Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-02

Mrs. Elihu Garrison, living near War
saw, Ind, is dying of gangrene as a result
| of cutting an ingrowing toenail.
/ Christian Camp, eighty, of Beach City
O., was killed by his horse running ava,
and throwing him under train.
All western Pennsylvania Is suffering
from an insufficient supply of water. In
some cases it is hauled ten miles.
William Walters, wealthy bachelor
farmer, uged fifty, suicided with shotgun
near New Bremen, o. No cause.
M. DeVeauX, director of the Ottoman
bank at Constantinople, has committed
suicide by drowning himself at Corfu.
Things are practically unchanged at
Homestead, Pa. Improvements are being
made which cause many men to be idle.
Skewus. the superintendent of the various
mills OF the Carnegie plant, has resigned.
1t Is a severe blow to the firm as he was
considered the best roll turner in the coun.
try.
Chief Murphy, of Columbus, O., has be-
gun a warfare on the vile literature sold at
the hotel and depot newstands and else
where.
The Hodges family are claiming to be
heirs TO tract of 700 000 acres in Colorado,
now occupied az homesteads by some SOC
people.
Cashier Hawkins, of the Portland Gnd
National bank saved Jonas : oLaw, rich
hayseed, from losing 5000 at the hands OF
bunkoists.
1t is claimed the ballot-boxe are toe
small in Indiana owing to the increased
size of the tickets under the new Austria.
liam law.
The Pennsylvania ferryboat Hudson
City ran into and sunk the tug Olive
Baker at Jersey City, Nobody to blame.
No lives lost
Charles 3. Sanford, travelling man
from Utica, stepped out of the way Of one
train at Corning, N, Y, and was struck and
killed by another.
Mrs Mary 3. Marean, of Boston, beat
her aged mother, Mrs Annie K. Brownlee,
to death with stove wrench during a fit
of insanity caused by grip.
Judge Taylor of Indianapolis, has de-
cided that the mechanics lien law does not
include wells or cisterns mot under the
house, or inside walls or fences.
In Now York, Peter Schultz, boy, is on
trial for numbering an illegitimate baby.
He threw it in pond, and, not succeeding
in drowning it, buried it i'll a hole.
Lord Rosebery, Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, Mr.. John Morley and Sir
George 0. Trevelyan have declined to at
tend the inaugural banquet of Lord Mayor
Knill
At Alexandria, Ont, Mrs. MERCER left
her four small children alone while she
went to neighbours The house caught
fire and all persisted The mother may lose
her reason.
Eliza Grub was surprised by her five
children when she was clipping from An
glids station KY, with her paramour.
The couple left the train to escape indig-
nant passengers.
Leland j. Webb, formerly national com
mander OF the Sons of Veterans, was de-
clared insane and sent to the asylum at
Topeka, Kan. 1t is said that the morphine
habit is the cause.
The comet medal of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific has been awarded to
W. r. Brooks director of the observatory
at Geneva, N Y, for his discovery of the
unexpected comet, Aug 2S.
Camille Barcenas, heir of a wealthy South
American merchant, is held in $4,000
bonds in New York on a charge of trying
to abandon his beautiful wife, Cora, who
eloped with him from Philadelphia, and
married in New York.
The revenue collections in Peoria, Ills,
for the month of October amounted to
s., 23S, 233 80. The total tax paid gallons
for the month were 2,2503l9, and there
We're 249 packages taken out of bond for
EXPORT The collections for the last week
were over 100000
At the meeting Monday of the trustees
of Union Theological seminary, nomina-
tions were made for the vacant chair Of
Christian ethics and sacred philosophy. 1t
is thought that Rev. DR.. Philandro X.
Cady, now filing the chair of evidences,
will secure the vacancy.
At Louisville, Ga, DIR. G. w. Kelly
threw his eight year-old daughter into a
well and then shot and killed his sister-in-
law The child was saved. Kelly is In
sane on religion, and Says God told him to
kill his relatives in order to save them
from the evils of the world.
At the Methodist Episcopal bishops con-
ference at the Methodist Book Concern
building, New York, Bishop Merrill pro-
sided during the forenoon and Rishop Foss
in the afternoon. A letter of coincidence to
President Harrison was formulated and
signed by all the bishops present
Ex-Judge H. Lynde Harrison, OF New
Haven, says he resigned from the Repub-
lican league because he could not endorse
two of the leading features of the present
administration-th Mckinley tariff and
the force bill. He has always been a Re
publican.
The report from Washington alleging
that the civil service commission has rec
commended the criminal prosecution of
General Samuel Thomas was treated light
ly at Republican state headquarters.
General Thomas is treasurer of the Re
publican state committee. The civil
service commission asserts that he sent
letters soliciting political contributions to
government clerks.