Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-09

| The friends of Hon. Henry Watterson
are urging him to be candidate for
| United States senator in Kentucky.
The new torpedo boat Cushing made
two miles an hour on the Potomac yester-
day and turned within her own length.
Miss Lily Rosecrans, daughter OF Gen.
| w. S. RoSecrans, was married at Wash
| ihgton, to Governor j. X. Toole, of Mon
tana.
Carlisle is candidate for senator in
| Kentucky. 1t is believed that Proctor
Knott will be his most formidable op-
ponent.
The trial of Charles Miller, for the muir
der of George w. Purdy, commenced
in the circuit court at Lebanon, Ind, on
| Tuesday.
The Womens National board of foreign
missions Of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church meets at Martinsville,N Ind, from
May 10 to'14.
| The Methodist church south opened its
general conference in st. Louis Wednes-
day. 1t is composed of eight bishops and
300 delegates.
The American Jersey Cattle club has
elected as president Frederick Bronson, of
Connecticut, and treasurer John l.. Holly,
of New York.
The trial of Mrs Elizabeth Critzer,
charged with poisoning her motherin-law,
Mrs. Martha Critzer, is in progress ut
Greensburg, Ind
All the periodical publications will be
collected in duplicate and filed in the
| library of congress and the National mu-
scum for preservation.
Another company has been organized
for the manufacture of rope, etc, at Xenia
This will make four mammoth factories
! of the kind in that city.
1t is said that ex President Cleveland
and his wife will visit Bloomington, III,
in July, as the guests of ex-Assistant
| Postmaster General Stevenson
The body of a well-developed infant was
| found in vault at Thornville, o.. and a
Miss King, on whose premises the discov-
cry was made is under arrest.
At Shreveport, Ia, the river is over one
| foot above the highest record, and steam
ers are engaged in rescuing goods and peo-
| pie from the overhowed district
The administrator of the estate of
| James w. Flynn, killed in a Lake Shore
wreck near Buffalo, March 6, made settle
ment with the railroad company for a.
500,
| The body of Thomas j. Walker, who
| was drowned off the steamer ANDY
Hatcher abont two weeks ago, was found
| floating in the river below Catlettsburg.
| Kentucky.
Ten members of the Allegheny, Pa,
| might Owls an organized gang OF rail
road robbers, were arrested by the Allie
| gheny City police authorities, and are
now ill Jail
Miss Matte Mitchell, the daughter of
| Senator Mitchell of Oregon, has the repu-
tation in Paris, of being the most beauti-
| ful American woman who has ever been
seen in that city
| Zenas and George Mayo, at Hancock, n.
| Y, married two sisters simultaneously.
| and just as simultaneously the two sisters
| obtained divorces from the brothers for
| cruel treatment.
At meeting of the directors of the
| Newark and Granville Electric railroad, at
Newark, o., the secretary was instructed
| to close contract with the Cleveland
| Construction company,
! A constable Mt Huntington, Ind, while
! trying to levy on a horse belonging to
| Malcolm Euley, was attacked by EuIey
|
| assault and battery with intent to kill
The annual conference of the Young
| Mems Christian association for this coun.
try and the British provinces is in session
| at the state capital in Nashville, with an
attendance that fills the hall of repre-
| sentatives.
The remains of Bishop Caspar II. Bor-
CESS were inferred in ST. Augustine
! church yard, at Kalamazoo, Mich, in the
| presence of an immense throng The
ceremonies were celebrated with all the
pomp peculiar to the Catholic church.
DR.. Charles Blood is with relatives near
the Canada line. He writes Offering TO
become q witness in the trial of Isaac Saw
! tele for the murder of his brother, Hiram
/ Sawtelle. Blood declares that he can prove
the charges against him in Sawtelle's con-
| fesson to be untrue
At Wheeling w. Va, Tuesday, the Jury
in the case Of Rodney Dickinson, brought
in verdict of guilty of rape, with recon-
mendation to mercy. The penalty is
| twenty years Imprisonment Without n
recommendation to mercy the penalty
would have been death.
p II. Dowling the newly elected depart
ment commander Of the Ohio Grand
Army has appointed Charles Reed, as.
sistant adjutant general; w w. Aleson,
assistant quartermaster general; Charles
| A. Resor, department inspector, and T.. S.
Bulls, chief mastering officer
Census Superintendent Porter has de-
cided to form a collection OF all the news
papers magazines and periodical publica-
tions of every character and description
printed in the United States during the
present census year, TO serve as n perIna-
nent memorial of the development of this
important branch Of American enterprise.
The metropolitan council of the Irish
National league bodies Of New York city
have denounced the action of National ex-
ecutive committee in changingthe bylaws
of the league so rs TO permit branch
| leagues TO hold direct communication
! with National officers instead of through
the municipal councils. and 20 make their
! remittances direct to the National treas
/ urer.
Real estate agent A. Ellwood Lancaster,
who conducted a hourishing business ut
$50 Walnut street, Philadelphia is fuRi-
! tive from Justice He is charged with the
/ embezzlemen- ct funds intrusted TO him
to invest. The 'hounJ is variOusly esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000 Lancas-
ter. who is 20 years Of age, left wife and
four children in almost destitute eircum-
stances.
At the inquest on William Ieaphart, at
/ Lexington, :. C., the following were iden-
titled es having taken part in the sssassi-
nation: f. c. Gaughma A. Marks, Pearcs
Taylor, Thomas Seay, George Lnser and
James Oglesby The jury remained out
ten minutes and returned with the verdict
ot death by gunshot wounds at the hands
of r,..r-ons nnknnNxn The vinfim waa