Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-09

Louisiana, in New York An investiga-
ton will be made
Near Wilmington, o., 800 men and
scores of dogs participated in a fox drive.
After a half-day's hard work one solitary
rabbit was captured.
n. S. Walker sheriff of Claibourne
county, Miss, has called ON Governor
Stone for troops to protect two men about
| to be mobbed at Martin
Mrs. Ward, the Christian scientist, who
has been on trial at San Bernardino, Cal,
for manslaughter, for causing the death
George Lord, Jr., has been acquitted.
The son of Mrs. Cane, Pittsburg, was
abducted by man Saturday night. Her
husband left -er two years ago, and this
Is supposed to afford the explanation.
| AT indianapolis William Saulsburg, an
old soldier, attempted to kill his wife,
who has not been living with him for some
time, by shooting, wounding her in the
arm.
| Alice lockwood, sixteen-year-old
girl, was abducted by two Indians In
Verda Valley, Ariz. Forty white men
are securing the country for her kid
napers.
Cold weather has caused great suffering
among the new settlers in Oklahoma.
Three deaths have already occurred, and
several persons are now in o precarious
condition.
| An Intellectual attempt was made to
crack the safe of the Merchants and
| Farmers bank at Frankfort, o. The
| outer doors were blown off, when the
| burglars were frightened away.
Amy Hamlink Schneider, wife Of How
ard Schneider died in Washington after
intense suffering from bullet wound in
| fiicted by her husband. Before she died
| she fully forgave her murderer.
A party of twenty left New York Satur-
day, by the steamship Fulda, for Genoa
on two months trip to Italy, Egypt and
the Holy Land Among them were Mr..
l.. Munk and son of Connersville, Ind.
Lloyd Lewis, president of Welsh Fargo
bank at San Francisco, will retire next
August, on account of old age Lewis
has been president of the bank twenty
one years, and is worth about $17,000,0OO.
Mrs. Schneider, who was shot by her
husband in Washington, last Sunday, IL
dead. 1t is now learned that Schneider
became infa mated with q young woman
from Virginia only few weeks before
the tragedy
Walter Camp in recognition of his SER
vices to the university in regard to foot
ball, base ball and other athletic sports
The banqueO will be given at Madison
Square Garden Feb. %.
Rev, George Kildow, student at the
Southern Presbyterian Theological semin-
ary, in Charleston, S. c., committed sui
eide Sunday morning, in the presence of
fa hy fnf NTH
a razor. He was not in his right mind
In answer to the statement that little
or no work is being done on the Nicaragua
canal, it is given out that the company
is doing all that prudent business meth
ods warrant pending action by congress
and the floating of 100000, 600 Of securi-
ties
The tunnel on the Louisville Evans
vile and St. Louis railroad, which was
wrecked by fire almost three months ago,
has been repaired. The reconstruction of
the tunnel cost 500, 900, while the railroad
company lost 500, 600 more in loss OF busi-
ness
Near Muncie, Ind. after tree had been
chopped down, peculiar gaseous odor
was detected about the stump. A match
was applied, and blaze several feet high
resulted from the gas which, by the enor-
nous pressure, was forced through the
pores of the wood.
Charles B. Spahr, editor of religious
paper in New York, who is interesting
himself in the affairs of the lottery CAM
paign in Louisiana, says there is danger
that the lottery may get charter, by
means of a constitutional convention,
without a vote by the people.
A Washington correspondent relates
that at the reception recently rendered
John Sherman by the Ohio Republican
association, three colored couples went
upon the floor to dance with the white
folks, whereupon the latter vacated, leav-
ing the hall entirely to the blacks.
The address presented to Lord Aber-
deem at the banquet given to him by the
National Federation Of America at Del
monicos, New York, on Dec. 8, 1891, Ii
completed. 1t Is fine piece Of illumin-
ated engrossing in the old Gaelic style,
and will take high rank as work Of art
In Putnam county, Tenn. the feudM
fight between the Carr and Wallace fa;ni-
lies and their adherents has broken out
again. A fight occurred at a social gath
ering last week in which thrce men
named Wallace, Tucker and Anderson
and u Miss Carr were shot and probably
fatally wounded. More trouble is looked
for.
Camil Larsen, a youth of twenty years,
arrived at New York from Germany on
the steamer Ems last Thursday. with the
intention of going to the home of Joseph
Morintz, proprietor of German news
paper, in Philadelphia. He has not
reached that place yet, nor has he cabled
his father in Bradford, England, of his
safe arrival here. Larsen had drafts in
his possession representing large amount
Of money.
Charles X. Hammond, of Seattle, the
man who made the sensational expose OF
the London Cleveland street scandal, in
which the late prince was involved, and
who afterward sought refuge In this coun-
try, being sent to the penitentiary for two
years on tr,mpted-up charge of larceny
by English agents in Washington state,
has been pardoned by Governor Ham
mond, of Washington, after remaining In
Jail year.
In Bedford county, Tenn, Saturday,
Sam Jennings, n farmer, shot and instant
ly killed Jack Blackwell. Blackwell re-
Gently went to jennings house while he
was Ill and finding the iatter's wife in an
out house, made improper proposals to
her, and under threats accomplished his
purpose. Later Blackwell's son repeated
the outrage The woman told her hus-
band. He procured a shotgun, met Black
well and killed him. He then started In
pursuit of the younger Blackwell and was
still in pursuit when last heard from.
Mrs. Catharine Sharp,Eof Philadelphia
celebrated her one hundred and four
teenth birthday Saturday, having been