Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-19

Is lying dangerously i'll in the City Of
Mexico. The cabiegram states that Senol
Romero was slightly indisposed.
The sentence of death was passed Satur
day at Macon, Ca, upon fourteen-year
old boy, who will be hanged Aug. Is. The
| boys name is Willie Beel, and the offense
for which he will die is the murder OF
Deputy Sheriff Wilder, who was trying to
arrest him.
Saturday evening William A. Powell, a
clerk in theSt. Louis and San Francisco rail
road offices, at St. Louis, and member of a
local rowing club, started with friend
named Moore for a row on the river. Their
boat got into an eddy and capsized, both
being drowned.
New York's naval battalion of the ma
tional guard embarked on the old United
States frigate New Hampshire, at the foot
of East Twenty-eighth street, Saturday,
and started down the bay ON its second an
nual cruise They are spruce-looking lot
of amateur tars.
John ID. Earhart, at one time a promi-
nent citizen of Natchez, Miss, but who has
suffered financial reverses recently, shot
himself through the stomach, dying from
the effects of the wound. He stated that
1t was accidental, but his mind has been
unbalanced for some time
1t is alleged that Senior Candellero Herez,
judge of Lialtenango, in the state of Ia
catecas, Mex, recently burned two sus.
pected criminals to death while trying to
obtain confession from them through
torture. The government has ordered an
investigation of the horrible affair
William Gilpin, aged seventeen, son OF
Ex-Governor William Gilpin, of Denver,
fell from 200-foot precipice, near Pine
Grove, Colo, Saturday, and was Instantly
killed. His companion, Herbert c. Dean,
jumped quite distance in an attempt to
save Gilpin and was severely injured.
Sunday three attempts We're made to
burn the Indiana female reformatory near
indianapolis In the excitement about
seven inmates escaped and went away with
men. After the fire was extinguished
Jennie Bishop sixteen years old, and Luz
cinda Hite, thirteen, confessed that they
started the fires.
Two years ago Louis Levinger, a clerk,
of Toronto, forged note for $4,000,
and with the proceeds, skipped to the
American side. Friday night his affianced
and her mother left for the Suspension
Bridge, N Y, and on alighting from the
train they were met by Levinger, who was
Immediately arrested.
Count Arthur Dillon of the duchy of
Luxembourg has brought an action in the
supreme court of New York, growing out
of the Commercial Gable company. Dillon
sues John w. Mackay and James Gordon
Bennett for 1000 shares of the Cable com
pany's preferred stock, with an assumed
dividend of Is per cent,
Saturday afternoon Professor James X.
Allen, eldest son Of Professor Allen the well
known aerial navigator; Charles Z. Albee,
his assistant Edward Barnett, trapeze
performer and Journal reporter, narrowly
escaped frightful deaths while making a
balloon ascension from the Dexter training
field at Providence Allen was badly
mangled
An electric phenomenon was observed
in Chicago Sunday between the hours of
10 in the morning and in the afternoon.
While the sky was cloudless and the sun
shining brightly, a tremendous current of
electricity charged the air to such an OK
tent that it was impossible for the tele-
graph companies to use the longer circuits
on their wires while it lasted