Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-14

The trial Of j. A, Wood, charged with
kiclling Lawyer Blaunt to death in the
Eastern Indiana insane asylum, is com
monCed at Richmond, Ind.
Adit. Gen. Morton l.. Hawkins, of Ohio
has resigned to accept the editorial man
agement Of The st. Louis Chronicle. II.
II, Din has bean appointed his successor
sheriff William Smith, of Columbus
| Ind, walked into a store and offered S.
600 to a young lady clerk if she would
! marry and cure him of his love for whisky
State Veterinary Surgeon Howels is in
| Darrtown, o., investigating new horse
| disease that causes swelling of the mouth
| paralysis of the tongue aud death in a few
days.
| a suit has been begun in the United
| States supreme court TO test the right OF
| the United States to seize British vessel,
| in the Hchring sea when caught stealing
seals.
George NJ Storrs, son of the late Emory
/ Sturrs, of Chicago, has been discharged
from custody at Washington, d. c. The
| papers were decided to be totally def
| Gent
Toledo telrgraphers received circular
| from She Chicago Milwaukee and st, Pau
railway operators, stating that the latter
| have decided to resign rather than accept
reduced wages.
Employees in Churchil's seed warehouse
| Toledo, just escaped finding themselves in
| clover, much to their disadvantage. Left
| tha building Just before 5000 bushels OF
/ clover seed crushed the floors down.
| 4 ragged burglar came into Peru
| Ind, revival meeting, confessed that he
/ had broken every commandment on the
/ list in addition to breaking locks, and re.
/ questcd the people to pray for him,
/ Mrs Jane Mullins, who lives near Crat
/ Orchard, Ky, shot and killed her 19year
/ old son Henry, for tossing n 3-year-old
/ child IN the air, after she had told him tC
/ desist She now threatens to commit sui
/ eide.
/ The 3-ycar-old daughter Of Mrs Henry
/ Peavcr, of lrviugtou, n suburb of Indian.
apolis, died from what physicians pro-
nounced TO he hydropLobia. Three months
! ago the little girl was bitten 10y dog re-
/ cciving a scalp wound.
Arthur Milmeau, the rival of Succi the
/ faster. commenced a thirty days fast at
/ Detroit, Monday. He will abstain from all
foods and liquids except Croton water
! lie viii receive purse of $l,t0) if he is
succcs $ .ul and 500 additional il he pro
] longs the fast to forty-ttve days,
There has been "A decline of fifty cents
Per one hundred pounds in the price OF
| white lead, the result of the recent reduc.
/ ton of oue-half cent per pound in the
/ price Of pig lead There has been a reduc-
! ton of per cent. in window glass due to
the failure of the manufacturers to com.
/ plete "a trust
/ st. Mary's cathedral, the largest and fin
/ est church cditca on the Pacific coast, was
dedicated at san Francisco Sunday. The
| cathedral haH been in the course Of CON
struction for several years, and is now fin.
! i,hed at o cost of 500 coo Bishop j. l..
/ Spaulding, OF Peoria, H., preached the
sermon NO mass.
George Willow and 4. r. Hooper, of
/ Company X, Nebraska National guards,
stationed at Gordon, were playing with a
rifle The gun went of, the bullet strik-
/ Ing Willow In the neck, cutting the jugu-
/ lar Death soon followed. Willow was
mot an enlisted member, but voluntarily
! accompanied the company,