Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-04
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| pTeSluent OF dartmouth college,, TO sue
ceed President Bartlett resigned.
Monaghan, Bay & Company's shoe fac
tory, at Harrisburg, was partially de-
stroyed by fire, supposed to be eincendiary
Nearly 300 hands are out of work.
1t is reported that DR.. U. w. Hawes, q
dentist of Boston, is under indictment
for tampering with the jury which in
dicted the whisky trust officers and di
rectors
At Louisville William Brand attempted
to kill Mrs John Good because she would
not get a divorce from her husband and
marry him. He loved her before she was
married
William Smith, his wife and seven chill
dren were probably fatally injured by a
negro named Sam Massey, who assaulted
| them with bar of iron. He may be
| lynched.
At Camden, N. j., Howard Mason
found a strange man in bed with his wife.
After emptying his revolver at the
stranger without effect Mason cut his
wife's throat.
At Portland, Ind, Daniel Miller, aged
seventy-fve, was acquitted of the charge
of attempting to rape his eley en- year old
stepdaughter. 1t seems to have been II
plot of his young wife.
Harry Gray, prominent young man Of
Atlanta, was fatally shot by a policeman,
who caught him in neighbours residence
He attempted to shoot the policeman but
the officer was too quick for him,
Charles Kepple, aged eleven, son of
Peter Kepple, of Freeport, Pa, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in his
fathers barn The boys father threat
ened to whip i'm if he disbehaved
Emil Ames, the comedian, was found
Chicago. He had been an invalid for
years. Death was due to chloroform,
Whether it was suicide or not is un-
known.
At Springfield, o., Mrs Frank Saum
pulled broken needle out of her six
year-old daughters head Physicians
claim it is the same needle the child's
mother ran into her hand seven years ago
and which 81 never felt afterward.
The Republican territorial convention
of Oklahoma met Wednesday, and elected
Governor Seah and ID. W. Marquart dele
gates to the Fepublican national conven-
ton. They were instructed to vote for the
denomination of President Harrison
At Akron, O., vial of vitriol was
thrown into the face of William Belke
aged nineteen, by Mrs Catherine Merkle
aged sixty, With whom Belke had been
living as husband for four years, but re-
Gently deserted. He will be horribly dis
figured.
William Scholdroff was killed and five
cariaI1c1xy spitt rod hxr a trasptinn
explosion, last night, in McCormick's
dyehouse, TO West Madison street, Chi
cago The injured are Hannah Haggerty,
A. E. Andrus and II. Hall, wife and child
None of the injured will die.
The law and order league of Pittsburg
is keeping up the war against the Sunday
newspapers. Agent Mcclure and his as
sistants were busy last Sunday looking
for volators of the law of 1894 and as a
result seventeen more suits have been
brought for selling papers on that day.
Charles U. Ayres, well known Detroit
stationer, was fatally shot by his wife,
who had begun divorce proceedings
against him. Although enjoined by
court, he broke open the doors of her
house and began taking away things,
when quarrel ensued, resulting in his
death.
Colonel Dan Lamont has been at the
ST. James hotel, Jacksonville Fla, since
last Friday. He is far from well, getting
over an attack of grip, but goes about a
little every day. He is accompanied by
an old friend, DR.. H. G. Hendricks, of
New York, who says that the colonel is
improving gradually.
L. Z Il. l., Lao IL ~.
vcstigation into the charge Of arson
against d. Domnau, of Domnau 81
Brother, whose store. house in Waco,
Tex, burned on Feb. 25 has returned
verdict of guilty. Domnau conducted a
jewelry and clothing store. He is well
known throughout the state, and is one
of the wealthiest men in Texas.
Adelbert d. Slye, the Glendale train
robber, was taken to the Jefferson City
penitentary to serve the sentence of
twenty years given him by Judge Ed
wards, of ST. Louis county. He arrived at
the prison early Wednesday afternoon,
where ne was fitted with striped suit of
clothes, and the usual description, etc,
taken. BY good behavior Slye can shorten
his imprisonment to fifteen years.
The Indictment against the whisky
trust officials, which has been so care
fully guarded on the secret files of the
United States district court, was ordered
by Judge Nelson, of Boston, to be placed
on the regular docket files and entered
in the docket. 1t appears from the in
dorsement on the back of the indictment
that it was reported on Feb. 90, and that
the court ordered capias issued for the
arrest of each defendant.
A new association of iron and steel
manufactures, representing thirty firms
in Pittsburg and the Ohio valley, and en-
ploying nearly 10000 men, has been or
ganized. 1t is stated that this organiza-
ton, which is entirely independent Of the
Bar Iron Manufacturers association and
the Tin Plate association, will make de-
termined effort for an early adjustment
of the wage scale. The association, it is
said, will demand from the Amalgamated
association change in the base of the
scale which has heretofore been dictated
by the bar iron men.
The crisis of the fight between Penn
sylyania and Birmingham in iron pro-
duction is felt to have arrived. The
market has gone to pieces, and Birming-
ham furnaces have over 100000 tons in
in their yards. The railroads have been
called on to reduce freight to the lowest
possible point, and reduction Of 10 per |
cent. in wages has been determined on.
of three leading com
panies have gone on to New York to con-
suit with eastern stockholders and di- |
rectors of railroads interested in Ala |
bama. In the meantime the furnaces con-
tinue in full operation.
News from Old Mexico.
General Jiminez is dead.