Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-16

and pitchfork. Brinkly was seriously in
ljured,
Milwaukee offers 100000 and car load
of beer for the Democratic national con
vention. The beer is for the national com,
mittee.
At Richmond, Tex, Mat Dunlavy shot
and killed DR. Allen. Dunlavy says the
the doctor spoke disparagingly of his
daughter.
Frank Wright, a Panhandle freight
brakeman, while switching trains at Col
liers, w Va, was struck by his train and
instantly killed.
The Ware county (Ga.) Jail was broken
into by a mob and Welcom Z. Golden and
Robert Knight, leaders of the Warn riot
ers, shot to death.
The postofiice at Petersburg, Ind, was
robbed Sunday morning of $3.50 in money,
S4OO in stamps and large number of spe-
cial request envelopes.
Pekin advices say that the rebels have
again gathered in force west of Jehol, and
one more Imperial victory will be neces-
sary to decide the struggle,
! Mr.. Harley Bartholomew, near Oberlin,
o., while plowing in his field was sud
denly stricken with heart failure and ex-
pired by the side of his plow
Near West Bay City, Mich, an entire
family of nine named Flynn was poisoned
by cooking potatoes in rancid lard.
Prompt restoratives saved all.
Near Sulphur Springs, O., boy named
Fletcher was shot by the premature dis
charge of gun in the hands of Charles
Blaser. His condition is critical.
The old warehouse on the levee at
Leavenworth, Kan, was burned with a
lot of condemned government stores. The
building was historic land mark.
The severest storm ever known at Pu-
eblo, Col, ragged for six hours Monday
afternoon. Wires of all kinds went down,
and traffic generally was suspended.
Rev. Harry p. Nichols, of New Haven,
has been called to the pastorate of ST.
Marks church of Minneapolis, made va
cant by the death of Rev, T. b, Wells.
The residence of Presley r, Griffith,
trustee of Clark township, four and a half
miles east of Greenwood, Ind, was en-
tered by burglars and a safe broken into
and 5000 and valuable papers were stolen.
At Blackburn, Union county, KY, Con-
stable William Hicks shot and killed an
unknown negro who refused to surrender
when he raided a crap game on the river
bank.
Adam Conrad was run down by a
through freight on bridge about half
mile east of Rushville, Ind, and instantly
killed He was nearly eighty years old,
and very deaf
Murderer Fitzgerald, under sentence Of
death in the Ohio penitentiary, attempted
suicide by taking morphine he had ccn-
cealed about his clothes. Prompt medical
aid saved him.
1t now appears that the mob at Way
cross, Ga, which riddled the cells of Wei
com Golding and Elijah Cheaves with b~l-
lets, and left them for dead, failed to in
jure the two men.
The volcano of Colima, in Mexico, is in
violent state of eruption. The govern
ment has ordered the villagers in the
vicinity to abandon their homes and
move to places of safety.
Sixteen men have been sworn in, and
are at Nashville awaiting orders to march
to Briceville to aid in the return of con-
victs to the coal mines. One hundred and
fifty will probably be enrolled.
Frank H. Hosford, formerly member of
the Michigan legislature, and now repre-
senting The Detroit Free Press in Wash
ington, has been appointed tally clerk of
the house; salary 5000 year.
A dispatch from Zanzibar states that
the position of Emin Pasha, who was last
heard from at Wadelai, is precarious and
that he has had several bloody conflicts
with the tribes of the lake district.
At Hanceville, Blount county, Ala,
julius Griffith, merchant, and John Nc
Nelis, a farmer, quarreled over politics.
Griffith shot and killed McNelis. This
makes four murders in Blount county
within ten days.
Burglars entered the drug store Of Nor
man Wheeler, the ~butchershop of Will
lam Hawkins and the saloon of William
Kilbourn, Marion, Ind, blew the safes
and took money and other articles
amounting to $780,
Charles Smith, colored, was executed in
the bathroom of the penitentiary at
Cannon City, Colo. Smiths home was at
Walsenburg, Colo He was hanged for
numbering Taylor Sillman, who was on
intimate terms with Smiths wife
The strike of the telegraphers on the
Atlantic and Pacific may affect the whole
country as it is rumored if it is not set
tied soon the Order of Railway Tele-
graphers will take hand, and call out
every man in the order. The trainmen
are in sympathy with the operators.
Edward Nj. Fields the senior partner
of the defunct firm of Field Lindley
Weichers & Company, was arrested Mon
day by three of Inspector Byrnes' detcc
tives on a warrant issued by Judge Mar
tine, of the court of general sessions, on a
charge of larceny in the first degree.
Nelson Perdue, farmer of Versailles,
Ind, who mysteriously disappeared from
his home soiue months ago. and who was
found in hovel he had dug in side hill
near this place, leading the life of a her
init, and taken back to Versailles, leaped
from the second-story window of room
in which he had been confined, in an effort
to escape, receiving injuries from the eff
fects of which he can not recover.
Joe Patterson, the negro who killed his
wife and a negro man in Bossier parish,
La, and afterward shot j. r. Lay and
Dave Wallace, was run down by n mob,
returned to his home and put to fight the
mourners who were sitting up with his
wife's corpse. Patterson then blew out
his brains with revolver. The mob
gathered around his house shortly after,
removed the body of the murdered
woman and set fire to the house Pstter-
sons charred remains were found amidst
the ruins
The Death Roll.
Worlds Fair Commissioner Billingsly at
Toledo