Leaf-Chronicle Weekly from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

ft IT, 94THYEAR. CLARKSVI LLE, TEN FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 4, 1 902. SUBSCRIPTION I i hi ENTERTAINMENT HOUSE CROSSES LW, GAINES' 1 1 raruEr 1 I ONLY PUBLIC HIGHWAY LEADING T.Q -JHE COLORED CEMETERY. GtVEN BY BETHLEHEM LODGE WEDNESDAY EVENING. LY ATTENDED.

NUjnSEB OF CBSES SET FOB TBIHL. FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY HAS BEEN COMPLETED A ICE 8EVEN ROOM WoUSE. DEPOT AT PALMYRA BORNEO. Bethlehem Lodge of Odd Fellows gave a public entertainment at St. Bethlehem Wednesday night which was well attended.

The hall was filled with members and friends tf the or- 'i dcr, i and an interesting programme waat Rev. E. L. Gregory and Bailey Lovelace delivered short addrrases upon the good things to be found in Odd Fellowship. There were several recitations and mind reading by Sam Hyman.

The entertainment was closed with exercises by children of the Home. Quite a number iff members aU nd-1 trom CInrlj-ville. HAND MANGLED BY ---A CORN SHREDDER. While feeding a corn shredder for Jeff McCarty, on the James Hanratty farm this morning, a colored man liad his left hand caught In the shredder low said amputation would be necessary above the wrist. WHAT LITTLE WEST (ill.

"-if i 1 i i I I i Sparks from Locomotive Set Fire to Stave Shed Flames Spread, Causing Locals. To the Leaf-Chronicle: Palmyra," November 13 Our little has i0vH'qIsexcUe4Juii tirred up for rears as it waJr by yesterday's fire, which at one time threatened the "destruction -of much valuable property. Sparks from a passing freight train set Are to the roof of a stare shed situated within twenty-five feet of the depot. The shed was as dry as tinder and burned fiercely, being- soon It contained two car loads of dried stares, one car load of salt, one-half -t. a -car toatt of hay and a number t)f mis cellaneous articles, all of which were destroyed.

The shed and its contents belonged to M. M. Hussey. Mf. Hus-ley was also Interested In two thousand railroad ties burned and damaged bf the Are, In all, his loss will ap proximate $1,200, with no Insurance.

From the shed the fire spread to the depot, which was also totally destroyed. Ed Hussey. the depot agent, succeeded In removing all the freight, office fixtures, records, etc. The rail road's loss consists of the depot build lng "and about fifty feet of twelve-foot "platform. fr Our-ett4zen8-fea4 a-haf4 -fight-to-save the property situated near the shed and depot.

In this they were materially assisted by the yard engine and -crew sent from Clarksville The en-gine arrived too late to save the railroad property, but rendered splendid service In preventing the spread ot the flames, the engine being supplied with hose and other regularly equipped anpliances for fighting the fire. Had the engine been atHPalmyra when the ire started the depot could hare been ared. The loss to the railroad is estimated at about $1,300. Agent Hus-aey has temporarily located his office In a box car. Another depot will be aioace FATHER'S SLAYER Tennessee City, TennJSguJ2T4oa Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville: The little want ad I sent yo the uincr uay omugni mo quue a ioi or answers, i send you another, In your weekly of this week.

Send me copies of the daily and week- A comlmttee of colored citizens called on Judge Tyler this morning to enter a complaint against the Tennessee Central Company for making a tea foot cut across a public highway. This is the only road to the colored 'isteterfaMaD'esraB A-Tle matter will no doubt be satisfactorily settled when the attention of the railroad officials is brought to it. CONGRESS WILL CONVENE IN REGULAR 6S- "siON TWO WEEKS FROM NEXT MONDAY. Washington, Nov. 13.

Very little legislation of national Importance is expected to be enacted by this session ot Congress, which convenes weeks from next Monday and contln- The question of reducing the representation of the South in Congress Rill be and ear ly In the session the Republicans will hold a caucus to determine some plan of action on this subject President Roosevelt's firm stand againstjthe disfranchisement of the negro will be an incentive to Crumpacker and the like i to press the bill looking to Congres- sional reduction with more than usual vigor. Democratic Senators, at a short session, can easily talk the meas ure to death, but In the next Congress it will ikely be received with a better Bhow of success for its passage. NEARING COMPLETION. Work on the two-story store house of Theo. Walthal at St.

Bethlehem Is nearlng completion. AX AND TOOL TRUST 1 Secures the Nashville Spoke and Han- die Company. Nashville, Nov. 12. It is said the Nashville Spoke and Handle Company has been absorbed by the Jnternatlgn.

al Ax and Tool Companyt a i 2,000,000 trust organized last week in New York Cityrrrrrzrrr The Nashville company does an annual business amounting to about f20u000. The plant is valued at 30, 6o and the output Is from lj)00 to 10,000 dozens of handles. GEORGE BRADEN The New Head of Fertilizer Manufao- turers' Association. Nashville, Nov. 32.

The ninth annual meeting of the National Fertilizer Manufacturers' Association was held here behind closed doors. In the morning the Executive Committee and In the afternoon the Association elected these officers! George Braden, of Louisville, President; C. H. McDowell, Chicago, Vice President C. A.

Ailing, Chicago, Secretary and Treasurer. i JTfee new county poor house has been completed under the direction of the commissioners, and will be ready for occupancy in a short while. The appropriation for building the house was made at the last term of court. It js a seven-room: dwelling, neatly fur nished and made as convenient as pos sible Jrar- the says that although It "is not quite as handsome as the $25 poor house recently built in Davidson County, it la one of the beet. la the State.

BRUTAL HUSBAND Wouldn't Take Wife to Circus, and She Asks a Divorce. Knoxville, Nov1. 13. Ada Banks vs. Wm.

Banks Is the Btyle of a divorce case filed here to-day. She charges the defendant with neglecting her in many "ways for other women, but camel's back was his refusal to take her to a circus. WILL DO IS THE EISJT PSPEH. LEVI E. LATIMER.

S.jKP TAVERN LICENSE. Will Be Taken Out By a Number of Saloons -In Paducah. Paducah, 13. PoHce Judge Sanders decided that L. JV.

Lagbmar- slno, proprietor of a saloon and cafe, had not violated the Sunday by serrlng intoxicating liquors with meals. It is said that several saloc keepers who have restaurants -attached to their saloons will take out tavern licenses and serve drinks with meals, thus avoidingjthe Sunday lhg iaw. For the pastjhreeSaiidayfi saloons have been closed as tight as wing te- a rigid enforeement of the law. WITH WEAVER M'CAULEY. Tom is now with Weaver McCauley, where he will be glad to have his friends call when fn need of groceries or liquors.

Division Engineer E. Blanchard, of the Tennessee Central Railway, is confined to his room on" account of Mr. Blanchard is not considered seriously 111, but absolute rest and quiet are necessary for his early re covery His-famtlywm Join him here in a few days. THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DI8TRICT 7,347 OFFICIAL FIGURES. The official vote In the race for Con- gress in this district between Hon.

John W. Gaines and Mr. A. JJLTUlmaa retlnsay Mr. Gaines received 9,422 votes and i Mr.

Tillman Peking Kr. Galnea' majority .7,437, the third largest ever received in ythe district. Mr. Tillman's vote was the smallest received by Republican in the district in twenty, six years. The vote by counties was as follows; Couuties Galaes Cheatham 797 180 Davidson 4,353 793 Montgomery 1,731 4fil Robertson 1,498 281 Stewart 983 247 Total 9,422 1,985 FOUR MEN ARRESTED Charge- of iltobbi--AFarwe and 87 la.

Recovered. an aged farmer from up country, tfas 4-hel4up and fobbed of $100 In this city, but the police kept the crlm dark until they could capture the rot benr? arrested three of the alleged robbers twelve mllea from Nashville and recovered $87 of the The accused men are O. A. Davis, J. A.

Thornton and Robert Rose." OASTOIIIA. Bwm'tb'e' MHaffljrafS Bcttt" Sigiutnre SIX SfyJ RICH AND ARTISTIC We are offering; to the Clarksville people a large assortment of tbj rare and beautiful China, an opportunity that they have never had before. This 4s the GENUINE article. All free hand painting. hard fired.

A bewildering display of this exquisite ware is seen on display 4n our window Beautiful Ind Dazzling: to none, as its worli-wide reputation will prove, having captured the Grand Prizes at numerous World's Fairs. whtV EXHIBIT was A TEST. We have everything from an fndivicual Butter Plate to a Footed f'ut-ch Bowl. We extend you a cortial invitation to call and inspect these berutiful VVILLIAHS Leading Jewelers and Optician. WEIGHT? IN Pie li 1 First Cae Will Be That Of Ed Wash Ington on November 20.

Judge Tyler convened the Criminal Court. Monday and set the following cases: Ed Washington," larceny, November, 20 HermanHarreIsott, fel- an.toua.,Aaaault..Jtovmber. Charles Irby, assault and battery with, intent to kill, November 20; Clark Jackson, felonious November Hugherassault and battery wittrln-tent to kill, November 24 John Coke ley, assault and battery with intent to kill, November 25; S. L. Hutchison, soliciting without license, November 28; Will Hutchinson, pistol carrying, Nov.

26; E. C. Reeves, false pretense, November 29; Clay Morrison et liU, December Coleman Miles, et assault and battery, same date; Llnsy Hays and Josie Buckner, robbery, De- session, same date; John Gordon, larceny, same date; Bill Hardin, robbery, December 3 Henry Young, assault and battery with intent to kill, same date; Henry Young, pistol carrying, same date; West Hyde, assault and battery, same date; J. H. Smart, rape, Decerning nyderr assault and battery with intent to kill, same date; Pete Barker, pistol carrying, December Will Gilmore, et robbery, same IIervy larceny, same dale; 'Alex TJavie, larceny, Decembei Sallie Warfield, assault and battery with, Intent to kill, December Lewis Meriwether, house breaking and larceny, same date; John Dabney et assault and battery with intent to kill, same-Aatejal date; aff ray, December General Osburn, murder, same date; Pat Roach, larceny, same; mi.

Tjyie, assaTT and battery, Decern- ber Lucas Stewart, pistol, same; George Griffey, larceny, same; Charles DaJy. assault and battery, December 10; Wm. Dunbar et same; Robert Broadie, house breaking and larceny same; Nat White, same; Will Hester et same; Jim Wilson, bringing stolen property into the LURKING ON STREET CORNERS and in the cars are vagabond currents of air whose cold touch sets the fiends of neuralgia and. rheumatism at their work of torment. Modern magic in the form of Perry T)a vis' Painkiller, con-quers the imps and restores peace of mind with comfort of body.

You will Bave yourself manya day of misery by keeping this good old remedy in the house. There is but one Painkiller, Perry 23 W. H. BROWN. W.

H. Brown, a well known cltlnen oFthe Eleventh District, died Wednes-d ay of consumption, uperin duced by an ntlark nf tvnhoid fever. He had co been, all Jast.Acrll,:-..n4,;. as -ki yarfr-of' ase; Thursday at his late home, with services by pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at SanKO. A RUNAWAY BICYCLE.

Terminated wlU an ugly cut on the Tog of B. Orner, Franklin Grovii, HI. It. developed a stubborn ulcer unyielding to doctors and remedks for four Joars. Then Ducklen's Arnica Salve cured.

It's just as good for burns, K'clds, skin eruptions and piles. 25 cents at Owen Moore, Lockert Askew, J. T. Fletcher, C. L.

Brad ley atd Owen's Pharmacy. FIRST SALE OF LOOSE TOBACCO WAS MADE BY KENDRICK RUNYON 'WEDNESDAY. Kendrick Runyon made their first loose tobacco sale Wednesday. It ninPtPph The 'to liecco sold well, pensidcrinir the oual- itr- -The following prices were paid; Primincs. to lugs', la leaf, to Ute the "Want Column" if you wnt quick returns.

glHSgata erjrff ndZls ly with the ad, Yours, I SISTERS-IN-LAW FALL OUT, And One Is Charged with Using An Ax as Weapon. Knoxville, Nov. 13. Mrs. Ulllan Graham was last night placed In jail on the charge of felonious assault on her sister-in-law, Mrs.

Frank Dear-mond, who Is lyin at the City Hospital with a wound made by an ax on the right side of her head. The wound laid open her head, exposing the brain. Deatinond Is loon keeper of this city and was visiting, her brother, William GrahamZal his home in the Seventeenth District 1. when she began to quarrel with his wife. Mrs.

Dearmond got the best of the difficulty, and Mrs. Graham, it Is said, then took an ax and struck Mrs. Dearmond. STATE BOARD Of Education Will Meet In Nashville On November 17. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Morgan C.

Fitzpatrlc. 'jas issued the following order calling Jhe State Board, ot Education to in Nashville on Monday, November 57: "I am authorized by Gov. President, to notify you that the ate Board of Education has been called to meet Monday, November 17, at 1 r- in the office of the State Superln end-ent of Public Instruction, for the purpose of passing upon the report of the committee appointed to grade pers of persons who took the exam' ion on October 6, 7 and 8 to qualify them to become candidates for the office of County Superintendent, and to- transact such other business' as may prop- erI-v corne beIOT? lt" ou are urged to PrePnt YoHJs very -CrfttZFATRiCK "Secret arq." in Turn Mortally Wounded. Knoxville, Nov. an attempt to capture lloone I'ottiT, a young man of Johnson County, T.enn., who recently killed his father.

Deputy Sheriff Howell was shot in the breast and niortally wounded. The officer also fired, fatally wounding a brother of Boone Potter, also struck the officer with a stick, frac-'turihg bis skull. ENTERTAINMENT And Exhibition of Athletic Feats Wl Probably Be Given at An Early' Date. The members ofthe Young Men's i Association met last night to discuss plans and the advisability of giving public entertainment at an early rtntp It was decided to ction until the meeting next mrtay night. Diphtheria in twenty minutes, Almost miraculous, Ir.

Tls-om-as" Ecloctric Oil. At any drug stor. s-R0CK AND SLATE MAKE The law fixes a bushel of average coal at 80 pounds, a bushel of Empire Coal weighs only 76 pounds In every bushel of Empire Coal the customer tains 4 pounds; in every 100 bushels of Empire Coal the customer tains bushrls. Empire Coal makes but per cent, of ash and no clinkersi 5ome --L- -i-r-1 marj-rlfnlrrrf iimrrm I the purest, lljhtest, and is. therefore, Justly, the cheapest and most popular coal In the market For tlie preent we will, sell thisjiigh grade coal for the same price you are payinr for the tower prdes.

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