Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06

The total value of the output is given as
k27, 7,653,2lS, or an average of T7.2 per cent
short ton at the mines, against SIS, ,557, i, 12E
in 1880.
AT conference between Secretary Eos
ter and New York bankers and brokers
the latter unanimously favored the exten
sion of the four-and half per cent bonds
at 2 per cent
The notorious bank burglar Abe Coax
ley, implicated in the Manhattan bank
robbery, in 1873, has been arrested in New
York for the robbery of a merchant, com
mitted ten years ago.
Robert Schilling, president of the new
Peoples party, has issued a call for con
vention of the party to be held in st.
Louis, June l9, to arrange plan of action
for the coming campaign.
While engaged in row over game of
monte, at Fort Douglass, Utah, Rufus
Smith, private of Company d, Sixteenth
infantry, shot and fatally wounded Will
lam Carter of Company ii.
Near Dilley Station Tex, w. C. Bowen,
editor Of The Cotulla Ledger, was killed
by Alfred Alice, and W. l.. Bowen,
brother of the deceased, was seriously
wounded by Lyons, q friend of Alice.
Fred. c. Ward, paymaster of the Della
ware and Hudson Canal company, being
charged with a shortage of $4,000 in his
accounts, protested his innocence and be-
came delirious on account of the accusa-
ton.
George V. Brewer a Brooklyn politician,
is charged with the illegal execution of
mortgages aggregating $500, ,000, in fraud Of
the creditors of the Ridgewood Ice com
pany, which went into voluntary dissolu.
tion last October
The cigarmakers' strike at Chicago is
surely but slowly coming to an end. One
hundred men have returned to work at
union wages during the past few days, and
little more than 300 are now out These
are being supported by the cgarmakers'
union.
The coronial investigation at Louisville
of the Snooks- Herr wedding poisoning
tragedy shows that the colored servant Jim
had mysterious information as TO the crime
Albert Herr, the father of the bride, be-
lieved that the water in the silver pitcher
was poisoned.
AS the net result of Thursdays proceed
ings in the Illinois legislature, the worlds
fair bill is in chancery, the lower house
DelUR NeleEmlueu 10 llnlll UHc HppIOpfH-
to $150,000, and the senate insisting on the
full million, There is apparently little
hope for compromise.
Census tobacco statistics for Missouri
show that the total number of planters in
the state during the census year was TO-,
495; the total area devoted to tobacco,
II $50 acres; the total product 9,424 1923
pounds, and the value of the crop to the
producer estimated Oh basis of actual
sales, $4l9,52d.
1t is stated that the Rev. johnson
Myers, of the Ninth street Baptist church,
of Cincinnati, will soon tender his resigna-
ton, TO take effect July l. The church
has been remarkably prosperous under his
pastoral care for the last six years. His
departure is due to personal reasons, his
health being poor.
George w. Turner has resigned the
office of publisher of The New York
World, and has been succeeded by Man
ager Dillon, late of The ST. Louis Post
Dispatch. Mr.. Turner goes to The New
York Recorder, in which he is said TO have
acquired proprietary interest together
with Col. Taylor, of The Boston Globe.