Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-05

Mrs. Kraemer, beautiful New York
socialist, wanted to go to Russia to dis
tribute the food carried by the relief 81 II
Tynehead, but the Russian legation at
Washington objected, and she was not
permitted to go.
The bomb thrower is travelling west
Tuesday moEning, at Los Angeles, Cal, g
man threw a bomb into house on New
High street A terrific explosion fol
lowed. The occupants of the building
We're stunned but not seriously hurt.
By the collision of two freight trains
near Oklahoma City, o. T., Nat Robinson
a conductor, was killed. A number OF
cattle We're also killed and dozen stock
cars and locomotive wrecked. The en-
gineer and fireman saved themselves by
jumping
AT RiXford Pa, an iron tank owned by
the Tidewater Pipe Line company, con.
tanning $4,000 barrels of oil, was struck
by lightning Tuesday evening, and
fercely burned up. Two wells and two
small oil tanks at Mount Jewett were
struck and destroyed
When the wooden ship Roanoke is
safely launched in Kennebec, Me-, Arthur
Sewall & Company will begin prepara-
tions for laying the keel of the first steel
sailing ship ever constructed in the
United States, and the first iron ship
produced by New England
The American Biscuit and Manufac-
turing company Cracker trust) the great
syndicate which controls the product of
nearly two score cracker and sweet goods
factories, has reduced prices on fifteen
important items in the sweet goods class.
The reduction ranges from one-half
cent to two cents n pound.
A dastardly attemptwas made to wreck
passenger train No. 4, known as the
Chicago Limited, on the Illinois Central,
two miles north of Holly Springs, Miss,
Sunday night. Piles of ties and rails
were placed across the track just the
other side of curve, where there is "a
steep embankment. The engineer FORUM
ately saw the obstruction in time to avoid
a terrible catastrophe.
Bridget Elizabeth Walsh, wife of Mi
chael Walsh, at No. 344 Washburn avenue,
Chicago, was murdered at her home Tues
day night, and her remains horribly mu-
tilated suggestive of Jack the Ripper's
work. SiXty-ive gashes, varying in length
from half an inch to a foot, told the story
of the womans death. Four hours after
the murder Thomas Walsh a nephew of
the woman, was arrested and confessed
He said that they had been drinking beer,
and that he had made an improper pro-
posal to Mrs. Walsh, whereupon she
slapped his face He drew knife and
stabbed her, and the sight of blood sud
denly drove him insane, with the result
that he man Ulp1 and tore the moor Nvnman
as related above
The second day of the Methodist confer
ence at Omaha was principally spent in
wrangling over seats.
In San Francisco an electric ear Jumped
the track and turned over Thirteen PEG
pie were injured-three fatally.
Chauncey NJ Depew, one of the New
York delegates to the Minneapolis con.
vention, says he is for Harrison.
James Mitchell and n Mr.. Plaxton,
farmers, living near Tevis, southwest OF
Topeka, Kan, were killed by tornado.
Lightning struck school house near
fremont, 0. One pupil was fatally in
jured and number of others badly hurt
At Urbana, o., Charles Anderson and
Edwin r. Shrouge, boys, were indicted
for highway robbery. They held up
man recently.
1t is said the order of the Knights of the
Golden Rule are going to pieces, owing to
the opposition of other secret benevolent
organizations.
Mansfield Merriman, of Lehigh univer-
sity, has been offered the chair of mathe.
MATES in the Chicago university, at q
salary of s., 900 year.