Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-27

90 her fathers house on the ground that
she had been married against her will
| The father recovered his child on a writ OF
habeas corpus, and now the contest will
/ go to the courts
| Last May a COW belonging to Isaac AL
bright, living near Tffin, o., gave birth t.
three healthy calves. The youngsters now
weigh an average of a little more than one
hundred pounds each.
S. L. Perry, 50, of Columbus, Ind, Is
dead. He left an estate worth about $780,
900. He began married life on his Indiana
clearing" with nothing but horse and
cow, present from his father.
Flora Tudor, aged 10, while attempting
to fill a gasoline tank while the stove was
lighted, was fatally burned by an explo
sion of the fluid. The accident occurred
in Columbia, Cincinnati suburb.
The Ohio supreme court has decided
that taxes cannot be assessed on property
for the construction of water works, that
does not abut upon streets piped. The de.
cision affects great number of towns.
For the protection of public health the
Ohio state board of health has ordered
quarantine of forty days against smallpox
diphtheria and scarlet fever, and twenty
days against measles and whooping cough,
Henry IIessler an amploye of the Enter
prise foundry, Cincinnati was struck in
the face by pieces of burst emery wheel.
His eyes were knocked from their sockets,
his nose torn off and his Jaws rent
asunder.
Collector Phelps, of the San Fran
cisco port, charges United States Consul
Leonard, stationed at Shanghai, China,
with indorsing fraudulent Chinese certif-
Gates allowing Chinese to land at Ameri.
can ports.
At Riverside, suburb of Cincinnati,
Joseph Iinns, Thomas Thurman, Edith
Zinns, Katie Cox and Laura Riddle went
pleasure boating ON the Ohio. The boat
was run down by the "tow" of passing
steamer and all drowned.
Emma Calender married Patrick Ryan
at Vincennes, Ind. The father of the girl
kept them apart, and the husband alb
Quoted his wife, to lose her again by the
father having 3 writ of haheas corpus is
sued. Mrs. Ryan is now dangerously ill.
Martin Madden, of Hamilton, O., sent
up for life for rape, had his sentence COM
muted to twelve years by Governor Camp
DOAl' AAhbASh wiz
more years to serve. When sentenced
Judge Robertson erred in constituting the
law.
James W. Logan, of Waverly, o., re-
ceived from the plains of Arizona, live
gila monster. The reptile was sent through
by express, and is a present from NJ. Lou
Chalmers, of the Arizona general assem-
bly,. 1t will be sent to the Geological gar
dens at Cincinnati.
At Cochran, Tenn, the factions in q
lawsuit engaged in a pitched battle, in
which rocks, knives, sticks and pistols
were the weapons. They fought until tired
out, and nobody was killed, though six
men and one woman were injured, and
Three will probably die.
Helen Graft, white girl of New York,
has caused the arrest OF nallnI K-.---.-t
colored, son of ex-Congressman Langston,
of Virginia, charging he wronged her un-
der promise of marriage, she not knowing
at the time of the engagement he had
negro blood in his veins.
At a colored peoples picnic near Indian
apolis John Harvey and John Barks pro
ceeded to end an old feud with revolvers
Henry Sweetland, who acted as peace
maker and tried to prevent the fight, was
shot and fat oily wounded by Harvey
Neither of thtN principals were seriously
hurt, though fifN shots were fired