Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items oil
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Alfred Bowen was acquitted of murder
at Creencastle, Ind,
William King was kicked to death by
colt in Auglaize county, o.
Archer, ex-treasurer of Maryland, has
been indicted for malfeasance
A gigantic local fire insurance combina-
ton is in process of formation in New
York.
John M. Winstead, while intoxicated,
shot his wife at Ouray, Col, and then
killed himself.
a man died at Bridgeport, o., from the
effects of swallowing chew of tobacco in
a fit of laughter.
Congressman Caldwell has introduced
bill providing penalties for Decorating
the National flag
Pope, the absconding bank teller from
Louisville, was captured near Duluth,
Mimi. on Friday.
A Minnesota farmer named Constantine
Schaeffer killed his wife and child and
committed suicide.
William l.. Helm, aged IS, ran away
from home at Indianapolis and was killed
by the cars at Paxton, Ill.
The Standard Oil trust won in the liti-
cation at New York with George Rice
over the transfer of some stock.
John and Amos Lawson, twin brothers,
qurreled at Edwardsport, Ind, and the
latter fatally stabbed the former.
The body of the unknown colored man
drowned in the river near Barker's Mill,
KY. has besn identified as that of Albert
Wills.
A young man giving his name as Harry
Cray, of Chicago, was arrested at Indian
apols in the act of stealing a fine suit of
clothes
Harry Clark and Virgil J. Matthews
quarreled over an unpaid account, near
Gracey Ky, and the latter was fatally
stabbed,
Jeff Williams, while drunk, went to
sleep under an engine at Brazil, Ind, and
sustained injuries which will probably
prove fatal
The senate passed the pension appropri,
alton bill with Sherman's amendment,
which provides for division of Ohio into
two agencies.
A young lady supposed to be Miss Jen-
ME Benson, of Rome City, Ind, committed
suicide at Washington c. H., O., Thurs.
day, Cause unknown,
Alfred Martin is a leading politician in
Plymouth, Pa His naturalization pa
pers are being attacked ON the ground of
alleged misrepresentation to procure them
1t is said that John p. Whitney, book
keeper of the Albany, N. Y, City bank is
said to have stolen $50, 600 from the bank.
Bank officials and police have but little to
say.
Detective Smith, of the Rock Island
road arrested at Puebla, Col, Scott Holt,
colored, charged with completely In the
robbing of Mrs. w. S. johnson, of 81, 500
worth of diamonds on the Rock Island
road
M. G. Patterson, who mysteriously dis
appeared from Decatur, Ill, last Decem-
Der, has been found at Salt Lake He says
that he was sandbagged, robbed of 81 800, |
and made two long journeys while uncon-
sCous.
Saunders and Mont. Slottings and
Adam Adams quarreled about woman,
in Logan county, w. Va, and Adams was
fatally stabbed. His assailants were cap
tured and held to await the action of the
grand jury.
Lee White and Frank Cody, young DIES.
peradoes who have terrorized southern |
New Mexico for several months past, and |
who held up and robbed the freight men
at Lamy Junction last Wednesday, were
arrested in the Sandia mountains.
The General Society of the Cincinnati |
its business at Baltimore and |
All of the present officers
were reelected. The society will meet on
the third Wednesday in May, 1893, in Bos-
ton.
Louie Lehman, prominent merchant |
of Columbus, Ind, was notified by White |
Caps not to collect rent from Il widow or
eject her from certain residence. The
notice accused him of compromising a |
felony and thus secuing title to the
widows home.
Henry kunolt, devout member of the
Young Mems Christian association and a
prominent leader of st. Matthew's
Evangelical church, St Louis was killed |
while robbing the house of George Stalk
man, carpenter. Kunolt led a double
life.
Alice j. Brown, 3S years old, unmarried
and stranger, died in Oswego, n. Y, in
She had been school teacher
in Kentucky, and left "A pathetic letter adj
dressed to Papa, Ernest and Others" and
directed to Miss Lizzie Brown, Rome,
New York
The Manhattan Beach Improvement
of New York in order to reorgan-
ize upon more profitable bases, has taken
steps to foreclose a S1,0O0OO0 mortgage on
its property, including the Manhattan
Beach and Oriental hotels James X. O.
Sherwood has been appointed receiver
The present per cent. bonds are to be
called and reissued at 4 per cent.
Miss Mary Frances Cusack. the alleged
Nun of Kenmore, is wanted in Pitts
burg, where Presbyterian ministers and
newspaper men arranged profitable lee
lures for her last Wine and where She
took subscriptions for her forthcoming
book. Neither she nor her work have APP
peared, and those who collected money for
her are in an unpleasant prcdicament.
A Costly Bible.
A Bible has just been rediscovcred in the
: qfirgu library which IL in H,.I,.,,. ft g.