Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-07
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK.

AT Millersburg, o., safe-bloweEs secured
$500 and $500 worth OF jewelry from
Charles ]. Ssuber's safe
Robert Watson, alleged murderer of
Vandalia Engineer Davidson. has heen
taken from the bitterness at Terre Haute.
Ind, TO safety at Rockville.
Jealous William Ashton, at phiIadel-
phia, attacked his wife with hatchet and
knife. She escaped not fatally hurt; ho
then fatally cut his own throat.
Wiley African Methodist Episcopal
church members of Springfield, o., claim
! that Rev. Simmons is "too free wild de sis
tabs" and there is row in the fold.
1t is said that the Indian Rights associa-
tion will commence habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in behalf of the thirty Indians
held at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago
Indianapolis jumped nervously when
Caroline Taylor dashep out of an alley and
fired four shots at her aunt. An ad-
jacent street lamp was seriously wounded.
j. A. Shipman, prominent lawyer OF
kearney, Neb., is charged with forging
notes and mortgages aggregating sc, 600
in connection with a transfer of Omaha
real estate.
The Waterville, Me, poor house was
burned Thursday morning. One inmate,
a girl of 10, was burned to death. The
cause of the fire was defective chimney.
Loss on building, $S,C0O
The Iowa Columbian Exposition COM
mission has adopted plans for a 100000
building to be erected at Chicago, in
which the state exhibit will be placed. 1t
will be built of iron and glass.
AT Vincennes, Ind, Mrs. Lille HaInp.
ton fatally shot herself while under ar
rest, and attempted to shoot her paramour,
Sanford Wheelan. They eloped from Har-
rodsbug, KY, last December.
James Redpath, the well known leo
turer, was knocked down by a team Of
horses attached to Fourth avenue car ON
Park Row, New York, and was slightly
injured about the head and arms.
At Denver William f. Porter, of War
rem, o., was shot and killed by his bosom
friend, Elson b. Giddings. They had been
drinking. Giddings claims 1t was acci-
dental. He is now "a raving maniac.
The largest and richest vein Of tin ore
known to the mining industry of the
world at the present time has been discov.
cred in the old Diablo mine shaft, forty
five miles southwest of Durango, Mexico.
The American Powder company Of Chi
cago has purchased the patent and exclus-
i've right to manufacture the Emmons ex-
plosive or smokeless powder. The factory
is located at Emmonsite, south of Green's
burg, Pa.
Two soldiers, whose names are un-
known were recently drowned in the Mis-
souri, river. They had been carousing at
Winona, n. OAK, and were on their re-
turn to Fort Yates, and went through an
air-hole i'll the ice.
The Indiana senate has passed strin-
gent antitrust and pool law Any person
convicted of being a member of such
organization shall he subject to fine Of
from 81 600 to $5, ,0o0 and imprisonment in
the state prison from two TO five years.
The North Shore limited on the New
York Central was wrecked by coming in
contact with a wild cat engine. En-
gineer Robert Brown, of Greece, was
killed, and Fireman NJ Feeney, of DEWITT.
fatally injured. No passengers injured
Three Engmark brothers, the oldest not
yet % years of age, have been arrested for
Systematically robbing two Chicago
wholesale jewelry houses. When filing
orders they would slip goods into their
pockets. The aggregate of their stealings
is thought to be at least $40 000
Under orders from the government de-
tail of United States officers made an In
spection of Mexican railway lines and
coast defenses. They found them both
much more thorough than they expected,
and the coast works In particular are
progressing with notable rapidity.
Thomas b. Woodside, 57 years old, once
the wealthiest farmer in that section Of
the state, committed suicide at his home,six
miles from New Burnside, ILL., He was en-
gagged to be married to Miss Stella Fisher,
daughter of the state attorney. In a
quarrel with her he pulled out u revolver,
and blew out his brains
Milton Brown, aged g. of Anne rton,
Ont, will next Tue Csday lead to the altar q
bride in the person of Mrs. Margaret
Clickert, aged 81. The groom has buried
four wives, and the bride mourns the loss
of five husbands. Her last husband died
two years ago at the advanced age of 12i
years. The bride and groom-elect are col
ored, and were slaves in Virginia.
Miss Marie Louise Shepard, daughter of
Elliott +. Shepard, and granddaughter Of
W. H. Nandcr &, was married Thursday
to Viii I'M j. -lh.elitlin, son Of William
ii. sSchieffelin, and grandson of John Jay.
The presents received by the couple are
sail TO be worth $4,000, one being o
diamond necklace Of nearly 800 stones, and
worth 100000 from one of the brides
aUnts.
The headless body of nude man, with
the except.1n of stocking and shoe on
the left leg, was found lying at high tide
at the foot of Laight street, New York.
The right leg was missing having been
either cut or torn from the body at the
hips There was deep cash across the
hips The body was found at the mouth
of a big sewer. The body had not been In
the water any length of time.
The Alaska Commercial company has
announced that it is out of the fur-sealing
business. Its lease of the Russian roolS
cries on Copper, Behring and Robin
islands expires on Feb. II, and IL Is re-
ported that Russia has awarded the seal
ing privilege for the next ten years to a
Greenwald firm 1t Is stated that the new
North American company is interested in
the new lease, but this is not verified
The mutual underwriters OF the north
west as the result of conference at Chi
cago, have formed league TO be known
as the Manufacturers Mutual Underwrit-
ers association. The main object of the
organization is the abolishment OK the
present system Of commissions. The
scheme is to conduct tine business by inter
change OF courtesies between the eompan-
les and by paying salaries instead Of com
missions.
Foreign Flashes.
Spurgeon has recovered his health.
Siam intends to have n National bank.
An avalanche In Switzerland killed