Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-12
A Condensation of Interesting Items OH
Various Subjects.

The Connellsville, Pa, coke strike st |
is in progress, but it is expected to n,
toDn.
Chicago items have nominated Elme
Washburn for mayor, and he was ac
Septed.
Joe Garrett, of Caldwell, O., wa
robbed of $500 while returning from Eas
Liberty
Terre Haute, Ind, could not finish it
new track, and the spring race meet i
ruled out.
Indiana state board of agriculture re
fuses to yield the field to the new legisla
tive appointees.
A millionaire Turk and his four wive.
arrived in New York Tuesday, On route t.
the Sandwich isli nds.
1t is said that the president will appoint
Chief Inspector Rathbone fourth assist
ant postmaster general.
DIR. Inks gave Frank Holderman, Nep
anee, Ind, man an overdose of opates anC
put him to sleep forever.
Friends of murdered, or self-murdered
Janitor Mol, at Defiance, o., are raising
fund to settle the question.
At Falmouth, Ky, jeff Bray received I
I
of Thornton Lucas last fall
The Ohio house passed the bill giving
the ! d representatives of the world
ar equal ray with the men,
Me, oas Eaton, wealthy r,sident OF
Kansas City, was murdered ON the stree
there by somebody unknown.
Capt, Lamcke tells the indianapolis in
terviewer that he doesn't know anything
new about that treasury appointment
The mysterious Toledo suicide has been
identified as W. +. NJ. Boies, of Cold
water, Mich. lie was an opium Gend.
Indiana says that Pulaski county is the
flour of the IIoosier state family in the
matter of raising the biggest wheat crop.
5. A. Endsley, postmaster at Walnut
Grove, Ala, who disappeared mysteri
ously, is found short in his accounts 81. 600
The estate of the late John H. Sheen
berger is valued at $l,tOO, GOO, out of which
81 ,295, coo is bequeathed for charitable pul.
poses.
Over fifty lawyers at indianapolis are
falling over each other in their struggle
for the appointme ut as judge of the APP
| pellate comt,
| In the further course of the yea the
government will call in p r, a. least, of
the governmental deposit, in DEF ositary
National banks.
Eliza Goodpaster, aged "A Yeas, and un-
married, was drowned at the Forge mill
dam, in State creek two miles east of
Owingsvlle, Ky.
! A train On the Bellaire, GAINESVILLE IN |
| Cinninnati railroad upset near summer
| fel |, Q. Several passengers were badly
hurt, but no lives lost
Another effort is being made to save the
neck Of Isaac Smith, the Pike county, O.,
murderer now in the Ohio penitentiary
under sentence Of death.
Rev. :. c. Kennedy, of Martinsville,
Ind. gets back, per court, S. 900 that he
trad ID for Kansas land that was only 20
be reached by an expert diver.
The government crop statistics show
that there are about 5,2,OC0,O0O bushels of
corn of last yealss crop still held by the
farmers, and 1900, 0C0 OF wheat.
The Scranton Steel company has consoli-
dated with the LackawanRa Coal and
Iron company, ioilt capital stock 81, 15O,-
900, and joined the steel rail pool
Lee Spring stel, "A bridge builder from
Cincinnati, fell from the new Califo mia
avenue bridge in Allegheny, Pa, ir
tance Of sixty e.t and was killed
At PeIlikiu Rapids, Mimi, Mrs. A. c.
Hanson lalged her baby by II string
around its neck to door knob and then
hanged herself. 70 h dci when found
II the trial o ShclbyviIle, Ind. County
Commissioner Yarling proves thal he
really did prot cL gamblers at the fair for
money, he will be required to pass in his
official chips.
Owen county, Ind, p ople say that if
they lay hands on murderer Frank Dice
they will keep him in suspense only a few
brief minutes, after which the coroner can
cut him down.
The various Ohio counties stretch out
one hand for their share of that dircct
tax, and with the other pat At dtor Poe
approvingly on the back for his decision
that they should have it.
Ex-Unted States Senator Spooner, of
Wisconsin, says he is not candidate for
anything within the gift of the president;
that he proposes to return to Wisconsin
and attend to his business interests there.
John A. Hops dead body was found in
field near Washington c. H., o. His
throat was cut, and his body covered with
stabs. He was an old soldier, and it is be-
lieved he was murdered for his pension
money
At Memphis, Tuesday, Col II. Clay
King, well known lawyer, fatally shot
David II. Poston, another prominent
lawyer. The cause of the deed was bit
ter feeling-the result of lawsuit in
which Poston was counsel for Mrs Gideon
J. Pillow in suit against King
At Georgetown, KY, in the trial of
VIII Dudley. colored, charged with the
murder of his stcpfather Mason Thomas,
the jury disagreed and was discharged
In the case Of Tom Trumbough. colored,
charged with the murder OF William T..
Wade, Trumbough was discharged on the
grounds Of self-dcfense,
Trustee nominees Hale and Marsh. Of
the Richmond, Ind, insane asylum, find
that Governor Hovey won't give them
their commissions after they have filed
their oaths with the secretary Of state,
and now they are filing an assortment Of
wild and bitter oaths with everyone who
will listen to them.
In the Day murder trial, at IrOnton. o.,
Lee Bradshaw, who acknowledges ha,i
drank to excess at the dance, swore that
he saw Day throw At Dawson, and that he
dropped instantly. This evidence is sup
ported by Dave Webb, the fiddler. viii
Thomas swears that he saw a rock thrown
in the house, and heard Il strike Dawson.
who Immediately fell out the door dssds