Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-23

inspector on the train threatens TO bring
suit against the officer for intercepting the
United States mail.
The rumor that President Barrillas. OF
Guatemala, had pocketed the proceeds of
s., 900, 600 of bonds that had been sold at 40
per cent. is denied. .
AT Hudson Lake, Ind, Robert Hall and
Byron Landon quarreled, and fought
about Sarah Hill, young lady with
whom Hall was in love, Halls neck was
broken Landon is i'll Jail.
DR.. Thomas j. Griffith, leading Prohi-
bitionist of Indiana, has been expelled by
the Good Templars of Charlottesville for
testifying in favor of saloon keepers who
wanted liquor license.
| John ID. Sargent, the keeper of Robert
Ray Hamilton's ranch in Montana, in a
deposition at New York, swore positively
to his recognition of the body of Hamilton
when found after his drowning.
Edward Rowell was arrested at Petos-
key, Mich, on request from officers of
Jacksonville, Fla. He is charged with
passing forged certified checks of $500 on
Jacksonville and st. Augustine banks
George Stillabower, of Edinburg, Ind,
says he will beat the old man Anderson
out of his daughter Ida yet, even if he did
grab her away from him just as the
preacher was about to unite them forever.
During an address in Central Music Hall
at Chicago, Saturday night, James
j. O'Kelly, the Parnell envoy, said: "This
Parnell controversy is a wide question and
we will fight it out if we have to do 1t with
knives
Supreme court of Indiana decides that
natural gas must not be piped out of Indi-
ana and now the p!pers will solve the
question as to how far down the Hoosier
state reaches, or where Indiana leaves off
and China begins.
At Coal City, o.. near Cincinnati Mamie
Fisher, colored damsel, drew razor with
the intention CT carving William Schaefer,
with whom she lived, but William
knocked her down with chair, injuring
her so she may die.
The native regent at Manipur, India,
has been sentenced to death by court of
British officials. Sir John f. Gerst, polit-
ical secretary of the India office, has re
signed being disgusted with the harsh
measures taken by the government.
The Comte de Montebello, who replaces
M de Laboulaye as French ambassador ut
to obtain definite information from the
czar as to the action of Russia in the event
of war between France and Germany
An excursion train of fifteen cars, on the
Nickei-Plate road, was wrecked near
Dover, O., Sunday. Henry Rogers was
crushed to death, Burt Kcefe was fatally
hurt, and score or more had legs and
arms broken, and were badly bruised.
Saturdays storm was very severe near
Aurora and Lawrenceburg, Ind, hundreds
of fruit and forest trees being destroyed
and many buildings unroofed and other
wise damaged. A tornado struck Cairo
Ills, Sunday afternoon doing considerable
damage.
Professor Zeno, aeronaut, had n narrow
escape from death at Woodsdale Island
park Sunday. The balloon, u hot air af-
fair, caught fire just as it left the ground
The daring professor loosened the para
chute and dropped into the Miami river
and was rescued with boat
A dying burglar at Cherokee Tex, con
fessessed to the murder Of Christopher
Helm, a wealthy cattleman, whose body,
riddled with bullets, was found on the
Cherokee strip over year ago The con
fession duplicates Benjamin Scott, and
the authorities are after the latter
Detective Garside, of Philadelphia,
while preparing to search house near
Spring Lake, N. j., Friday evening, for
Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive president
of the keystone bank, was hit on the head
with blunt instrument and seriously
wounded by an unknown party who es-
capped 1t is now believed that Marsh has
taken TO the Jersey swamps, and that his
canturp will he but "A ouestion of time