Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-16
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Chicago is overrun with men looking
for work, and still they come.
Parachutist Mansfield was killed in In
dia by the bursting of his balloon
A 'arih war Is on between the govern
ments Of Newfoundland and Canada.
Henry Miller. son OF Joaquin Miller,
acknowledges that he held up "a California
stage
The emperor Of China is learning En-
glish The council of state are non
plused
Congressman Mills isill in Washington,
owing to exposure during the speaker.
ship contest.
Three brakemen were fatally injured
and ten car loads of cattle wrecked at
Abilene, Kan.
The Mechanics Mill Company factory.
Seattle, Wash, burned. Loss $40, 900; in
surance S28,OOO.
A rock falling from side of noun
tain killed john S. Holt, farmer, near
Grafton, w Va
Fire at Lodgeville, Wis, destroyed a
hotel, four newspaper offices and several
other buildings
At GAINESVILLE, o., Mrs Mary Hollings
worth got $1,000 from railroad for kill
ing her husband
The Arkansas Worlds Fair association
filed articles of incorporation with cap
ital stock Of 100000.
Indiana farmers are preparing to de-
mand that the legislature enact two
cent railroad fare law.
A love affair led Ed Hilligoss, of Ander-
son, Ind, to commit suicide by sending a
bullet through his heart
The tone Of the presidents message con-
corning the New Orleans lynching gives
general satisfaction in Rome.
The Maryland Prohibitionists will make
an effort to secure the national convention
for Baltimore or Washington.
OF the town of Pinos Altos, N. NJ, but
two stores remain. Fire; loss $4,000 be-
lieved to have been incendiary
Horrible stories come from Alaska of
outrages by employees of the canning COM
panies upon the native women.
Paul de Cassagnac and NJ, Flouquet,
president of the French chamber of depu-
ties, quarreled, and duel is to be fought
Homer Wells, an Ohio and Mississippi
employee at Louisville was robbed of 500
which he was taking to the express office.
Henry Battermah's dry goods store in
Brooklyn caught fire. Stock and build
ing were damaged to the extent of $780,
600
The Chinese rebels have suffered an
other defeat. No prisoners were taken,
all the captured being slaughtered at
once,
Kit Carson, Jr,, son of the famous scout,
killed his wifes parents at La Junta,
Colo, and escaped. Drunkenness and do
nestle troubles.
A dispatch from Melbourne states that
an officer Of the Melbourne Building asso-
citation, has embezzled $50 900 of the funds
of the institution.
A dispatch from Singapore reports the
loss of a large number of Chinese vessels
during a gale at Hong Kong. Hundreds
of native sailors were drowned.
Mr. Blaine has accepted an invitation to
speak at a banquet to be given in Boston
Jan at the Vendome hotel by the
Merchants association of that city.
Two United States marshals brought in
from the Creek country three heavily
ironed Indians, members of the famous
Captain Wiley band of desperadoes
Mrs. Mary Williams, of Sulphur, Ark.
gives added suggestiveness to the name of
the place by carving her neighbour Mrs.
Lizzie Samuels, to death. Jealousy.
Grand Commander J. p. Sandborn de-
MES the truth of report that Denver has
been abandoned as the place for holding
the national enrampment of the Knights
Templar
Mrs. Bridget Garnet, of Boston, had her
son and his pal arrested for attempting to
rob her The men threatened to kill her
unless she gave up her money, but she
managed to elude them.
AT Newark, O., Mrs Henry Griffith
arose in the middle of the night and left
the house in her night clothes She was
found dead under a bridge from which she
had jumped, with suicidal intent She
was insane.
Since Mrs Louise Schwartz cured her
husband of consumption by feeding him
dog flesh, the demand for fat dogs on
Long Island is immense, one man having
gone into the business of fattening CANNES
for consumptives.
Mrs. Emma Hefelfnger, of Arcanum,
o., who so horribly chopped her husband
with Ratchet, then attempted suicide,
has become a raving maniac in the
asylum. Both she and her husband are
recovering from the injuries she inflicted
b. Shepherd White, the society youth
who has been on trial in the criminal
court of Washington for the past few
days, on charge of forgery, was acquitted
but was Immediately taken into custody
to answer an indictment for embezzle-
ment,
At Snow Hill, N. c., w. e. Grimsley
found Rev Alternately kissing Mrs
Grmsley and filled him full of shot. He
was not fatally injured, The reverend
gentleman says he was consoling Mrs
Grmsley over domestic troubles He has
resigned his charge
The whaleback steamer Charles w.
Wetmore was lowed into Astoria, Or,
ruddcrless by the British steamer Fam
bo2i, The captain of the Zambezi has en-
tered claim for 5000 O0O-one-third the
value of the Wetmore and cargo as estab-
lished by an international law in such
eases
The Death Roll.
Actor Oliver w. Doud at Baltimore.
Judge Joseph Otis Glover, of Chicago.
Thomas l.. Payne, prominent New Or
leans lawyer.
Serious Fire Loss to Village.
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