Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-23

thought ne may De perSudueu 10 accept
this position which lasts but sixty or
ninety days and will give him magnifi-
cent opportunity to render distinguished
services to his country. The commits
sion will likely meet in Brussels within
forty days.
A passenger and work train collided neal
Tamworth, Ont. Two trainmen and q
child were killed and several others fatally
injured.
Near Bennettsville Ind, two Newfound-
land dogs attacked four-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Keibler and fatally
injured him.
j. ID. Barnett of Warrick county, Ind.
took shelter under tree from a storm,
The tree was blown down and Mr.. Barnett
fatally injured.
At Cincinnati, Tom Ryan, of Philadel-
phia, and Bob Miner, of Cincinnati, one.
armed pugilists, are matched and training
for prize fight.
Rufus King, of Cincinnati, was the third
victim of series of burglaries which is
startling Bar Harbor The burglars stole
the best wines in the house.
The statement having been made that ex.
pONSlhOl 1lOduly WOulu dDJbdT lOT bDt
Homestead rioters, his partner, Edgar NJ.
johnson, denies it in a public letter.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, the No mill OF
the Lackawanna Iron and Steel company,
which has been idle for six months will re.
sumo work, giving employment to 500men.
Chicago surgeons removed the fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh ribs of the veteran
Major o. G. Towne. The patient is doing
well, and there is every prospect of his re
covery.
At Reedville, near Arkansas City, Ark,
Thursday morning, j. Bowles shot and
killed two men, named Wilcox and Ace.
The trouble grew out of a settlement of &C
counts.
The Paris Figaro says that the police
have discovered an anarchist plot to blow
up the Bourse and other public buildings.
The paper adds that two of the conspirators
have been arrested.
A marriage license was issued in Chi
cago Thursday to John Overholt and Miss
Kate Smith, aged fourteen years. The
girls mother says it is common for Italian
girls to marry so young.
Simon Jacobs attended picnic at Grand
Island, near Buffalo, and allowed men to
throw base balls at his head for five cents
throw. One of the balls struck him on
the forehead and killed him instantly
The result of the enumeration of Chica.
go's population, which has been going on
for some time under the auspices of the
school census committee, shows that Chi
cago has ,42S,3 people within her gates.
At Plainfeld, Ind, Miss Maggie Dougan
and her siX-year-old sister were seriously
injured by mule they were driving be-
coming frightened and running on to
crossing, where the buggy was struck by
the engine
A dispatch to The London Lancet from
Paris says that the cholera in the suburbs
of that city is stationary, and exhibits no
tendency to Stension within the fortifca-
tions Officially the disease is styled eei-
demic choleriforme
A dispatch from Drontheim, Norway,
announces the arrival there of the German
imperial yacht Adler, with Emperor Will
lam and party on board. After visiting
the Dronthem cathedral the emperor and
party started for Bergen.
f. G. Spafford who is wanted by the
Chicago police for large enlightenment,
was arrested at Portland, Me. Spafford
was at one time an operator on the open
board of trade. He was indicted by the
June grand jury for enlightenment, a Miss
Baker, of Boston, alleging that he swim
died her ont out of $4,000.
Bloodshed is feared on the Lower St
Lawrence river between the revenue forces
of the Dominion government and the band
of whisky smugglers, who have so long
carried on the smuggling trade in the
waters of the Gulf of st. Lawrence Three
nd hon nd of doll pl'1y T.
of liquor have been captured.
The jury in the case against S. r. & G.
w. Howell and Tibbetts, their clerk, on
trial in the United States court, at st.
Joseph, Mo, returned verdict of guilty
Thursday afternoon. The defendants will
be sentenced Friday They were charged
with bribing the manager of the Weighing
association to underweigh their cars of
lumber.
A man named James Cockburn died at
Saginaw, Mich, Tuesday, from Asiatic
cholera. Before he died his body turned
purple The report of the mans death
created considerable alarm in the neighbor-
hood, the impression being that the case
had been one of Asiatic cholera, as Cock
burn had come from Scotland about five
weeks ago.
which destroyed the greater part of the
business section, including the New York |
and New England passenger station and
freight house, Kings hotel, two new dwell |
ing houses, Hydes meat market, the old |
Masonic hall building, in which was A. Fl. |
Millers store, an undertaker's establish |
ment and two other business blocks
-Four men were asphyxiated in a Junk" I
at Louis HUGH & Sons tannery, Chicago |
Thursday. Three of them are dead, and /
the other one is in such a precarious condi- |
ton that the physicians in charge say he +
can not recover. The dead are Charles /
Steinert, twenty-three years of age; John /
Rebachek, twenty-nine years of age, mi
ried; Frank Speckowski, twenty seven /
years of age, married The injured: Al /
bert Schleger, twenty-six years Of age.
married. All were overcome by the foul
atmoSuhere of the va