Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-23
NEWS In RRlEE.


Black diphtheria at Marshalltown, la.
Diphtheria has closed the schools at
Paulding, o.
Secretary Rusk says France will soon
admit our pork.
The Chinese have reduced the duty on
| kerosene one-half
The Pennsylvania railroad is now after
the Northern Pacific.
Diphtheria at Nobesviile, Ind Over
fifty cases and many deaths.
DR.. Franklin B. Clark, of Chicago, sui
cided by the gas route No cause known.
The Chilian Liberals have an over
whelming majority in the electoral col
lege
AT Muncie, Ind, Rosa Rowe seriously
stabbed her husband during an alterca-
ton.
The Parnellites and McCarthyites are
warning with each other in the city of
! Cork.
Indiana Farmers Alliance in session in
Indianapolis. Over 800 Alliances are re-
ported.
May White, of Meadville, Mich, has
been asleep 1870 days Her case puzzles the
physicians
Louisiana Republicans have hores of
success, owing to the split in the Demo-
cratic party.
An Englishman has been arrested at
Chin kiang, charged with furnishing arms
to Chinese rebels.
The Snowdon, the Port Royal and the
Scott coal mines in the Pittsburg dis
trict have resumed.
Southern Indiana is almost overrun
with squirrels. AS the law is out sports
men are having great time.
The worlds fair officials take no stock
in the reports that France will take no
part in the Columbian exposition.
Ten thousand women in Chicago have
applied for registration that they may vote
at the approaching school election.
L. c. Powell a photographer, suicided
at Gladsen, Ala, by taking morphine
He was supposed to have been insane.
Two fishing schooners with twenty-six
men have been bnissing from Gloucester,
Mass, since Aug. %. 1t is believed they
have pershed.
A freight collision on the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad re-
suited in heavy loss to the company.
One man injured.
Two colored men, John Banks and
George Parker, of Allegheny, Pa, went to
bed without turning off the natural gas.
They were asphyxiated.
Near Columbus, Ind. Charles Grams
shot himself in the foot while hunting,
His dog returned home and led some of
the family to his rescue.
The annual conference of the Roman
Catholic Capuchin monks of the United
States is in session at Pittsburg, The ses-
sons are held behind closed doors.
At New York Cassius Morry, forty, a
reporter, shot and seriously wounded his
mistress, Annie Ward, and then shot him
self. The woman will probably die.
The building at eighty-seventh street and
Decker e. Sons and by several other firms,
was destroyed by fire Loss, 1925, 900.
The night agent of the Chicago and
North western railroad at Boone, Ia, was
held up by a burglar and compelled to
surrender the company's funds in his
Office
The boycott against w. j. Lemp's ST.
Louis brewery, which was inaugurated
over a year ago by the Knights of Labor
and the Brewers aud Masters union, has
been raised.
The Oak Lawn accommodation on the
Wabash collided with freight in Chicago
fatally injuring r. r. Carrick and S. p
SEWERS. The trainmen jumped and saved
themselves.
Pat Killen, heavyweight pugilist, died
in Chicago from erysipelas-so his physi-
clan said He has not been well since his
fight with Bob Feguson, in which he was
severely punished
John Cleary, of Louisville, on a pro-
tracted spree at Harrodsburg, KY, fell
under freight train He was picked up
in a dying condition, and there are no
hopes for his recovery.
The three men who buncoed Mr.. Trice
and other Missourians, have been indicted
at Plattsburg and Kahoka, Mo. Detective
John Norris has charge of the prosecution
ard will show no mercy, says he.
At Columbus, O., George Snyder shot
and killed Ollie Ham, because he was too
attentive TO Mrs. Corbett, a widow with
whom Snyder was in love. The murder
occurred at wedding. Snyder escaped.
The Association of Wholesale Druggists
and Manufacturers of Proprietary Articles
of the United States is in session at Louis
vile. The principal topic of discussion is
what is known as ''the substitute evil"
William Davis and l.. Lock, two miners,
were overcome by foul air while descend
ing mine near Monarch, Colo. They fell
out of the bucket to the bottom of the
shaft, fifty feet below, and were crushed
to death.
BY Dec /, the natural gas supply at Day
ton, O., will be cut off, unless the citizens
committee accedes to the demands of the
company. This, the committee is not will
ing to do, and a court litigation is certain
to follow.
Charles Hawkins, who murdered Annie
Lacy, last Thursday, at Canton, o., was
indicted for murder in the first degree.
Joseph l.. Wise, who killed Charles Hender-
son several months ago, was indicted for
mauslaughter
The leading and best ladies of Hiawatha,
Kan, have inaugurated fight against
the .ondon Gayety girls, who are giving
series Of performances there They called
upon the council and asked it TO prevent
the performance. but that BODY refused Tn