Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Euule seward, hgeu years, was Kicked
on the head by horse and fatally injured,
at Springfield, o.
Legislator Lee Wilson is found guilty
of violating the pension laws and fined
$500 &C Indianapolis.
John Disdale is accused, at Lockville.
o., of the murder of Farmer George Boyer,
in quarrel over stray cows.
A 6-year-old daughter of Mrs. w. L.
Diess, of Bucyrus, o., drank carbolic
acid, and Is not expected to live.
Colored Matchmaker Wells will oo-
cupy a stand in the indianapolis Jail for
eighteen months for embezzlement.
For the first time since the war st.
Johns day Is being celebrated by the
Masonic fraternity at New Orleans.
At Winchester, KY, William Bush,
who shot his wife, is not expected to live
himself if the mob on his trail succeeds in
getting him.
The Republicans of Guernsey and Car
roll counties Endorsed Congressman Tay-
for for denomination in the Eighteenth
Ohio district.
Two barrels of whisky in the Cincinnati
saloon of Charles Beisse exploded and set
fire to the place, causing damage to the
amount of 81 500.
John Corbett appeared before the police
court Of Cincinnati and asked for the re-
lease from the work house of his divorced
wife, to remarry her.
The 200 street railway employees of In
dianapolis organize for mutual protection
on the principle of united we stand, di-
vided we get walked over" =
President Menendez of San Salvador,
died suddenly after banquet in celebra-
ton Of the fifth anniversary of his defeat
of the rival faction in the republic.
Nellie Hennessey, for eight years Grip
pie from hip disease, is reported to have
been cured after three days pray in st.
Johns Catholic church, Oswego, N. Y
Joe Wheat fatally shot John Lewis at q
eoiored festival at Troy KY, and the in
dications are that Wheat will be choked
out of that locality Dy hemp this year.
A pickPocket unsuccessfully attempted
to rob ex-Secretary Whitney of 81, 600
scarf pin within the royal inclosure at
Ascot, and got six months at hard labor.
After a stubborn fight of twenty
hours, fire which threatened to destroy
Congressman Scott's large Pennsylvania
colliery at Mount Carmel, was conquered.
Plus BARNARD, of Middle Branch, comes
pretty near being bad man. He is ar
rested for forgery, bigamy, larceny and
desertion of family No. l in Pennsylvania.
NJ. j. Ferrar, Spaniard, was arrested
in Philadelphia on dispatch from San
Francisco charging him with forgery. He
is also wanted in St Louis on the same
charge.
Miss Josie Marks, of New Richmond,
o., can fool with the electric fluid with
impunity when she gets over the late
shock as lightning never strikes twice in
the same place.
Two lady candidates for school commits
sioner of Garrard county will prove
whether Kentucky women can run as well
as the Kentucky horses, with which they
are usually coupled,
AT Locust, KY, Kate Mcintosh, IS, was
assaulted by four rutfians, who knocked
her companion, James Everling, senseless.
The girl threatens suicide, and Everling
may die of his injuries
No one knows why jeweler John Schai-
BILE, of Troy, o., put bullet in his brain,
and went from life of prosperity to the
shadows of the great unknown, as the sun
was setting Monday night.
Springfield whispers that Mr. Thomas
McGrew, Jr., treasurer of the Superior
Drill company, has overdrawn his ac-
counts from 81, 700 to s., 900 and evaporated
into the hush gloom of the elsewhere.
George Bidwell, who served seventeen
years of life sentence for participation in
a conspiracy to defraud the Bank OF En-
gland of 81 100000 in 1873, now out on
ticket of leave, is in Cincinnati
An ammonia tank in the ice manufac-
tory at Lancaster, O., exploded, scattering
machinery and seriously injuring an en-
ploye, mule and a woman and three
children who lived several doors distant.
Mrs. Della Cross, of Brooklyn, has
qualified as captain of the schooner Ore
gon. With the exception of the female
captain and pilot on the Mississippi river,
she is the only female commander of a
vessel.
A deadly epidemic of diphtheria is rag
ing at st. George, Tucker county, w. Va.
Three children of County Clerk Adams
and four members of other families have
died. There are about twenty ca es re-
ported.
Solicitor Mitchell, of Bangor Me-, has
given an opinion to the effect that who
ever seizes beer or liquor in unbroken
packages Is liable for the value of the
goods seized, or damages resulting from
seizure,
The attorney for Patrick O'Sullivan,
under life sentence with Daniel Coughlin
and Martin Burke for the murder of Dr.
Cronin, applied for transcript of the
case, for appeal to the supreme court of
Illinois.
Professor Burstall, aged II years, who
was teacher of German and French in the
high school at Milwaukee several years
ago, shot himself on the lake front in that
city Sunday night. Letters left by Bur
stall show that he contemplated the fatal
step for over year.
convention has been signed between
Hon. John Hoggart, postmaster general
OF Canada, and the postmaster general of
Japan for the establishment OF direct
parcel post service between Canada and
Japan, commencing Oct /, next. Van
couver will be the Canadian point of dis
tribution.
At Pittsburg, Charles Diebold quarreled
with his wife, and knocking her in the
head, as he supposed fatally, with a
Ratchet, flung her body into another room,
kissed his children went to his mothers,
locked himself in another room, slashed |
his wrists with razor and bled to death.
His wife will recover
Fight Indefinitely Postponed.
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