Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05

land. Evans accused Adams of criminally
assaulting his wife.
Jacksonville, Ind, assessors returns
show valuation of property amounting
TO 50, 100000, an increase of a round million
since the last assessment
Col. Sidney ID. Maxwell has resigned as
superintendent Of the Cincinnati chamber
OF commerce. He has occupied the posi-,
ton for nearly twenty years.
The Put-in-Bay Hotel Victory company
has been sued in the United States court
at Toledo for $50, 900 for lumber furnished
to construct the big hosiery.
Secretary Foster has issued notice TO
the holders of four-and-a-half per cent.
bonds maturing in September that they
will be paid principal and interest,
New men will take the places of the 500
striking coal and ore handlers at Ashta
bula, o., harbor. The strike has bsen on
six weeks, and trouble is anticipated
A Lake Erie and Western brakeman
peered into an oil tank with lighted Ian
tern at Goldsmith, Ind, and landed fifty
feet away. He is now blind in both eyes
Mrs. Thomas Leeper was frightened to
death by three young men who assaulted
her daughters at Bradyville, Tenn. When
driven away they threw rocks at the
house.
Joseph Wendell, aged 30 and unmarried,
a well known German citizen of Madison,
Ind, committed suicide, taking a dose OF
arsenic. He had been upon a spree for
three or four days.
Eugene Story was lawfully hanged at
Lexington, Miss. The scaffold was guarded
by thirty deputies, Story's friends having
threatened to storm the Jail and effect the
murderers release.
A runaway horse was impaled on a
water pipe at Washington c. H., o., in
such way that it was filed with water
almost to bursting. The animal was shot
to end its sufferings.
Ex-Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, now
living at Yellow Springs O., has been
sued by his three daughters, who seek to
compel him to make trust deed of all his
money and property.
Yong man named Strayer, living near
Sidney, o., vomited up a ten-inch snake
and feels better. The reptile was of the
"horse- hair" species and had troubled the
young man for over two years.
Thirteen indictments have been returned
against members of the West Sunbury,
Pa, Methodist Episcopal church for dis
turbing religious meeting and causing
riot. A church war is in progress.
The sureties of State Treasurer Boyer. of
Pennsylvania, have placed upon deposit.
in several Harrisburg banks, S125, 600 to
make good the losses sustained by the
state in the Delamater and Jamison fail
ures.
When the the Indiana Midland strikers
10 No &c, Al,
car did not show up. Men say it was a
trick TO get service on them. The men
now have the road tied up tighter than
ever
The lower house of the Massachusetts
legislature, has, by a majority of "a in u
total vote Of 306, passed to be engrossed the
bill to repeal the present public bar law,
which requires that no liquor be sold over
bar.
Samuel Rehm, a farmer living near
Wooster o., claims to have been robbed
of over $4,000 which he had concealed in
an organ, There is disposition to doubt
his story as he has since made an assign
ment.
Hon. J, N. Lantz, ex-representative in
the Ohio legislature, died at his home ut
Mooretield of pulmonary trouble caused
by an attack of la grippe aged Al years
He served in the Ohio house from 1885 un-
til 1889.
r. r. Grimsley, a prominent farmer and
speculator, who lives about three miles
from Glencoe, Ky, shot and instantly
killed Albert Henley. Grimsley and n col
ored man were quarreling, and Henry took
sides with the latter.
Cardinal Taschereau and other members
of the Quebec clergy are petitioning parli-
ament to amend the election law so as to
make it an offense, punishable by impris-
onment, to use liquor for corruptive pur-
poses during election times