Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-15

conspiracy with eX-Ireasurer John Bards
ley, of Philadelphia, in stealing the city
and state taxes, He was closely connected
with President Marsh and was found in
| Trenton, N. j.
| The eagents and attorneys of the Louisiana
Lottery company, who are hostile to Presi-
dent Harrison, are said to be at the head
of the alleged opposition to the presidents IS
| denomination.
Arnold A. Ingram, eX-city solicitor of
Wooster, o., convicted of obtaining money
from clients under false pretenses, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for
eighteen months.
The ghost of a colored man, killed forty
years ago by Jesse Devon, of Bridgeport,
w. Va. haunted him until after all these
years he ended it by jumping into rain
barrel head down.
Near Hopkinsville, KY, John Bethel, q
section boss, was killed by lightning. He
was on hand-car with gang of men
and had stopped near telegraph pole,
which was struck.
Willie Firman, aged 12, of Bringhurst,
Ind, whose death was assigned to suicide,
is now believed to have been murdered by
some relative who wanted possession Of
his $25, 900 fortune.
Mrs Harrison, accompanied by her
grandchildren, will leave Washington next
Thursday for Cape May Point, where she
expects to spend the entire summer in the
presidents cottage
David Cunningham and Sergt. John
Chandler each claimed the Dayton, o.,
drug store suicide as his wife, but Chand-
Ter brought strongest proofs and the body
was surrendered to him
Two large oil tanks at Coal Grove sta
tion, Pa, were struck by lightning and
the contents, $1,000 barrels of oil, were de-
stroyed, together with twc large boiler
iron tanks. Loss, S$449, $40 Gee.
Opium is said to be smuggled into this
country by the wholesale by way of the
Canadian border, and even thousands of
bushels of potatoes are rushed into the
United States without paying duty.
A demented individual jumped from the
window of u Pittsburg Fort Wayne and
Chicago passenger train near Canton, O.,
going at the rate of thirty-fve miles an
hour, but escaped with few scratches.
The case against John Cooney and
Thomas McCrystol, of New Orleans, for at
tempting to bribe tales juror Frank j.
tinued until Monday on account of the ill
ness of counsel for defense.
Among the schemes indorsed by the
Otter Tail county Farmers Alliance, at
Fergus Falls, Mimi, was one to Join with
the railway employees and build road
from Duluth across the state Otter Tail
county is an Alliance stronghold.
International Typographical union con
yention at Boston decided to admit all
newspaper men except managing and city
editors to their union, and adopted an ap-
peal to that effect. The president of the
union is made ex-officiO delegate to the
American Federation of Labor
A merchant of Chicago has imported
couple of light Japanese carts of the kind
drawn by men in that country. Two Japs
were imported to draw them. 1t is the inten-
tion to put them in one Of the city parks for
the delectation of women and children.
Lewis Davis and Thomas Hughes,
miners, were instantly killed Mt Bellevue,
Mo- They We're working in the Buckeye
shaft and had nearly reached the surface
when the tub became detached and they
were precipitated to the bottom, distance
of III feet
Henry Miller, convicted in the United
States court, at Florence, Ariz. on the 18th
inst, of robbing the United States mail,
between Florence and Casa Grande, and
sentenced to ten years imprisonment at
hard labor at San Quentin, Cal, has es-
capped from his guards.
Reading, Pa, and vicinity is flooded
with well-executed counterfeit dollars.
The police have arrested woman about
nf hA ava hnr,B
Beatrice Collins, of New York. On her
person was found a dozen counterfeit dol
lars and about S65 in good money.
After an inquest lasting a week in the
case of Mrs Keziah Guthrie, who died
from the poison at the Snooks-Herr we'd
ding, near Louisville, the coroner's jury
returned verdict. 1t says death ensued
from poison partaken at the wedding, but
does not say what the poison was.
The New York Mail and Express is in
favor of opening the Metropolitan muse
ums at daybreak six days iii the week SO
as to give the workingmen opportunity of
enjoying them without breaking the Sab
bath. This is an entirely new thought
and is argued on sanitary, intellectual, es-
thetic, economic, and moral grounds.
Montreal was visited by succession of
terrific thunder storms Thursday after
noon. The rain poured down in torrents
for several hours. The storm did consid-
cradle damage in and around the city. At
ST. Henry several small buildings were de
stroyed and a French Canadian named
Dubuc was struck by lightning and killed
Secretary Foster has decided to sustain
Mr. Meredith, chief of the bureau of en-
craving and printing, in his controversy
with the Knights of Labor and has re-
fused to direct the reinstatement of the
printers discharged by Mr.. Meredith. 1t
is understood, however, that the dis
charged printers will be placed on piece
work or on the extra force, and allowed to
work their way up. They will not be
given their old positions.
SULLIVAN MAY FIGHT,