Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-18

Tommy Warren, ex-champion feather
weight, at Waco, Tex, attempted to shoot
@ man named "Skeeter" Root, a gambler
but instead killed bystander, Clement
Stoval
The story comes from Charleston, o.,
that buzzards which have eaten Of the re-
cause they were bitten by mad dogs, have
become mad
The case against John Cudahy and A.
M. Wright, the board of trade men accused
at Chicago of running corner in short
ribs, fell fiat. Roush declined to take the
witness stand.
Catholic societies had meeting Sunday
at Newark, N. j., to make preparations for
Columbus day. A motion to put the papal
flag first in the procession was overwhelm-
tngly defeated.
In an attempt to rob mail car on the
Big Four at Clark's Hill, Ind, Mail Agent
John Hanley was shot through the arm by
the robber. When the train stopped the
desperate escaped.
Martin alias "Reddy' Zegler, a ward
constable and ex-deputy sheriff of Schuyl
kill county, Pa, shot William Kepley,
killing him almost instantly. They had
had but few words.
Officer Charles Stephens was killed by
John Campbell, merchant, during q
political meeting at Seneca, Mo. Stephens
was arresting Jack Davis, mulatto and
Campbell interfered
President Palmer, of the worlds fair,
has received notice that Vice President
Morton will take Mr. Harrison's part in
ha Io1s a NJ Ma.
Cleveland and Baby Ruth will be present
A post mortem on the remains of r. NJ
Bell, attorney, who died suddenly at
PEBBLES, o., showed that he was one more
victim of cigarettes. He smoked nearly q
dozen boxes Of cigarettes on the day before
his death 4g.cf scssS
Clothing cutters in New York state,
1900 in number, threaten to vote against
the Democratic ticket in a body because OF
the refusal of Governor Flower to pardon
Master Workman Hughes, convicted OF
extortion.
Leland Stamford, the California mill.
fonaire who is at the Hotel Bristol in
Paris, in an impaired physical condition.
says, in an interview, that he has be
queathed all his fortune to educational
purposes.
The Blaine mansion, on Lafayette square
Washington, is being prepared for the ar
rival of its occupants. Ex-Secretary Blaine
= is expected to return to Washington next
week. He will be accompanied by his fam
lily, and will take up permanent abode
for the winter
The old arsenal In which John Brown
made his last fight at Harper's Ferry, in
1859, has been transplanted to Chicago
Captain Donovan, who was with Brown
during his raid was present, and delivered
lecture at the opening. 1t is the inten-
tion to fill the place with relics of the civil
war.
Near Bonanza, Wy, in the Big Horn
country, two horsethieves, Bedford and
Burch, while in the custody of officers
were ambushed and their captors ordered
to ride on. The officers returned the fol.
lowing morning to find Bedford and Burch
riddled with bullets and their horses dead
also.
At East Liverpool, o., Saturday evening
two electric cars collided on a curve ia
tally injuring Frank Fowler, motorman
and slightly injuring several passengers
Two hours later car became unmanage
able on grade. Three ladies jumped of
and were more or less injured. Had they
staid on they would have escaped unin-
jured.
An epidemic, which physicians say close
ly resembles Asiatic cholera, has broken
out at Second Milo, a small settlement
near Himrods, N. Y. Five deaths and one
convalescept are the result of the disease
thus far, and several new cases have devel-
oped within the last day or two. One vic;
tim, an old lady, was found to be alive
twenty-four hours after death was sup
posed to have taken place.
Otis Greve. awealthy resident of Florida,
Treasurer of the Florida Phosphate League
and president of the Peoples Pebble Phos-
phate company, of Plant City, Fla, dis
appeared from his state room on the steam
boat Pilgrim, of the Fall River line a
week ago. He has not since been seen nor
heard from. His disappearance is unac
countable in every respect. Suicide, his
friends declare, is out of the question.
A rocket exploded prematurely at a po
itical meeting at st. Louis Saturday
night The injured are: Michael Batch
ford, candidate for the legislature, struck
in the right eye by flying missile, fatally
hurt; Fritz Marquard. hit in the right
temple, skull fractured, will die; Henry
Koenig, severely injured in head and neck
Theodore Engleman. injured in breast and
internally fen others were more or less
hurt .----------