Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-16
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK.

/ found trusted neighbor burglariZing his
! house and refuses to prosecute or tell the
| thief's name.
The Rogers boys are jailed at Crawfords-
vile, Ind, for getting in clover. But the
clover belonged to another man and they
/ tried to steal it.
Hubley Nolheim, and William johnson,
who have been breaking into Lapor e,
Ind, stores, have ended their career bv
breaking into Jail.
Creditors of absconding Treasurer Grain,
of Cedarville, o., are weighing the per-
sonal treasure he left ehind in the bal
ance with his debts.
Parnell has issued manifesto to the
Irish people of America, appealing for as
sistance in ''quelliug the mutiny and dis
loyalty to r sland.
>. +. Leddcll, prominent real estate
dealer Of Duluth, MINI, was instantly
killed by a switching train o. the
st. Paul and Duluth road.
Experiments at tho Wisconsin agricul
tural station show that from two to three
and onehalf tons of sugar p,r acre can be
produced from sugar beets.
Asbury Park, n, j., police are patroling
the streets armed with rifles and shooting
all unmuzzled dogs. Twenty dogs have
been bit by alleged mad dogs
Attorney General Miller has given an
opinion tlat the president has the power
to appoint the new circuit court Judges
during the recess of congress.
Rev. John 5. Smallwood a young negro
orator OF Virginia, has contractel to lee.
ture in England for six months on the race
problem in America for 5000
The jury in the trial OF the nine Siciliang
for the murder of Chief Hennessy, of New
Orleans, acquitted six and failed to agree
as to the other three defendants.
Organized bands of cattle and horse
thieves are raiding the stock farms Of
Washington territory. No less than H..
QUO worth of stock has been stolen.
At lronton, O., it was cloudy day for
MIR. Day when the jury brought in Il yer.
dict of mauslaughter, instead Of the ac-
quittal he so confidently expected
The body of George f. Close, of Kansas,
CITY, was found in the woods near Ster,
ling, ILL., Considerable money was in his
pockets and revolver lay by his 81 G.
The British minister had Il conference
with Secretary Blaine, and it is said tley
are arranging the preimnaries for the
arbitration of the Behring sea matters.
The government is making slow show.
ing with its testimony in the Federal eec.
ton cases at Helena, Ark, Negro wit
nesses cannot tell for whom they voted.
Thomas d. Hall, who has held posi-.
ton in the United States treasury, mt
Washington, since 1862, died THURSDAY.
His height was only thirty-seven inches.
The st. Johns, n. f., press urges the
Withholding of bait from foreign fisher,
men i'll or Ter TO starve them out of cnntig-
uolls waters, and SO help local fishermen.
William Good and William Howard
burglarized Muncie, Ind, houso Thurs
day night and started on two wears
term in the penitentiary Friday afternoon.
The German government refuses to 10
scind the prohibition on American pork
claiming that the sanitary measures
adopted by the United States are made
quate
William Mullen, a green goods man,
who tried to bribe the postmaster of Alba
Mich, to handle his fraudulent mail. has
been convicted in the United states
courts.
All the railroads running to and
through Pittsburg have been compelled
W Nub hONu lut nuIllDPT OF tnelf en-
ployes, owing to the stagnation in the
coal trade.
A drunken gang locked tSaloonist VOL
fran in his back room at Dilsboro, O.,
and ran the place in defiance of the 81
O'Clock closing ordinance until the police
took hand.
Miss Emma Caldwell, of Xena, O., asks
$4,000 from Isaac Gebhart for making an
April fool of her on that day last spring
when he failed to show up for the prom
ised marriage ceremony.
Hon. j. w, Foster, minister to Spain,
and James G. Blaine Jr, are said to have
gone TO Spain as special envoy, to further
the reciprocity negotiations between the
United States and Cuba.
Henry Shade, Ierre Hautes murdered
man, proves to have had such n shady
record that the community does not feel
called upon to mourn his decease, although
it deplores the mIuuer OF it,
Mr.. Gladstone is r pairing to announcc
the Liberal electoral platform in u speech !
at Hastings. Home Rale, Irish rcple
sentation in parliament, the land and
police issues occupy rolt rank
Mr.. William Baker, living five miles
crude oil, and IN can exploded Mrs.
Baker was so badly burned Sic died. Her
little child was also badly injured.
At Lebanon, Ind, Samuel Beacham. |
alias Curtis, was cony c.ed of murder in |
first degree, and recommended for life i'm |
prisonment. He killed George Warbur
ton, n helpless cripple, 20 years old
The census of grape growing in the
United States shows that s 55,GGl 10 are
invested, &00,1s0 persons employed, and
about 100000 acres under cultivation, Iro-
ducing 100000 tons of grapes in 1889
Incendiaries set fire to CRAFTS hotel and t
a large shoe factory at Duqucsne, Pa. de
stroying both with a loss of s2O 600 |
Water pumps in the vicinity were broken
so the fire could not he extinguishcd
Between twenty five and thirty men and
boys have been arrested. charged with
breaking open grain cars on the Rock .
Island and Union Pacific railroads and
stealing grain at Armourdale, near Kan
sas City.
Gilbert Braden shot and instantly killed /
Edward Kicker at Grinnell, Iowa. Braden
came from Brooklyn for the purpose of
killing Kicker, and claims that the latter
did his sisters an irreparable wrong five
years ago.
Joseph Montague, who last June in a
drunken quarrel killed his aged wife and |
then att tsmpted suicide, was sentenced, at
Chicago, to be hanged May J5 The gay
haired prisoner evinced no emotion at the
sentence.
Secretary Mccormick, Of the United .
States legation at London, as the result Of
investigation Of numerous claims by
Americans for estates in England, has
come TO the conclusion that nearly all
American claimants are deceiyed by En-