Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-24
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
NEWS IN BREF.
a Condensation of Interesting Items On
Various Subjects.

Thomas Rudd, of Midway, KY, is under
arrest for counterfeiting.
Nicaragua has granted the Louisiana
Lottery company perpetual charter
The use of blondine caused Mrs. Jessie
Higher, of Cincinnati, to lose her mind.
Several vessels were driven ashore on
the coast of Virginia Monday night during
high wind.
Ex-President Cleveland delivered an
address to the law students at Ann
Arbor, Mich
A bill was introduced in the Mississippi
legislature to make jeff Davis birthday q
legal holiday.
report reached San Antonio Monday
that Garza had been captured by Mexi-
can soldiers in the state of Tamaulipas,
Mexico.
At Westfield, Ind, John Danforth, who
was shot by Julia A. Sykes, has died.
The charge against the woman has been
changed to murder.
The Michigan club of Detroit celebrated
Washington's birthday by grand Re-
publican lovefeast, Many prominent Re
publicans were present
The body of young Jesse A. Curry, of
Cleveland, was found in ravine near
there Monday. Letters in his pocket in
dicated suicide over disappointment in
love.
The family of Matthew Chener, living
IN the northern part of Sac county, Ia,
was asphyxiated w coal gas. A young
man and child are dead, and all the
others are very feeble
At Sunbury, Pa, during parade of the
Patriotic Order Sons of America a riot oc-
Cured between the members of the order
and the citizens. After considerable diff
hculty they were separated.
The saloon of j. M. Swan, at Newport,
Tenn, was blown to pieces early Monday
morning by some unknown cause. Two
adjoining buildings were also demolished
Two men were badly injured.
The Canadian department of agri-
culture has decided ia view of the sue
cess which attended the immigration
movement from the Dakotas last year, to
renew the propaganda vigorously this
year.
From negotiations which have been
going on for a week between the New
York Produce exchange and the Chicago
board of trade, it is likely the latter will
soon resume sending out public quota.
tions.
Secretary Foster has gone abroad for
six weeks sojourn for his health. IL is
rumored he will resign if he is not better
when he returns. He is broken down by
the overwork and mental strain demanded
by the Office.
AT McKeesport, Pa, Fireman Lynch
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his burning home and was overcome His
comrades rescued him with his two little
ones elapsed to his breast-dead. Lynch
will probably die
AT Eaton, o., Rube Davis, William
Alloways and Warren Thompson, were
caught in the act of burglarizing store
and arrested, The sheriff had a man
mingling with them and was waiting
for them with posse.
DR. l.. b. Tyson, of Kenton, O., claims
to have discovered cure for alcoholism.
He uses no bi-chloride of gold or ipjec-
tions of any sort. He proposes to treat
five patients free at Cincinnati to demon
strate the truth of his claims
AT meeting called by Governor Bulk
ley, at Hartford, $4,000 was raised in q
few minutes for the purpose of making an
exhibit at the worlds fair. The sub
scribers hope to be reimbursed by the
Connecticut legislature, which failed to
make an appropriation.
There was a dance Monday night at the
residence Of George Lang in the country
near Vandaiia, Ills, and bloody fight
occurred between the Birchell brothers on
one side and the Hasbrook brothers. Axes
nj ha va,f,, ,os.
used and in the fight one of the Birchells
and one of the Hasbrooks were fatally in
jured,
Young Mrs. Blaine, who on Saturday
secured a divorce from James G., Jr, de-
nies that she is going to marry Dr. Bull,
of New York. She also contradicts the
rumor that she is going ON the stage The
decree of divorce issued by the South Da-
kota court she keeps, tied with blue rib
bon, in handsome case, which she had
made for it.
Mrs Homer r. Baldwin, who was in
jured in the New York Central railroad
collision at Hastings, N. Y, last Christ
mas evening, has been removed from st.
Johns hospital, Yonkers, to the Gettys
House. in New York. Some day this
week she will undergo the operation of
skin-grafting, the iltegument to be OBJ
tanned from the arm Of her husband.
Laudanum in the draw beat royal
flush in a poker game at Coal Run, Pa,
on Sunday night. John Persankie drew
one card, making his hand royal flush Of
diamonds. Frank Mask had full hand
king high The pot had $40. Then Mask
unperceived, poured laudanum in PERSIAN
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the pot, as well as watch and SS4 from
the pockets of his unconscious opponent,
and skipped out
Marion Hedspetch, the train robber now
in Jail at st. Louis, has been a criminal
all his life, aud at the age of sixteen was
the murderer of his mother. He formerly
lived in Gibson county, Ind In January,
1853, he and his father quarreled over
some farm work. After they quarreled,
young Hedsptech went to the house, and,
securing a shotgun, started for his father
Meeting the old man in the yard, he
raised the gun and fired both barrels
The shot missed his father, but killed his
mother.
An incredible story comes from Georgia
It states that Lucy President, a degraded
and idiotic negro woman, living near
Rays Mill, Ga, left her home Monday
morning, leaving a nine-months-old in
fant in charge of her two older children,
Mark and Linda, aged eleven and nine.
After the mother left, the boy, procuring
an ak, knocked the infant in the head and
mangled its body in different places.
Then, taking a fork, he gouged out the
eyes of the lite one, which he roasted,
and he and his sister sat down and ate
them.
Death Roll.
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