Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-19

4 Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

w IlAll II, IdIlOu WAS sentenced UC
hang at York, Pa
/ Detroit is now working for the Demo
cratic national convention
Kansas City offers 100000 for the Dem
ocratic national convention.
Willie Dickinson, seven, was killed by
an electric car at Danville, Ills.
A Baltimore and Ohio wreck, near Har-
per's Ferry, injured four persons.
Fort Dodge Ia, had $3S000 fire. Sew
eral firemen were injured by falling walls.
Wausaw, Wis, had S120,000 fire in the
business portion. The water supply gave
out.
Sunday $4,000 people viewed the body
of Cardinal Manning lying in state in
! London.
Eugene Nichols, subject to epileptic fits,
was found dead in ditch near South
Milford, Ind
Nearly the entire business portion of
Orleans, Neb,, was wiped out by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
At Chatham, Ills, seven men were in
jured by a fall of mine cage down a
shaft. One will die,
Coal has been found in the hills east of
Brazil, Ind, and the neighborhood is ex-
cited in consequence
The locomotive boiler of a coal com
pany blew. up near Birmingham, Ala,
killing the engineer and fireman.
Judge Lindsay, of Kentucky, has de-
clined the position offered him ON the
interstate commerce commission.
! The defalcation of M. j. O'Brien, of
Chattanooga, the supreme treasurer of
Catholic Knights of America, is over $15-
/ 500
At Huntington, Tenn, a twelveyear-
old daughter of Albert Fuqua was
burned to death by her clothes catching
fire.
! At Louisville O. j. Hartedge suicided
by morphine He had lost his place
through drink He came from Spring
field.
AT Springfield. O., switch engine
jumped the track and knocked in the
side Of Mrs. Morrison's house, No one
injured.
Kate Casteton and her husband Harry
Phillips, (the third one she has had) have
agreed TO separate. Kate proposes to have
a divorce.
Near Guyandotte, w. Va. four-year.
old child Of William III. Lane was burned
to death by her clothes catching fire from
an open CRATE
AT Upton, Ind, Dan Kirtley, Hoosier
dom's champion egg sucker, broke his
record by getting away with twenty-four
eggs in five minutes.
AT BeIlaire o., John Manley and his
son were foand frozen under the Ohio
Valley railroad trestle. 1t is supposed
they fell from the trestle
j. A. Howe was seriously injured at
Norwalk, O., by the bursting of an emery
wheel His spectacles were struck and
his right eye filed with glass.
Sir Edwin Arnold, whose illness in
Philadelphia from grip was reported,
left for Trenton Saturday morning,
where he will fulfill an engagement to
lecture
At Cincinnati John Sheehan, dis
charged distributor, while drunk, shot
and probably fatally wounded David M.
Patton anCtner distributing clerk. Shee-
han imagined Patton wronged him.
Jack the SIasher, mysterious individ-
ual who has cut the throats of seven
drunken men in New York since Dec 80,
was captured in the act Sunday morning.
His name is Henry G. Dowd. He is evi
IDENTIFY insane,
Joseph Landauer, a Wall street curb
stone broker, was arrested Saturday
night in front of Jay Gould's house,
where he was throwing kisses up to Miss
Helen Gouid's window. He declared he
was going to marry her and thus acquire
a fortune,
Robert G. Mantell, the actor, and his
wife Margaret have signed papers agree
ing TO separate. Mrs. MantelI left her
husband in Cincinnati two months ago,
declaring that he paid too much atten-
tiUn to other women. Mr.. Mantell agrees
to give his wife 800 week
The proposition to elect United States
senator's by direct vote of the people has
many advocaUes in congress, and already
an unusual number of joint resolutions
providing fc, an amendment to the con
stitution SO that the proposition may be-
come a certainty, have been introduced.
Complaints are made of Iawlessness in
the streets of Berlin, especially in the east
ern and southern districts of the city
Highway robbery is daily occurrence,
often accompanied by serious violence.
Mounted police, armed with revolver9,
have been ordered to patrol the districts
affected, and ii is hoped that this measure
will afford protection for the citizens
Professor a lbert A. Nicholson, of Clark
university, Worcester, Mass, has been in
vited by ths international bureau of
weights and measures to spend the com
ing summer at the bureaus laboratory at
Btejeuil, near Paris for the purpose of
establishing metric standard in terms of
wave lengths of light He is asked to
make the basis of the unit of weight nat
ural, instead of arbitrary.
In view of the objections made by the
grand maste' of the grand encampment,
knights L, 1plars, it has been decided
not to have competitive drill at the
coming cor lave. These competitive
drills have Usually resulted in discord,
and those nos securing prizes sometimes
charge unfauness TO avoid any ill-feel-
ing il has been decided to have in place
thereof an exhibition drill, the purpose of
which will be announced later.
The coloreG men of the United States
have been for some time engaged in pre-
pairing protest against the loan or APP
preparation OF 5000 900 by the Govern
meut i'm aid of theworld's fair This pro,
test will be presented when the matter
comes up before congress. II. A. Dawson,
of Chicago, who was at one time mem
Der of the Arkansas legislature. has the
matter in charge. He said: ',Th- fair is
run as a close corporation, and we are pre-
pared TO prove it. We were refused rep
resentation a. pom the board of directors
and national commission We will not
stand such treatment
CARA May Surrender.
New YoEE, Jan. ia special to The
Herald from Laredo. Tex, says that it
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