Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-27

farm nand working for George'w0In, SUD
denly became insane and left on July IL.
On Sunday his body was found hanging to
tree within 300 yards of the house He
was a native of Germany
Smith Hartwell, living a short distance
east of Brazil, Ind, was instantly killed
in the Jumbo mine, operated by Watson,
Little & Company. While drawing pillars
a heavy piece of slate fell upon him, man
Cling him beyond recognition.
Near East Liverpool, O., George BAN
berger was fired on by four masked rob-
bers who had entered the house of his EN-
ployer, Thomas d. Kerr. He was not hit
and the robbers left. They were pursued
and one seriously wounded They es-
capped.
AT Steubenville, o., George Adams, while
laboring under violent fit of jealousy.
shot William Ridenour, Grady Lamsters
and Robert Ridenour and attempted to
shoot Minerva Mitchell to whom he had
been paying attention for some time.
Ridenour's wound is serious.
Senator Vest has introduced in the senate
joint resolution authorizing the president
to offer to Great Britain, Germany and
France, as an inducement to enter into an
international agreement for free coinage of
silver a reduction of IS per cent in tariff
duties on textiles, hardware, earthenware,
and glass. Laid on the table
Rev. d. S. M. Martin, an evangelist of
St Louis, began a meeting Sunday at the
Christian church in Paris, KY, which will
continue probably six weeks. He is a ma
tive of Summerfield, O., where up to seven
years ago he was a professor in college,
but gave it up to go into the ministry.
At New Orleans A. w. Alexander, labor
agent, thirty years Old was shot and killed
| by his brother-in-law, A. H. Jones, twenty
six years old, at the door of the latter's
residence Monday night. Alexander was
native of Admission, Ala Alexander
mistreated his wife and threatened to kill
the entire family.
! At Chicago ut the Grand Central depot,
owing to the airbrakes not working, n
train knocked down the protection post
and ran into a crowd of negroes waiting
for an excursion train. One was killed
and number injured A negro policeman
arrested the engineer, who narrowly es-
capped lynching en- route to the police sta
ton.
Lincoln county, N. NJ, has another
great gold strike. Seven pounds of
gold, worth $3.50, the product of ten tons
of ore from the American mine was de
posted in the Exchange bank, at White
Oaks, n NJ, Monday The new find
from the American mine, three miles west
of Nogales and seventeen miles south of
White Oaks
Four years ago r. p Wright, a physi-
clan at Bayou Meto, Ark, was sentenced
to five years in the peniten.iary for big
amy. BY reason OF good conduct his term
was shortened, and Tuesday he will be re-
leased As soon as he passes beyond the
walls of the penitentiary he will be arrest
ed for murder and arson committed in
Texas several years ago.
Captain A. Coleman, of the steamship
H. f. Dimock, visited the lighthouse board
and inspectors, and made report on the
Alva. He says that the steam yacht is not
very badly damaged, her only injury being
the hole made by the Dimock's bows,
which being below the water caused her to
fill She can be easily raised and repaired
at comparatively small cost.
Frank Sloan, the desperate mail robber,
who killed United States Officer Ballinger,
is fortified in "a log cabin in Putnam
county Tenn Monday he came into
Cookeville, took the town, drove the post
master and town marshal out, and made
merry. A posse Of one hundred men,
headed by two Nashville officers, started
after Sloan. He has FIVE rifles in the
cabin.