Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-23

Nina harrington, a member of the New
York Casino company, has brought suit
for SANDER against the Baroness Blame
Nina thinks she has been damaged to the
extent of $4,000
Nine. Patti, Signor Nicolin and DR.
Leslie f.. Keely, of gold-cure fame, were
passengers on the steamer City of New
York, which sailed from New York fol
Liverpool Wednesday.
The Pike Manufacturing company,
wholesale dealers in plumbers supplies at
Boston, with works at Pell City, Ala, has
assigned to Lemuel W. Peters Liabilities
and assets at present unknown.
The car drivers on the various lines OF
the New Orleans city and lake railroad
companies, of which Joseph Walker is
president, went on strike, and cars are be
ing run with non-union drivers.
There is no doubt that Mrs. Harrison's
illness Is an occasion for alarm Her re
turn to Washington from Old Point Com
fort was followed by relapse. The salt
air was too strong and brought on a recur-
renee of her cough.
Harry Varnell an employee of Barnum
& Baileys show, made quiet sneak from
New York with a cage containing four
lions, and got as far as Chicago before be.
ing caught. When the show broke at
night he drove to another depot and put
the cage in box car.
The Confederates of Knoxville and east
Tennessee Thursday unveiled the Con.
federate memorial monument recently
erected in that city at a cost of 5000. Gen.
eral &. Kirby Smith acted as chief marshal
The welcome address was delivered by
Hon. H. H. Taylor and the Grafton by
Senator Bate.
Dr. Edward Won b. Bensley and PROBES
sor 7. j. Lawrence, both of Cambridge
university, England; DR.. Edward w.
Bemis of the Vanderbilt university, at
Nashville and Mr.. o. 7. Thatcher, OF
Allegheny, Pa. have been appointed in the
university extension faculty of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Hop Sing, the Chinese leper, who was
shipped to the Pacific coast last July, has
returned to New York. He tells a woeful
story of his experience on the Canadian
border, where he was carried back and
forth across the line until the railroads
got tired of hauling the box car in which
he had been placed.
Three lifeboats containing eighteen nen
have arrived at Yaquina, Or, containing
the captain and crew of the ship St.
Charles, on which an explosion occurred
March II, longitude 1874, latitude As de
grees % minutes. The St. Charles was
en- route from Nanimo to San Francisco
with a cargo of coal When the crew
abandoned the vessel she was sinking.
William Knight was hanged at Rolling
Fork, Miss, Thursday, for the murder of
Mike Shea, section boss on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas railroad. His
crime was one of the darkest in the history
of this country, he having, without provo
cation, slipped up behind Shea and struck
him on the head with an iron bar, causing
instant death. He met death without
showing the least fear.
A locksmith named Jag Kan committed
suicide at Memphis Thursday afternoon.
He used Stevens combination rife
loaded with duck shot. He tied lawn
tennis belt around the trigger to form a
loop, placed the muzzle to his forehead
stood before a mirror and turned the gun
loose, blew half his head off and fell dead.
Despite his name of Jag, he was sober when
the deed was committed. No cause is
known for the act.