Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-19

treasurer Of Maryland. He is now serving
a five years sentence in state prison,
| pleading guilty to charge of embezzle-
ment.
Bad Mellicans Bill Fogarty and Marion
Sullivan pounded and robbed Chinaman
Gee at Valparaiso, Ind, and impounded
themselves in the village Jail.
DIR. Maxwell and Charles Schott were
indicted by the grand jury at Canton, o.,
for attempting a criminal abortion, by
which Lille Borden lost her life.
G. p. Huntington, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, owns The New York Star and
has engaged Frank A. Munsey of Mum
sey's Weekly, to manage it for him.
Dave G. Johnson and his two sons, w.
p. and Harry, were arrested in Cincin-
natl, charged with violating the anti-lot-
terry law by mailing lottery circulars.
At Hamilton, O., Viola Groshaus com
mitted suicide on account of the failure of
Joseph Steffen, with whom she has been
living as wife, to keep his promise to
marry her.
Millersburg, o., opera house ianitor is
the kind of a man Diogenes sought vainly.
He found a purse of $1,000 on the floor
after performance and passed it over TO
the owner.
Howard Carroll backed by his father-in-
law, John II. Starin, and Duke, of cigar
ette potability, will start an eight-page
morning paper in New York city. 1t will
be Independent in politics.
j. II. Ward, of Delphos, o., has a coun-
tenance that looks like combination
crazy quilt and gem of the impression
ist school of art since he tried expert
ments with exploding chemicals.
Hon. H. c. Lodges statistics show that
between the years 1873 and 1886 the United
States received foreign immigrants to the
number of 5,396,416, of whom only 11.40
per cent had any profession or skilled oc-
cupation.
Over $50 telegraph operators on the
Chicago, Michigan and St. Paul road are
on strike, The general manager says
there is no strike, that but seventy-two
men have quit, and that their places have
been filed
A Peruvian lady has offered a prize of
$1,000 to the girl between is and 30 years
of age who shall he judged by a committee
to have most distinguished herself for
amiability, intelligence, accomplishments
and charity.
Lima people have undeniably great
heads. A STANDARD Oil company's eln-
ploye devised scheme for cleaning the
clogged pipes by placing spiral steel
scrapers in the main. The oil forces them
along and revolving as they go the work is
done like charm
A member of the Canadian cabinet states
that the British government is being ap-
preached with n view to the consolidation
of the British North American colonies
into federation for commercial purposes,
without conflicting with the most
"favored nation clauses of existing
treaties.
The American Brewery association, Of
San Francisco, organized. Adolphus
Busch, of st. Louis, was elected president,
Other prominent brewers and capitalists
were elected directors. Between two
and three million dollars will be expended
in the plant. The brewery is started In
opposition to the English syndicate which
recently bought all the breweries in San
Francisco.
1t is being discovered that the Farmers
Alliance among the southern negroes
means something, Succinctly stated by
colored farmer of the black belt, it means
slower farm rents and no hiring to white
men for wages" The resul tappears to be
that the white farmers are already finding
difficulty in obtaining farm laborers
where the Alliance is strong. The negros
idea is that he prefers colored boss,
when that Boss is himself.
The heather Chinee has been illustrat-
ing once more the facility with which he
can adopt our business mode. The Wing
Wan Chung company has successfully
cornered the opium market, and the drug
suddenly ju1red from twenty-five cents
to forty five cents a "foon, which is about
enough for two long smokes A sad wall
of complaint issues from every opium
joint, where the fiends are in distress.
The company is composed of smugglers,
but it has never yet been proven against
them.
Emperor William proposes disarma-
ment. Meanwhile he is rapidly building
war ships and increasing his army The
Czar, through his finance minister, indi-
rectly answers William with the remark
that the czar congratulates himself on his
success in preserving peace, and mean
while the finance minister adds to the
Russian budget $3, $50 03O for the army and
$},TC000) for the navy. Probably Paul
Delouredi the ex Boulangist aud poet, is
right when he says that "before Europe
can have lasting peace there must be
WARS