Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-12

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A crank threatened the life of Herman
Kudlich, a New York lawyer, if he would
not give him $780, Policemen took him in.
Walter Bent, alias Roxy McCannon, the
notorious hotel thief, was sentenced at
Memphis to eight years in the peniten-
tiary
At Rochester, Ind, Willie g. Richter's
store was entered by burglars and $500
worth of goods and about 500 in money
taken.
Bowdoin college has been left 100000
by the late Mrs. Catherine Garceton, of
Oakland, Cal 1t will be put into new
buildings.
AT ST. Mary's, O., an infant named Will
kins was scalded to death by other chill
dren upsetting kettle of boiling water
while playing.
In Chicago boiler explosion killed Ed
Bush, Patrick Rogers and Arthur Hall.
Three others were badly scalded and two
will probably die.
By the win of the late Mrs. Robert L.
Stuart, of New York the Princeton Theo-
logical seminary will probably receive
more than s30O,000
AT Easton. Md. Laura Smith. fifteen,
colored, confessed having poisoned her
father. She had heard he was going to
whip her for misconduct.
Hayti is threatened with another revo-
luton with headquarters in New York,
some of whose merchants think there is
profit in it for themselves.
The indianapolis tax duplicate shows
that William II. English is the only mill
ionaire in the Hoosier capital. Simon
Yand es stands second with S445, 535.
At Canton, O., Mrs. Emmett sable
awolle from a death-like trance Just as the
undertaken was about toiniect the poison
Gus embalming fluid into her arteries.
| AT Indianapolis a clogged stovepipe re
! suited in the asphyXiation of Oliver
! Wright, janitor of the Indiana medical
college and his aged wife Both may die
| Rube Burrows father has entered suit
against the Southern Express company
for $1,000 damages, charging that they
made away with Rube's guns, pistols and
money.
The men who recently lynched. Larkin
Nix in Mitchell county, Ga, because he
killed the destroyer of his home, will be
legally hanged as soon as they are all ap-
pretended.
At Indianapolis David Yates, fireman at
the American Wheel company's works,
sues for S204G0 for overworl, He was
hired to work ten hours and was required
to work longer,
At Atlanta, Allen Brag, colored, was
hanged for killing Mrs. Prather, a plant
er's wife. On the gallows Bray stated
that two negro women had conjured him
to do the crime.
At Fairfield, Ark, two negroes entered
Murphy's store, oyerpowered the clerk
and cut his throat probably fatally, robbed |
the store and escaped. At last accounts
a posse was in pursuit.
At Memphis A. X Sloan, well-to-do |
citizen, suicided by buttng out his brains |
against the kars of his cell in the Jail, |
where he had been put for safe keeping |
during a case of jimjams
Harvey Hill, alias Lewis Garfield has
just been released from the Columbus |
pcnitentiary 1t is said he has gone to St. |
Louis to find and kill the woman whose
testimony convicted him of robbery.
AT Upper Sandusly. o., the mystery OF |
Harry Williams sore foot, which refused !
to heal, was solved by a piece of wire
two and one fourth inches working out of |
the instep. 1t had been there since last
May.
Permission to double the price of natural
gas at Columbus, O., had a wonderful
effect on the supply. The gas company
claims to have struck a gusher, but it is
broadly intimated that they had wells
plugged.
Flick Lowitz, member of the board of
trade, was arrested in the directors room
on change Chicago, Friday, on warrant
sworn out by Baldwin Il Farnam Hewas
charged with larceny and attempt to
blackmail them for $4,000,
1t is said the revolutionst, Cara, is
idolized by the more ignorant MeXicans
While the Texans have no love for the
bold fellow, the public sentiment is in his
favor, and the speedy downfall of presi
dent Daz's Illegal reign is predicted
Mrs Keseolswly arrived at Chicago Fri
day direct from Australia, having come to
see her husband, whose address she did
not know, and while she was in the police
station she discovered that her eight
months-old child had died in her arms
Secretary Foster has arranged to spend
several days at Fortress Monroe for rest
and cooperation, and left Washington
for that place Saturday evening He has
recovered almost entirely from the grip,
but has not yet completely reganed his
strength.
Christian Beyercn, an old German
who owns bakery in East St Louis, has
just received advices from New York that
he has been left a large sum Of money
and real estate valued at $4,000 by Au.
gust Beyerlcin, a nephew, who died re
Gently in New York city.
At Elwood Ind. Mr.. and Mrs Joseph
Hosck want to be separated by divorce
He is "A Bohemian and she English and
neither understands the language of the
other. They were married in Nova Scotia
in 1883 1t was a case of love at first
sight Both are very ignorant.
State presidents of the Farmers ALI !
ance are in session at Washington, dis !
cussing the welfare of the organization
and comparing notes on its progress.
Their meetings are secret, but Congress 4
man Living tone, of Georgia, who has at
tended the conferences, says that politics
are not being discussed
To Correspondents.
1t is an intleXihle rule of this Office