Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-16
NEWS IN eRlEE. gEm ).
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.


Minister Lincoln has fully recovered,
and is again on duty in London.
Senator~Hill arrived at Jackson, Miss,
Tuesday. He was given grand recep-
tion.
The governor of Massachusetts, has
signed a law forbidding the issue of free
passes by railways.
Mrs. dliza Clark, of Highland, Ind,
suicided by drowning while temporarily
insane from sickness.
Orton Mitchell, of Rochester, Ind,
skipped with his servant girl, leaving
wife and three children.
Rev. David r. Benson, the oldest negro
preacher in Iowa, was killed at Ottumwa,
being run over by an engine.
While playing with gun at Lexington,
KY, viii Lee, sixteen shot and killed
Will Pryor seventeen. Both colored
Mrs. Margaret Brent, of Paris, KY, has
fallen heir to 500, 900 by the death of her
nephew, Benjamin Page, of New York,
The celebrated DR.. d. Hayes Agnew is
| lying seriously i'll at his residence in Phil
adelphia from an attack of heart failure.
At Benecia, Cal, an italian fisherman
killed fellow countryman, towed the
body to the coroner and got IS for his
! trouble
John McNally, Pittsburg glass
worker, was burned to death at Muncie
Ind His clothes caught fire while he
was drunk
A Wisconsin Central passenger train
was ditched near Dale by a broken rail
A brakeman was killed and several pas
sengers injured
| Almost starved to death Ben Sher and
! his child-wife were taken to the hospital
at Columbus, Ind. Where both are now
| lying in precarious condition.
Unknowns shot and seriously wounded
| William Clark, farmer living near Shell
| byville, Ind, while going home at night
and robbed him of $3.50 and gold watch
| Orville Glover has skipped from Cleve-
land, taking with him $1,000 belonging to
his uncle, whose hotel he had been run
ming. Gambling and general high living
did it,
Eva Vasseur, the thirteen-year-old
adopted child of Nose Bonneville, at Lake
Linden, Mich, died after giving birth to
an illegitimate child that weighed sixteen
pounds.
AT a meeting of the Ohio Society of New
plimentary dinner to Whitelaw Reid.
United States minister at Paris, on his re-
turn from France.
The workingmen of Vienna Joined in
the annual procession to the graves of the
victims of the rebellion of 1S4S A con-
| flict between the procession and the police
resulted in a small riot.
Because his wife refused to live with
him on account of his extreme cruelty,
Mike Hickman, Of Upper Sandusky, o.,
assaulted and seriously injured her and
her father, He is still at large
+ 1t is said Grand Master Workman Pow
derly, of the knights of Labor viii
shortly resign as he is disgusted with the
way he has been recently criticized by
labor leaders who were once his friends
AT Omaha two men smashed plate
glass window in Meyers jewelry store,
grabbed several hundred dollars worth
of goods, and escaped in full sight of a
number of pedestrians and the watch
man.
At Forsythe, Mo-, John W. Bright,
wife murderer while on trial was taken
from the court room by a mob and
hanged. In the scrimmage in the court
room one of the deputy sheriffs was shot
dead.
Marriage seemed a failure to Louis
Dobbler, of Fort Wayne, Ind After be-
ing married three weeks he shot himself
in the abdomen, fought the doctors when
they tried to dress his wounds and will
probably die.
The bridge-repair train on the Union
Pacific was wrecked near Beatrice, Neb,
by the breaking of truck Conductor
Rodgers and G. H. Paul were badly
bruised and scalded, the latter fatally
James Mccall had both legs broken.
The natives recently made an attack
upon Fort Johnson, post of the African
Lakes Trading company, and killed many
of its defenders. The company's trade is
paralyzed and the condition of the re-
mainder of the garrison is precarious
Free delivery in small towns has been
proven practicable at Fonda, Ia, q place
of 500 Inhabitants. The system was es-
tablished there and watched by the post
office department, and has proved mex
pensive and in every way satisfactory
The stockholders of the Diamond Match
company have voted to increase the cap
ital stock from &C. 600, 600 to ST. 800 900. The
new stock is to be offered to the present
stockholders at par, April to 16 to the
extent Of one-fourth of their present hold
ings.
A four-sded fight occurred among cow
boys at Rongis, Wy, in which Buck Tay-
lor, formerly with Buffalo Bill, was so
badly injured that fatal results are
feared Patrick Horrigan and AL Dough-
erty were badly cut with knives during
the melee
Frederick j. Hamilton, a reporter on
one of the New York morning papers, was
given an ass gnment about typhus fever
He returned into house at AZ Fest
Twelfth street, where suspected persons
were quarantined, contracted the disease
and died Monday.
The board of general appraisers, sitting
at Chicago, has rendered a decision fixing
the duty on class of cheap imported
linen towels, very generally in use, at 80
per cent instead of 80 per cent, as fixed
by the local appraisers The decision af-
fects every importer of towels in the
United States.
AT the Methodist Episcopal church at
Rome, Ga, on Sunday, colored man
while partaking of the Sacrament dropped
dead-at least two physicians, who exam
ined him, pronounced him dead. Ar
rangements were made for the burial
next day, and when the body was being
placed in the coffin the man opened his
eyes He is now on the road to recovery.
A. L. Galley was a poor farmer living
near Naples, Pa. A week ago the farm
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