Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-12

IN 1852 there were in the insane asylums
of tire United States 1885 inmates-in
1881 only 56,2O5
Some boys started fire in a wagon shed
in Chicago, and fifteen two-story dwellings
were destroyed.
The state convention of the Prohibition
lists Of Ohio will be held at Springfield
June 8, 10 and H.
Two horses valued at $780, were stolen
from Peter Brown, of Recovery township.
Mercer county, o
Bill Elliott is notified that he must ap-
pear before the Franklin county, O., jury
for the murder of Osborne
The three postal clerks hurt in the Den
nison, o., collision, are all in more seri-
GUS condition than at first supposed
Van Slack, "a noted crook, is under arrest
in London, England for attempting to OBJ
tain $4,000 from Bond street jeweer.
The Massachusetts board of health re-
ports seventeen deaths from hydrophobia
last year, the highest number ever re-
corded
The Welsh-American Tin Plate company,
capital 100000, organized in eastern
Pennsylvania, will make 1900 boxes of tin
plate a week
In Upshur county, w Va, Solomon
Efaw, after failing to burn the residence
of his neighbour S. b. Bennett, shot him
through window.
A disease resembling epizootic has made
its appearance among the horses around
Rockford, Mercer county, o. A number
of fatal cases are reported.
Il. Newton Klein, a member of the
wholesale clothing firm of Goodhart,
Klein q Koch, of Cleveland, shot himself
Friday morning, He is dead.
The British government is said to be
willing to enter into an agreement with
the United States to protect the fur bear
ing seals for one season at least.
The Fayorite Stove Works company.
which asked for dissolution of partnership
in the Cincinnati courts, is not the com
pany that is located at Piqua, o.
Adolph Woolner vice president of the
whisky trust and heavy stakeholder in
two or three large dstilleries, is lying at
the point of death at Peoria, Ill.
In the Illinois senate bills providing for
the periodical weighing of grain in ware
houses, and for state inspection of building
and loan associations were passed
Petition has been filed for dissolution
of the Favorite Stove Works company, of
Piqua, o., formerly Of Cincinnati, About
$3.50, 900 has been lost in the business.
Burglars at West Union, o., adopted
the popular ring method of getting rich
by absorbing $500 worth of ornaments
from Connor 81 Boyle's jewelry store.
Rev. DR., Brooks has accepted his cleo
ton as bishop providing it is confirmed by
the standing committee and by the bishops
of the several dioceses in Massachusetts.
Charles Wagner, an American District
Telegraph messenger in New York, il
away with 81 600 in bills, entrusted to him
to carry to Miss Mary Killard in that city. |
Mr.. Alva Agee president of the Ohio |
Farmers Alliance, says the organization |
is non-partisan, and has no intention of
putting an independent ticket in the field |
this fall.
Father Weichman, deposed by Bishop
Dwenger from his pulpit at Anderson
Ind, and ordered to Fulton, has ignored |
the bishops command and gone to
Colorado.
The Michigan senate has passed the bill |
reducing by seventeen degrees the legal |
test for Kerosene in spite of the protests
from chemists that the change would prove |
dangerous.
Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard, is |
reported to have been offered and to have |
accepted the professorship of philosophy |
at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university at |
VA 800 a year
Latest reports of the condition of the
peach crop in the delaware and Maryland |
peninsula are that the damage from the
frost is very slight, the principal injury
being to Strawberries.
1t is said that eX-COngressman Frank
Lawler is contemplating the establishment
of a daily paper in Chicago as the organ of
the eX Mayor Carter b. Harrison wing of
the Chicago Democracy.
At Coldwater, Mercer county o., Bessie
Row, aged I years, was thrown from IA
buggy in runaway accident alighting on
a picket fence, sustaining injuries which
are expected to prove fatal.
Paul Holtz of Chicago, the boy who cut
his fathers throat while the latter was
asleep, was found guilty of murder yester-
day, and his punishment was fixed at four
teen years in the penitentialy.
William Weightman, farmer near Mid
dletown, Ind, while moving wheat in his
barn, found an old pockctbook containing
$l1 800 in gold coin and paper currency
He does not know how it came there.
The presidential party reached Salt
Lake City Saturday morning at O'Clock
and remained until noon. Glenwood
Springs Col, was reached sometime Sat
urday night Here the party rested over
Sunday.
Mr.. William and Mrs. Betty Downs, two
of the most prominent and respected resi-
dents of Jennings county, Ind. celebrated
their golden wedding, Wednesday, Eighty
nine people We're present, forty of whom
were children, grandchildren and great
of the aged couple.
George c, Baker, formerly "A clerk in the
appraisers store at Philadelphia, has been
acquitted in the Unitcd States district
court of the charge Of altering records of
the office by which it was claimed that the
had lost thousands of dollars
This is the case in which Claus Spreckles'
name has heretofore been mentioned.
The steamer Nicaragua built for the
Pacific mail line has been launched at
Chester, Pa The Nicaragua is 2i2 feet
long. 36 feet BEAM 10 feet 70 inches depth
of hold and has u tonnage of 1860 which
brings her within the subsidy class She
is expected to develop l4OO horsepower
and steam at the rate of fourteen knots an
hour
The Newfoundland assembly met Thurs !