Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-07
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sheriffs
Sydney Poll, Of Columbus, O., convicted
Of murder at San Francisco, and sentenced
to hang, was granted q new trial by Judge
MURPHY.
Marion Lucas, living near Alliance, O.,
was seriously wounded by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun, the contents enter
ing his left side
Samuel 4. Butler, tax collector from
Philadelphia, was arrested in Chicago on a
telegram. He is charged with having EN-
bezzled $1,000 from the city.
In quarrel between Ed McCullom and
John Hoover, living near Eckmansville
o., McCullom was beaten over the head
with a gun and fatally injured
Sooner than have his wife taken to an
insane asylum, Anthony Krieg, of Du-
buque, Ia, killed her, then suicided by
putting bullet through his body.
OF the $4,000 stolen from the United
States Express company by e. j. Ryan at
Pittsburg, IA, 814 was turned over by him
Tuesday He may not be prosecuted.
While hunting near Mogadore, o., Ed
Bowers mistook his nephew, Wheeler
aged sixteen, for squirrel, and fired at
him, the shot striking him in the neck and
head He will recover.
Chief Bank Examiner Judson has stated
that the Buffalo National Savings bank
defalcation will reach half a million. The
investigation is not yet completed. AL
ready the shortage is 1926, 635.
Mrs. Esther Garrett, female aeronaut
lost her life by making a parachute drop
at Bluflton, o., on the Fourth. The para
chute did not work just right. She fell in
a stone quarry and was crushed to death.
The allusion to anarchists and socialists
in a Fourth of July speech Infatuated
those people to such an extent that they
tore down an American flag at Paramount
park, Philadelphia, and trampled it in the
dust.
A discharged waiter ran amuck in the
dining room Of the Holland House, New
York Nobody killed but the guests,
both ladies and gentlemen, were showered
with gravy, wine, ice cream broken
dishes, etc.
The Tammany committee Of twcnty-four
met and Endorsed the platform Of princi-
pies enunciated by the Chicago convention
and pledged its earnest and untiring sup
port to the nominees OF that convention
Cleveland and Stevenson.
At an informal conference of thirty OF
forty Democrats who are favorable to free
coinage, held in Washington, motion was
adopted expressing it as the sentiment Of
the meeting that the free coinage bill
should be passed as it came from the sen
ate.
Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, re
ceiyed dispatch from the mayor OF
Greensburg stating that A. w. Balfour an
officer of the law, had been shot and killed
by unknown men. The governor will
offer reward of $500 for the capture of the
murderers.
Word is received that RockIand, in On
tonagon county, Mich, has been almost
entirely destroyed by fire. Thirty build
ings, including stores dwellings and the
Masonic hail. were burned. The loss,
which can not at present be estimated, will
be up in the thousands.
The Rock Island passenger struck an un
known young woman near Davenport, Ia.
as she was crossing a bridge. Her body
was stripped by the engine, and she was
hurled into the water. She was living,
and the passengers made haste to rescue
her, but she sank and drowned before their
eyes.
Governor Engel of Arkansas, who has
been very i'll the past three weeks of mala-
rial fever, is very low. His physicians and
friends are much alarmed over his condi-
ton. G. G. Handy, of Nevada county,
president of the senate, will be telegraphed
for in order to be on hand in case the worst
should occur.
Smith Tooley and John L. Adams, alias
| Totch, We're hanged at Vicksburg, Miss.
by mob composed Of fully ZOO white citi
zens of all classes. The execution took
place in the court house yard, each being
hanged to a separate tree. The act of ven
geance was provoked by the murder OF
! Benson Blake, planter and merchant at
Redwood last Thursday night.
A fierce storm of wind, rain and hail
| struck the neighborhood of Church Hill
Queen Anne county, Md. For three-fourths
of a mile it leveled houses, orchards, tim
Der, fences and growing crops 1t tore
through the Episcopal cemetery, wrench
ing off trees like pipe STEMS tearing out
! tombstones and whirling them through
| the air, some as far as fifty feet away.
Mr. Campbell, who was selected to sue
coed Mr. Clarkson as chairman of the ma
tonal Republican committee says he can
not serve owing to his business. The
names most prominently mentioned in con
nection with the craftsmanship are Com
missioner II, H. Carter, j. H. Manley, OF
/ Maine; Samuel Fessenden, of New Hamp
shire and Mr.. Hobart, of New Jersey.
Red Cloud the old Indian chief EN-.
ployed at dime museum in Chicago had
| an alteration with negro in the entrance
to the museum Tuesday morning and was
] l. bn hand wit n StipE An IT
scalp wound was the result, and Red
! Cloud was taken to the city hospital where
the physicians attempted to dress his
wounds, but he became hostile and refused
| to receive medical attendance.