Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-09
Nauonai Democrauc convention,


Charleston, smothered to death in bed.
Evansville is setting Rp the claim that
some day it will be the metropolis of In
diana.
In fit of dependency Mrs Robert
Prince cut her throat at Iberia. She will
recover.
Ernest Timothy and George Drake were
suffocated in burning mine at White
Oaks, n NJ
Ed Petit and John Grapp, of Fort
Wayne, died in Brazil, South America, of
yellow fever.
A public reception to Ex-President Cleve-
land is being planned by the Democrats of
Massachusetts.
Joseph Donovan is on trial at Findlay
for killing Hugh McMannass with fence
rail last November
The new Schiller monument at Column
bus is twenty-five feet high, weighs 2,640
pounds and is cast in bronze.
T. f. Cartneil, of Summerfleld, Clark
county, ran binder-knotter through his
hand causing serious injury.
The horse races at Wapakoneta one
night last week under the light of natural
gas was successfully carried out
| Jay Meacham, of Point Clinton, fell on
his head distance of thirty feet from a
pile-driver, and was fatally injured
| Max Copperman is under arrest at Cleve-
land on suspicion of having set fire to his
wife while she was asleep. The woman is
dead.
| The Oaktown Qud.) Canning company
will put up $1,000 cans of blackberries,
10000 cans of beans and 200, 900 cans of to-
matoes.
| Burle Hedgpath, cOlored, was found
dead with his skull crushed near the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton tracks at
Rushville. Ind.
Attorney Cole, at San Diego, Cal, has
been instructed to libel the Itata at once
and by due process turn her over to the
| United States marshal.
A half-grown eagle was lassoed by Will
lam Sem. near English, Ind, July 4. The
bird was named "Old Glorious" In honor
of the time of his capture.
Eight hundred employees of the Potts
town (Pa.) Iron and Steel company are out
on a strike because the president of the
company will not sign the amalgamated
scale
The second trial Of Elk State Treasurer
$685. 900 of Missouri state funds, has been
commenced in the circuit court at Jeffer-
son City.
But little damage was done at Galveston
by Sunday nights storm The damage
will not amount to more than 81, 500 A
fishing boat was capsized and five Italians
drowned
James Quinns hands and left leg and
Foreman William Berg's arm and leg
were ground to pulp in q clay crusher at
Akron. The former died in an hour, and
tho latter cannot survive.
George Wagner and his son Charley,
near South Bethany, Ind, quarreled in a
harvest field, and the latter struck his
father over the head with Il stick and Sc
vered u number of arteries.
The directors of the California Athletic
club have offered a purse of &l0, 600 for fin
ish fight between Peter jackson and Frank
Slavin. The offer has been telcgraphed
Slavin, and "A reply is expected shortly.
The coroner's inquest to investigate the
Ravenna horror is being held The testi-
mony Tuesday showed that the engineer
of the freight was running faster than his
schedule time, and encroached on the time
of the express.
The meeting of the railway postal clerks
of the United States will be held at Cincin-
natl July Is for the purpose of perfecting
an additional organization. Representa-
tives from each of the eleven divisions will
be in attendance.
Four suits have been filed against the
Kanawha and Michigan, growing out of
the accident near Charleston, w. Va. On
the lives of Mr.. and Mrs. Welcher, $4,000;
J. L. Stone, $4,000, and Marie l.. Henson,
$4,000. Other suits will follow.
The New York Typothete, a society of
master printers, adopted a resolution, OPP
posing the demands of Typographical
Union No for an increase of wages and
reduction of working hours to nine. The
resolutions will be presented to the meet
ing of the national body in Cincinnati next
fall.
Josephine Maillard has brought an
action in the New York supreme court for
separation from her husband, Henry Mail
lard, the millionaire chocolate manu-
facturer, on the ground of abandonment
She says she married him in New York
city in 1878 and that he deserted her in
Paris last march.
The steamer Australia, from Honolulu,
brings news that george MCHaflane, nalt
owner of the Waikapee plantation, has
brought suit against the Hawaiian Com
mercial company, of which Claus Spreckels
is president for taking forcible and illegal
possession of the plantation. One million
dollars damages are claimed
The council of the Union of American
Hebrew congregations, in session at Balti-
more referred to the civil and religious
rights committee the matter of co-opera
ton with the Hirsch fund for the good
of the race. The next council meeting will
be held in Washington, the date of meet
ing being changed from the first Tuesday
of July TO the first tuesday of December.
Lieutenant Godfrey Mcdonald, of the
Sixth cavalry, has gone to Fort Bennett,
Oak, to organize into military company
band of Sioux Indians. Most Of these
redskins were hostiles in the Indian war
of last winter, and their leader is the willy
chief Hump, who has heretofore been con
sidered u very dangerous Indian. Now,
however Hump is willing to become a sol
der
Each Suspects the Other.
SINTTLE, Wash, July 9.-The at
tempt to bring about voluntary dis
armament Mt the mines has proved
failure. Each party suspects that the
other is not acting in good faith and the
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