Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-31
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK:

Julius Voss, agent Of the Hungarian
coloney Of settlers at Esterhazy, N w.
T., committed suicide by blowing out his
brains Officers were about to arrest him
for a shortage in his accounts
William Simmons was arrested at
Muncie, Ind, for having in his possession
everal wagon loads of valuables, the &C
ummuiation OF long and patient applica.
tion to the sneak thief business
The telegraphers troubles at st. Louis
have been amicably settled. The local
Brotherhood will be dissolved, and upon
this agreement the Western Union rein.
states all strikers and discharged men.
st. Joseph's Catholic church, at Del.
phos. o., was broken into and the altar
despoiled. The thieves secured two gold
chalices and the ciborium vessels, made
OF solid gold. which are quite valuable.
John P. Grant has brought suit against
Samuel p. Scott, receiver of the Crescent
brewery, of Indiana, and the Jung, of
Cincinnati. making damages in S97 SOC
for alleged violation OF contracts 70 sell
stock.
Investigation shows that Fred H.
Leider, of New Philadelphia, o.. supposed
TO have died from an overdose OF NOR
phine was buried, alive. His face was
scratched and the glass IN the coffin
broken.
The Massachusetts state board of arbi.
tration has notified the Lynn Morocco
manufacturers and the workmen, who
are now on strike and locked out, that ii
win endeavor to effect settlement of the
controversy.
DR.. w. d. Jones, of Osceola, Ark. re-
turning from visit to patient, found
Dwight Mckinney, a prosperous planter
occupying his own place in Mrs Jones
bed He killed Mckinney and fatally
wounded Mrs, Jones.
The Imperial Produce company, a Cana
dian concern, has intimated TO the financs
minister that it is now prepared to ship
Canadian farm produce TO English mar
kets on commission. It was organized az
a result of the Mckinley bill.
At Chicago William Mortell and James
McGrath were found guilty of the mur
der of Policeman Adam Freyer and their
punishment fixed by the jury at imprison
ment for life at hard labor Attorney
Hughes asked for new trial.
At Columbus Ind, an attempt was
made TO assassinate Joseph Smith, a
farmer, while he was returning TO his
home The two highwaymen pulled him
from off his horse and after robbing him
beat him and left him for dead.
The Proctor & Gamble company, Of Gin.
cinnati, has given mortgage to the Union
Trust company of New York, 10 secure
the Issue OF first mortgage six-per-cent.
gold bonds to the amount Of $2000090. Sc
cured on the fvorydale property
The government has made demand on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail-
road company for the reconveyancs OF
202, ,101 acres of land patented to the Bur
lington and Missouri in excess of the
quantity granted by act of congress.
Lee Allen, the leader Of the mast notorl- |
Gus band OF horse and cattle thieves i'm the |
Indian Territory, against whom there are
over 100 indictments, was captured by
United States officers after they had
broken both of his arms with bullets.
A veterinary surgeon named G. Il. |
Miller. of Pennsylvania, where he is said |
to have several wives went to the neigh |
borhood Of Woodstock, Ont, got fraudu. |
lent possession of several farms, and took |
TO himself another wife before being ar. |
rested for horse stealing.
AT a meeting Of the Louisville, New |
Albany and Chicago Railroad company, |
it was decided to build two important ex- |
tensions--one into the Clay county coal
fields of Indiana, the other n continuation |
of the Orleans, West Baden and French |
Lick branch to Evansville, Ind.
The United States man-of-war Phlladel- |
phia, while coming up the harbor at |
New York, Wednesday collided with the |
tank-ship Bremerhaven, which was at |
anchor Off Tompkinsville, Staten Island. |
The only damage done was the bending Of |
two OF the plates Of the tank.ship.
Houghtwout Howe, Of New York, whose
marriage to Miss Mary Butterworth, the
daughter OF Representative Butterworth,
OF Ohio, took place nt his bedside in
Washington Wednesday. died in his room |
at the Metropolitan club Thursday after
noon.
Counsel for Cal Wood, sentenced TO
death by electricity for killing Leander
Pasco, his father-in-law, In Warren
county, New York, has served papers on
the warden of Dannemara prison for
stay of execution. Wood was to have
been executed during the week beginning
Nov g.
In the Admiralty court, at Philadel.
phia, in the suit o, the Old Dominion
Steamship company, for $3.50, 900, against
the owners of the schooner Agnes Man
ming, which sank the Manhattan In
1889, In a collision, with the loss of twelve
lives. a decision was given for de.
fendant.
The st. Louis police are in possession
OF information to the effect that three
of the supposed Italians implicated in the
assassination of Chief Hennessy, have
fed from their hiding places In New
Orleans. II is reported that they left for
st. Louis and are now probably hiding in
that city.
A proclamation will shortly be issued
by the porte TO the members of the Greek
church announcing the willingness Of the
Ottoman government to secure an nmiS 1.
bic settlement OF the troubles between It
and the patriafchate. The porte will also
assert that responsibility for the closing
of the Greek churches rests with the
synod
The United States warship Newark,
building by Cramp a. Sons, started
Thursday morning on an unofficial trial
trip. She is required to do less than any
OF the other vessels of her class, the mini
mum horse power development being but
8, 500. Capt Casey. one of the best known
and popular officers Of the navy, will com
mand her.
Fritz Hack, an Eau Clair, Wis, farmer.
had been in the habit q locking himself
in his bed room and playing at suicide by
firing revolver TO bring his wife to terms
after quRrrels, and the wife and five chill
dfen paid no special attention when he
did II "Wednesday. After three hours
they found him lying unconscious with
q bullet In his chest He Is diving.