Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-03

appointed James Boyle, Cincinnati
newspaper man, his private secretary.
Governor Hogg will call a special ses-
sion of the Texas legislature One of the
subjects to be considered is the alien land
law.
The New York Democratic state COM
mittee has favored the continuance in Of
flee of Governor Hill till his term as gov
ernor expires.
Bank robbers blew open the safe of the
Hopkins county bank at Madisonvillo,
KY, and secured $500 They were ex-
perts and left no clew
AT Marion, Ind, Miss frankie Moore
house was dragged by strange person
supposed to be man in woman's cloth
ing and spirited away,
The sugar refinery at Curtis bay, near
Baltimore, has shut down to spend $500,
600 in improvements. Three hundred
workmen are out of work
William Kregier, car porter, is in jail
at Galveston in default of 81 600 bail for
abstracting letters from the United States
mail and appropriating their contents.
At Johnst"wn, N. Y, Charles F. Smith
shot Miss elch, who had been living
with his family, because she would not re-
turn. Mad infatuation. She may recover.
George j. "eis, his wife and three sons,
perished in their burning dwelling in De
troit A servant girl and two young
children escaped. Origin of fire ur-
known.
Louis Armand the man who forced his
attentions on Mrs. Charles b. Alexander,
nee Harriet Crocker, daughter of the San
Francisco millionaire has been adjudged
insane at New York
Sir Alexander Campbell, lieutenant
governor of Ontario, was attacked by n
stroke of paralysis last week, and is now
considered in a critical condition lie is
siXty-nine years of age.
The California worlds fair commission
has appointed National Commission r
Thompson a delegate to the general co..
ference of til, worlds fair commissioners,
to be held in Chicago Dec. g.
Catherine eaman, executrix. has recov-
cred from ook & Strickland large
quantity or lmatra tobacco by iudg-
ment of the court at Binghamton, N. Y.
The amount involved is about $4,000.
The report sent out that the Apache In
dians had killed a man named Daniels
and wounded Major Downing in tie
Chiracahua mountains turns out that the
shooting was done by a man named Fay
who wore moccasins.
Father Kirwan, pastor of st. Mary's,
East Orange, N. j., fired upon a gang of
lab0rers who were engaged in putting up
electric wire poles in front of the church
in the face of the priests protest. There
is great excitement over the affair
The cruiser San Francisco has been
taken off the dry dock at the Mare Island
navy yard and towed alongside the wharf
The ship was very foul. Admiral Brown
is still waiting orders. The opinion is ex-
pressed at San Francisco that the vessel
will be ordered to Chill waters.
Relatives of William T. Mclean, who
was killed in a collision ON the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railway, near Navarro last
spring, have begun suit for $40, 900 dam
ages against the company, Mclean was
a mail clerk ON the train. Carelessness on
the part of the company is charged.
The Pullman Palace Car company hos
notified Collector Clark, of Chicago, that
hereafter it would demand draw backs
on tin plate imported for use in it's cars
that are sent abroad. The company re-
Gently sold the Australian government a
number of palace cars, and much of the
material used was imported
The annual report of the Kentucky rail
road commissioners recommends that q
law be passed providing for separate
coaches for whites and blacks. This is
probably due in part to the unfortunate
shooting of Miss McEwan by negro, in
row between whites and blacks on
Louisville and Nashville train in Septem-
Der.
Edward Field, of the firm of Field,
Lindley & Company, which recently failed
for over 81 ,000 600 in New York, is insane,
and has attempted suicide He has $780,
600 insurance upon his life. His venera-
BILE father, Cyrus w. Field, has been
stripped of his all, about $500 900, by his
son, and is now probably on his death
bed.
At Newport KY, Louis Thornton,
known as "Wild Bill" Thornton, was shot
and killed by William Williamson,
prominent citizen Mr.. Williamson says
Thornton, whose career is somewhat
checkered and who has killed two men,
has prosecuted him systematically for
years, and he could stand it no longer.
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thy is with Williamson, who is out on
bond.
The National line steamship France,
which left New York for London last
Saturday, returned to the former port,
after dangerous encounter with a tidal
wave, which shifted the cargo, On Sun
day heavy snowstorm began, accompa-
MED by fierce winds. Tremendous seas
arose, and at last a mountainous wave
struck the vessel For a time it ap-
peared that the vessel and all on board
would go down. The cargo must be re
moved.
At Z o'clock Tuesday night the Chicago
express, which leaves New York at p
M, came along at laundering speed, and
before the engineer could stop the train it
crashed into Croton local standing on
the track in front of the station of the
New York Central at Tarrytown, n. Y
The collision was terrific, and those who
witnessed the accident expected to SEQ
scores of lifeiess people scattered about
the wreck. Fortunately, no one of the
passengers was seriously hurt.
The Death Roll.
Don Louis Huller, the Jay Gould of
Mexico" He had home in the suburbs
of the Mexican capital that is said to be
the most luxurious in America.
Nelson w. Dicker, once a brilliant
actor, at the Edwin Forest Home at
Holmesburg Pa, of wounds inflicted with