Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-09
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Farmers are getting in their work in
Ohio, ana tickets are being put in the field
In many counties.
Twelve hundred German bakers of Chi
cago went on a strike for fair wages and
better treatment, and won.
W. II. Cook, police clerk at Toledo o.,
is an embezzler to the amount of So, 900, of
which $50, 900 were city funds
August Young, aged II years, while
boating on the Shenango river, near
Youngstown, o., was drowned
Joseph Shanahan, a convict ON his way
to Sing Sing, N. Y, escaped at the depot
and has not yet been recaptured
Miss Elaine Goodale, the erstwhile child
poetess, will soon marry in New York DIR.
Charles Eastman, Sioux Indian.
At Ashland, KY, II. Schanks shot and
killed George liable, his brother-in-law.
They quarreled over family affairs.
Seven thousand ship workers ia the
yards on the Clyde, Scotland, have struck
against per cent reduction of wages
A man named Long was found mangled
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad track
near GAINESVILLE, o. He had been drink
ing
The flint glass works at Findlay, O.,
was burned Sunday morning. Loss, $780,
600 and 200 men thrown out of employ
ment.
A broken frog on the Big Four at Eliza
BEETHOVEN, o., Saturday, caused big
freight wreck, and Engineer Bennett was
killed.
Berely Ball and Al. Huston, colored.
farm hands on Slim island, Mount Vern
Ind. Huston shoveled Balls head fatally
and then fled.
Well diggers near Crown Point, Ind,
unearthed the bodies of u man, woman
and child whose skulls had been crushed.
1t is a mystery
The New York Morning Advertiser made
its appearance Monday under the editor
ship of John A. Cockerill, late managing
editor of The World
Jack Rattoo was fatally stabbed by Will
lam Raymond at San Francisco. The men
quarreled about a woman, with whom
both had been living.
William Manson, a swindler, has been
arrested for attempting to murder Rev.
Clarke Wright, in New York city Hap
PLY the bullet flew wild.
A slight flesh wound is the result of an
attempted suicide by Mrs. Gail Barton,
wife of New Orleans theatrical manager,
at New York. Jealousy.
While temporarily insane from drink
John Walcutt, nephew of ex-Mayor Wal
cult, committed suicide by shooting at
Columbus, o., Saturday.
Two of the three Vandreburg brothers,
of Atchison, county, Kan. who were bitten
by rabid steers, have died, and the third is
in precarious condition.
Rev. Jerry Holmes and Rev. George Va
neil, the preacher counterfeiters, received
three and one year sentences, respectively,
in the Illinois penitentiary.
During IA heavy rain at Chillicothe, Tex,
two employees of w. p. Lindsay, and two
strangers who were camped near the
bridge at that place, were drowned.
The new palatial steamer, City of Toledo,
burst her steam chest on her trial trip.
Joseph McCracken was killed, and two
Others were probably fatally injured
At Elk Creek, Neb., Lawyer S. r.
Clark is under arrest charged with the
murder of w. II. Watson, his room mate,
who it was thought recently suicided.
A distinct shock of an earthquake from
southeast to northwest accompanied by a
rumbling noise, was felt at New Bruins
wick, N. j., at II o'clock Sunday morning.
At Montpelier, Ind, William Holder
man, superintendent of the McElwaine
gas supply house shot himself in the
mouth He had been sick for several
days.
Charles II. Cole, alias Charles IT, Haw-
kins, pleaded guilty in the criminal court
at Birmingham, Ala, to forgery, and was
sentenced TO three years and ten months in
the penitentiary.
Mrs Belle Booker, wife of Youngs-
town, O., barber, was found by her hus-
band in coal yard near his home. She
had been outraged and then Drained with
hatchet No clew.
Burrell Taylor is the first victim of the
mob that objected to the Federals and
Confederates decorating graves together
near Greensboro, Ky. He died Saturday
from injuries received.
Thomas Dollhouse, an insurance agent
at Rochester, n. Y, committed suicide by
jumping into the canal. His last act was
to pawn his wife's Bible and take the pro
ceeds to pay up an insurance policy.
AT Lima, O., Mrs Seerger was attacked
by an infatuated COW and hurled some dis
lance, and managed to escape from the
animal, but not until she had been so bad
ly injured that she can hardly recover.
Advices from Hayti in regard to the in
surrection state that some sixty persons
were shot on May 9, that Hippolyte has
everything in his own hands, and the kill
ing goes ON ut the rate of two or three per-
sons per day.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Wilbur, of
Clay City, Ind, VS.. the Chicago and Indi-
ana Railroad company brought in "A YER
dict of 81, 800 damages The plaintiffs
husband was killed ON that railroad about
three years ago.
Edward Devine, found guilty of libeling
Frank p. Lemon, deputy warden Of the
state prison, in The st. Paul Sunday Sun,
was sentenced to ninety days in the county
Jail Albert Keivel, who wrote the article,
has confessed, and will be sentenced also.
In the Mettiman trial at Leavenworth,
Kan, Mrs. Raubeahn, IA daughter of the
murdered woman, testified that she be
lievcd her mother was killed by Charles
A. Benson, n man to whom Mrs Mettiman
had bartered her daughters honor Mrs.
Mettiman's husband is on trGl for the
crime.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.