Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-14
NEWS IN eRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

uOhUsus
Rev. James Seaton, Methodist historian,
died at Monticello. Ills.
Nashville has a sensation in the shape Of
alleged fraudulent registrations.
County Treasurer Bepper, Franklin
county, Ind, is 5000 short. He cannot
be found.
The schooner Georgiana, Of Yarmouth,
n s., capsized. The captain and crew Of
fifteen perished.
The cornerstone of the new Odd Fellows
temple, Cincinnati, was laid with appro-
pirate ceremonies
A telegrapher's blunder caused the Bal
timore and Ohio wreck near Philadelphia
by which brakeman was killed.
Said that Governor Lew Wallace will be
appointed secretary Of war, and General
Clarkson secretary of the interior
James II. Barr, Williamsburg (Pa.
painter fell from ladder and was impaled
on an iron stump He was instantly killed.
Gold nuggets as large as grains of corn
have been found in a stream Oh the farm
of Marion Stafford, near Martinsville, Ind.
John DAILY, the New York city gambler,
has been robbed of 100000. His book
keeper, William S. Hollingsworth. is sus-
pected
At Denver Mrs j. Stewart started the
fire with coal oil. She and one of her child
ren were fatally burned and the house de-
stroyed.
The marriage of Mr.. Tennant, brother
of Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, to Lizzie Til
ton, Washington belle, is fixed for De-
cember.
AT New York Jack McAuliffe and Aus
tin Gibbons fought six rounds and were
stopped by the police McAuliffe had the
best of the battle.
At Bridgeport, Conn, Harlan V. Win
brow killed Charles A. Walters, pleaded
guilty and was fined $40 and sentenced
to Jail for six months.
Two strangers entered the First National
bank at Effingham, Ills, and with drawn
revolvers snatched handful of bills
about S200-and were captured.
Mrs. Wesley German rescued her little
child from ferocious bulldog near New
Castle, Pa, after struggle, in which
both mother and child were horribly
mangled.
A later report says that about hundred
lives were lost by the collision OF the
Taormina and the Thessalia off the coast
of Greece The Taormina sunk almost i'm
mediately.
Neeze g. Sons general store, at Union
town, o., was entered by burglars. The
safe was blown open and notes to the
amount of $500, with considerable cash,
were taken.
Bud Rial, a negro desperado, assaulted
several ladies at Oxford, o., and is much
sought for by the people of that place who
will doubtless mete out justice according
to their own ideas.
At Fort Seneca, o., Mrs. Baumgardner,
an aged lady, was frightened to death by
the noise made by a party of serenaders
who were making life miserable for q
young married couple.
At Eckerty, Ind, County Superintendent
John Zimmerman claims to have killed
twenty-nine blowing vipers within radius
of ten yards in half day For snake
stories Indiana will not be outuone
NJ b. Curtis, well known In theatrical
circles as "Saml of Posen," shot San
Francisco policeman while drunk and will
be tried for murder He protests his inno-
cence, but there were witnesses.
Thomas Stringer, of Tennessee, quar-
he used his revolver, firing generally at
the crowd. One shot struck James Shiflet,
an innocent party, in the head, killing him
instantly.
Cardinal Gibbons has received the bills
authorizing the conservation of Rev. DR..
Chappelle, rector Of st. Matthew's church,
Washington, as coadjutor archbishop to
Most Rev. John b. Salpointe, the present
incumbent in the archdiocese Of Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
Millie, the five-year-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Richard McClung, near Broad
well Station, east of Athens, o., died after
intense suffering, as a result of having been
bitten on the foot, Tuesday morning, by n
'blowing viper"
George NJ. Allen, bookkeeper for Joseph
ii. Mcdonald, of New Haven, Conn, Is
short in his accounts to an amount esti-
mated at from 81, 600 to s., 600. The money
was spent in playing the races" in pool
rooms. He is under arrest.
The cruiser San Francisco, now in Chill,
has been ordered north, and will probably
sail Monday for Mare Island, Cal, where
she will be docked, cleaned &Sld painted.
Admiral Brown will come north on her
and continue in command Of the vessels on
the Pacific station.
A discovery of petroleum oil had been
made at Coiongo, Cal, fifty miles south
west of Fresno. The oil is declared to be
of the best quality yet found in California,
being easily refined. Machinery has ar-
rived from Los Angeles to operate the
wells on large scale.
Bob Winston, a negro, was hanged at
Ark. When the negro mounted
the Rallows he knelt down and began q
fervent, incoherent prayer. He twice re-
peated, Beware of the temptations OF
women; she will lead you into trouble and
you may not escape"
Madame Ann Odelia Diss De Bar. the fat
and famous New York "spook priestess'
whose relation with lawyer Marsh, at
tracted so much attention about a year
ago, and vino recently posed as Miss Ava,
an English philantrophist in Chicago, was
arrested in Cincinnati almost en- deshabille.
She says she was abducted by a Chicago
priest and confined in a convent, and can
not account for her presence in Cincin- |
natl. She is undoubtedly insane.
The Indiana board Of worlds fair mana
gers has selected a plan for Indiana's
building. II is to be constructed entirely |
nf Indiana material, the purpose being |
chiefly 10 afford a means Of display Of In |
diana builders products. The state is to |
expend $3.50 In its erection, but, con-
siderinR the fact that nearly all the |
will be donated, much Aner |
building will be erected than could ordi- |
uarflv ba congf ruefad for that arnouul