Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-15
IN TWO
Items of Interest in Tennessee
and Kentucky.
Something That Will Interest the Read
ers OF the Great Clarksville To-
bacco District.

Speaking of the franchise for water
works and an electric light plant that
has recently been sold by the city of
Hopkinsville, the New Era says:
"The construction and operation of
the plants will involve an expendi-
ture of not less than 100000, large
per cent. of which will be put in the
local channels OF trade. Mr.. Martin
has already closed the contract for his
electric machinery, and will purchase
the water and sewerage systems at
once. These will be shipped TO this
city III less than thirty days, within
which time a large force Of laborers
will be at work upon the streets.
Judge Winfree, the city auditor and
treasurer, holds Mr.. Martins check
for 81 900, which will be forfeited to
the city should he fail to comply with
the provisions of the contract as to
water works. In addition to this Mr..
Martin will execute bond for $4,000
for the protection o the city, and to
protect the city against any damages
that may arise from a failure to con-
struct or conduct the electric plant
according to the provisions of his
contract"
An Owensboro special tells the fol
lowing story: Central City has
sensation in the elopement of Mrs.
Will Hampton with "Dock" Gun
ningham. The deserted husband is
head miner in the Central Coal and
Iron Company'5 mines The wo-
man took her two children with her
and telegraphed Hampton from MOI
tonville that she would not return TO
him. Cunningham is hosiler and
leaves a wife and three children"
louisville, Lexington, Crab Or
chard, Bowling Green, Paducah,
Williamstown, Maysville, George
town and several other Kentucky
towns" says the Courier-Journal,
call have institut S for the cure of
drunkenness, and company has just
been org aniZad at Owensboro to be-
gin the renovation of the topers in
that nei9hborhoOl. The industry
thrives almost as well in Kentucky
as whisky-making, and the State
will do her part in removing any I'M
pleasant effects of her sour mash"
Erskine Bell, of Nashville, fell
from the train at Elgcfeld Junction
yesterday morning and received
probably fatal injuries.
Samuel Newman, who had been in
the coffin business ut Knoxville for
exactly fifty years, quit business yes
terday because it did not pay. 1t
took HIM long time to come TO this
conclusion. A man who will re!y on
the sale of collins in the mountains OF
East Tennessee for living, is weak
in the upper s DRY to say the least of
it.
"A little girl was accidently shot
with an mir gun at Nashville yester-
day and may die from the effects of
the wounds. Air guns are dangerous,
but the average boy does not seem to
think 50.
The Paducah News says the lynch
ing of the negro Hill a few days ago
was the second lynching in Pa
ducah'5 case, and that the first case
was similar to th.S one, the victim
being negro and the offense being
an assault upon a white woman in
Ballard county. That occurred TWEEN.
ty five years ago.
a Covington (Ky.) special to the
Courier-Journal, says that Miss Min
ME McCune, Of that city, accomplish
ed the singular and difficult feat OF
starving herself to death. She had
been OF unsound mind for some years,
and her case had grown worse lately. |
Ten days ago she suddenly came to
the resolution to quit eating, and she
stuck to it to the end.