Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-24

FIRE swept away the business portion o.
st. Petersburg, Pa. Thirty-tw buildings
were burned Origin lightning
Dr. Edward Cappo, of Yale college
has accepted the position of assistant pro
fessor in Greek at the Chicago university
Mrs. Mary Lyman, Of Bloomington
Ills, who was injured in the Santa Fe
wreck near Usage City, Kan, will proba
bly, die
Harry Smooth, condemned to hang al
Charleston, w, Va, for numbering his
sweetheart, committed suicide in prison
with morphine. %
Judge Ferguson Thursday at New Or
leans read long charge to the grand
jury concerning gambling All the gam
bling houses were closed Thursday night
The delegates of the New York Socialist
Labor party placed in the field full mu
nicipal ticket. Alexander Jonas, editor Of
The Volks Zeitung, is the candidate fQI
mayor.
A telegram from Governor Flower in
forms the sheriff of the arrest of Lord Der
esford, the Englishman convicted at Rome
Ga, of forgery, who ran away while out
on bond
Near Independence, KY, Arthur Watson
wanted Amanda Cain to marry him and
because she refused he stabbedher to death
and then probably fatally stabbed hei
mother. He escaped.
AT the meeting of the Mississippi
Suffrage association at Des Moines, Thurs
day three babies were christened by Rev
Olympia Brown Of Wisconsin. The babies
were dedicated to the cause.
1t is reported that some of the smaller
hotels as Fort Monroe will be torn down,
as they can not afford the drainage the
government requires; but the larger hotels
Withstand, and are perfecting their drain
age.
Hedgepath, the leader of the gang that
robbed the Frisco express last December.
has weakened in his fight against the au.
thorities and will plead guilty at St Louis
and take sentence of twenty years in the
penitentiary.
Charles Edwards, Leadville Colo
prize fighter invited friends to see him do
up kid Briggs at the Colonel Sellers
mine. He put pistol to Briggs head and
the latter took it from him and fractured
Edwards skull with an iron bar
Bud" Weist, a notorious desperado
foully assassinated Alonzo Rector a lead
ing lawyer of Marshall, N. c., Thursday
night, while the latter was assisting an
officer to arrest drunken moonsniners
Rectors young wife witnessed the crime.
Captain OBrien and his watchmen are
on board the grounded whaleback steamer
Wetmore, off the coast at Marsbheld, Or.
and it is feared she will go to pieces and
the men will perish. A life-saving crew
attempted to shoot lifeline to them, but
failed.
John w. Hall, the burglar who was shot
at Kirkwood, Mo, and who afterward blew
his brains out, was not such novice at
burglary as was supposed. A search of his
residence has revealed articles of the value
OF thousands of dollars which he had
secured on former raidss
AT the battle of Hanover May 81, 1862,
the Ninth Massachusetts, regiment cap
tured silk flag from Company Il. Cleve-
land Guards Twelfth North Carolina regi-
ment The flag has since been kept in Bos-
ton. 1t was restored Thursday to its owner
by the Massachusetts regiment.
Unless the demands of the Chicago
brewers union are conceded by the boss
brewers, a general strike will begin within
week. Under a the present contract the
Ileu say, eupioyes are enbluleu TO 1Orty
cents an hour for oil overtime, but the
bosses allow only twenty cents
The national camp of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America is in session at
Lebanon, PA. The committee on constitu
ton recommended proposition to admit
colored men TO membership. Abraham
Hall, Jr., Of PittsbuTg, the only colored
delegate in attendance, delivered an elo-
quent speech fayoIing the proposition.
Maddened by the delirium of typhoid
fever, William Lock, huckster, of Har-
knoxville, Pa. nearly beat his mother to
death, and cut the throat of his infant son
while laboring under the belief that he had
been commanded by God to sacrifice the
child's life. He bathed his face in the
babes blood in his frenzy LOCK has been
jailed.
The shortage of John G. Shotwell, the
defaulting cashier of the Colorado Ham
mer Brick company, of Denver. amounts
to S25, 200, instead of $1,000 a. at first sup.
posed. Sh0tweil has left destitute wife
and two children. who have been sent To
her fathers home in New Jersey. The
money he stole was squandered at the
gambling table and on women.