Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-19

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doctor Of laws.
Ed Rogers, of Cincinnati, was struck by
tiger in Robinson's circus at Hamilton.
o., and seriously injured.
A gang of young thieves, ranging in years
from seventeen to nineteen, has been
captured at Newton, Ind.
E. A. Gamble, aged Is, was detected at
Birmingham, Ala, in an attempt to pass
q forged check, and confessed
j. G. G.. Burnet, with relatives in Gin
cinnati, died in cheap lodging house at
Washington, of excessive drink.
A Confederate monument was unveiled
at Pensacola, Fla. the state that has made
jeff Davis birthday legal holiday.
Louis Schlesinger, passenger on the
steamer La Gascogne, reports money and
jewels of the value of $4,000 stolen from
his stateroom.
Bert Patchen and Mrs. Olive Wells are
in custody at Chardon, o., charged with
procuring a criminal operation on Eva
| Curtis aged 49,
The survivors of the First Massachusetts
cavalry unveiled granite monument at
Aldice, Va, to the memory of their com
rades who fell there.
John Duty, a prominent farmer near
Benton, Ills, killed his mother-in-law and
attempted to kill his WIFE His neighbors
are in pursuit of him.
The survivors of the First Massachu-
sets cavalry unveiled granite monu-
ment at Aldice, Va, to the memory Of
their comrades who fell there.
Large quantities Of copper were found
! in the stomach of Mrs. Nancy Wright,
who died two weeks ago at Indianapolis.
Sensational arrests win be made.
The air ship which is being constructed
by the Crawford Electric company for the
Universal Aerial Navigation company
will be tested in Cincinnati, June q.
H. Victor Newcomb who made such a
splurge in Louisville, Nashville and Chat
tanoOga in the late seventies, has been
sent to an insane asylum near New York.
Two persons were killed and twenty-five
injured by wreck on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad, near Coon
Rapids, Ia, caused by some one placing
tie on a trestle.
The condition of ex-Chief Justice Sher-
wood, of Michigan, is such that petition
has been filed in the probate court, at
Kalamazoo, Mich, for the appointment of
a guardian for him.
Mrs. Mary Webb, Cincinnati widow,
answered Charles South's advertisement
for wife, lent him $3.50 and since he has
welded another, has chased him to Indian
apolis to recover her cash.
Joseph Pulitzer, after q weeks stay in
New York city, where in that time he
made Ballard Smith editor-in-chief and
Colonel Harvey managing editor, he sailed
away in his yacht for Norway,
Mrs. Becker, of Madisonville, O., sues
Father Hahne, Of St Anthony's, for the
return of 500 paid him to say masses for
the repose of her soul after death, which
she claims have been left unsaid.
Owing to charges against the president
of the New York Life Insurance company,
the company has requested the state com
missioner to make examination of its
affairs, which will be done at once.
Director General Davis, of the worlds
fair, on Tuesday nominated William G.
Forsythe, of California, for chief of the de-
partment of horticulture, and his nom
ination was promptly confirmed by the
board of control,
Mrs r. V. Belt, assistant commissioner
of Indian affairs, has left Washington for
San Francisco, where he will open bids and
award contracts for furnishing the Pacific
coast Indians with provisions, agricultural
implements and hardware.
At Monument, Grant county, Or, a
blacksmith named Churchill shot and
killed his assistant during quarrel.
Churchill escaped on horseback, and,
meeting man he supposed was member
of the sheriff's posse, shot and mortally
wounded him, -
Warner Miller, president Of the Mica
ragua Canal company, denies the charges
of extravaganza made against the officers
of the company by B G. Knight, of New
York. President Miller says that Knight
is discharged employe and is not a stock
holder in the company.
Gus Merz went swimming at Hunt
ington, w. Va, and twice fooled his
companions by pretending TO be drown
ing, and laughing at them when they
came to his relief The third time he
called for help they supposed it repeti-
tion of the same, and he drowned in
earnest.
At meeting of Jewish rabbis, in New
York, complaint was made that the gov
ernment had taken no action relative to
the hardships of Jews in Russia, where
upon Dr. Maez stated Secretary Blaine
had sent letters to St Petersburg which
could not have been stronger had he been
Jew himself.
The secretary of the navy has designated
the following named officers as the board
to conduct the examination of applicants
for positions on the Mare Island, Cal.
navy yard: Chief Engineer G. f. Kutz,
Captain Cromwell, Commander II. c.
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and Naval Constructor Linnard.
John M. Campion pleaded guilty, at
Omaha, to a charge of embezzling $500
from the Consolidated Tank Line com
pany. He was sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary Campion, who was en-
ployed by the tank line company as a
bookkeeper, was preacher of the Episco-
pal church, and was prominent in religious
matters.
State Comptroller Colgan, OF California,
has announced that he will refuse to sign
the warrants granting 1900, 600 to the Cali
fornia worlds fair commission for the
state exhibit He bases his action on the
provision of the state constitution which
SAYS that no money shall be appropriated
for the benefit Of any ASSOCIATION or instl-
tuition not under the exclusive control of
the state.
A railway official in England has writ
ten to a friend in New York to inquire
whether worlds fair is really to be held
at Chicago in 1893. No adequate and an-
thorized steps having yet been taken to
assure intending exhibitors either of the
conditions under which the fair will be
held, or even 81 the fact that 1t will be
held at the time heretofore mentioned,
leaves Great Britain in doubt.
The decision of the Ohio supreme court