Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-02

"A uumDer OF COlOraQO SILVER mines
have closed temporarily owing to the low
| price of silver
In Cincinnati, Frances Russo an Ital-
| ian girl, suicided because her lover in
Boston had deserted her.
| Thomas Williams is dying at the St.
Louis city hospital from knife wounds
| inflicted upon him by his wife Nora
! Tests with handmade samples of our
new smokeless powder show 1t to COM
pare favorably with tests made abroad
Some boys wandering In the woods back
| of Onalaska, Wis, Wednesday, found the
| skeleton of man. His identity is un-
known.
E. E. Pollock, son of millionaire Pol
lock, who married his mothers waiting
maid, has gone to South Dakota to secure
divorce.
The Prentiss Brothers stock barn at
Downer's Grove, Ills, burned, cremating
fifty horses, including ten thoroughbreds
Loss, $4,000.
A sixty day option at $500, oo0-one-
third cash, balance in first bonds-has been
secured by English capitalists on the
Memphis cotton compress.
John T. Nash was killed and two fell
low-employes seriously injured in the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad shops at Nashville
At Buffalo, one Joseph Nevart, who
claims Cincinnati as his home, has been
arrested for stealing about $50 worth of
plumber from the residence of Andrew
Sch.
Once more a syndicate has been formed
to locate and raise the British ship Hus
sar, sunk near He'll Gate, near New York
harbor, having 100000 of treasure on
on board.
George e. Quay, nephew of Senator
Quay, was married last Monday to Miss
Mollie Beach, of Pomona, Cal Six hours
later the bride died. Miss Beach was d
consumptive, and went to California
thinking the climate would benefit her.
Last Thursday night Peter Martin and
John Mullirs killed Thomas Edwards, q
farmer of North Alabama Seventy-five
men chased the murderers, and Wednes-
day afternoon caught up with Mullins
and hanged him. They are still pursuing
Martin.
Horace +. Smith, brakeman on the
Comton Belt railroad and living at Corsi-
cana, Tex, was given on Wednesday q
verdict of $1,000 against the Western
Union Telegraph company for its failure
to deliver a message announcing the death
of his father.
AT Phoenix A. T., Adjutant General
Gill and Surgeon General Helm armed
with knives and pistols, visited The Re-
publican Office and attempted to do up
w. l.. Vail, writer on the paper. Vail
got the drop on them, and marched them
out at the muzzle of his six-shooter.
Two young women named May Hamil-
ton and Nellie Thompson are under ar
rest at Chicago, charged with forgery.
They are book agents, and say they have
male confederates, but refuse to name or
locate them. is believed they are the
same pair who have worked eastern cities
in the same way.
Mrs. Esther Lyon and her daughter,
prominent and highly respectable ladies
of Saugatuck, Conn, were notified
Wednesday morning to leave the country.
The poster, which was four feet square
and embellished with skulls, cross-bones
and collins, was posted on the door. No
reason can be assigned.
Not long since, Mellege Whitlock,
blowing on his farm, near Ozark Ark;
turned upa jar containing 5000 in gold.
He couldn't keep the secret of his good
luck, and now the heirs of Mrs Mary
Wilson, the lady who originally buried
the jar, have brought suit against Whit
lock for the recovery of the money.
Miss Adelaide Utter has been appointed
clerk of the circuit court of the United
States for the western division of the
western district of Missouri at Kansas
City, by Judge Henry Caldwell, judge of
the Eighth circuit court. This is the first
case en- record in the United States where
a woman has been appointed clerk of
circuit court
The New York Republican state con-
vention will be held in Albany on April
2S, and, according to the present slate,
the reliability of which is vouched for by
most competent authority, the delegates
at large to Chicago will be the same big
four of 1SSS-Chauncey M. Depew,
Thomas G. Platt, Senator Frank Hiscock
anu ex-senator Warner Miller.
The steamboat employees who have
strong organizations at Cairo, Memphis,
Vicksburg, New Orleans and ST. Louis
are on a strike and the traffic of the lower
Mississippi is practically tied up. The
strike is for higher pay, viz: Rousters
twenty-five cents per hour, 'longshore-
men $45 per month; the adoption of the
marine engineers and firemen's scale,
and the employment of none but union
men.
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