Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-29

Steamers arriving at New York have ter,
rible tales Of suffering at sea because OF
the blizzard on the Atlantic
Louis Levy, Louisville merchant,
suicided by shooting, Melancholy, caused
by his wife's sickness, cause it.
Orange Judd, senior editor of the
Orange Judd Farmer, of Chicago, is dead
of hemorrhage He was seventy.
Many persons at Parkersburg, w. Va,
believe the aged Mrs. Higgins was muir,
dered by her daughter and sonin-law.
Hon William Potter, newly appointed
American minister to Italy, presented his
credentials to King Humbert Wednesday.
Edward G. Scott, drummer for George
w. Stout, of indianapolis, has embezzled
several thousand dollars and disappeared.
The rebels in the province of Corrientes,
Argentine Republic, have defeated the
provincial troops in II number Of Skin
mishes.
At Elwood, Ind, Mike Farrell, found in
Kramer G. Benedict's ice house frozen to
death, was put there by companions to
sober up.
London Truth warns Americans against
swindlers who secure large advances to
look up the heirs of alleged large estates
in Great Britain.
Near Monongahela City, Pa, at Wat
sons coal mines, Richard Reese, engineer,
was found murdered in the engine room.
He had been shot,
Aunt" Louisa Hall, colored steward
ess for many years on the Ohio river, died
ct Portsmouth Tuesday, aged one hun
dred and five years.
A Mr. Basmussed, wife and child, living
near Bradley, S d., were asphyxiated by
coalgas. The woman and child are dead
The man may recover.
Near Ashton, S. D., William Rush used
gasoline to start the fire. William is
dead and his brother Eban, who went to
his assistance, will die.
At negro festival at Dover, Ky, a
quarrel resulted in a battle with pistols.
Over fifty shots were fired and several per
sons will die IS result.
The national conference of Populist lead
ers, in session at Indianapolis, decided that
if the Prohibitionists wanted to get into
the order they must ask.
Thirteen 'spooks" assaulted party OF
investigating farmers in a graveyard at
Luray, Ind, rfter the latter had emptied
their shotguns. No one killed.
President-clect Cleveland says through
the New YORK Times that he does not
think Murphy is the right man for United
States senator from New York
The fight between Jack McAuliffe and
Dick Burge for the lightweight champion.
ship has been declared off. The men
could not agree upon the forfeit.
The orphans home near Charlottesville.
Ind, burned at night. Loss, $4,000; in.
surance, $500, Some of the children es.
capped in their night clothes.
At Central City, Ky, Miss Anna Kale,
the sixteen-ye ar-old daughter of Thomas
Kale, of Muhlenburg county, was fatally
burned while decorating q Christmas tree
John d. Rockefeller has made another
huge gift to the University Of Chicago.
The sum is understood to be over 81, 600.
900, but the exact figures are not given out.
The Carnegie Homestead steel mill has
shut down-Mr. Lovejoy says for repairs
The Edgar Thompson plant at Braddock
Pa, was closed last week for the same rea
son.
blue Book" Charles w Martin, the
former labor leader of indianapolis, and
his paper, The National Federationalist
has dropped out Of sight after political
flop.
Fred Otto, aged forty-eight, an Adam,
express driver at Baltimore, whose bone:
were crushed in by an accident, has
swoofen 70 a human balloon, lie is help
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