Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-30

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loan, of which one-third is to be used to
fortify the Bosporous.
The work of construction will soon be
commenced on the proposed electric rail
way up Mount Popocatepetl
Fred Hart was arrested in Brooklyn fol
burglary. His two little sons, aged eleven
and nine, were assisting him.
The Mexican government has signed a
contract for the establishment of Scandi-
navian colony in that country.
The steamer WATERFOWL was burned at
Boston. One passengers life was lost The
steward was seriously burned
| d. Il. Muir and William Halt, of Wal
senberg, Colo, were killed by gas ex,
! plosion while examining a mine
Charles Swain, of Roachd&e, Ind, was
assaulted and badly hurt by a gang d
| toughs whose identity is unknown.
Grant Wagner and Mrs. Willard East
| eloped from Anderson, Ind. Ehe woman
leaves husband and three children.
The business portion of Runnells, Ia,
burned. Loss 100000; insurance 100000
One hundred and thirty buildings were
| consumed.
Near Lewisport, KY, Frederick Petri of
| near Troy, Ind, was assaulted by two
tramps with coupling pin and robbed Of
| $3.50. He will die.
Near Teloup, Kan, lightning struck the
house of Samuel Adkinsoh, killing Mr.
Atkinson, his wife and two small children
| The house burned
Simon Roberts, of Shelbyville, probably
| fatally beat a man named Wells, of Frank
| lin, in an alteration at Falkland, Ind. A
beer bottle was used.
George Bruce Mitchell, ST. Louis hard
ware merchant, was found dead alongside
the railroad near Perth, Ont. 1t is thought
he was murdered, as no valuables were
| found.
Enraged boomers fred the grass in the
Cherokee strip and thousands OF acres have
been burned over At last accounts it was
still burning. 1t is thought many cattle
| persisted
At Terre Haute, Ind, on regulation
| track, Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 214,
breaking her own record made at hide
pendsnce, Ia, on kite-shaped track.
Over 10000 people were presen.
| At Lima, o., Jacob Hines was splitting
board when wire under it flewfnp and
struck him in the eye, the end penetrating
the brain, He was carried into the house,
where he died shortly afterward.
In Cincinnati a man named Austin
asked Dan Hardinger for dollar he had
loaned him. A quarrel resulted, in which
John Sullivan, who sided with Austin,
| stabbed Hardinger three times in the leg
Austin escaped.
AT Gallipolis, O., George Martin allowed
base ball bat to slip from his hand while
twirling it in the third story of hotel It
went out of the window, fell forty feet and
struck Emery Clark on the head, probably
fatally injuring him.
At Wednesdays session of the German
| American Priests society, at Newark, N.
j., resolutions were prepared advocating
the restoration Of the temporal power Of
| the pope and the advancement of Catholic
ism among the German immigrants
Young Harry Camp was arrested at Chi
| cago at the point Of u revolver by two po-
| licemen, while attempting supposed dia-
mond swindle. Camp, the police claim is
the man who succeeded In swindling deal
ers in Detroit out of 5000 by means Of
| bogus gems.
The pope has ordered the propaganda to
| carry out the necessary formalties for the
| erection of the diocese of Dallas into an
archbishopric. Bishop Brennan went to
Rome about six weeks ago, and is still
| there. The diocese of Dallas comprises 10s
| counties In the northwest of Texas and
| embraces about 100000 square miles
| Mary Andrews, aged six, while playing
about the postoffice at Darby, Pa, seized an
| envelope containing checks for 5000 and
| distributed them among her playmates.
| Detectives traced the documents and re-
| covered most of them. As the child was
| too young to realize what she had done, OF
course, no legal proceedings were begun
| against her.
The twelve cows in the dairy of W. J.
Osborne at Derby Neck, Conn, got through
| the fence into the yard, and filled up on
| fifty bushels of good hard cider apples.
| The cider took effect, and when the boy
| went TO drive them home the animals were
leary on their legs. Next day they gave
| an article of milk pronounced by experts
| to be first-class milk punch.
Within the next two months renewal
| is TO be made of the attempt to secure the
treasure of Captain Kidd, the buccaneer,
which Is said to have been buried on the
| little island of Furniffe, one of the Mos
quito groupe, thirty miles from Belize,
| British Honduras The expedition fitted
out under the leadership of John Benja-
min Peck, of the sub-treasury service In
1887, had this object in view, and came to
grief with the wrecking of the yacht Maria
while on the way to the United States
for machinery needed TO prosecute the
work
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