Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-30

! oy prisoner IN Une county jail, ana, al
though every precaution has been taken
1t is feared the danger is not yet past
The whole affair is enveloped in a veil O
mystery.
A New York Herald dispatch from tn,
City of Mexico says Jaun Navarro chic
\ engineer of the land survey company
and son of the Mexican consul general il
/ New York, was shot recently during
/ quarrel in the state of Chippas.
While temporarily insane from the grip
| Newell j. Minor, aged thigty-tive years
/ living at Rome, n Y, and employed by
the Armour Beef company, of Chicago, a,
an auditor, committed suicide in a Turk
ish bath establishment at Philadelphia
Governor Fleming, of Florida, has ap
| pointed Edward j. Tracy state treasurer
vice Francis j, Pond, deceased. Tracy
has been the governors private secre
tary since 1889, He is a native oi
Cuba, but was educated at St. Angus
tine.
No word has as yet been received as tc
the whereabouts of Silas Cheney, the &c
centric brother-in-law of the late Horace
Greeley Cheney disappeared from Ash
bury Park, n. j., four weeks ago, and
since then nothing has been heard from
him.
The British steamer Southgate has ar
rived at New York from Alexandria
Egypt, with 1900 bales of Egyptian cot
ton This is the first large importation OF
Egyptian cotton. 1t is considered superior
to the American cotton and will be mixed
with it.
The Maine cattle commissioners have
posted quarantine against Massachu-
setts cattle because of the tuberculosis,
but the regulation does not apply to west
ern cattle coming through Massachu-
setts into Maine for the purpose of
slaughter.
William Sutcliffe, the largest brewer
and malster at Auburn, N. Y, has failed
He has confessed Judgment to the amount
of $4,000 Sutcliffes property is all
heavily mortgaged. The full amount of
his liabilities can not be ascertained, but
are supposed to be over 100000
During the voyage of the steamship
Moravia, which arrived in New York
Monday from Hamburg, there were three
deaths on board. Alexander Moore, a
seaman; Saul Kohnen, a steerage passen-
ger, and a child named Joseph Isig were
the names. All were buried at sea.
While freight train was ascending the
heavy grade between Mount Carmel and
Centralia, Pa, coupling broke and the
first section descended with terrific veloc-
ity, and meeting the second section at the
foot of the grade, twenty cars were
wrecked. The loss is estimated at $50, 600
Abraham Brown, alias Reinholt, q
saloon keeper on Market street, St Louis,
was shot and mortally wounded Monday
by Isaac Valentine, alias "Sheeney"
O'Brien, late of Cincinnati Both men
are members of the Moose club, an organ
ization composed solely of saloon keepers
in the immoral districts and their bar
tenders,
The prophecy which DIR, Teed, the
Korshean prophet, claims he made eleven
years ago that some time in 1891 he would
be accepted as the Messiah into the Econ
omite society, has only few days left for
realization, There is considerable excite
ment over the matter among the members
at Economy, and some earnest prayers are
going up that the prophecy may not come
true.
During the first week in June next an
extraordinary gathering of Canadian In
dans will take place Mt Kamlsops, in
about 1000 Christian Indians from vari-
Gus parts of British Columbia and prob
ably number of pagan Indians. They
will compare notes and consider educa-
tional matters and the progress in the arts
of civilization.
A half-dozen cowboys took possession
of the southbound passenger train on the
International and Great Northern road,
forty miles north of San Antonio, Tex,
Sunday night. Their first act was to
force a Chicago drummer off the moving
train because he wore a red cravat and
high silk hat They then made a number
of young ladies in the Pullman coach
sing for them. They enforced all their
demands with drawn pistols. They ruled
the train for twenty miles, when they
stopped off at way station.
Death Roll.
A j. Roberts, wealthy citizen of Con
norsville, Ind
Jacob D. Connor, clerk of the Missouri
supreme court.
Sir William Arthur White, British en-
bassador to Turkey, in Berlin.
John H. Case, the first man to run a To-
comotive west of the Alleghenies, at Vim
cennes, Ind
General Thomas Allcock, inventor of
the pourous plaster bearing his name, at
New York, of apoplexy.
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