Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Various Subjects.
The bill to abolish capital punishment
was killed in the New York senate
Heavy frosts Monday night are reported
from Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri
The burned Tracy residence in Wash.
ington was sold for $50, 79O. 1t cost about
5000
That slippery Ohio oil has again slid up
1t is now thirty-seven and one-half cents
per barrel.
Thomas E. Garvin, of Evansville, will
represent the Democrats of Indiana at the
worlds fair.
Two receivers of stolen goods at Boston
were sentenced to serve twenty-five years
each in state prison.
Salaries of all employees of the Atchison
Topeka and Santa Fe railway were or.
dered reduced May l.
The New York legislature has deter
mined there shall be female factory in.
spectors in that state.
Mississippi negroes working on the
levees threaten to abandon the work I'M
less they are given government rations
Charles Gardner, of Laporte, Ind, tried
to kill his wife but failed, and did better
thing by ending his own dangerous exist
enCe.
The contract for building $50 miles of
the Mexican International railroad at a
cost of $2l $4,000, was awarded at Lima,
Ohio
Muhlenburg, KY, Oil, Gas and Farming
company has been incorporated to farm
both sides of the ground for all that it's
worth.
Kentucky senate orders that the county
which can't be peaceable without guard
of soldiers to make it so must pay the ex-
penses of the troops
Nellie Leonard, a Louisville variety act
ress, is locked up on suspicion of knowing
something about the disappearance of tray
cling salesman Lee Haddway.
Postmaster Kluge came down with the
stamps to the value of $40 to keep him
self out of a lock-box for selling whisky
without license at Arlington, Ind
William Bohmie, freight conductor ON
the Iron Mountain road, was fatally shot
on his train by a tramp named Charles
Denison. The murderer has been cap
tured.
Ohio state board of agriculture finds
that early frost and early pesky critters
have caused the wheat crop of the state to
decline from So to SO per cent. since
April /,
Now Mrs, Yam Phon Lee, of New
Haven, nee Elizabeth Maud Jerome, SAYS
her husband, son of Chinese nobleman,
is guilty of adultery, and she sues for
divorce.
Miss Regina Piel left her Columbus.
Ind, home Tor MOntrose, S. Oak, where
her affianced, secured through an adver-
tisement in newspaper, awaits her with
a preacher and license
The steamship Stroma, which has ar
rived at New Orleans from Central Amer
ica, brought news of the arrest of Edward
Crawford, who is wanted in New York,
where he embezzled $4,000.
Joseph Arnold aged 80, of Fredonia. O.,
quarreled with neighbor whose COW got
into his berry patch dropped dead of
heart disease, and now has q bury patch in
which no one will modest him.
The Clayton Breckenridge investigating
committee, sitting at Little Rock, has
lost all the supposed clews to Clayton's
murder, Oliver T. Bentley, suspected by
Powell Clayton, has proved an alibi.
Ernst v Utter, in Jail at Middletown,
N. Y, for Bigamy~in marrying Jennie
Griffs, was visited by her in his cell, where
they exchanged clothes. He walked out
undiscovered, but was arrested at Union
vile.
Six men were arrested for burning the
Snell-road dollhouse, at Chicago, last
Thursday. The authorities have refused
police protection TO the owners while re-
building, on the ground that maintenance
of toll-gate within the city is an illegal
act Il
Jacob J. Hogue and Robert F. Ham
bright arrived at Newark n j., on Fri
day. from Grover, N. c., to meet some
green goods" men. Hanlbright became
nervous after registering at the hotel, and,
being left alone, Saturday. became insane
from fear of detectives he imagined follow
ing him.
The body of Harris Levine, young jew
ish peddler, was found in the Hudson
river off Milton. Only small sum of
money was taken from his clothes when
the body was found. A large wallet con-
tanning bank bills and packages contain
ing iewelry and dry goods, valued at 500,
are missing
The Maryland Masonic centenary was
celebrated at Baltimore Tuesday. A feat
ure of the occasion was the presentation of
a testimonial in the shape of a massive
punch bowl and ladle, of silver with a gold
lining, beautifully chased and oxydized,
to Past Grand Master Hopkins on behalf
Of the grand encampment of the United
States
Indiana's municipal elections result in
chorus by rooster and eagle to this effect: !
Republicans rule the roost in Terre Haute, |
Frankfort, Portland, Richmond, Marion,
Brazil, Martinsville Greencastle, Craw- |
louisville, Union City, Covington. Demo- |
Gratis reign at Vincennes, Greenfield, Tip |
ton, Fort Wayne, Vcvay, Plymouth, La
fayette, Washington, Rockport, New
Albany. The two parties divide the honors /
at Lebanon, Madison, Columbus, North |
Vernon, Muncie, Kokomo, Huntington, |
Laporte, Peru, Shelbyville and Wabash, |
Rushville elected the entire Citizens
Il