Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-05
NEWS m RRIEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

vile, Ind.
A runaway team at Logansport, Ind,
injured six persons.
There was heavy frost at Millersburg,
O., Friday mornin g.
Madame Lydia Devere was convicted of
forgery at Toledo, o.
Arbor Day waa appropriately celebrated
at DePauw university.
Hon E. b. Martindale will be Indiana's
Republican representative at the Worlds
fair.
A. b. Hogan was severely injured by
shock from electric car wires at Canton,
Ohio.
William Collopy, Joe Barker and Will
lam johnson were bound over at Wash
ington G. H., o., for robbery.
A. b. Hanson, young lawyer of Birm-
ingham, Ala, was convicted of assault
with attempt to kill. Five years.
AT st. Paul, Mimi, c. L. Billingsley,
a wealthy contractor, was instantly killed
while experimenting the moving of a
house.
By railway wreck in California, Fire
mau Ormouins was killed and Brakemen
J. H. Ross and w. w. Craig badly in
jured
L. NJ Sawyer, of Narragansett, r. l.,
manager of the electric light works, at
Hampton, Va, was drowned in Hampton
Roads.
AT Athens, O., Wednesday, Eli Foster
was indicted for murder in the first degree
for the killing of Daniel Bottomly, on the
18th inst.
DR.. r. 7. Brown, one of the best known
scientists of Indiana, died at his residence
in indianapolis Friday night. He was SO
years of age.
Andy Lotspiech was seriously injured,
near Madison, Ind, by falling under
wagon loaded with stones as it went over
an embankment.
Two congressman have turned over to
the treasury money voted by congress to
reimburse members who suffered by the
Silcott defalcation.
George Swartz, who robbed the postofIise
at Hope, Ind, was convicted and sentenced
to twelve years Imprisonment in the
Jacksonville prison.
John Hurley, colored, aged 10, was ar
rested at Perryville and placed in Jail at
Danyille, KY, Friday, charged by Rose
Patterson, aged 15 with rape
1t is reported that the Thomson Houston
Electric company has given orders for the
removal of the company's arc factory
from Brooklyn to Fort Wayne, Ind
Marion, o., is without police force, the
term of service of the present force having
expired, and deadlock in council pre-
venting the appointment of new men,
Leonora, the daughter of ex-mayor
Amor Smith, of Cincinnati, was married
at Aberdeen, o., TO Jack Robinson, grand
son of old John Robinson, the circus man.
James +. Lyons, arrested in Boston for
a crime committed at Hartford twenty
two years ago, obtained bail in $1,000
When his case was called he failed to ap-
pear
George Olcott, charged with being a
common gambler, was fined $50 and sent
to Jail for twenty days at Lima, o. John
Woodland was bound over ON the same
charge.
Doctors examined Swedish woman at
quarantine, off Boston, and pronounced it
Il case of leprosy. The woman was passed
as all right by the English port physician
Mt Liverpool.
While workmen were engaged at Low
ellvile, O., in blowing out furnace stack
sixty feet high it caved in, but for
tunately no one was injured. The loss
will amonnt to $4,000.
At Rockford, H., at their mothers
death bed, and at her request, Mary l..
and Allie d. Williams were married to C.
r. Smith, of Chicago and Walter d. Will
Jams, of Rockford, respectively.
Near Mitchell, Ind, William Guy,
fp rt,1b nD1 of bod fc ,lar ha q
lily of his employer, William Murray, be-
not encouraged, and then committed sui
eide.
Each of the parties to a divorce case at
Columbus, o., is over rs years old The
ground of the wife's complaint is abuse.
They have five sons and two daughters,
one of the latter being her mothers chief
witness.
Members of the Farmers Alliance in
some sections of Indiana are giving the
assessors a good deal of trouble by refus-
ing to answer statistical questions sub
mitted by the bureau of statistics. They
will be prosecuted.
Fifty-eight converts to Mormonism
landed Thursday from the steamship Wis
consin from Liverpool. They were under
the charge of an elder and came from
Sweden and England. The party went
west the same evening
The damage suit for 5000, at Newark, |
o., in which Edward Burt, a wealthy |
farmer, was charged with alternating the |
affections of the wife of Henry NJ Martin, |
was dismissed by the court, Friday, the |
parties having quietly settled the matter. |
Richard Snitke, German farmer, liv- |
ing four miles from Rochester. Mimi, |
shot and killed his only child, boy of 3 |
years, and then committed suicide Snitke |
was the son of noble Prussan, and his |
crime was the result of domestic and finan-
cial troubles
In the Canadian senate a bill providing
for full Legislative power for the North
west Territories has passed in committee.
1t provides for change of name to the
Western Territories of Canada, and for the
same power with regard to the liquor ques-
ton as that held by the other provinces.
Mr.. Uttley, who is in the Carnegie en-
plcy, having charge of their freights and
shipping arrangements, is an old railroad
nan. He made a computation the other
lay of the amount of freight handled for
he Carnegie establishments 1t amounted
% one-twelfth as much as the entire
freight tonnage of the Pennsylvania rail
road east of Pittsburg.
CONGRESS.