Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-16
NEMs m e..


Snow fell nearly all Monday at Fergus
Falls and other points in the northwest
Charles f. Mayer succeeds John !.
Aston in the directory of the Western
Union.
A drug store, where liquors are sold,
WIS damaged by dynamite in Martins
vile, Ind.
An Ashland county, o., juryman be-
came insane, imagining he was pursued
by bribes.
William W. Miller, the alleged London
swindler, appears to have operated in
Chicago in 1872.
John J. Aston has been succeeded by
Western Union.
Lauudrymen are holding National
convention in Pittsburg. The Chinese
were denounced
Joseph Weiderhold, shot in Reading by
Jim Norris Sunday afternoon, is dead.
Norris is still at large.
At Ashland, o., Myrtle Ewing, the 12,
year-old daughter of Hiram Ewing, fell
in u creek and was drowned.
A Kansas jury holds it is not a crime to
steal liquor in that state, as the keeping
Of liquors is contrary to law.
Mrs Ann Aldrich's twin babies were
fatally burned during her temporary alb
sence from home in Brooklyn.
1t turns out that the story of the al
legged attempt to ssassinate ex-Congress-
man Breckenridge was a fake.
Two colored wrmen are under arrest IN
Dayton for robhing veterans of the sol
dicrs' home of pension money.
r. Mt las NV re
burg citizen, it is alleged that the funds
of the city are in unsafe hands.
An attempt was made TO assassinato
Robert Mitchell, train dispatcher of the
Big -Four, at North indianapolis.
Elliott, of Kansas City, def ats Muir
ply, Of New York, in hundred rds
trap shooting match for 5000 q side
In a freight collision in st. Paul one
man was killed, one fatally and four seri.
ously injured, and forty cattle killed.
Mrs David Writer who is grand
mother, deserted her husband and eloped
with William Keeping Mt Aurora, Ind.
At the Brookville, Ind, water works
election the total number of votes cast
for was sos, against 81 Bids will at once
be received.
At Charlottesville, Ind, the trial OF w.
r Petit, charged with wife-murder, was
commenced. 1t will require several days
to secure jury.
The secretary of the treasury orders five
per cent added to the percentage of old
soldiers and sailors applying for civil ser
vice promotion.
Professor Austin Phelps, Of AndovcT,
father Of Elizabeth Stuart Phclps, die,
g t,,,, Lon, MT III.
cottage Monday.
Twenty-Five young ladies struck in an
indianapolis store because they were re-
quired to enter and leave the establish
Elent by an alley door.
Frank I.uKue has been acquitted of the
charge Of numbering Harry Mcbride, who
died in prize fight at the Goden Gate
club, San Francisco, June9
Luther Mitchell, colored, and Paris
BiggcrstaT, white, became involved in a
difficulty at Brazil, Ind, in which the
former was probably fatally cut,
Paralysis suddenly struck Artist Bald
win at Martinsville, Ind, and he told his
| pitiful story by scrawlng on a piece OF
paper. 81 cannot see, hear or talk"
Judge Evans, of the common pleas
court, ut Columbus, o., rendered deci-
sion Monday against the Cerneau Masons
| that virtually sustains the northern juris-
diRgion.
wesley Marsh, farm laborer, aged 3.
years residing near Greenfield, Ind, took
his life by hanging. He had been in
delicate health for the past few years and
became Respondent
At Ha2elhurt, Wis, James O'Donnell
q lumberman was shot and killed by
.Johush Yawkey, in self-defensa Yawlley
is book keeper for the Yawkey & Leo
Lumber company.
The Illinois supreme court has granted
q supersedeas in the case of William f.
purdy, who was to be hanged in Chicago
Friday. Purdy was conviotzof the muir
der of Samuel Reiningcr
Fire destroyed the handsome cottage
owned by Mr.. George l. Seney, the New
York banker, ut Barnctsville N. j, The
inmates had barely time TO escape. The
loss will probably reach $40, 600.
John Finn, a baggageman at the Monor
depot, IN Chicago, while protecting a lady
from being overcharged by a colored eX
pressman, was struck on the head with ;
club by the latter, sustaining fatal injur
les. He died.
| Two hOAS, lfb anu LAW ithtG lNuNAIi
aged respectively IL and IA years, have
been arrested at Evansville, Ind, fol
robbng the Evansville and Richmond
mail car two weeks ago. Some of Tho
stolen property was found in their posses
sion.
Thomas T. Murphy, of North Conway
n H.. who, twenty years ago, wa
organist in the house of the Earl o.
GainsboFough, and who clandestinell
married and came to thisacountry will
Lady Blanche, the carts eldtSA dau thter
died Monday in the Carney haapital, al
Boston, of typhoid fever. L1dy Blanche
died eight years ago and her remains
were taken TO England.
The Ohio legislature met in specia
extra session Tuesday by order of GOV
eruor Campbell. In his message the gov
ernor asks the general assembly to Checl
corruption 10y abolishaAg the Cincinnati
board Of public improvements together
with the deeennial board Of equalization
in that city. No specific charges arr
made, except that the people are helms
robbed az the hands of corrupt officials
The message was referred to the judi
ciary committNe by both the rouse ar'
the senate. M vote in The house wa
] Ob AYES 10 90 nays, lie lA'lHhtt ans 'V''''
solidly in Tie he gative. In tic senate,
ayes, Il nays.
There is a man AZ Gid Orchard who full!
appreciates the folly Of sending goo,
money after bad He lost n valuable rims
while bathing saturday, and to ascCrtaii
where it went dropped another ring T.
watch and see where it would go. Tn
wave was too quick for him, and h
mourus the loss of two rings.