Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The Tennessee Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor is holding its first
annual convention at Chattanooga.
At Posey Ridge Ind, Joe Masters kills
his wife and then commits suicide. They
had been married only three months.
G. Beauregard Tye, of Atlanta, Ga, was
found lying dead in saloon at Denver,
Col. He had been on protracted spree
The parade in Richmond in honor Of the
Lee memorial proves TO be the greatest
popular demonstration ever witnessed in
the south
A quarrel over cigarette led TO seri-
Gus cutting between two Cincinnati boys
and Tommie Cain was badly wounded
just below the heart by Albert Leonard
Edward Evans, aged 20, was bound over
in 500 bonds at Lafayette Ind, ON the
charge of using the msils for circulating
and disposing of counterfeit or imitation
greenbacks
Exchange. Broker Wolf, Of New York,
was intrusted with so, 900 by Hebrews TO
send to relatives in Europe to pay their
passage to this country. He didn't send
it--he went himself.
The coroner's jury on the Tongue Point,
Can, asylum fire cannot say how the fire
broke out. Ninety-one inmates are miss
ing, instead of fifty, as formerly reported
six men, five Sisters and eighty women
patients.
l.. A. Southwick, an artist of Des
Moines, Iowa, who had made $500 by a
series of concerts given by young Chi
cago vocalist, Kavanaugh, while asleep In
his room was stabbed, probably fatally,
and his desk rified of the money
At Columbia, Tenn, on adjournment Of
court, George Warner, who had attempted
to outrage Mrs. Paul on Monday night,
was taken by crowd from the sheriff,
dragged to bridge two blocks away and
swung off at ropes end. His neck was
broken.
Elsa l.. Allen, confidential clerk for K.
Austin e. Company, brokers, Of Kansas
City, was arrested In Chicago Thursday
with 81, 600 of the firms money Ia belt
about his body, except about s4OO of IL
in his pocket. He was there under the
name of &. Thompson had formerly sepa-
rated from his wife, and was paying at
tentions to "A sweetheart at Marquette,
Mich, through whom detectives located
him.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has unearthed in the northwest thieying
combination among managerial Sioux
Falls, Aberdeen, Pierre, Mitchell, Red
field, Milbank and many other smaller
towns. The company has been robbed for
some nine years, and the amount stolen is
estimated at $4,000. The gang simply
failed to check up dispatches and pocketed
the money. ii. I. Mannix, of Sioux Falls,
and Harvey Blood, of Aberdeen, were
Thursday indicted rs leaders Of the gang.
Thomas j. Basso, ex-chief Of detectives
Of New Orleans, sentenced from there for
fourteen years for forging a marriage GER
tifca6e under which he deceived and
ruined young girl, and who afterwards es-
capped and went TO South America, was ar
rested In Philsdelphia Thursday night
Broken in health, he had landed a short
time ago in New York friendiess aud PEN
niless Before his conviction he had been
shot by the girl and eonfEed 10 the hespi-
tai for several mouths 10y what at first was
tnauRhs 70 be n fatal wound He IL a
marked illustration Of the fact that ''the
way Of the transgressor Is hard"