Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-15

elgnJy years ago ana Tor many years has
made New York his home He came to
the United States Ia 1S4S. =
In Brooklyn the bodies of Wayland A.
Estes and John f. Spaulding the two fire.
men who were thrown into a burning
mass of jute and sisal at the Harbeck
stores fire, were recovered.
John Leggett fourteen-year-old boy, of
Bradford, Pa, was horribly burned by a
tramp throwing a bucket of petroleum
over him, which caught from fire that
the tramp had made in a shanty.
Two Italians named Terreo and Frigerio
were arrested at Kansas City Sunday,
charged with attempting to swindle a
countryman. They are wanted in several
different cities for grand larceny.
Assistant Secretary Harvey, of the Peo-
pies party committee of Topeka, Kan, has
confessed that the alleged plot to beat
Jerry Simpson was arranged with Simp-
sons knowledge to create sympathy for
him.
DR.. A. Reeves Jackson, of Chicago, the
original of Mark Twain's character my
Friend, the Doctor in Innocence
Abroad" is dead. DR.. Jackson has been
apoplexy.
In Chicago, Charles Ryan, of Sycamore
Ills, shot and fatally wounded Frank
Whitaker and Susie Hess in u disorderly
house and then blew out his own brains.
Ryan wanted the woman to go with him
and she refused.
The situation in Samoa has again as
sumed a serious phase. Malietoa, the
claimant to the throne, wants to GUST Ma
taafa the recognized king An American
war vessel will no doubt be sent there to
protect our interests.
Mrs. Belmont widow of the late August
Belmont and mother of August and Perry
Belmont, is dying at her residence, 100
Fifth avenue, New York. Her physician
says her death may be expected at any
hour, though she may linger for days.
William Williams, Sugartown pa
farmer, bet $500 on Harrison. He had Dor
rowed the cash and his inability to pay
so preyed upon his mind that he shot him
self Saturday His family found him ly-
ing in his room with bullet hole in his
head.
The report telegraphed from Dubuque,
Ia, that Governor Boies will be urged for a
cabinet position is not founded upon facts.
The governor says he has no desire to enter
the cabinet will not be an applicant for
such place, and the Iowa Democrats will
not ask it for him.
In Chicago a number of colored men
met Saturday night and organized a ma
tional association to be known as the Ma
tional Hotel and Restaurant Employees
Alliance of America. 1t is the intention
to look after the interests of the employees
of hotels and restaurants throughout the
country
Carl Wilhelm Amondorf, heir to the
estate of his father, worth $1,000, 600, in
Germany, has been located in Kansas
City. He is a porter in the saloon of
Henry Woolstein and is known as Pencil
Charley" Before he became a saloon
porter he peddled pencils about the streets
and thus gained his nickname.
The mysterious disappearance of tive
Italian girls from their home in Spring
street. New York, several weeks ago, was
happily explained to their anxious parents
when the North German Lloyd steamer
Aller allowed her passengers to land at
Ellis Island. Both girls were on the steam.
ship They had been carried to Southamp
ton and Bremen by mistake. They went
to the pier to see friends off. Confused By
the piles of barrels, boxes and casks and
the different vessels, the girls ran up the
side of the Aller just as her gang plank
was drawn on board.
Ex-District Judge Joseph H. Clarkson,
supposed to have been drowned in Honey
Creek, Ia, July 80, arrived at Omaha Sun
day morning, dressed in the garb of day
laborer. He entered the office and pre-
sented himself before the amazed post
master, Major Clarkson, who is his uncle.
He had become insane and wandered
away,
Boston has been placarded conspicuous
ly of late with theatrical posters of women
in tights. Saturday the Working Girls
club held meeting, and vigorous denun-
Citations of these displays were made A
petition was prepared and will be laid be-
fore the board Of aldermen, asking that
tbeaters which use such posters, be refused
a hranso. "