Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items or
Various Subjects.

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struck by train.
Two women at Cleveland got divorce
from Joseph L. Baker on the same day.
Hiram Ables, farmer living near
Shoals, Ind, has been arrested for forgery.
| Brakeman Estop was killed at Ander-
son, Ind A short tender drawbar caused
! it.
! Epidemic of scarlet fever at Cardonia,
Knightsville, Staunton, Carbon and Bra
zil, Ind.
| Randall Hunt, the Nestor of the Louisi-
ana bar, is dead. He was of the noted
family of South Carolina Hunts.
| A. l.. Rogers, murderer, sentenced to be
hanged Friday at Dallas, has been re-
spited to April 10 by Governor Hogg.
Alexander Hamilton's property in New
York, called "The Grange" was sold
Tuesday to Orlando b. Potter for $l40, 500
Near Milford Center, O., sawmill
boiler exploded, killing Lon Wilson, the
engineer, and injuring Walter Walker.
AT New Albany, Ind. Frank Wilson is
in Jail charged with outraging his imbe-
cile daughter and almost starving his
children.
Colonel ]. IL. Estell has resigned his
membership in the national Democratic
executive committee, in which body he
represented the state of Georgia.
A fire in the folding room of the ma
tional house of representative caused
$4,000 damage. Somebody carelesslv
threw cigar among the papers
At Canton, O., Charles Hawkins who
killed his sweetheart, Annie Lacy, re-
ceived second degree verdict, much to
the surprise and disgust of the people.
The Merritts want $4,000 for floating
the Windermere off and towing her to
New York. The vessel cost $150,000, and
it is said that she is insured in England
for $4,000
Mr. and Mrs Nelson Stewart, of Mil
lersburg, O., stopped at the Bushtel hotel,
Lima o., on their bridal tour. They blew
out the gas and were found dead few
hours later.
At Decatur, Ala, Jack Fritz shot and
killed Mrs Thomas Walcott, seriously in
iured Mrs. F.. Whitten, who was visiting
her, and then suicided Drunk the only
cause known.
While en- route to the Jeffersonville
Qnd) prison, John Jones, of Switzerland
county, attempted to escape at Carrollton,
Ky. He was shot and probably wounded
by Sheriff " illiams.
With the supposed death of the Stand
ard oil trust it comes out that there is
about $96OO0,0 900 of undivided profits due
certificate holders to be paid as soon as
the trustees say the word.
William Euler and Mrs Samantha Say
lor, who have been living together for two
years at Seymour, Ind, are on trial for
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tial evidence 5 very strong
William Russell, the Minerva (O) jew
eler, convict i of felonious assault upon
Miss Lucinda Loutzenheiser, the belle of
town, has been sentenced to six months
in Jail and fined 500 and costs.
In Indianapolis John Feest's will is be-
ing contested in behalf of his two young
est children, one of which was born the
day the will was written and the otht
four years later, the day after Feest's
death.
No doubt now exists that the sugar
trust has gobbled everything in sight. f.
C. knights refinery has been formally
transferred. The trust paid for the
Spreckels refinery brtween $4,000 900 and
$7,0O0,000
At Cleveland, Pete German, young
tough, assaulted Saloonist Joe Singleton
because he refused to fill the growler
after closing time. Singleton's wife ap-
peared and shot German, probably fatally
wounding him.
John Wheaton, of Columbus, O., who
had his leg cut off by an engine in 1871,
for which he was fully Unidentified, re-
Gently sued the company for $l2, 357. 70 and
was awarded $5,200 The case will be
carried to a higher court.
While crossing the Garrison river
bridge ON the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railroad j. w. Allison and his
two children were struck by train and
knocked into the river. The man and
boy were drowned, while the girl was
rescued uninjured.
Mrs. Antoinette Sanders, living at
Springfield, Ills, has commenced suit in
the United States circuit court to recover
possession of College HILL the fashionable
suburb of Wichita, Kan. There are over
one hundred defendants, and the fight
will be a long and bitter one
The town of Clayton, Ills, is in the
greatest excitement and indignation over
a diabolical attempt to poison two fam
lilies, named Miller and Richardson. The
the families. Suspicion points in GER
tain direction and startling disclosures
are expected.
A mass-meeting of negroes was held at
Memphis in regard to the late lynching of
three blacks-McDowell, Moss and Stew
art. A resolution was adopted urging
the colored people to adjust their affairs
and ''seek among strangers the protec-
t,n1I
which are denied them here"
When the legislature of Mississippi
assembled at Jackson Tuesday morniug a
crazy man named Bryant, with a big
knife in each hand, took possession of the
state house, defed the officers who came
to arrest him, cursed the legislature and
ran things to suit himself. He was finally
arrested and returned to the asylum.
Since last January large amount of
counterfeit coin has been circulated in
Pittsburg among the Polish Jews, Hun
garians and Italians of the Fourteenth
ward All efforts of the government Sc
cret service to arrest the counterfeiters
proved futile until Tuesday, when John
O'Leith and Peter Sincus were captured
in cellar, at Duquesne, Pittsburg
suburb, where they had a complete outfit.
Colonel Dan Lamont, who has been con-
nected with street railroad in New York
since Cleveland left the White House, is
dangerously i'll in the metropolis. Over
work The colonel is either president, di
rector or right-hand man, If not all three,
in seventeen business enterprises. Since
he embarked in business here, only few
years ago, his success has been the talk of
the town. Not more than ten years ago
he was earning s15 week on a country
newsnaper. His income today Is said TO