Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-17
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.


octhc Word.
Lake Erie and Western svitchmcn have
been granted an adyance in wages
Mrs Thaddeus Rollins, of indianapolis,
dropped dad while shopping Thursdav.
The recall of H. WadAiagtoa French
ambassador at the court OF S. James, Las
been decided.
Mr.. J.. j. Kimbrougi, Of Jackson, Miss,
was driven insane by q series of disastrous
accidents in his family.
Detective Sommcrs admits that he stole
the $1,000 package from the Southern FIX,
press company at Meridian, Miss.
The Malone Boot and Shoe company at
Birmingham, Ala, has assigned. The LA
bilities are $4,000; assets not known.
Lorne Armstrong committed suicide by
hanging at Columbia, 5. c., Thursday
because his father sold his favorite mule
A Pacific Coast Steamship company's
steamer from San Francisco is quarantined
at Port Townsend with case of smallpox
on board.
William Conner, employed at the Eliza
coal mine, ut Wellston, o., was fatally
crushed under several tons of freight
Thursday.
at Gadsden, Ala, has failed. Attachments
have been filed to the extent of $4,000 and
more are to follow.
Burglars raided Carey, o. At Fishers
grocery store SIS in cash was taken, and at
Bachar's jewelry store over 500 worth of
watches, revolvers, etc.
Miss Mamie Cole, of Milton, KY, who
lost her voice and hearing by sickness
some time ago, regained both senses
Thursday. She shouted for joy.
AT Scottsville Ky, the Jail was broken
and four prisoners escaped. One prisoner
did not take advantage of his chance, but
voluntarily remained in the Jail
William Laffelt was run over by a Chi
cago and Erie train at Huntington, Ind,
Thursday. One leg was cut off and he
was otherwise injured 50 he oan not 70
cover.
Carleton Cochran, the ten-year-old son
of William Cochran, of Wellston, O., fell
down flight of steps, fracturing his skull
and sustaining injuries from which he can
not recover.
At midnight Charley Ogle, Lake Erie
and Western switchman, WAS terribly
mangled at Muncie, Ind, and will die. He
two children.
Congressman Goodnight, of Kentucky,
who was thought to have entirely recoy-
cred, was taken violently i'll again at his
home in Franklin, and some apprehension
is felt about his condition.
Mrs Bertha Bradford living in a New
York tenement house, has just fallen heir
to s., 1000, 900 by the will of an uncle at
Creole, Colo. This is a genuine case. Her
husband is an invalid.
Mayor Bradford, of South Charleston,
O., had the saloon of John Kalaher pulled
for having screen in his saloon. The
trial, regardless of the testimony, being in
favor of defendant, resulted in Kalaher be-
ing fined $50 and costs
Ex-City Clerk German, of Colorado
Springs, Colo, who Wednesday confessed
a shortage of $1,000, intimatcs that others
are guilty in the city's robbery besides
himself He charges that $1,000 are miss
ing besides what he took
Captain John A. Schweres, chief of the
Reading Coal and Iron company's pay
roll department, has been appointed to
represent that company in its endeavor to
establish a market for its coal in Germany.
1t is officially denied that a marriage has
taken place between Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria and the Princess Helen Louise
Henriette, daughter of the Count of Paris
and cousin of Prince Ferdinand whose
mother is related to the Count of Paris.
During the week beginning Monday
next there will be executed, by electricity
at Sing Sing prison, Peter Schultz, boy
sixteen years old, for the murder Of a baby
on Long Island, and Frederick Magure
of Middletown, who killed Mrs Gregory
The American delegates to the inter
national monetary conference at Berlin
are booked to sail on the steamer Lahn
from Southampton for New York on Dec
81. 1t is not understood that there will be
any celebration or dinners in honor of the
occasion.
Nelson f. Evans, of Philadelphia, who
was convicted of misapplying the funds of
the Spring Garden National bank, OF
which he was a director, has been sen
fenced by Judge Butler to pay fine of
$500 and serve five years in the eastern
penitentiary.
w. H. S. Foster, who was brought to
Tifiin, o., from Findlay, charged with re
moving goods from Seneca county on
which Axtell, Rush & Company, of Pitts
burg held chattel mortgage, had a hear
ing before Mayor Abbott, and was bound
over to the common pleas court.
The sentence of death passed by the mil
itary court martial at Monterey, Mex, on
Colonel Movers Hernandez will be carried
out next Monday at sunrise. The colonel
was tried on the charge of assisting CARA
to escape at the time he made his escape to
the United States last year.
Frank NJ Spencer, of Kent, o., has com
menced an action in the United States
court for $4,000 damages against John
Bentley, justice of the peace, and his
bondsmen, NJ. G. Garrison, j. g. Evans
and NJ. Kniefel, and Sheriff James Jones
and his bondsmen, j. c. Scott and Richard
Evans. He sets up false imprisonment as
the ground for damage.
f. b. Turpin, who killed William M,
Carter in Gallatin, Tenn, last February,
and who was recently convicted of murder
in the first degree, but was given new
trial because of alleged irregularities, was
carried to Nashville to escape the ven
geance of mob Turpin's lawyers made
affidavit that there was a plan on foot TO
take the murderer from Jail and lynch
him.
Death Record.
General Galvan, governor of the state of
Jalisco, Mex, is dead.