Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-21

SuarIeS WILSON, dllaS Harlow, skipped
from indianapolis, leaving a thirteen year
old bride. He is a bigamist and she is his
fourth wife He has no divorces
Fifty-seven Esquimaux, who come to ex-
hibit at the worlds fair, have reached Chi
cago over the Erie in a car sealed by the
United States customs officer at Boston.
The Vermont house and senate has
elected Redfeld Proctor United States sem
ator to fill out the unexpired term of Sena-
tor Edmunds; also for six years from March
!, 1898.
A white child with black hands and feet
was born two weeks ago to Mr.. and Mrs,
William Linniman, of $40 West State
street, Columbus, 0. The color has now
changed to purple.
Pool rooms in East st. Louis have the
following posted: $4,000 to $1,000 or any
part of it that Cleveland carries Indiana:
$4,000 to $1,000, or any part of it that
Cleveland is elected.
AT Benton Harbor, Ind, William
Churchill's team became frightened and
threw him from the wagon In front of a
switch engine which took off both legs,
fatally injuring him.
Much anxiety is felt in London regard
ing the British ship Knight, commander
Captain Murdoch which sailed from San
Francisco on July 30 for Queenstown, and
which it is feared has foundered off Cane
Horn.
Colonel l.. E. Dyer, Republican candi-
date for congress in the Tenth Tennessee
congressional district, has withdrawn
from the race on account of fusion be
tween the third party people and the Re
publicans.
A coroner's jury at Newark, n j., de-
cided that John Days death was caused
by bullet wound in the head, inflicted by
colored man at Martinsburg, Va. A
broken knife blade was found in his skull.
however, where it had been imbedded for
years.
j. w. Baker, chairman of the Repub-
lican state committee, issues circular to
the Republicans of Tennessee and the ma
ton, saying that there is little hope OF
Tennessee's electoral vote for Harrison,
but Winstead, the Republican nominee
for governor, will be elected by 10000
majority.
Perhaps the oldest resident of Indiana is
James Mccormick, living few miles
from Seymour. He will be one hundred
and nine years old on the 10th of next
month Mr. Mccormick still enjoys life.
He can visit his neighbors occasionally,
and he boasts the honor of having once
spoken to George Washington.
At West Winsted Conn, during the
Columbian celebration stand upon which
| 800 school children were seated collapsed
and fell fifteen feet, a large number were
| injured, many receiving broken limbs but
none were killed. There were threats of
lynching Carpenter Curtis who evidently
built the stand in very careless manner.
Articles Of incorporation have been filed
at Danville, Ills, for the Chicago and
Southern Railway company, extending
south from Chicago 10 point near Paris,
in Edgar county. The capital stock is So.
OO0, 1000 and the incorporators Francis
Huxley, Bluford Wilson and William H.
Holcomb, Chicago; David It. Littler and
Frank II. Jones, Springfield.
DR.. Chan Gee Wo, the best known OF
Chinese physicians in this country, was
married few days ago to Miss Cora De
Witt, society lady of Omaha, where he
was practitioner of medicine. He has
charge of the Chinese exhibit at Chicago.
and will prac ce his profession there, He
is Americanized, having cut his cue and
donned the American costume long ago.
He speaks English fusntly His wife has
a literary turn. To newspaper man he
said. 81 think it was our literary work to
/ gether that brought about our union. II
| was while reading Romeo and Juliet with
| her one evening that / plucked up courage
70 pop the question"