Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-24

him for complicity in the robbery of the
Manhattan Savings institution. Young
Hope has all along contended he was in
nocent
Henry w Sage has added 500, 600 to his
previous gift of $4,000 for the establish
ment Of department of philosophy at
Cornell university.
At New Concord, o., Eyert Jenkins let
ball slip out Of his hands, striking
Jimmie Rice, aged IL, on the head, knock
ing an eye out and fracturing his skull.
He will die.
Friends of Governor Goodell, of New
Hampshire, authorize the announcement
that he will be a candidate for United
States senator at the next session of the
legislature
The family of Emmett Gester, of Peru,
Ind, returned home from the funeral of
one of the children and found another
dead in bed. Diphtheria was the cause Of
both deaths.
An inmate of the soldiers home at
Leavenworth, Kan, named Foster, was
found dead under the trestle 1t is sup
posed he was overtaken on the trestle by
dummy engine.
Farmers in the Tenth Ohio district met
at Washington c. H.. Wednesday, and
decided that they would voteNas they
pleased for congressional and other can
didates, and not be bound as an organiza-
ton.
Rev. S. A. Pilley, "superannuated"
Methodist preacher, put on the list on ac-
count of i'll health and great age, has an
nounced himself as an independent Alli4
ance candidate in the Second district Of
Alabama.
Governor Hill, of New York, met Mai.
Mckinley on train between Canton and
Wooster, o., and had little chat with
him. 1t is said that Mckinley assured
Hill of the passage of the force bill at the
adjourned session of congress.
The Guaranty Loan and Trust com
pany, of San Francisco, which has been
sending circulars through the mails adj
vertising what appears to be thinly
disguised lottery scheme, is to be investi-
gated by the postoffice authorities
The Boston aldermen have notified the
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance
company that at the end of six months
the city will call upon it to turn over the
principal and interest Of the Franklin
fund, which now amounts to S3GS,000.
Grant county. Ind, authorities will
prosecute William Bright for suborning
John Donahue to swear unlawfully to the
age Of 15-year-old Gertrude Bucker, in
order that Bright might marry the grl,
which he did. His child wife wants di-
vorce.
AT Caseo, Wis, Albert Ludermeyer, a
young German farmer, who was married
but few days ago, shot and killed his
wife, using a double-barrelled shotgun.
He then blew out his own brains with the
same weapon. Ludermeyer and his wife
were dead when discovered
The members of the Window Glass
Manufacturers association, in session in
Pittsburg, elected the following officers:
James A. Chambers, Pittsburg, presi-
dent; Thomas f. Hart, Muncie, Ind, vice
president; William Loeffler, Pittsburg,
treasurer; 0. E, Frazee, Chicago, secre-
tary. The general oflt;e will be in Pitts
burg
In the Ohio legislature Wednesday an
attempt was made to pass a bill in the
house providing for non partisan board
of improvements for Cincinnati, the same
that passed the senate Tuesday, but it,
was defeated. Thursday in the house an
attempt was made to spring a scheme for
mileage for the extra session, but it was
sat down upon. A resolution was offered
to require the governor to furnish in
formation sustaining his charges against
the board of public improvements of Gin
cinnati, but after some lively talk the
resolution was tabled by vove of SO to
AZ The Soncrant bill was then read the
second time. The motion for suspension
of the rules to allow the bill to go through
the third reading received 20 yeas to 33I
nays, and was lost. The house then ad.
journed till 10 q. m. Friday. In the SEN
ate committee of three was appointed
to investigate the charges that the clerk
had endeavored to hold back and delay
the Soncrant bill. Richards bill to abol-
ish the decennial board came up, but the
Democrats refused to take it out of the
committees hands. The Republicans
filed protest against this action.