Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-23

= divorce from his wife, Princess Fran.
cesca De Widen, whom he married in
Louisville, KY, about seven years ago.
After living with him two years, he says,
she deserted him and returned to Paris
A construction train ON the Lake Erie
railroad ran into freight Thomas
Rogers, engineer, was instantly killed,
and the. conductor and brakeman were
seriously injured.
George w Roberts, bookkeeper and
confidential manager Of the Smith 81
Criggs Manufacturing company, of Water
bury, Conn, ON bail in $4,000, charged
with embezzling $4,000.
1t is stated that Governor Taylor, OF
Tennessee, will appoint A. B. Hust, Of
Chattanooga, and Thomas l.. Williams, OF
Knoxville, as commissioners to represent
Tennessee at the worlds fair
Seven hundred skeletons in a good state
mound forty feet in circumstance and
eighty feet high, near Youngstown, o.
The skeletons are six feet long
At Jessup, Ga, Mr. Littlefield, proprie-
tor of the Littleflel& house, discovered ].
NJ Mccall, county surveyor of Wayne
county, and his wife in compromising
position, and shot both, fatally.
The heavy rainfall at Youngstown, o.,
caused the Mahoning river to overflow
and food portions of the city. The prop
erty of the Youngstown Ice company was
damaged to the extent of 1900.
W. II. Shaw, at Wentworth, N. H., be-
. came intoxicated, attacked Nell j. En-.
ory % years old, knocked him. down,
kicked him in the head and ran away.
Emory did not live over ten minutes.
Robert e.amon, colored, reporter on The
Boston Globe was unanimously elected a
member of the Boston Press club. He Is
probably the first colored man elected to
an incorporated white mans club In Bos-
ton.
At Columbus, Miss, Grant Anderson
colored was taken from the court room,
where he was being tried for attempting
rape upon 13-year-old girl, and hanged
to the nearest tree. His guilt was clearly
proven.
The Afro-American league, In session az
Columbus, o., adopted resolution de-
nouncing. Vnn. b. X. Bruce for discrimi-
mating against his eolored clerks, elected
delegates to the National league, and
elected officers
Louis e. Pfeiffer, president, and Charles
i. Brown, of the defunct Bank of Amer
ica Philadelphia, waived examination
and gave bonds for trial ON charge of re-
ceiving a deposit when they were aware of
the banks insolvency.
Judge Ingraham, in the supreme court
of New York, has decided that Receiver
Henry Winthrop Gray, of the North River
Sugar Refining company, has no right to
the profits of the illegal combination
known as the Sugar Trust.
f. w Miller who was found dead in
Fairmount park, Philadelphia, few
weeks ago, is declared to have been de-
faulter by CL Rumph q Son, pocket
book manufacturers, in whose employ he
had been for twenty-eight years.
Charles Eberhard was probably fatally
wounded, and John Carr and William
Davis were seriously cut while going
home from dance, by Pete Dewitt, a no
torious Chicago tough, who first insulted
the ladies accompanying the men.
The steam barge Siberia collided with
the Ohio in Mud lake and the latter sunk
in six minutes. The Siberia steamed over
to the Canadian shore, leaking badly.
The crew of the Ohio escaped. The Ohio
was owned by l.. mason, of East Sagi-
nav, and valued at $4,000
At the Southern Presbyterian assembly
at Asheville, N. c., Rev. H. X Walter, OF
Georgia, stated that the North Georgia
Baptist association passed resolution ad-
vising the hanging Of revenue officers
wherever found among the mountains in
search of stills of moonshine whisky.
The thirtieth annual conclave of the
grand commandery of the Knights Tenn
plar of Alabama convened at Huntsville
Wednesday. There is not consistory in
the state, but one will be established at
Birmingham. A movement Is on foot to
build $4,000 temple at Montgomery.