Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-20

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Great falls of snow are reported in
France, Germany and many other parts
of Europe. In the Alps avalanches are
feared.
The American whaling bark Tanner.
lane was wrecked at Hawaii. Captain
Rowland and crew of seventeen were
drowned
Berry Turner, one of the leaders of the
Turner gang in Kentucky, was captured
by number of his enemies and strung
up to a tree
AT Houston, Tex, a switch engine
jumped the track killing the engineer,
fireman and an unknown man. Three
Others were injured.
Another landslide occurred on the Pan
handle near Pittsburg which will delay
traffic for some time. One man was killed
and another injured.
Another valuable deposit of iron ore
has been discovered near saltwater, MINI.
St Paul capitalists have already secured
an option on the land.
At Lexington, KY, John E. Dye of
Somerset, was asphyxiated by gas in TIE
Phoenix hotel. 1t is believed the light
was blown out by draft.
AT Cannes, France, Edward p. Deacon
shot and killed M. Emil Abeille a French
man, whom he found in his wife's room
upon returning home unexpectedly.
Five scene painters in the New Column
bia theater, Brooklyn, were seriously, if
not fatally, injured by the fall of the
bridge upon which they were working.
Trains do not stop at Macksburg, O., on
account of an epidemic of diphtheria. A
number of deaths are reported. Macks-
burg is eighteen miles north of Marietta
The steamer Indiana will sail from
Philadelphia Monday with $4,000 barrels
of flour for the Russian poor The cargo
is the gift of Chicago, Buffalo, Minneap-
oils and Philadelphia.
Mayor James G. Wyman, of Allegheny
City, who was convicted of extorton last
week, sent in his resignation to the coun-
Gil Wednesday night. He is to be tried
for embeZzlement shortly.
The people in Johnstown, Pa, and vi
cinity have sent $500 to the starving
Russian peasants. The Johnstown people
remember how contributions poured in to
them when they were in need
Sarah Bernhard was refused accommo-
NA"picii9 wv OhO ioOCiS Ill Nv. iLOtIS Dttdu'G
she refused to part with her pets-a
number of dogs, several birds and two or
three snakes She is living in her private
car.
All the members of the French ministry
have rendered their designations to Presi-
dent Carnot. The cause of the resignation
of the ministry was the action of the
chamber of deputies in connection with
the bills dealing with associations
]. A. and George B. Delamater, the
Meadville Pa.) bankers who have been on
trial for some time for violation
of the bank laws, have been ac-
quilted. George w. Delamater, ex-state
senator and Republican candidate for
governor of Pennsylvania in 1890, will
have to stand trial.
A prominent business man of Ninevah,
Pa, named George Grumbling, laboring
under an attck of the grip, chose novel
method of committing suicide. Breaking
a pane of glass he placed his head ard
throat through the hole, and deliberately
sawed his throat over the roughencd
edges of the glass, dying in a few min
utes.
Last November a priestly looking man
occupying a room in lodging house at
Los Angeles Cal, was found one morn
ing with his tongue cut off and bloody
razor in his hand He claimed to be a
priest, but proved to be gambler named
George Wilson, whose father has just
died, leaving him 100000 Detectives are
looking for him.
Thomas Mulligan, a wealthy hermit,
died at Creston, Ia, some eighty days ago,
leaving a large fortune, with no known
heirs. The body was embalmed and held
for recognition of any heirs that might
chance along, and as a consequence they
have come in from all directions north
south, east and west, but none thus far
has proven relationship.
Two miners named Lewis Morrison and
James Wilson, prospecting on the ella
river, Arizona, lost their lives by being
swallowed up by the quicksands The
Indians have a legend that this same
sand bed has swallowed up whole tribe
of Indians that endeavored to go across
it. There are many tracks of animals
leading to the spot, but in no case are
there any returning.
Thursday afternoon at St. Paul six suits
for 900 We're brought against the st.
Paul City Railway company. These suits
were instituted by six of the oldest con
ductors on the line, who had recently
been discharged, charged with defrauding
the company. The discharged men say
that these slanderous accusations of the
company will act as bar to their securing
employment hereafter, hence the suit,