Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-14

Since the death of President Polk OF
the Farmers Alliance, it is thought Will
lam NJ. Stewa"t, of Nevada, will be put II
for president on the national ticket and
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, for vice
president
lsidor de Laba's new opera, "The Light
of Asia" was produced for the first time at
Covent Garden, London, Saturday night to
a brilliant house filled with the composers
friends IL was received with tremendous
enthusiasm.
John Panel, a Baptist preacher, shot and
fatally wounded William r. Davidson at
Norton, fourteen miles from Big Stone
Gap Va. The two men are neighbors and
live on Guests river They had IA dispute
over the ownership of sewing machine.
Both are preachers.
The ship ST, Leo sailed Saturday after
noon from Central lock, near Hamilton
ferry, Brooklyn, with a cargo of bread,
stufts, meats and infants food, in addition
to 800 tons of -four for the starving Rus,
sian peasants, The cargo was donated by
the Kings Daughters.
The White Caps who whipped Rev. Van
Cleave at Corydor, Ind, have been ar.
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ser, sons of Methodist minister; j. V. G.
and James Loudon, Cortez Wolfe, Jaco'
Hannel and Cortez MUIR All save one are
members of ' an Cleave's church
At Cleveland mob of women attacked
the house of a priest of Polish Roman
Catholic parish. The mob got to fighting
among themselves and many black eyes,
broken heads and slight knife wounds re
suited, The police quelled the disturb
ance, and are now guarding the priest 6
house.
Judge jackson, of the United States cir.
cult court ut Cincinnati, dismissed the
whisky trust cases, declaring that the
trust was in existence before the law
under which it was being prosecuted was
passed; therefore, said law was clearly eX
post faoto, and, of course, unconstitu-
tional
The military affairs committee of the
Pennsylvania house, that has been at Get
tysburg since Friday, has completed its in.
vcstigation of the battlefield. The mem.
bcrs are much impressed with it, and will
report favorably on the bill to mark the
Confederate positions and purchase the
ground occupied by Lees army.
Miss Mary Willetts, the twenty-three.
year-old daughter of John +. Willetts,
national lecturer of the Alliance and chair
man of the last Kansas house of repre-
sentatiyes, committed suicide at McLouth,
Kan, by drowning in horse pond near
her home. She had been suffering for some
time from mental alteration resultant
from grip,
III. n. Cox, RESIDING near Nevada, Mo-,
while digging under floor of his resi-
dence in the course of some repairing, dis
covered large kettle full of money sup
posed TO have been buried there during the
war The discovery was made four weeks
ago, but the news has only leaked out
CoN's hired man is reported as saying the
find amounted to $780, COO
The funeral of President l.. L. Polk, of
the Farmers Alliance, took place Sunday
at Raleigh. Among those present were
Governor Holt and all the state officers,
members of the supreme court, officers of
the state Alliance and Grand Sire
Buisee, of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of
ODD Fellows. 1t was one OF the largest
funerals RALEIGH ever had
New line OF spring carpets 1T E
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