Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-10
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convention. So do San Francisco, Chicago
and New York
1t is again rumored that Secretary Mol l.
will resign and go as United States minis
ter to st. Petersburg.
Bishop Knight, the eminent Episcopalian
prelate, died at Milwaukee from paralysis,
superinduced by the grip.
Over 200 men are thrown out of work by
the shutting down of the Chicago Ship
Building companys yards.
Anna Mcdonald, of Oxford, o., left
home for Chicago to meet her lover James
Brene, who is waiting to marry her.
Mills, of Texas, and Bynum, of Indiana
are the leaders in the race for the speaker
ship of the next house Of representatives.
Wesley Walters, aged 95, of Antwerp
o., is under arrest, charged with at
tempting to ravish two 10-year-old girls.
Frank Adams, who was bitten by mad
dog, at Lawrenceburg, Ind, Sunday, is ap-
plying maidstone to the wound at Cleves,
Ohio.
Policeman Tom Miller's badge found in
the possession of colored woman al
Portsmouth, o., caused his dismissal from
the force.
Annie Sweet, of Green Spring, o., is un-
der arrest at Fremont, O., for causing the
death of her new born babe. She admitted
the crime
The jury in the baccarat trial, in which
the Prince of Wales was implicated, re
turned verdict against Sir William Cor.
don Cumming
In fracus over a girl between Samuel
Pastre and "Stumpy" Landers, at Law
renceberg, Ind, the latter was stabbed sew
eral times with pen-knife.
j. U. Campion, formerly of Cincinnati,
cashier of the Consolidated Tank Line
company at Omaha, has been arrested fol
populations amounting to 5000
There is strong suspicion that Mrs
Booker, found murdered at Youngstown,
o., came to her death at the hands of hel
husband, who was jealous of her.
Gen Ben. Buffers client, Mrs. Ciaretti
Johnson, has been discharged at til,
United States court at Boston. Tho
famous pension case will be appealed.
Dick Welsh broke into cigar store a,
Goshen, Ind, and thirty six hours later
he was on his way to prison for four years.
This is what might be termed swift jus
tice."
Saloon men, to get even with having t.
close doors at Vincennes, Ind, Sunday,
caused every man to do the same who
came within the pale of the Sunday clos
ing law. EH.
An attempt was made to outrage u IL
year-old daughter of William Bauman, O
Hope, Ind. The young woman, assiste
by her mother, fought off the william and
he escaped.
MIRO nf 4
been arrested for numbering her husband
by putting paris green in his food This is
the third husband who has died under
suspicious circumstances.
The entire Californian worlds fair com
mission, forty strong, and headed by Presi-
dent Irving N. Scott, arrived at Chicago
for the purpose of looking after the in
terests of their state exhibit.
1t is now believed that Mrs. Alice Smell
McClara, daughter of the murdered Chi
cago millionaire, was married in Virginia
by colored minister to Douglass Green,
whose divorce from his wife is now pend
ing.
Martha WOODBURY. has brought suit
against O. l.. Marrow, of Indianapolis, for
S., 900 damages. She alleges that Marrow
induced her to come there from Cincinnati
to engage in business, and then wrecked
both her business and her family.
President Plank, of the International
union, in annual session at
Boston, advised submitting the nine-hour
to u popular vote. The treas
urer's report showed receipts of $63, 4S3 and
of y, 800 more. Cash balance
is $50, 300
A tree fell on three boys who were gath
ering tanbark on FlatTop mountain, near
Salt Sulphur Springs, killing two and seri-
ously crushing the third The boy who
was not killed was badly bitten by cop
perhead snake while lying, unable to move,
before the accident was known.
The Indian commissioner insists that the
Indian boys at the Genva, Neb, training
school shall be employed with the white
laborers at the OXnard Beet Sugar com
pany's plant Mt Norfolk, Neb. in spite of
the protest of the workingmen of the
town. Superintendent Backus is in Il
quandary.
Friends of Col A. G. Weisseirt, the
noted Grand Army man of Wisconsin,
claim that he is far in the lead among the
many candidates for the Office of com
of the Grand Army of the
IAtpubllC, tui Illt tlCCIlOu lOT WHICH lakes
place at the ensuing National encampment
at Detroit
On May % w. f. Mnchin, individual
bookkeeper of the American National
bank, of Nashville, accompanied by his
wife, left the city presumably for short
visit, and has not been heard from since.
An investigation has shown that he is a de
faulter to the extent of about $4,000. Ac-
tive steps will be taken to catch and prose-
cute him.
The funeral of Lawyer r. S. Bartine, OF
Asbury Park, N. j., who died of hydropho-
bia caused by the bite of a pet cat nine
months ago, took place Monday. He had
prevented n dog from worrying the cat and
was bitten on the thumb. He first discov-
cred symptoms of hydrophobia while pick
ing his false teeth out of a pan of water
into which they had dropped,
Contracts have been let for the construc-
ton of n railroad from San Diego, Cal, to
San Quinton lower California, a distance
of 1862 miles, the road to be built rs soon as
the Mexican government shall approve the
survey. A cargo of supplies for the road
Ia now on the way from England. The
is to receive 5000 per mile sub
sidy from the Mexican government.
ODDS AND ENDS.