Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-09

being deserted by her af1lanced lover She
used morphine.
During a fire in Philadelphia twelve
barrels of gasoline exploded and eleven
hremen were badly burned; some OF them
will probaly die
William Havelin was arrested at Mt.
Vernon, o., charged with stealing wool
from William Gilmore, farmer, living
near Martinsburg.
Some thief stole lot of rabbits that had
been inoculated with hydrophobia virus
from an clubhouse belonging to Rush
medical college, Chicago.
John W. Linder, Danville, Ind, ex-
county commissioner, who has been called
thief by ex-County Treasurer Hadley,
asks for $1,000 to "help the hurt that
honor feels"
A train on the Northwestern road
jumped the track near Freeport, ILL.,, and
four section hands who were working near
by were crushed to meath The engineer
also was killed.
The visit to Montreal of the Duke and
Duchess of Connaught terminated Thurs
day, the party leaving at o'clock for the
Cascapedia, N. B., fishing grounds of Sir
George Stepher.
Pello, an Umatilla Indian, was hanged
in Portland, Ore, by United States au-
thorities for the murder of an Indian
woman on the Umatilla indian reservation
about year ago.
The friends of DIR. S. S. Laws, ex-presi-
dent of the Missouri state university, and
man prominent in business circles in
Kansas City, are greatly exercised over
his disappearance.
A vote in the Louisiana house of repre-
sentatives to refer constitutional amend
ments to special committee 40 to 60
is supposed to represent the strength of
the lottery people.
Stanley G. Jones, who has been on trial
at Paynesville, O., for eight weeks for the
murder of Lawyer A, A. Amidon, Aug. 80,
1889, was found guilty. Jones' defense was
emotional insanity.
At Dallas, Tex, Frank Quinn caught
his wife and Ben. Nelson together in
room He attacked them with an ak,
chopping Nelson to pieces and terribly
mangled the woman.
Seven Belgian glassblowers and four
teen Italian laborers, who landed in New
York under contract to American employ
ers, have been ordered back to Europe by
the government inspectors.
Thirty dirty trSmps expended energy
enough in trying TO capture freight
train near Grismore, Ind, to have earned
their fare and weeks board if they had
termed the Same in the direction of honest
work.
Richard Croker Tammany's chief, ar.
rived at New York from Europe Friday
night. He looks thinner than when he
went away and more feeble. He would
have nothing to say of politics or his er-
rand here.
Francis l.. Denman is suing for divorce
from Sarah z. Denman in Cincinnati,
One of his complaints is that his wife
would not provide him with clean shirt
for Sunday when he needed TO attend
church and play the organ.
Perry Hickman, of Martinsville, Ind,
confesses himself a mean, low-priced
sneak, selling his vote to Anderson j.
Callett, for $40 and quart of whisky, and
then suing Callett under the law for buy
ing him. Verdict for defendant.
Mrs Charles r. Richardson, under
treatment at the Hygienic institute,
Bridgeport, Conn, after a struggle with
her attendant, succeeded in throwing her.
self from fourth-story window to the
ground, and was instantly killed.
In addressing the house on the silver
bill, Walker, of Massachusetts, doffed his
coat and made his speech in his shirt
sleeves, in spite of quiet admonition
from the speaker that it would be more
decorous to don the oppressive garment.
Washington Olivet, an old man living
in the mountains near Unionville, ~ Y,
was shot dead by his son-in-law, Arthur
Prendergrass, during family quarrel,
Tuesday, caused by Mrs. Prendergrass
lerving her husband and living with her
father.
Irish saloon keepers in Chicago refuse
to buy English syndicate beer. New York
brewers, who have purchased malt from
other brewers, instead of making their
own, also decline to purchase of the syndi-
cate, regarding it as assistance to COM
petitors.
The Mexican government ON learning
the fllibustering scheme has requested the
United States government to send regi-
ment of soldiers TO San Diego to prevent
any probable or possible conspiracy to
capture Lower California from being car
ried out.
to Tongue River reservation in Montana,
to protect settlers against marauding
Cheyennes. There is also great dissatis-
faction among the Indians at the Green
Bay agency, Wisconsin, because of the ap.
pointment of new agent.
Judge Smith, at Ottawa ILL.,, rendered
decision in the Evangelical church dis
pute, at Naperville, where the trustees
locked the church against the anti-Esher
ministers. The injunction against the
trustees stands. The judge declared the
majority must rule in church as well as
state.
About seven miles from Corydon, Ind,
on the night of June g. White Caps tied
Mack Dooley, trifliing fellow given to
whisky, to tree, stripped him naked and
gave him fifty lashes from which the blood
flowed profusely. The same party left
punches of switches and warnings with
several other Harrison county residents.
William Block has brought suit in the
Dearborn circuit court, Lawrenceburg,
Ind, against Blythe w. Burlington for
$40 600, as damages for alienation of his
wife's affections. Mrs. Block and the de-
fendant are cousins. She confesses the
intimacy, and pleads lavish promises of
friendship, protection and remuneration
in explanation of her downfall.
Strother, the cid soldier, who was
whipped by White caps in Orange county,
Ind, and secured the indictment of num-
Der of his assailants, being warned to
leave the county, and disregarding the no
tice, was again taken from his bed Thurs
day morning and given over lt0 iasiies
with switches, being fayed until he sank
insensible upon the ropes that held him 20
the tree. He recognized some of his assail-