Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-26
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beat his wife to death with a club She
had been unfaithful.
Seven deaths from la grippe and com
plications Of diseases were reported in
New York Wednesday
The striking coal miners of Indiana
will be supplied with food and clothing
! by the miners organization.
| A snowstorm in the Apprentices buried
over 200 Italian workmen scores of whom
are believed to have persisted.
Secretary of State Soper, of Michigan,
who rendered his resignation some days
ago, now wants to withdraw it.
Colonel Kilbourne has been appointed
worlds fair commissioner, in place of the
late Colonel Billingslea, Of Toledo.
Mrs. Margaret Miller, aged seventy-nine,
died at Greenfield, Ind, and her husband,
aged eighty-four, followed her sixteen
hours later.
j. Gerlack saloonist at Peabody, Ind,
emptied a shotgun into a crowd OF toughs
who attacked his saloon, fatally injuring
one Of them
At Vincennes, Ind, William Higgins
and Charles Sellers, Jr., were seriously in
jured by an explosion while preparing a
blast in a mine
At New Albany, Ind, the ladder on
which Louis Wagner was working slipped
and fell against live electric wire. He
was instantly killed.
Joseph Echstine, of Newport, Ky, at
tempted to walk thirty-six miles in four
teen hours on wager of 500, and will
probably die from overeXertion.
A violin, pronounced by experts . be
n, iyl,o nj
Jacksons barn at Richmond, Ind. How
it came to be there is u mystery.
Miss Emma Coover, an invalid for
twenty months, was baptized at DeGratf,
O., in an ice-covered creek by Baptist
minister. The result is anxiously awaited.
The nominations of Enos H. NebelSer,
OF Indiana, United States treasurer, and
W. r. Simons, of Connecticut, commits
sioner of patents, were confirmed by the
senate Tuesday.
Eph Kelly, of North Georgetown, O.,
secured $1,000 on forged notes and eloped
with Theresa Goss, a pretty but Maynard
young woman. Kelley's wife will make
an effort to locate him.
Annie Jennison the ward and heir of
Binghamton On " millionaire, left her
home and fortune to marry William Lind
sey poor painter, and an already mar
ried man with one child.
At Ultima Thule, Ark, viii Lancaster
was shot and instantly killed by Constable
Eugene Holman who had attempted to
arrest him. Lancaster has been q criminal
from justice for many years.
Mrs. Charles f, Brown, of Bloomington,
Ills, has written Attorney General Tabor,
of New York, claiming Charles Z. Brown,
the celebrated humorist known as Ar
temus Ward, as her husband.
The postof1ice at Catlettsburg, Ky, was
entered by burglars, who secured 5000 in
stamps and currency, and a number of
registered letters. Powder was used to
blow open the safe No clew.
Mrs Mary L. Munson was found muir
dered at Shelton, Conn, having been shot
and stabbed. John Hawley, a negro, said
to have been intimate with the woman
has been arrested on suspicion
A crazy man named Ban Bales living
at Vinton Ia, demanded $40, GOO from c.
G. Griffin, a rich physician, Threaten
ing if he refused to take his life. The po-
lice were notified. Bales was arrested
Because Mrs. Joseph Shaffer, widow,
gave him the shake, G. E. Clayton, of
Mount Gilead, o., will get even by send
ing her to the pen, for swearing that she
was a resident of Franklin county, which
she was not.
John r Fisher arrived at the Union
depot, St Louis, Tuesday night, with his
wife and seventeen children. The eldest
is twenty-one, and the youngest is still in
arms. There are ten boys and seven girls
Fisher is on his way to St. Joseph, Mo,
where he win reside in the future
Harry Nye, charged with being mem
Der of the dangerous Ada (O.) gang of
counterfeters, was arrested in Chicago
Tuesday He said his father, David Nyo, |
and several other men, were captured at
Fort Wayne, Ind, about year ago |
charged with circulating a counterfeit $50 |
treasury note