Clarksville evening tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-07
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Condemnation VI Interesting Items OF

COMMUNICATION w Interesting iLehN ON
Mormons alO ne Oppose fhe admission Of
Idaho
Falling tree killed George Fisher, near
Akron, o.
The Utah legt Stature has killed the Aus
tralian ballot 81 u.
Ex-State Ire .surer holland, Of Missouri,
lost that S3S, 900 at poker.
A committee { the house will investigate
the assassination Of Clayton
Councilman Nlilloughby, of London, o.,
was acquitted OF, the chorge of burglary.
The spring poe all over Ohio, Kentucky
and Indiana is sin (ging of beautiful snow.
Samuel West, pioneer, was found dead
near Muncie, Ind. Wednesday. Old age
Fifty rabid dogs were killed while raising
canine in the vici Hity of Huntingburg, Ind.
Horse sale in N CIV York Wednesday re-
suited in S13s,0oD being paid for fifty-three
head.
An old man mani ed YoakuIn attempted to
hndle fire with GOAL oil at Newark, 0. He
is not expected to recover.
At Pittsburg David Hayes and William
Snoddy thawed QUIT frozen dynamite Hayes
dead and Snoddy will soon be.
III bne OldclI enDelLIeLuenD IrlalS az
Lebanon, o., a jury has been secured to try
MIR. Durham for SCI luestered grease.
Indiana tariff ~teformers fulfilled the
whole duty of convention by electing off,
GERS, passing around the hat an adjourn
ing.
Moses Demfobscy has brought suit for
$4,000 damages against DR.. A M. Hayden,
of Evansville, Ind, Tor amputating a rheu-
matic leg.
The wife of W. H. H. Horton was fatally
burned by her clothes taking fire while pre-
pairing dinner for the family at their homs
at Preston, Ga
MIR. Caroline Donovan, who presented
100000 to the Johns Hopkins university
and founded chair of English literature
there, died at Baltimore Wednesday
At Gate City, Ala, James Montgomery, a
prominent citizen, aged "a years, while walk
ing along the track, stumbled and fell in
front OF backing engine and was instantly
killed.
The physicians of GAINESVILLE, O., have re-
fused to bid for attendalace ON the poor, and
have presented a scale tc, the infrmary direc
tors estimated to cost the county 5000
yearly.
Gen. Crook has issued a special order con-
y
on March Is to try Secuud Lieut.. Matthew
#. Steele, of the Eighth cavalry, for mis-
treating a private
There are now fourteen cases of smallpox
in Meriden, Conn, and wi of the patients
are recovering. No new GASES are reported
and it is believed that the worst phase o.
the epidemic is over.
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nirnatnts,y ~ ba plHaet mir
ing and publishing houses in the west faileC
WednesdGye,'Mith Liabilities aggregatini
100000; assets, $4,000
Rhode Island Democrats In state conven
ton nominated John w. Davis, OF Paw
tueket for governor, and William =. Q
Wardwell, of Bristol, for lieutenant gov
ernor, with the rest of the 1881 ticket.
A log train on the BigeloW aud Walter
narrow gauge railroad, near Washburn
Wis, ran away while coming down steel
grade. Engineer Thomas Walters anC
Brakeman William Carleton jumped, anC
were instantly killed
Thursday there was a change for thc
worse in the condition of ex-CongressmaI
Taulbee, who was shot few days ago III tn,
National capital by Corresl sondent kincaid
of The Louisville Times. His physicians have
but little hope of his recovery.
In Malloryville Ga, two men, John L
Galloway and Abner Wright, were engaged
in row The two men pulled out thei
pistols and fired Edward Bla cltInan, VIII
rushed in to part the combatante, received
shot in his head and was killed.
Eve Musser, with forty armed members o
the Slusser faction, surrounded tire Barbour
vile, Ky, court house, fired a few rounds o
ammunition at the guards then wen5 to tn
depot, filled the stove with cartridges
carved the stoveppe with bowie.knivas ant
departed for home
Horace Lee, Hopknsyille, Ky, man
heard of unpleasant remarks made by Fran
Wood about Lees sister and cut his car OF
with an ax, besides almost severing his jueu
lar. Ii is the first case on record Of her
tucldan being in danger OF capital punish
ment for chopping Wood.
Charles Coleman, ex-treasurer of Warra
county, O., who was convicted last week q
embezzling the public money, was sentenced
to two and one-halt years IN the penitentiar
and TO pay the costs of prosecution, and
fine of S2j, 1858 Go, which is double the amoun
of the sum embo2lled, as the law provides
A Boston paper says an English syndicat
is negotiating for the purchase Of the fou
firms in the United States now controllin
the manufacture of soda water apparatus
]. w. Tufts q Company, and the A.
Puffer & Sons Manufacturing company {
Boston; John Matthews, Of New York, an
c. S. Lippincott, of Philadelphia.
David Harris, member of the firm of Gr'
ham a. Thompson, stove molders at Pitt
burg. has mysteriously disappeared Mu
der is suspected, MS il is known he drew 81
200 from bank last Saturday. He gave h
wife $500 and paid Si4 dues to the treasure
of a Royal Arcanum lodge he .was prom
nent in labor circles, having been first pres
dent of the AIualgamated Association
Iron and Steel Workers.
Justice Wallace, of the United States Ct
emit court, New York, handed down d
cision "Wednesday in the case of Villa
Wall against Samuel Thomas, j. Il. Nj
cauloy, James N Benedict and Edmund U
ouhart, as resident trustees of the Americi
cottonseed oil trust, denying the motion f
a decree restraining and enjoining the tru
from dissolving until the termination
twenty-one years, for which time the co
Germ was organized.
CONGRESS.