Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-29

| maSterWort. One died tapping the rivei
water for relief and the other is in a criti.
cal condition
1t is thought Kemmler will not be exc
cuted until July. The case has got to &c
to the New York court Of appeals.
At Williamstown, KY, James Riden.
hour adds injury to insult by dangerously
shooting ], ]. West, whom he whipped
one year ago.
The body of an unknown man was
found floating in the river near Carroll.
ton, Mich. 1t Is thought to be that of a
victim of the recent "Handyboy' disaster
ON the river.
Jacob Schlenman, Sandusky saloon
keeper, is under arrest on charge of at
tempting to place old soldier John Lee in
a position to have his grave decorated on
Friday next.
At Johnstown, Pa, general arrange
ments have been made by the churches of
all denominations for memorial services
on Saturday next, the anniversary of the
great disaster.
Indiana's old parties and new are sharp
ening teeth, toenails and tongues for the
fall fray, in which state officers, from
lieutenant governor down, are to be se-
lected and elected.
Eleventh census will show a total of
state debts OF $22s, ,679, $40, decrease since
1880 of $54, ,466, ,4s4. There has been an in
crease in county indebtedness in the ten
years of $24, asa ,768.
The Iowa Indians have sold their land
in Indian territory to Uncle Sam for 81. 25
per acre, receiving in severalty eighty
acres per capita, 1t leaves ,61s acres
free to settlement
Capt. Mac Burroughs, of Tallahassee
assaulted and severely injured Editor Zeph
Harrison, of Jacksonville, for an article
published about him. Ex-Governor Reed
received severe chance blow.
President Parker, of the New York Cot
ton Exchange, in referring to the Butter
worth bill, hopes congress will refrain
from striking such blow at the trade
and commerce of the country.
Five Cinnamon were detained at Ma
lone Saturday, on complaint of United
States Commissioner willard, for violat-
ing the exclusion law in crossing the Can.
adian frontier into New York.
The jury in the libel suit brought by
Messrs. Soto and Williams against Fan
ME Davenport at st. Paul, Mimi, failed to
agree. One stubborn Juryman saved Fan
ME from an assessment of damages
The attorneys for Mrs Whitehead,
charged with being an accessory to the
murder of Mrs. Fred. Petit, at Lafayette,
Ind, demand an immediate trial, while
the prosecutor prays that it be delayed for
the reason that his witnesses are all sick
or absent.
Il. p Davis, formerly an employe of the
inspection bureau of the Central Traffic
association, has been appointed special
agent of the interstate commerce commits
sion. His duty will be to discover and re-
port violations of the law on the part of
railroads and others.
The amount of the shortage of Il. NJ
Cattel, the absconding manager of Walker
& Company's stock commission Office at
st. Paul, is estimated as high as $4,000.
The loses were largely business men and
social companions of Cattel who specu-
lated under his guidance
Before the congressional committee on
immigration Editor Raster, of Chicago
German daily, fixed the percentage of for
eign-born and foreign parentage citizens
Of that city at 70. All, he thought, made
desirable citizens except Polish Jews and
the lower class of Italians.
Canadian seal fishing vessels have
sailed for Behring sea under the impress
sion that the three mile limit only Is to be
observed, while the United States cruiser
Bear has gone to protect the seal from
headlapd to headland. Seizures and
serious complications are likely to result.
Emil Nitsche, who arrived on the
steamer Elbe at New York, swore he car.
ried nothing subject to duty. Inspector
Brown searched him and found sewed to
various parts of his clothing about a
quart of diamond jewelry, dozen pearl
necklaces and a number of gold watches.
DIR. Justin's experimental dynamite
cartridge at Perryville N, Y, burst the
gun into q thousand pieces, or the charge
that propelled it did. The gun weighed
"a, 800 pounds. Hundreds of people kwere
In hiding to watch the experiment, and
although the flying pieces made many
close calls, nobody was hurt.
Chinaman Lee Xiii bought OF All Poor
pretty young Chinese girl for 5000, and
had his slave locked up In a room in No.
II Mott street, New York, where she was
to submit to indignities by
Cinnamon. There she was discovered
by reporter. Lee Xii was held In the
Tombs police court on $500 bail to an
swer.
The youthful graduate of the Birming-
ham, Ala, pool room, II. f. Hamilton,
wrote an insulting letter to the daughter
of Mr.. George West, was arrested and on
trial in the recorders court, when the old
gentleman, West, entered the court room
with a rawhide, and before the police
could interfere cris-crossed with red lines
the face Of the culprit in manner shock
inc IN hehnld