Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-12


to issue 50, 500 900 new stock one share at
par to each holder of six shares.
At Minneapolis Herman Krouse shot
his sweetheart, Margaret Conrad, and
then suicided. The girl will probably re-
cover.
Amadee S. Leche, q prominent citizen
of New Orleans, has been discovered to be
forger to the amount of $1,000. He has
skipped.
Secretary Elkins has practically de-
clined to become candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for governor of West
Virginia.
Infectious cerebral meningitis has
caused five deaths within a few days in
Newton, l.. |. Three of the deaths were in
one family.
At Las Vegas, N. NJ, Wednesday night,
the Rev. b. j. Cyrus, colored Methodist
minister of Trinidad, fell dead in the pull
pit while preaching.
At Mount Kisco, N. Y, Prince John
Zobieski, grandson of the King of POLAND,
was arrested Thursday, charged with
stealing horse and wagon
The Philadelphia conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church has passed
unanimously, resolution protesting
against the opening of the worlds fair Oh
Sundays.
The New York Union League club has
organized committee to act with the
Army of the Tennessee in raising the
$l50, 900 to pay for monument to General
| Sherman.
! 1t is believed the famous Peg-Leg mine
has been rediscovered near Cottonwood
| Springs, Cal Hundreds of miners and
prospectors are bound for the new
Eldorado.
1t is stated that binding agreements
| have been entered into between nearly all
the anthracite carrying and producing
companies for the purpose of maintaining
rates and restricting production.
Last Monday morning the wife of
| Christian Caldwell, a colored farmer of
Orangeburg county, S. c., gave birth to
four babies, all boys. AT last accounts
three of the boys were alive and doing
well.
At Marysville, Wash, John Seafeldt's
house burned, and his two daughters,
aged nine and eleven respectively, per-
ished in the flames Seafeldt was badly
burned in his endeavor to rescue his chill
dren
A deputation from the Canadian Marine
association waited on Mr.. Upper at OF
tawa and asked that a toll of two cents a
ton be imposed on all American goods
passing through the Welland and other
canals.
At Batavia, o., Edward H. Jones, who
shot his son Harlan last October, was
found guilty of murder in the first degree
Jones killed his son because the latter
left his employ and worked for another
farmer.
George Woodyat Hastings, Unionist
member of parliament for East Wor-
cestershire, England, was sentenced to
five years at hard labor for embezzling
els, 900 from tle estate of John Brown, of
which he was trustee.
The long strike of the motermen and
conductors of the Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Manchester traction lines at Pitts
burg. has been officially declared off by
the Knights of Labor. The company has
all the men required.
The handsome granite building of the
San Francisco Stock exchange is for sale.
The stock brokerage business in San
, Francisco is done for. When the exchange
was built, in 1877, at a cost of 100000, 8
seat in the board was worth $25, ,0O0 Now
It is not salable at $1,000.
: Near Char ,ston, w. Va, Jack Adkins,
a vagabond, attempted to outrage Bette,
q the fourteen-year-old daughter of Rev,
Marion Moore, during her parents alb
sence, but being foiled in his designs cut
her throat from ear to ear, and fled. II
caught he will be lynched.
The worlds fair national board of con
hp Hirpptnr
+ to allot space for a separate building eX
clusively for the shoe and leather exhibit
including rubber boots and shoes, pro
q yided. as promised, the trade furnishes
the necessary funds for construction and
installation.
The Catholic Knights of America
through the officers of the various STATE
y jurisdictions. have instructed Supreme
9 President j. D. Coleman to begin lega
. action against the bondsmen of the lat
e Supreme Treasurer M. j. O'Brien, wh'
+ took funds of the order to the extent o
Q SIS 900 some time ago.
+ Rev. Joseph ALL assistant priest at th
V Italian church in Newark, N. j., was ar
: rested Thursday morning for committing
g an indecent assault upon nine-year-ol'
a Mary Basile. a pupil in the Italian paroch
ial school The father of the girl befor
the arrest sought the priest at his resi-
dence, threatening to kill him.
= Arthur Jenkins, president of the Ten
IL nessee Coal company, who is responsible
n so the miners allege, for all the trouble
If in the Coal Creek and Briceville mines
l. a candidate for governor of Tennessee o
t. the Republican ticket He now has tn
If miners and also the Farmers Allianc
rs with him He is only twenty-six years c
,e age and fighter.
So An attempt to assassinate Father Jas
y kovits pastor of ST. Stephens Hungaria
20 Catholic church, Plymouth, Pa, wa
L made about o'clock Thursday morninl
Every pane of glass in the priests bee
room was broken, and big rocks weT
thrown on his bed. He ran to the bac
IN window to give the alarm, and Will
there shot whizzed past his ear. Ther
Is great excitement over the affair.
A sensational scene took place Thur
day morning in the cell in the Chicag
W iail of DIR. II. M. Scudder who is undt
Indictment for numbering his mother-il
Ell law. The aged father of the prisone
Rev. DIR. Scudder, visited his son, who {
at soon as the cell door was opened spran
upon him, clutching him by the throa
"a and it was with great difficulty that IL
old gentleman was rescued. DR.. Scudd'
10 is supposed to be insane, though SON
i'll think he is shamming.
Peoria, His, reports a case OF unpara
a leled cruelty TO a little girl nine years
nd age. The child was picked out of Il