Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-30
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the Josephine empire anu Otner snort
wasted costumes now so fashionable.
In it's stead we have the Cleopatra girdle
"a tiny, bandlike thing of silk and
lace which leaves the waist unham-
pered and merely serves to support the
bust. 1t enjoys the appreciation Of tine
medical fraternity, and now that Queen
Fashion has adopted it we shall hear no
more abont the svils Of tiGht lacing.
The Portland Ind.) oil field is booming.
New dcrricks are being put up almost
daily.
Emil Eggenspeller, dissipated farmer,
shielded near Utica, Ind, by cutting his
throat.
There are rumors Of further revolution
airy attempts in the state of Rio Grande
do Sui, Brazil.
The Uruguayan congress has approved
an appropriation of $AO,0G0 for the Chi
cago exposition.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, says he is
not candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation this year.
At Burgettstown, Pa, Mrs, Dial Garri-
son had a fit, fell into the fire and was
burned to death
At Slaughter, Wash, Mike Crowley,
barkeeper, shot and killed Dick Helm and
then suicided. Drunken quarrel
"Uncre" Edmond Turner, colored, died
near the village of Tennessee Colony,
Tex, on Sunday, aged one hundred and
four years.
1t has been learned upon investigation
that senate secrets leak out through the
senators themselves talking too much.
They have concluded to stop.
Frank Zinkins and Grandson Crosby
will have their conduct investigated.
They are charged with having offered to
fix" jury at Washington, Ind.
John Il. Norris, the detective, has been
revenged on Tom O'Brien, of Albany, who
queered him some years ago, by sending
him (O'Brien) up for ten years for for
gerry.
In Memphis Miss Tate was found in
her room dying from cuts and stabs Be-
fore dying she said Sam Allen, a negro,
did it for no cause. Allen can not be
found.
Eight hundred quarrymen quit work in
the three large brown stone-quarries at
Portland, Conn, They ask twenty live
cents an hour for nine hours work in
stead Of ten.
During a storm at Durango, Cal, Sat
urday, u building was blown down and
four carpenters, James Cummings, J. T.,
Strom, A. B. Finley and John Chisholm,
seriously injured.
A man supposed to be Luther Guthrie,
of Pottsville Pa, was killed by cars at
Johnstown, identified by his mother and
buried Guthrie is alive, but who the
dead man is is mystery.
A mob Of thirty masked men, Saturday
night, overpowered the Waterman OF
dam on the Goodnight Ditch, near Anna,
Ills, and succeeded in cutting the dam,
which will cause the overflow of farming
lands.
"Some parts of Cincinnati are next
door to hell, and one has to be
turned into another man to be able TO
despise and resist their temptations
These words were used by the Rev
Sam Small in sermon at Cincinnati Sun
day.
Rev w. S. Plumber Bryan, of Ashe-
vile, N c., has accepted the call Of the
Second Presbyterian church of Cincinnati
to it's passionate, which has been vacant
about three years. 1t is one of the
largest and wealthiest churches in the
city.
Elisha Young, ky Young, Holman
Noble, Alfred Crosby and a woman
named Martha Young will be hanged in
the Jail yard at Chester, s. G., on May 20.
They are all young colored people They
were convicted of the murder of Alfred
McAllilley.
William C. Turner of New York, a life
insurance agent, attempted suicide by
taking chloroform in cell at Atlantic
City He was arrested on Friday on a
charge of bigamy. Dependency is
thought to have been the cause of the act.
He will recover.
The executive officers of the American
Sugar Refining company will neither deny
nor affirm the report published in the pa
pers that the Spreckels sugar refinery in
Philadelphia had been turned over to the
company, Saturday, in consideration of
$7,0Q0,000 in sugar certificates.
The marble polishers and cutters of
Massachusetts maintain that the present
tariff upon imported finished marble is so
low that the marble manufacturers are
having their work done abroad, where the
marble workmen are able to make but
forty cents per day.
Miss Helen Gould daughter of the mil
lionaire, has been very much annoyed by
cranks, mostly of matrimonial turn.
The latest is one John j. Lingeman, who
once called on Cornelius Vanderbilt and
demanded his brains He declares him
self to be Miss Gould's lover. He was ar
rested ON Monday and committed
Judge Duncan Of Columbus, O., holds
that the use of the Whitaker pressed
brick machine, which is in use in all of
the large cities, was illegal unless the
right was obtained from Mccoy, Ives Sc
Company, St. Louis. who are the assignees
of Whitaker, an Englishman. The case
came up on account of other parties sell
ing the machine itself and the right to
use it.
In Kate Riley's bagnio, Cincinnati,
John Magee, when asked to pay for the
wine he had ordered, stabbed the land
lady with pocket knife iniiicting seri-
Gus wounds. Harry Lewis, a colored
waiter, fractured Magees skull with n
champagne bottle and was arrested.
Magee is in danger of dying from blood
poisoning
About 200 negroes reached Utica, N.
Y, Sunday from Columbia, Tenn, on
their way to the northern woods to work
on the Adirondack railroad. Being told
of the condition of things said to exist in
the camps along the line of the new rail
road, nearly all of them concluded TO re-
turn. They are now being fed at the
county clerk s Office, and tickets back to
Columbia win be furnished them.
The race war between the whites and
negroes at Gretna, jefferson parish, La,
which has been carried on for years, has
again broken out, A party of whites were