Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-10

because Miss Carrie Wright, with whom
he had been keeping company, would not
marry him.
Joseph Skinner is in Jail at Chicago
charged with numbering Walter Fay,
formerly of Cincinnati, on Nov, rs, Skin
nef admits the shooting, but says he acted
in self-defense
Representative Caldwell, of Ohio, is the
author of a bill introduced in the house
Thursday to reduce postage ON lirst-class
mail matter, except postal cards, to one
cent per ounce.
In San Francisco George Dawson, of
Australia, whipped Doc" O'Connell, of
Boston, in twenty rounds. Tom Ryan
will fight Dawson in New Orleans in
March for 5000.
The dress Of Mrs. E. S. Alnutt, of Ex-
celsior. Mo, caught fire from a stove anil
she was burned to death. Her sister was
fatally burned while attempting to extinl
guish the flames
The jury in the case of Nelson +. Evans,
late director in the Spring Garden National
bank, Philadelphia, who was chargedwith
misappropriating the funds of the bank
found Evans guilty.
Details of the wreck on the Orange Bel
railway in southern Florida show that G
M. Dollar, an express messenger, was the
only person killed. None of the passengers
or trainmen were injured.
The Sagendorf Iron Roofing and Corfu
eating company, Cincinnati, had $780,
600 fire; insurance about two-thirds. The
origin of the blaze is a mystery. Adjoin-
ing property had a narrow escape.
Montreal will have no ice palace this
year. but a two weeks carnival of winter
sports is being arranged under BE auspices
of the Montreal Amateur Athletic associa-
ton. The games will occur early in Feb
ruary.
In San Francisco further proceedings in
the second trial of NJ. B. Curtis for the
murder of Policemen Grant were brought
to stop by the announcement of the
death of Porter A. Libby, one of the
jurors
At Milton Center, o., Dick Orel called
at Albert Underwood's house to interview
Mrs. Underwood. Underwood ordered
Orel to leave the house, and upon his re-
fusal stabbed him to death Underwood
was arrested.
Christian Koonrad, treasurer of the
Catholic Mutual Benefit association,
branch 49, Pittsburg, was arrested on a
charge of embeszling $500 belonging to the
organization He WAS committed to Jail
in default of bail,
1t is said that she shortage in the ac-
counts Of the freight department in the
Louisville and Nashville railroad Office at
Cincinnati will amount to $4,000 Cashier
Shotwell and Agent McCourt make coun-
ter charges. 1t appears they "stood in"
with each other, and gave money to the
clerks to play on races. The affair prom
ises to develop in surprising manner
James Corbett, champion pugilist, was
arrested in Boston Monday afternoon at
the instance of Joseph A. Lannon, a pu-
gilist, who is seeking to recover the sum of
$1,000 for an alleged breach of contract to
spar with Lannon.
A dispatch from Sofia states that a Turk,
who protested to have been converted to
CT ristianity, has abducted several hand
some Christian girls from Tetovo. He is
supposed to have taken them to CONSTANT
nople to sell for the harem
AT Beloit, O., "Whisky Jim" an Italian,
knocked the eye of John Dugans little
boy out with a clnker. He was attacked
by crowd and badly beaten and would
have been shot by Dugan had he not
broken away and escaped on train
The estimate of the secretary of the
treasury of appropriations necessary forl
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, urges
the appropriation of $4,000 for repairs to
the building and for the improvement of
the walks at the Cincinnati marine hospi-
tai
The wife of William H. Blackiston, gro
ceryman, of Wilmington, Del, was deliv-
cred of triplets, two boys and girl. Mr..
Blackiston is forty years old and his wife
two years younger. The boys will be
named Grover and Cleveland and the girl
Frances
The house of representatives of the |
Georgia legislature has voted to-accept the |
Confederate veterans home, built by
popular donations, but which was not nc.
cepted by the last legislature. An APP.
preparation of $4,000 year Igoes with the
acceptance.
Captain Samuel Smith, the murderer of
George Nolan, the eleyen-year-o boy, off |
Coronado islands, Last Friday morning, |
has made full confession of the crime mt |
San Francisco. He says he Drained the
boy with Ratchet, afterwards casting
him into the sea.
the death, at Chicago, of John NJ Conn.,
the wealthy Philadelphia lawyer, returned
a verdict to the effect that death resulted
from an accidental shot fred by his own
hand. There was no testimony to show
that Coin had contemplated suicide.
The Colorado snowstorm ceased last
Wednesday night after having covered the
ground for hundreds of miles in every di |
rection from Denver with snow averaging
seven inches in thickness All eastern and |
southern trains were from one to three
hours late but the plows have already
cleared the tracks.
The official count of the vote of Massachu-
sets shows that the Republican vote for
electors, as cast for John d. Long, an
ctorat-large, shows the highest number
of votes-202,Sl4, Hon p. A. Collins,
Democratic electof-at-large shows the
total vote of his party is 1858, a Repub-
lican plurality of 26,00l.
Before the Coney Island Athletic club
Joe Goddard the alleged champion Of
Australia knocks out Peter Maher, the
Irish champion, in three rounds The fight
lasted less than ten minutes. There was
very little betting on the result 1t is the
general opinion that Goddard will never
do to meet Corbett or jackson.
"In an action for breach of promise to
marry. the defendant will not be allowed
to show that before the plaintiffs ac-
quaintance with the defendant she had had
an intimacy with several different men. 4"
This is the decision of the full bench of the
Massachusetts supreme judicial court in
the case of Susan C. Mccarthy, of Haver-