Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-03

named wheeler was badly hurt by Jump
Ing from q window
Eph Griz2ard was taken from the iai.
ut Nashville and hanged by mob of en-
ragged whites He and his brother, Henry
who was lynched a few days ago, rs
saulted two white girls
During quarrel at Franklin, O., j. G
Corbett, brakeman, struck w H. Oar
ling, baggagemaster, on the head will
chair, fracturing his skull and jumping
passing train escaped.
About two weeks ago Madison NJ Scott
a merchant of New Albany, Ind, disap
peared. Saturday his body was found il
a creek, with t&ery indication of suicide
He was heavily in debt.
At Manchester, O., Miss Emma Bow
man was killed and Will Reed and Misse.
Mckinney and Louise Adair injured il
three runaways caused by horse becom
ing frightened at COW.
Sherman Williamson, of st. Louis, mad
dened by evidence of his wife's unfaithful
ness, attacked her paramour, Edward
Andrus. Saturday night and was shot
through the heart, dying instantly.
AT Leseuer Center, Mimi, the sensa
tional case of Mrs. Katie Boyd against
Cornelius Hessian and his three sons, fol
tarring and feathering her, ended Satur
day in q verdict of $4,000 in favor of Mrs
Boyd.
William j. B. Allen, bookkeeper fol
the Cleveland Foundry company, who
disappeared April 10, proves to have been
an embezzler to the extent of 5000. He
raised the pay rolls every month for over
year.
Frank lie Compt, of Springfield, O., did
not want to take any chances on failing
to suicide. He tried a revolver and poison
the former failed to work and he was
saved from the effects of the latter by
friends.
Caroline Bartlom writes to New York
from Birmingham, Eng, and says that
she is the only legal wife of Pat Rooney,
the Irish comedian, who recently died.
She states that they were married on
Christmas, 1870
Hamilton A. Bee, living at Dahlonega,
Ga, aged eighty-seven has petitioned for
divorce from his wife, Sarah, whose age
is eighty-two. He alleges as reason for
his application that Sarah does not love
him as she used to in the days of "Auld
Lang Syne."
Red Davis and George Langfelt had a
bloody twenty-six-round prize fight on
Kern's Island, near Wheeling. In the
last round Davis had his left arm broken,
but he succeeded in knocking out his an.
tagonist, falling on his body Davis had
to be carried from the ring on a stretcher.
At Bayou Sara, La, constable at
tempted to arrest two noisy negroes.
They resisted drew rev divers and began
firing. Several white men came TO the
COnstable's assistance Edgar Hamilton,
white, and two negroes were instantly
killed Two other white men were injured,
AT Calamity, near Pittsburg, Ernest
Redaves bounced Paul Ladiuer, a boarder,
for being too attentive to Mrs. Redaves.
Ladiuer owed a board bill and refused to
pay Redaves attached his wages.
Ladiuer threatened to kill Redaves and
went to the latter's house to carry out the
threat when Redayes shot him dead
Charley Smith, a prominent resident of
Caldwell Kan, was fatally shot Sunday
afternoon in a saloon at that place by
Bart Williams, a bartender, recently inn
ported from Dayton, O. The shooting
followed quarrel over a card game, and
Williams poured four bullets into his
victim.
While Joseph Iamontague, an ex-con-
Wet, was pressing revolver mtlzzle
against the breast of Policeman Michael
Raftery Sunday afternoon at Chicago,
Policemen Thomas Howard shot Lamon.
tague through the head, causing instant
death. Lamontague was pocket picking
in the crowds watching the Labor Day
parade.
Early Sunday morning a fire occurred
at 1870 Broadway, Williamsburg, ~ Y. In
the second floor of the building lived John
Schalter, his wife and four daughters.
One of them Maggie jumped from the
window and was horribly mangled. The
third story was occupied by Thomas
Tubbs and his ten children. five of whom
are missing.
The completion and dedication of the
Childs-D reXel home for union printers, at
Colorado Springs, ON the siXty-third
birthday of George w. Childs, of the
Philadelphia Ledger, is an event which
has been looked forward to with a great
deal of interest the world over, as it is the
beginning Of the life of the only institu-
ton of its kind in the universe. Thurs
day, May II, is the day set for the dedica,
ton.
At Chattanooga sixteen members of the
junior high class of the high school took
May Day outing Sunday ON the old bat
tlefeld at Chickamauga, While six OF
the party were rowing in a boat on Chick
amauga creek, known in the Cherokee
tongue as "the River of Death" the boat
upset and Miss Bonnie Cheney, Miss
Blanche Barr and Wendell Sanders were
drowned. The drowned were each about
sixteen years old, and are children OF
prominent people.
Sunday evening the people of Dayton,
Tenn, experienced what seemed like an
earthquake shock 1t was discovered
that volcanic eruption occurred on the
summit of Lone mountain, about tw
miles from the city. In n space covering
300 yards long and 100 yards wide the
earth sank considerably around the edges,
causing large trees to fall into the chasm
made Large stones were hurled into the
air with such force as to leave distinct
marks on the surrounding trees.
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