Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-26


racing in winter.
At New York, Savano Samidina tried to
murder his mistress and then to commit
suicide, Jealousy was the cause.
The house committee on elections has
decided in favor of seating two Republic
ans and one Democrat on contest.
Allen Thomas, colored, was sentenced
at Cairo H., to forty years Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for wife murder
ID. II. Arnold, ex-sheriff of Colusa
county, Cal, was acquitt d Of the murder
of S. w, Garness, who had calumniated
his wife.
Gen. Alger, commanderin-chief of the
Grand Army, presided at the dedication
of the soldiers and sailors monument Mt
Newsort, r:
The Standard Oil company drilled in a
well on the M. d. Casey farm, near Upper
Sandusky, o., that is yielding twenty five
barrels an hour.
The governor of Massachuse Is nomi-
mated as worlds fair commissioners Fran.
els w. Breed, of Lynn, and Thomas Il.
Proctor, of Boston.
II. B. Amsden, of Shelbyville, Ind, has
sued the Traders Insurance company, of
Chicago, and the Norwich, of England,
for 5000 damages.
George Jabas, Frenchman, aged so
years, committed suicide, at Bluffton, O.,
by hanging himself to limb of tree.
Dependency was the cause
| The Cheyennes, Comanches, Arapahoes
and several other Indian tribes are very
much wrought up over the expected ap-
pearance of an Indian Messiah.
The Kentucky legislature has passed a
bill redistricting the state for congress
sional purposes. 1t gives the Democrats
ten districts and the Republicans one dis
trict
Miss Maggie Ashcraft, II, ran away from
| Cynthiana, KY, to join female base ball
club and was glad to make run for the
home base after twentyfour hours ex-
perience
At Salineville, O., George Patterson, his
wife and two children, took shelter under
tree during the storm yesterday after
noon, and all were instantly killed by
lightning
Canton, o., citizens are crying their
mouchoirs full of tears of unspeakabIe
joy because the senate has given them a
public building, to cost anywhere inside
of 100000.
suit has been filed by Joseph w.
Davis, treasurer of Champaign county.
O., against Maj. f, Tllotson, for Sl6, ,239
for back taxes, The suits covers period
of six years.
j. w. Helm, proprietor of the Danville,
ILL.,, bucket shop, is reported to have taken
his permanent departure for Spokane Falls
without making previous announcement
of his intention
Edward Robinson, barber of Column
biana, Ala, who gave his customers a
shave and drink of liquor for twenty.
| five cents, was arrested and bound over
ON the charge of violating the revenue
laws
Cadiz, o., white ministers refused to
open high school commencement with
prayer because dance was arranged for
the wnd-up. A colored minister prayed
and seventy-five couples went on with the
dance
At Logan O., Perry Kuhn is found
guilty of trying to fraud his soul with the
crime of fratricide and matricide by putting
strychnine in the pot-pie that he might
inherit the property.
John Ritter went to his Hamilton, O.,
home after half days work and found an
aching vacancy where his wife, baby and
furniture had been in the morning. He
took dinner at restaurant and will look
around for more reliable housekeeper
Mrs. Sarah RothscEild of Chicago is
1912 years old, and held birthd recep-
tion Thursday. She seemed spry as a
won an of 40. Her twenty-seven grand
children and fifteen great grandchildren
were present Mrs Rothschild has never
been ill.,
Stock to the amount of $4,000 has been
subscribed to establish a sorghum cane,
syrup, canning and preserve factory at
Mooresville, Ind. 1t will be known as the
Leitzman Sorghum and Canning com
pany. Mr., Leitzman is president of the
Indiana Cane Growers association.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Catherine Thiesen,
wife Of j. Thiesen, Chicago saloon
keeper, was found with bullet in her
head. Their little daughter, aged years,
says her mother shot herself. The little
boy, about years old, lisped that his
father shot her. Both had been drinking.
Lee Clark, Cheboygan, Mich, butcher,
alleges his fellow-butchers have formed
an unlawful compact known as the Che
boygan Butchers union, and refuse to
take him in. Clark says he is shut out
from buying Chicago beef Suit is brought
under new conspiracy law. The union
is backed by the moneyed meat men of
Chicago, and the case may go to the
supreme court.