Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-29

ne national RepuDllcan committee met
in Washington Monday and elected w. j.
Campbell, of Illinois, chairman to succeed
j. S. Clarkson who declined reelection.
II. w. De Young, of California, was chosen
vice chairman; Thomas H. Carter of Mon
tana, secretary; Cornelius n. Bliss, of New
York, treasurer, and Colonel H. l.. Swords
sergeant-at-arms.
About hundred houses on East Sixth
street, Cincinnati, are in danger of being
buried under landslide, and the inhab-
itants are making ready for a wholesale
departure from the neighborhood. Nearly
two acres of land, to the depth of twenty
five feet, is affected. Recent rains have
caused Z to move several feet and the
movement still continues. The ground is
scanned and rent as though by an earth
quake.
The finest house in America will be the
SlOOOO,000 palace which George Vanderbilt
is building AT Asheville, n, G,
Near Anoka junction, Ind, George w
Nelson met the usual fate by getting
drunk and going to sleep on the track.
At Nashville, Charles Nelson the eldest
son of the millionaire distiller, Charles
Nelson, has filed notice of IA contest of his
=
Miss Bessie Robbins, of Jacksonville,
Ind, was dangerously wounded by pistol
in the hands of Charles Stricken, who
thought it was not loaded.
Charles McClung was seriously injured
and Charles Nanness slightly burned by
lightning ut Mauds, O. They sought shell
ter under IA tree during a storm.
Owing to family objections, Miss Kate
Forsythe, belle of Louisville, and Van O.,
Bunct, of Paducah, were compelled to
elope to Jacksonville in order to get mar
ried
The London papers charge Explorer
Stanley, the Unionist candidate for n seat
in the house of commons, with trying
to slip into parliament under his wife
skirts
At Phillipsburg, n j., Mrs John Skill
man fooled with Flobert rifle she didn't
know was loaded. 1t was, however, and
was discharged, killing her eleven-year-old
daughter.
At shooting match at Conway's grove,
near Aurora, Ind, George Waivers rifle
was prematurely discharged the bullet
| seyering the windpipe of George Cox, who
will die. Both came from Hoe.
At Grafcrsburg, Ky, James Nutgrass
snapped pistol at one of his friends who
censured him for being so foolish To
prove that it was not loaded he snapped it
at his own head He's dead now.
The body of Miss Martha Hurst has been
found in a cave in Claiborn county, Tenn.
| 1t is thought her brother, Newton Hurst,
murdered her for 800 which she had saved
out of her earnings as a school teacher,
At Cardiana Ind, w. H. Huston quar-
relied with his sweetheart, Miss Hancock,
and she snatched a revolver from bureau
| drawer and shot him in the shoulder The
| girl was arrested to await developments.
Near Van Vert, O., b. L. Richie, a
school teacher, disguised himself as a
tramp and attempted to scare some boys.
| shirley Longworth, fourteen, had Flobert
rifle and probably fatally shot Richie in
| the breast
The Freisinnige Zeitung, of Berlin, ed
| tied by Eugene Richter, will be prosecuted
| for lese mai"ste. Its offense was saying
! that the emperor was liable to fine for
| shooting deer out of season. Proceedings
| have begun.
! At Morgan Station, o., Edward McKin-
| lev is dying from wounds inflicted by his
| brother James who attacked him with a
rock The assault was the result of an old
| feud. the outcome of settlement Of their
/ fathers estate.
William Horney's store at Brille Ind.
was destroyed by fire, caused by incen-
din,ism. Loss 5000 As the railway
company has moved the switch and the
postoflice is now gone, the town is practi-
cally wiped ont.