Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-24

for less than cost. He held calicos at ten
cents yard, and wanted ten cents each
for his stogies.
Joseph Amos, who died at Rushville,
Ind, left large estate, part of which was
gan.
At Washington, Ind, William Helton
fatally stabbed his brother, who inter
fered to prevent him from whipping his
mother.
Professor Charles f. Smith, Of Bowdoin
college, has been appointed professor Of
American history at Yale; also Tutor E.
c. Mclaughlin assistant professor in
English.
AT Fort Monroe, Va, Private Tighe, OF
Battery f, First artillery, was shot and
killed by Private Manning, of the same
regiment.
Sons of Veterans presented the Xenia
sailors and soldiers orphans home with
an elegant specimen of the flag their faith
ers fought for.
Charles Rarey, of Huntington, Ind,
was drowned in Twin lake, near that
place. He was attacked with cramps
while in bathing.
The examination of witnesses has been
begun at Harrodsburg, Ky, in the trial
of Joseph Noel, charged with the killing
of James Langford
Baron Joachim Won Rose, of Chicago.
was granted divorce from his wife, the
Princess Francesca De Widen, on the
ground of desertion.
Governor Stute, the first to fill the CUB
ernatorial chair at Oklahoma, was well
coined by an enormous crowd at Guthrie,
]. T., and rendered a reception.
This river and harbor bill was taken up
in the house Thursday. 1t recommends
the appropriation of nearly $2l, ,O00, 900. The
amount asked for was $39,000,0O0.
The Episcopal convention of the diocese
of Ohio, in session at Mt Vernon, o., ad-
journed Thursday, TO meet at st. Johns
church, Cleveland, May l2, 1891.
At Trinidad, Col, j. j. Pratt shot and
instantly killed his Mexican mistress, and
then put bullet through his own head
Jealousy. Pratt was from Iowa.
The child of Jones Reed, of Pawpaw
township, Wabash county, Ind, while
playing on the bank of Pawpaw creek,
fell into the stream and was drowned.
The house judiciary committee has
agreed to fayorably report the joint reso-
luton providing for constitutional
amendment granting the right oi suffrage
TO women
Abram Bogardus, formerly superintend-
ent of mails in Rochester, n Y, postoffice,
pleaded guilty to all counts against him
charging secretion of letters Penitentiary
for three years.
At Madison, Wis, Theodore Neubuer,
aged II, whom policeman was about to
arrest for stealing $87 from his brother,
put pistol to his own head fired and fell
dead at the feet of his captor
In Logan county, KY, Jim Brewer, a
tough, killed relative on account of
dispute about the wife of one OF them, and
was captured after having killed one of
the sheriff's posse and wounded another
Judge Hindman, of the Nevada district
court, charged the grand jury that, the
original package decision to the con
trary Notwithstanding, they should in
dict all persons violating the liquor laws.
A limited train on the Chicago and
Alton road ran into a freight train. G. @.
Copeland, of Chicago, had his foot slightly
crushed. Mrs F. II. Reeve, of Chicago,
and Mrs. May Morris, of Milwaukee, suf-
fered slight abrasions.
Governor Campbell sends n pressing in
vitation to William Robertson, through
the lieutenant governor OF British Column
bia, to return to Paulding, O., and ac.
count for the 81 900 school funds abstracted
by him some time ago,
The 5-year old child of Frank Galloway,
of Wabash, Ind, swallowed quantity Of
concentrated lye, horribly burning its
month and throat. Its recovery Is doubt
full The mother of the infant set a can
containing the lye upon the floor while
washing and did not observe the child
swallow it.
Chicago detectives returned from fruit
less trip to Mexico in search of the man
who drove DR.. Cronin to his death Chief
of Police Marsh, of Chicago, says posi-
lively that the man was in Mexico, and
that he had received warning through the
carelessness of some of DIR. Cronin's friends
whom it became necessary to apprise of
the object of the search.
The big creditors with claims against
the estate of Ives & Company, are begin
ming to withdraw them on account of |
claim of Sawyer Coombs, of Boston, who |
proposes to question them all in regard to |
what they did with the collateral stock on |
which they made loans The assumption |
is that they bought the securities on
which they have been profitably specu-
lating