Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-10
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/ ton, MINI. They were driving home, and
both were lying in the bottom Of the
wagon drunk when the wagon was struck,
and both were instantly killed.
Frank Ulster, of Lafayette, Ind, en-
gagged in buying old iron and rags through
out the state for Ringalsky & Cane, OF
Muncie, is missing also horse and
wagon
The Gladstone club, of Providence, r. l.,
has offered 81 ,000 to George Godfrey, the
colored heavyweight pugulist, and Jake
Kilrain to meet in the ring in a scientific
contest
Benjamin Freedman was arrested at
Connorsville, Ind, Monday, and placed in
Jail at Muncie, charged with stealing
horse and buggy from Robert Martin,
Muncie liveryman, week ago.
Gen. Newton, of New York, has &C
cepted the position of consulting engineer
Of the board of trustees of the Chicago
sanitary district, in the charge of location
and construction of the great drainage
canal.
j. Calvin Bushey, the singing school
teacher who eloped with Miss Scott from
Plain City, o., is said to have wife and
daughter at Brookville, Ind, and another
wife and three daughters at Holmesville,
Ohio.
nSaturday night burglars entered the
iewelry store of j. G. Woodluf, at Waxa
hachie, Tex. and blew open the safe. Jew
elry consisting OF fine watches and dia-
mond rings. worth $4,000 to $1,000, was
scured.
Mrs. Cornelia " Miller who was
charged with receiving the sum of $i32,00
alleged to have been embezzled by the
firm of J. H. Field & Company, of London,
was discharged in court in New York
Monday.
Dock Smart, a United States prisoner
serving life sentence in the Ohio prison
from Tucson, Ariz,, received June, 1888, on
conviction of attempted train robbery, has
been pardoned by President Harrison, He
was innocent
Peter Dempsey, cousin OF Jack Demp-
sey, the prize fighter, while endeavoring
to save Mary Allen, l6-year-old girl, from
a criminal assault by two Poles in Brook.
lyn, N, y, Sunday night, was probably
fatally stabbed
Women of Kyana, Ind, marched TO the
depot where a stock of liquors was depos-
tied, waiting for the opening of the first
saloon in the town. They prayed, and then
knocked the liquor kegs silly with ham
mers and axes.
Ed Finley n colored musician, of St.
Paul, Mimi, murdered his wife by cutting
her throat from ear to ear with butcher
knife, and then tried to commit suicide in
the same manner, He was discovered in
time to save his life,
Thomas Ryan, United States minister TO
Mex co, Is on his way to Washington.
He has b1cn summoned TO the capital by
the secretary of state for some reason un-
known to himself He denies that he con-
templates resigning his position.
AT San Francisco three masked men
bound and gagged William johnson, iani-
tor and night Waterman of the Wigwam
theatre, then proceeded to open the safe
with tools, whence they took 81 800 in
cash, several watches and some stage lew
elry.
Monday the first legislature of Idaho
convened. The thirty-six representatives
were sworn in Permanent Speaker
Frank A. Fem then took the oath of
Office, it being administered by Judge
Morgan, Charles Reed, of Ada county,
was elected clerk
A resolution urging the establishments
of postal savings banks was passed by the
Farmers Alliance convention at Ocala
Fla. The National legislative council
will decide on some city, either in Indiana
or Illinois, as the place of the next meet
ing Adjourned sine die
Factories in Springfield, Cayton, Troy,
Sidney and Piqua, o., have been notified
that they can no longer be supplied with
natural gas. Private consumers will still
be supplied Manufacturers at Columbus
have also been notified. There is some
alarm that the natural gas wells will give
out.
The house of Ed. Farris, colored. who
lives on farm near Port Williams, Kan,
was consumed by fire Sunday night.
One Of his children was burned to death
and another had n narrow escape Farris
and his wife had gone to a neighbor's,
leaving the children alone. 1t is thought
that they upset a lamp
Unite state selet service officers have
capture gang of twelve eounterfeiters
who have been making and passing spuri-
Gus so bills, their headquarters being at
Palestine, o. OF the prisoners two were
captl re at Canton, one at Massillon and
four twenty-five miles southeast of Canton,
near the Pennsylvania state line.
At Slndyville, o., the body of Lilly Bald
ner was thrown into her fathers door by
three disguised men, who said she had
been killed in runaway. One of the men
was DR.. David Maxwell, of Canton, who,
it is said, confessed that he had caused her
death by criminal operation He adj
mits that this is his 10th offense of the
kind
TIE secretary of the treasury paid out
100000 for bonds Monday, and wants TO
buy Us many mora. Bankers say they
have plenty OF money, but the lack of con-
fidence in commercial Paper makes IL
peTilous to use it in that direction. They
want conRr ss TO do something TO restore
posed.