Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-20

| coffee.
Lieutenant Bruening and four soldiers,
| Germans, have been killed near kilossa
| Africa
At Cambridge, O., Eldorado Gurdier,
painter, fell a distance of thirty feet and
was killed.
The Jail at Hampton, Ark, was broken
into Tuesday and Jim Pilgreen, murder
er, escaped.
II. Paepick & Company's box factory.
Chicago destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000;
fully insured.
Fire at Plain City, o., probably fatally
injured Henry Kahler and caused loss OF
about $4,000,
An overdose of peppermint oil almost in
stantly killed Mrs Charles Pittifer's baby
at Elkhart, Ind.
! Louis Rapp was killed by being run over
while playing in the Vandalia yards at
South Bend, Ind
| Matthew Barton wealthy farmer, has
mysteriously disappeared from his home
near Linden. Ind.
| The night Waterman of the electric light
plant at Upton, Ind, slept, and the plant
| burned. Loss $4,000.
| Raleigh celebrated its centennial by one
of the most elaborate street pageants ever
! seen in North Carolina.
AT Pittsburg, James Stevenson, fourteen,
was stabbed and killed by Stewart Rodg
ers, boy ten years old.
| A general tie-up is looked for at Cleve-
| land because 400 switchmen want higher
wages and shorter hours.
The owner of Blarney castle has re-
FIeba1 m allow tho hlaruau stDun fn he
taken to the Chicago worlds fair.
| Frank G. Tanner, member of city coun-
Gill; Toledo indicted for bribery, pleaded
| guilty. He has not been sentenced.
A three-year-old son of John Cabbage,
Brazil, Ind, is dying of blood poisoning
caused by being cut by piece OF glass.
John Ezra, bunko man, of Crawfords
| vile, Ind, committed suicide because he
had been arrested for bunkoing farmer
out of So
A white camel, imported by w. A.
| Conklin for the Cincinnati geological gar
| den, is now being held in quarantine at
| New York.
Bert Keintz's mother at Columbus, o.,
has returned S164 stolen by him from l.. j.
| Haas, a business man, thus fastening the
| crime on him.
| The first shipment of iron ore of the
| Mesaba range reached Detroit Tuesday. 1t
| came from the mountain iron mine and is
of a very rich quality.
A general strike is threatened on the
| Mexican Central unless the demand for an
| increase Of wages is granted to machinsts
| in the City of Mexico.
During glove contest in New York,
| John Mctilrry knocked William Near y
| out so completely that he did not recover.
| Mc1arry was arrested.
Fl. d. Curtis and G. G. Smith, brakemen
on the Toledo and Ohio Central by
| the parting of brake chain, were thrown
| under the cars and killed.
Patrick Burns, miner, was probably
fatally injured in the Schrepper mine, near
Brazil, Ind, by being caught between the
cage and the side timbers.
Edward McNally has been declared in
! sane at Canton, o. He had devised an APP
paratus for stopping trains, and its failure
! to work unbalanced his mind.
Nineteen men were precipitated down
shaft at the Colby mines, Bessemer, Mich,
| Tuesday, and all of them injured. -Four
are believed to be fatally hurt.
Some scoundrel threw rocks through the
| window of the car next to that containing
| Governor Mckinley on q Baltimore and
Ohio train at Hurricane, w. Va, Tuesday.
Judge Clute says he will not hand down
a decision in the Beck case during the
| present term of the court. He will have
his decision ready Nov. z, the day before
election.
At Canton, O., John Ellis, stranger, was
shot above the heart and in the right breast
by Robert Obernesser. Scott Smith was
also shot and will die. The shooting was
caused by dispute over game of cards.
The GAINESVILLE (O) board of trade has
decided on plan for the removal of Adrian
college to GAINESVILLE. 1t includes the do
nation of site of forty acres and the sell
ing of lots surrounding it to raise an en-
dowment fund of sl25,000.
The operators of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe are all at work, but 500 OPP
orators are out on the Atlantic and Pacific,
running west from Albuquerque, N. M.
I The loss to the Santa Fe from the strike is
estimated at about 100000
Senior Jose Gomez and his wife have been
been held in s. 900 bonds for the theft of
$4,000 worth of diamonds from Adela
Kaufman diamond broker at % John
street. New York. The swindlers claimed
connection with the Stuyvesant and Cou-
| dert families.
The cornerstone of the Ohio Masons'
home at Springfield was laid Wednesday
afternoon in the presence of fully 1900
visiting Masons Fully 10000 were in the
parade The building will cost 100000,
and will be dedicated next October All
state Masonic meetings will hereafter be
held there.
At Tumbling Shoals Tenn, on the Ten
nessee river, the government dredgeboat
was the scene of an explosion of seventy
! five pounds of dynamite. The deck was
torn off and the craft sunk. The head OF
Charles Guma, laborer, was blown off, and
two men, Sharp and Thompson, were seri-
ously injured.
The odd Fellows of st. Louis will not
take part in the Columbian parade on Fri
day. The general committee in charge of
| the parade had announced that there would
| be no restriction placed upon the character
OF the flags to be displayed. To this the
! Odd Fellows objected. They declared that
| they would only march under the flag Of
the United States.
Tammany Hall Tuesday night nomi-
mated Thomas f. Gilroy for mayor, and
| George b. Mcclellan for president of the
| board of alderman. The county Democracy
nominated a full city ticket, headed by ex-
Congressman John Quinn for mayor. The
Iammany nominees for judge of the court
of common pleas and city judge were in
| dorsed. The Republicans nominated Ed
ward Ernstein, a lawyer, for mayor.
Pekin, Ills, is greatly excited over the
| atfemnt of Norman Hawley to kill his