury in the case of Ira Marriott, of
Youngstown, o., charged with the muir
der of Barok Ashton, failed to agree.
At Columbus, O., Patrick Mulroney, a
sword swallower, died from the effects of
putting a violin bow down his throat.
The Standard Oil company having pro-
cured the United States and Germany, is
now reaching out for the whole earth
One hundred and forty Pennsylvania
Republicans have issued protest against
the corrupt practices of Senator Quay.
George Gump, of Fort jefferson, has
been carrying the mails for thirty five
years between his town and Sidney, o.
William Petty, of Muncie, Ind, has
been arrested, charged with conspiracy to
blackmail neighbor, Sanford Heaton.
Earthquakes occurred at Verona, Italy,
Monday night. Buildings were shaken
and cracked, and the inhabitants rushed
to the fields
Two drunken Indians named George
Stephen and Robert Cunning fought in
boat and were drowned in the lake near
Algonia, Mich.
The drouth in India continues and no
crops can be raised in the province before
February. The land is scorched and
famine prevails.
A scaffold at Charles L. Davis new
theater in Pittsburg fell, precipitating
four men sixty feet. All are perhaps
fatally injured.
Farmer William Goudy, of Trenton,
No, shot William Pugh in the eye with a
full charge from shotgun. The men had
been quarreling
William Gates, colored, aged 20, was
hanged to tree nine miles west of West
Point, Miss, and literally shot to pieces
by fifty citizens.
An abandoned Harrison county lind
gas we'll burst forth the other day with u
greater pressure than any of the noted
wells thereabouts.
A skif containing two young men and
two ladies, of Cincinnati, was struck by
coal tow, in the middle of the Ohio, and
upset. No lives were lost.
Patrick Hageney, Richard T. Benniwitz
and John Flaherty were killed by falling
wall, while engaged in raising a school
building, at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Missouri river is at its highest point
since 1881. Many farms are overAowed,
and crops are ruined. The river has cut
q new channel near Atehison.
Indiana White Caps brutally whipped
w. Mcclure, and his 1S-year-old step
daughter whom they accuse of living in
adultery, in Crawford county.
General George Thoms retired, distin-
guished officer of engineers, died Monday
at Washington of paralysis. He performed
valuable services during the war.
State Geologist Gorby reports the Indi-
ana oil district, covering parts of the coun-
ties of Adams. Jay. Marion and Hunting
ton, as increasing in area and production
A "monk" belonging to an Italian cir
Gus at Eckerty, Ind, gouged out the right
eye of the proprietor. The show is now
without "monk." He was killed with a
club
st. Johns day was celebrated in Mexico,
five deaths being reported, with more to
hear from. During a fight for love at
Atascosa creek a Mexican was disem
boweled.
There is deficiency in the endowment
fund of Kenyon college, arising from using
the interest on the fund for general ex
pense The trustees will be called upon to
make it good.
An aged soldier John Robinson, and his
wife, he aged 70 and she 6S, died at New
Albany from the effects of beating
at the hands of White Caps and subse
quent exposure.
Emanuel Sherid, of Pilot Knob, Ind,
was handling a copper-head snake, when
it bit him. and, after hanging on three
minutes, the snake dropped dead. The
man is still living
Murderer Freeman, who essisted twenty
one convicts to escape from the peniten-
tiary at Forest, Tex, during which seven
guards were killed, year ago, was ar
rested at Louisville.
Frank Melbourn, the Australian inven-
tor of an alleged rain-machine, will at
tempt to cause fall of rain over 0,0OO
square miles of territory next Tuesday,
with Canton, O., as a central point.
Stevedores engaged in fight at New
Orleans, ten shots being exchanged. None
were hurt, but vast crowd gathered at
the wharves and several patrol wagons
of police were necessary to quell the riot.
The charred body of Chinese woman
was found in the ruins of a lodging house
that was burned in San Francisco, and il
is stated that five other Chinese women
were burned to death, but the bodies have
not yet been found.
Professor Roland p. Falkner, Phi. d. OF
the Wharton school of finance and econ
omy, University of Pennsylvania, has
been elected to the chair Of political econ
omy in the new school of political science
in the Northwestern university at Chicago
It is said First Lieutenant Benjamin S.
Viewer. of the First United States infantry,
has left his post at Benicia, Cal, and gone
to Chilli with a woman named Rose
Hooper. The company funds are also re-
ported short. Viewers wife lives at Colum-
bus, o.
Oliver T. Morton, son of the late Oliver
P. Morton, has told the Washington re-
porters that Judge Walter q. Gresham is
more popular with Indiana people than is
Ben Harrison, and Gresham, he says, is
stronger than his party in Indiana and
Harrison is not.