Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-17
NEWS M BRIEF.
A Condensation of interesting Items ON
Various suhiseta-

Dave Stratton, who.killed four men dur
ing the Hatfield Mccoy feud, was killed
by cars near Brownstown w. Va.
Mrs Curran Blue, Of GAINESVILLE, o., has
subscribed $1,000 TO the hospital fund
being raised by the GAINESVILLE ladies.
New engines have been ordered for the
water works In Cincinnati, and it viii re-
quire thirty days to arrange the plant.
At Danville, Va, Joseph Staples, while
on spree, shot and fatally wounded
Hamilton Woolwine, a United States
marshal.
Joseph Staples, of Stuart, Patrick
county, Va, fatally shot United States
Marshal Hamilton Woolwine while resist
ing arrest
The Republicans Of the late Sam Ran
dall's district won't run candidate, and
the Democratic nominee, Vaux, has a
walkover
Joshua Stanford, brother of United
States Senator Leland Stanford, of Cali
fornia, died at his home, in Oakland, of
heart disease.
Spencer Huston was bound over, at
Portsmouth, o., for the murder Of James
Hall, the charge being murder in the
second degree.
DIR. Perrin Gardner, late Marine hospital
surgeon at Gallipolis, o., and prominent
physician, is in dying condition from a
stroke of apoplexy.
At Indianapolis reprieve, new trial
and change of venue are indications that
Edward Aszmann, murderer of BERTHE Elf,
win go with light punishment.
TIE plan OF George w. Brown and John
- a. T.
diamond rings and substitute paste set.
tings. They are in Chicago Jail
DR.. A. H. Lord, of Beliefontaine, o.,
aged SO, died suddenly Of heart failure.
He moved to Bellefontaine in 1929 and
lived in Cincinnati from 1906 to 1890.
The split between Gilbert and Sullivan
has resulted in the breakup of the Savoy
company. The prima donna, Geraldine
Ulmer will sail for America June 20
Morton Mayfield, of Cromwell, near
Ligonfer, o., committed suicide by shoot
ing himself Unsuccessful attentions to
Miss Ida Maggart caused the trouble.
In South Brooklyn, N. Y, party OF
small boys playing at the foot Of sand
bank were buried by a sudden caving Of
the bank. There were taken out dead.
OhatlSo 4uOAlCg huPPObCu W NC u JIdN6t-
ing man from Atchison, Kan, was found
with his skull crushed in an alley at
Kansas City. His recovery is doubtful.
Charles Shull, aged 80, of Brazil, Ind,
while in fit secured razor and slashed
himself across the neck, from the effects
of which he died. His mother In endeav-
oring to wrench the razor from him was
badly cut.
Indiana supreme court has decided that
John Worrell, an appointee Of the gov
ernor was entitled to the office of state
statistician, and that William A. Peelie,
the present incumbent, was not legally in
charge thereof
Doe Griffin, colored, living near Hunts
Vile, Ala, gave birth to illegitimate twins
They were found murdered in the woods,
and George Griffith and John Robertson
are in jail at Fayetteville, Tenn, charged
with the crime.
At Worcester, Mass, the wife and
daughter of President G. Stanley Hall, OF
Clark university, were found dead in their
bed. They were accidentally suffocated
by Illuminating gas, which had escaped
during the night.
Three noted criminals named Morrison,
Crawford and Thrasher hewed their way
out of Pratt Mines state prison. The
prison bloodhounds were let loose and
freed Crawford after five hours hunt.
The others are at large
Sadie PRESLEY, young girl of Youngs.
town, O., attempted suicide by swallowing
iodine, but was restored She says her
young man had deserted her The girls
parents live at Sharon, Pa, though she
recently lived at Warren, o.
William Moncrief, near Oswegatchie,
N Y, In fit Of ungovernable rage, shot
his friend, Henry Forney, who tried to
pacify him while in the act of trying to
enforce the payment OF $40 debt due
from another Of the Forney family.
Two persons were found murdered In
McKeesport, Pa. One, Margaret Doug
lass, wealthy and unmarried, shot through
the body in her own yard; the other, John
Cross, popular young man, found muir
dered in mill yard. No clew as yet to
either.
Judge Brett, of Bangor, Me-, held James
Mcclure, who tried Original package"
selling amenable to the state law and
fined him 500. The judges idea is that
after package has entered state the
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border.
Miss Mollie Westphal of Syracuse, N.
Y, saw her affianced lover, Thomas Rand,
smile on another girl and went right
home and took laudanum Her life was
despaired of, Rand was sent for and they
were married. The romance ended in a
few hours with the young lady's recovery.
Amos Myers, q young desparado and
robber, captured while asleep at his hiding
place In the Mills, southwest of Martins
vile, Ind, three weeks ago confessed and
was sentenced to one year In the peniten-
tiaIy. Myers accused three young men of
that city with having been his accom-
pliCes.
1t is alleged by New Orleans merchant
doing business with Honduras that the
man now held by detectives as E. s. Craw-
lord Is not the genuine express thief. The
latter escaped from the detectives and four
Honduras soldiers at the sea coast, by
dropping through closet into the sea-
The detectives had secured $4,000 from
him.
In the suit inaugurated against the
Farmers Alliance managers at Dallas,
Tex, it is said that the allegations will
show ii woeful state of affairs and a de-
plorabie misuse or waste of funds. Hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars sent to Dial
las, it is alleged, have been frittered away.
and alliance men assert that the amount
is over million.
Columbus, Tex, Inundated.
COLUMBUS, Tex, May 17.-This vii
lage is now almost entirely overfiowed