Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-26

west A test on Tuesday was followed by
rain in the evening, though it is not known
that the rain was a result. Other tests
were made on Wednesday.
Colonel Smith of the First regiment, o.
N. g., says he will not resign, as directed
by the finding of the recent court-martial
as approved by Governor Campbell.
Frank Hose, of Mishawaka, Ind, had
Wilhelmena Beekin arrested for pulling
a revolver on him. The judge fined her
$3.50. She paid without murmer.
Edward Evilsizer, Charles Pence and
Charles Steinbarger, young boys of
| Urbana, o., have confessed making three
attempts to wreck trains on the Erie rail
road.
The committee of the Southern Press
association, directing the collection OF
| funds for the Davis monument, will meet
at Atlanta June 80 at 10 o'clock in the
morning.
Philip Schweickhard, proprietor of the
Veranda House, Tiflin, o., was fined $25
and sent to Jail on ten-days' sentence for
keeping open the bar connected With his
house last Sunday.
The coroner's jury at Wheeling returned
verdict that Thomas Fleming came to his
death from the effects of injuries inflicted
by Lafe Woodson, the bartender, who
threw him outdoors,
At Brownsville, Neb., son of G. W.
| Kaufman, while intoxicated, attacked his
father and sister with butcher knife, in
flicting injuries on the elder Kaufman,
which may prove fatal,
Bob Wright, who was tried in Cincin-
natl some time ago for the murder of Mel
lie Bush and acquitted, has been arrested
in st. Louis, where he was caught burglar
izing the Southern hotel.
Springfield (O.) firemen at blaze had to
fight fire and sixteen hives of bees. Both
made it not for the men, and about all OF
them came away with a business end OF
the insect under the skin.
The consul general of Great Britain at
New York says of the new tariff that it has
afforded benefits to American manufactur
ing interests, and has especially stimulated
the industries of the south
The Methodists and Campbellites at
Kingman, Ind, are disputing over the pos
session of "a church that was built by com
mon subscription, and in which the de
nominations alternately worshiped for
years.
Five worlds fair delegates TO Europe
were appointed Wednesday. They are ex
Governor Waller, of Connecticut, Senator
Eustis, of Louisiana; Ferd w. Peck, of
Chicago; Secretary Butterworth and Pro
moter General Handy.
A flood at Cherokee, Ia, washed away
seventy-f five houses. The towns of Hinton,
Merrill and James are flooded and thirty
five square miles of country are overilowed.
Wires are down, and news hard to get.
1t is feared considerable loss of life has re
suited.
The Democratic state convention is to he
held in Cleveland, July IA and Is, and the
state central committee has based the ap-
portionment on the last vote for secretary
of state. Allen W. Thurman is to be
temporary chairman and Tom COgan sec
retary.
At the request of the secretary of war
and with the concurrence of Acting Secrc-
tary Chandler the president has issued an
order reseHving for uses in connection with
the improvement of the Mississippi river
the island known as "Island No. 1906" near
Lacrosse, Wis.
A gang of robbers visited Joseph Liner
ick, in Benton county Tenn. called him
to the door, put a rope around his neck
and swung him to a tree to force him to
tell where he kept his money. He refused
to do, and they finally left him in an un-
conscious condition