Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-19
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Deposits of kaolin recently discovers az
| Huron, Ind, has raised the value of n
estate in that vicinity to fabulous prices.
| Ex-senator Pierce, OF Dakota, has his
choice between the JAPANESE ministry
and the editorship of The Minneapolis Tri.
bune.
Commander-inC Chief Veazey has or
dered general observance on April 6 OF
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Grand
Army
The town of North Washington, Iowa,
was almost totally destroyed by fire, sup
posed to have been the work of incen-
diaries.
William Cox, in Jail at Anderson, Ind,
whitfield key out of wood furnished by
his mother and escaped He was re-
captured.
A seventy-dve pound can of dynamite
placed near a stove to thaw out exploded
at Halifax, Novia Scotia, tearing up things
generally.
Charles W. Longacre, agent for the
American Track company, of St. Louis
has confessed to embezzling 81 500, from
the company.
The suits in the United States superior
court to test the consttutionality of the
Mckinley tariff law have been posponed
until October.
John Elliott, Vandalia railroad fire,
man, was thrown from his engine on his
first trip at Charlottesville, Ind, and
fatally crushed.
Fred. Arbergast, young German farmer,
near Frankfort, Ind, has been arrest ed
for brutal torture of the m pntLs old
baby he hated
Three colored children were burned to
death in Baltimore by fire started by
them while playing. The house was en-
tirely consumed
George Griffey George Murphy and Ed.
Murphy the Co,ored men convicted ol
murder at Hopkinsville, Ky, have been
given life sentence
William Stines, of Harrodsburg KY.
was blinded by the exploding OF pipe
which had been filled with powder by a
friend. Alleged joke.
A section of hill opposite Eighteenth
street, in Kansas City, fell, demolishing
tire cottages. Charles Fuget was buried
but was rescued alive.
John Ericsson bequeathed Sl23, COO more
than he possessed The courts in New
York decide legatges must share pro rata
none having preference in full,
has refused the new demand of the silver
men for the free coinage of brick OF
silver at the Philadelphia mint
Jonas Hoover is before the United
States grand jury at Goshen, Ind, foI
tearing mans nervous system all up by
calling him dead beat per postal card.
Matilda Co, c., colored woman of Hop
kinsvlle, KY, said to be 100 years old was
run over by freight train, receiving in
juries that viii prove fatal. One leg was
amput ta5ed.
At Springfield H., Joseph vasconcellos
shot Mrs. Annie Sturgeon, a married
woman with whom he had been living
and then shot himself Mrs Sturgeon
will probably die.
Father Gloden has been removed from
the pastorate of st. Wendeins church
Fostoria, O., for not carrying out the
directions of Bishop Gilmore in respect to
Temodeling the church.
A man answering the description OF
Tascott the murderer of Smell, has been
arrested at Aberdeen, s. Oak. The Chi
cago authorities are quite sure that they
have the right man this time.
Mrs McCabe, who killed Judge Stern
in Mexico and escaped and was recently
arrested in Texas, will apply for writ Of
habeas corpus before Judge MaXey, of the
United States court of Austin.
Henry Poe, of Columbus Ind, told a
big story of assault by highwaymen to
make his girl believe he was big brave.
confessed Il lie and now words fail to
express what she thinks of him.
Three men were probably fatally burned
and six seriously injured by an explosion
IN pudding furnace at the Crescent
steel works, Pittsburg The superintend-
ent says it was caused by carelessness.
The demand for gold bars for shipment
to f lrope has been refused by the director
Of the mint, and shipments if made mrss
he in gold coin, which renders the trat sac.
tion less profitable to those Concerned
Mrs. Lizzie Harms of Perth, Inc, bet
two kegs OF beer that she would marry
James Blackwood before morning Then
she bought license, colared the terrified
victim and had the ceremony said bc'o,e
he could defend himself
James Brown ran away forty years ago
from Georgetown, o., and this week, a
his poor mother was preparing to 90 to
the poor house, he returned Just in time
to go with her This IS per ancient Third
Reader story with variations
Robert Skillman, the Louisville drum
mer who was slot on the depot platform
at Columbus, Ind, Thursday evening last
by Lambert n. Goldsmith, also of Louis
vile, is still alive, at the hospital, with
but little hope Of recovery Goldsmith is
still in Jail.
Considerable excitement has been
caused in the foreign fruit trade in this
country by reports from Italy to the effect
that the orange and lemon crops have
been destroyed by recent storms. II is
estimated that the crop will be reduced
about 75 per cent
The Louisiana Lottery company is evad-
ing the anti-luttery law by having organ
lied a branch Office in Mexico, rom which
point it is flooding the United States with
circulars, unC ar the name of the Mexican
International Banking company. Our
government cannot interfere with mails
from foreign country
II is said Tint the cruiser San Francisco,
at present in dry-dock, at Mare Island
navy yard, will depart shortly under sealed
orders, but the report is current that her
destination is Chilli Work on the Char
lesion is being carried on with rush. No
information is obtainabe as 20 what dis
position the navy department intends to
make of her.
The United States local inspectors Of
steam vessels at Cincinnati have submitted
the report Of the cause Of the collision OF
the steamer Sherlock with the pier Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio bridge They found
nothing wrong with the machinery or
with the crew, and attributed the accident
to smoke and steam from the lowered
chimneys o5scuring the red lights on the
hridge 80 that the pilot lost his beariI rs