Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-24

Inc IlfSU NaIlOnal Dank, or Medicine
Lodge, Kan, is in the hands of the gov
ernment examiner. Assets, So, COO; labil-
titles, $4,000
Eight-year-old Frank Edwards was
drowned in a sewer at Paterson, N. j.
Rain and thaw caused rush of water that
carried him in.
John Surbur, an Adams county, o.,
farmer, was fatally injured by being
struck by hand-car while walking on the
railroad track
illinois proposes to have passed mutual
savings bank act. In this Illinois is fol,
lowing the lead of New York and the New
England states.
Mrs Ludwig Anderson, OF Brockton,
Mass, poisoned herself and three children
through jeaoi 3 OF her husband, They
may not recover
Frequent hemorrhages of the nose,
which lasted several days, was the cause
of Mrs. David Wrght's death at Cam
bridge City, Wednesday.
| Columbus O., miners considered ways
and means of convincing operators that
| their demand for ten cents advance in
wages is no minor matter.
Quaker Preacher White was made still
more of Quaker when inobbed by Mil,
| ton, Ind, people who objected to his at
tentions to Il married woman
jefferson Bailey Washington, Ind, stock
buyer, awoke just in time to see his s., 400
chasing itself into the dark midnight in
company with two bad burglars.
Mrs. Julia Higbee, who recently pos-
oned her four children Ht her home near
Brandenburg, Ky, was found by jury 10
he dementcd and sent TO an asylum
The funeral OF Charles Justin Jones,
editor of The New York Weekly Times,
occurred in New York, Thursday, and the
remains were started to Cleveland, O.
A Chicago paper says that r, T.. Hutch
inson, the bold Chicago speculator, having
lost all but 81 0O0 0OO of the fortune u
$20,0O0,0OO will retire from specula ion.
William Moore, well known colorad
citizen of Upper Sandusky, o., has mySl
risusly disappC AIRED, leaving II wife and
large family in destitute circumstances
In the S23o,0 GOO damage suit of Miss Laura
Moberly agaiI St James II. Henry, on trial
in the OweI Ind, circuit court the jury
returned a verdict for plaintiff for $?0
David Skiwinski, New York salesman,
was engaged 10 Il Huntingdon Pa. girl
She wrote him breaking the engagement
and he went to lcr town and hanged him
self
1t is now reported in circles at Ottawa,
well informed, that Sir John Macdonald
has definitely decided to dissolve parla
ment and appeal 10 the country the last
week in February.
An affray between City Marshal f. H.
Stout, cf Aberdeen, Miss. and man
named Story, at Gallatin, La, resulted in
the death of Story and perhaps mortal
wOunding of Stout.
lame, r. O'Neil Chicago and North
western ifeignu Cuuuuut0f, was snoV ant. III
stantly killed at Iongpoint, Iowa, Wednes-
day by tramps. The conductor was trying
to eject them from a train,
At Rochester, n. Y. Wednesday night
John Miller, aged 81, upon being re-
preached for drunkenness by his 1S-year-
old son, stabbed him four times. The son
is dead, the father arrested
Charles f. Eaton, president of the Eaton
Manufacturing company, which is estab
fishing plaut in Woburn, Mass, was in
iured, prot ably fatally, by being caught
In an elevator at the new factory.
Crook Edward Steele represented at q
Barnesyille, o., hotel that he was in the
hardware business, and proceeded to make
hard wear on the valuables of the guests
with his light-iingered manipulations.
The Chicago Polytechnic has received
vial of koch's lymph from the president
with an accompanying letter from Private
Secretary Ilalford, explaining that it was
one of five vlals received from Minister
Phelps.
The supreme court of Tennessee has af-
firmcd the death sentence of George Stone
a Lincoln county colored man, who was
convicted of lnurder in the first degree of
an old colored man named Thornton Berk-
ley, in Fayetteville, for Sl5.
At Baltimore two unknown colored
men from Pomeroy, Pa, were found
asphyXiated by gas in room in the
Eureka hotel. One of the men, supposed
to be Samuel Derr, died shortly afterward.
The other man cannot recover.
Gen Miles has issued orders for the
troops of tine department of the Missouri
to return to their stations The Sioux
war practically closed with review of the
600 soldiers. Gen. Miles will return to
his headquarters in Chicago Immediately
w. w. Lowell, of Cincinnati, raving
lunatlC, Wlllle DeIuS taken InrOugn Cnl-
capo to Green Bay, Wis, lodged his
keeper and threw himself through the
window, and, although he struck violently
on the ground, sprang to his feet and
bounded away,
Mary Esehman, aged 49, of Cincinnati,
claims to have been kidnapped by two men
on Monday night, placed in a carriage and
driven to some resort, where she was kept
for two days and compelled to submit to
repeated criminal assaults. Her condition
substantiates her story.
Two officers of the Guatemaan army
are now in New York city purchasing
arms aud ammunition, and third repre-
sen tatve Of the Guatemalan government
is there buying horses that, from the
standard fixed, will he Just suited for cav
airy and field artillery service
A workman cleaning a canal lock near
Joliet, ILL.,, struck his pick against some
thing hard 4 little work brought to light
box, found to contain so in Spanish
coin, package OF bank notes on a Joliet
bank which has been non-rxistant for
twenty years, and legal papers 50 badly
damaged by water as to be illegible Ell
forts will I've made to decipher them with
the aid Of chemicals,
CONGRESS.
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