Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-25
NEWS IN rRl=F.
A Condens ation OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Kentucky senate passed Lottery suppress
sion bill
Hugh Carey's tailor shop in Boston was
robbed Of $1,000
Ludwig Sieb, wealthy farmer, was found
dead near Huntingburg, Ind.
@. r. Davidson was robbed in Chicago and
his body thrown into the river
Col Dave .Hounshell was arrested at
Bellefontaine, o., for assaulting Col. Dom
Piatt.
At Chicago the sale of cigarettes and
whisky drops to boys under 16 years of age
has been stopped
Near Golconda, Ill, box containing
81, $50 in cash was found in house wrecked
by the storm of March q.
Miss Abby Moore Goowin, professor of
Latin and Greek at Vassar college, died in
Vassar hospital Wednesday.
The shortage of ex-Treasurer Archer, of
Maryland foots up $132, 401.25.
The Pennsylvania Republican convention
will be held at Harrisburg June rs
The starch trust has bought the Topeka
starch works for something over $250,OOO.
The store and postoffice at Lair, KY, was
robbed of $25 in money and a lot of postage
stamps.
In the asylum for insane at Cranston, R.
l., Catherine Hanley beat Mary Mccarthy
todeath.
colored man who outraged respectable
white lady near Cameron station, Ark, was
shot to death.
Mime. Juliette Adam, the brilliant Paris
ian editor, will probably visit America some
time next autumn.
The second trial of the Lenhart bigamy
case at GAINESVILLE, O., resulted in the ac-
quittal of the defendant.
Veterans Of the Mexican war will hold
their sixteenth annual reunion at Mt.
Vernon, o., May g and g.
At Canton, o., Wednesday, Homer Leech,
small boy, was run over by loaded stone
wagon, and his collar bone was broken
Charles Kuebler, a saloon keeper at Mon
roeville, o., was fined $25 and sent to Jail
for ten days for keeping open on Sunday.
Holiday, the Gogebic highwayman in Jail
at Marquette Mich, is trying to starve him
self. He has not eaten anything for several
days.
The body of the man found dead in an
alley at Terre Haute, Ind, Monday, has
been identified as Joe Walton of Charleston,
Illinois.
Catherine Hanley murdered Mary Nc
earthly at Cranston, r. l., because the
victim disturbed the murderess who desired
to sleep.
While boring for gas on his ground at
Spencer, Ind, Calvin Flocher struck min
eral water, which flows at the rate of 100
barrels an hour.
Joseph Leclaire was instantly killed by
being struck by an engine on the Plttsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago road at Hanna
station, near Laporte Ind.
During the Riel rebellion Gen Middleton
appropriated certain frs from a half-breed
He has been required to compensate the
owner for his illegal confscation.
The death penalty was awarded by a Chi
cago jury to W. E. Purdy, for the murder Of
Samuel Reininger. Not muscle in Purdys
face moved as he heard the verdict.
Suit was entered by Receiver Wells, of the
defunct Commercial National bank of Du-
buque, Iowa, against B. E. Graves, the
former president, to recover $4,000.
Sherman Knight, the young man from
Tiffin, o., who defrauded the Commercial
National bank out of 81 600, was arrested in
Chicago yesterday. He had 1854 left.
Lamb who was indicted with Madame De-
we're, the clairvoyant of Toledo, O., for the
forgery of notes to the amount of $4,000 on
Richard Brown, of Youngstown, o., was ac-
quilted.
Miss Lena Woodruff, of Appleton, Wis,
en- route to Chicago to purchase millinery,
with $7O0, slipped her purse into the bosom
of her dress and went to Sleep Some one
else now has the money.
George w. Hancock, convicted of killing
young man named Jones, thirty-two years
ago, was sentenced to ten years. imprison-
ment He was released on 5000 bail pend
ing appeal. One of the old Mormon church
murder cases.
Oren Daley was arrested at Mechanics
burg, o., Wednesday, on a requisition from
the governor of New York, charged with
grand larceny in that state last September.
He was turned over to the authorities, who
took him east.
Ira ID. Sankey, the revivalist singer, has
retired from his association with d. l..
Moody because his voice has given out. The
sale Of the famous Moody and Sankey hymn
books has provided both the proprietors with
a handsome competence
On July 20, 1890, Jesse Lee, the apostle
of Methodism in the east, preached under
the old elm on Boston common the first
Wesleyan sermon ever heard in Massachu-
sets, The anniversary of that event is to
he celebrated in an elaborate manner in
October, and the great and hourishing
church which has, from the seed sown on
that day 100 years ago, grown to be the sec
ond in the commonwealth, will commorate
its achievements by oratory, poetry and
song, and with the assistance of its greatest
minds.