Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-01

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At Shoals, Ind, William Fitch was SEN
fenced to two years. He married his
sweetheart in the Jail before leaving for
the penitentiary.
| The Indian boarding-school at the Win
nebago agency was destroyed by fire Sat
urday night with all its contents. Loss,
$4,000, with no insurance.
| At Hamilton, O., Louis Douges, four
teen, was probably fatally injured while
| pounding railroad torpedo with stone.
| He did not know what it was
At Vincennes, Ind, Frank C. Bairo at
tempted to steal ride and was locked in
box car. After eight days he was found
badly frozen and almost dead.
J. II. Johnson, of Blakely, MINI, ad-
vises farmers to build their own -four
mills They can then get 81 bushel for
their own wheat, says Mr.. johnson.
j. B. Bush, postmaster at Dillon, Ia,
has confessed to the embezzlement fro n
the government of upwards of 81 200, and
has been bound over to the federal grand
jury.
A committee of policy-holders of the
| New York Life Insurance Company recon-
mends that vacancies be filled with men
in harmony with Mr.. Mccall, the new
president.
Two little negro girls were burned to
death at Ma,ianna, Ark, in a shanty ad-
joining the old jail The children were
locked up in the house alone while their
mother was absent.
Two Brooklyn men hold halves of the
same $50 bill. One offered the other TO
compromise for $50, but the offer was re-
fused and the treasury department will
decide who is the rightful owner.
Henry Killerman, the boy who disap-
peared from St. Mary's, o., two weeks
ago, has been found in the reservoir at
that place with deep cash in his head.
He is supposed to have been murdered.
Pittsburg young ladies are taking ad-
vantage of the fact that 1899 is lenp
year. The record of marriages for this
year up to Feb 81 shows one hundr i
more than for the corresponding period
last year.
A WASHINGTON special to the New York
World says lat it is reported that Sena-
tor John Sherman will soon retire from
the public service and that Secretary Fos-
ter will, health permitting, succeed him as
senator from Ohio.
Three hundred thousand Germans,
whose ances RS settled in the Volga prov
inces of Russia during the reign of the
Empress Catherine the Second and by her
invitation, are preparing to emigrate to
the United States.
Fire SATURDAY night destroyed the pack
ing-house of Stivers & Bland, at Sullivan,
Ind, entaili1g loss of about $500; IL
surance, 1920. 1t is supposed to have
caught fire from the pit in which fire was
placed for smoking the meat.
A fire at the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
| Dayton railway station in Cincinnati de-
stroyed a mail pouch Of letters to be dis
tributed to tie intervening cross lines on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton as
far north as Toledo and Detroit.
The Russian relief committee of tie
United States has sent out a letter to |
newspapers asking them to aid by ac-
quainting their readers with the true con.
dition of the Russian people, the efforts
being made to relieve the suffering mill
ions in Russia.
The story comes from Benson, MINI,
that Bertha Carnahan, of that place, is to
marry Samuel Kahn, better known as
"Major Atom" Bertha is twenty years
old and twenty-eight inches in height and
weighs forty pounds. The "Major" is
nineteen years old, thirty-two inches high
and weighs sixty-five pounds.
Secretary Blaine has written letter in
regard to the separation of his son James
G., Jr,, from his wife. He declares that
the separation was not caused by his (the
secretary's) wife, as was alleged by the
South Dakota judge, and criticizes the
priest who married the young couple.
When they were married young Blaine
was not eighteen, while his wife was
twenty-one
February reports from southern Mime
sofa indicate that the winter wheat crop
will be almost total failure. Many
fields appear brown and dead, owing to
the light snow and constant violent
changes in temperature. At least so per
cent. of the grain, from Winton county
westward, will be plowed up and spring
wheat sown.
In the circuit court at Cairo, Ills, on
Saturday Mrs. Ellen Orange was given
thirty-five years in the penitentiary for
killing her worthless husband. They had
quarreled about another woman, and as
they walked along the sidewalk he started
upstairs at the call of the other woman,
when Mrs. Orange fired after him, killing
him instantly.
At 4:30 o'clock Sunday morning the en-
tire building occupied by the clothing es-
tablishment of Smith, Gray & Company
Fulton street. Brooklyn, was destroyed
by fire The building was valued at $780,
900; insurance, $175,00o. The stock of
Smith, Gray 81 Company was insured for
$l50,000 Five other adjoining buildings
were damaged and two firemen severely
injured.
The new town of Kensington Pa, on
the Allegheney Valley railroad, has q
great sensation. 1t consists in the arrest
of the principal of the schools of that
town, Professor J. M. Anderson, and Dr.
4. e. Patton, a prominent physician
The charge against them is criminal
abortion, and the prosecutor is Miss Jen-
ME McClelland, an assistant teacher In
the Kensington school.
Charles Sharp, seventeen-year-old col
ored boy, is now in the county Jail at
Knoxville, Tenn, on the charge of at
tempting to outrage Mrs. Reed Loy the
wife of his benefactor Saturday night
10y was called from home by the illness
of neighbor and during his absence
Sharp entered the bedroom of Mrs. 10y
and made vicious attempt to assault
her. He was captured and confessed that
it was his intention to outrage Mrs 10y
and then murder her and her two chill
dren.
Saturday night at Dexter, Mo-, as City
Marshal Sprinkle, with a man named
Amos Miller, were going from the jus
tice's Office TO the Jail, they were met by
some unknown man, who, with leveled
pistol, demanded Miller's release A gen
arnl FL II nda ensued In which ttrn tnnr,