Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-17
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation Of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

various Subjects.
Angus Smith killed John McCauley
with his fist at Pittsburg.
indianapolis lawyers think a local op-
ton law would be valid in Indiana.
Mrs. Thomas was struck by lightning
at Brazil, Ind, and seriously injured.
Two boys were killed and one fatally in
jured by bolt of lightning at Paris, Ky.
At Indianapolis H-year-old boy died
from the effects of the sting of q blue fly.
The Democratic candidate for governor
of Maine, Francis W. Hill, died suddenly.
William c. Dunlap, of Bedford, Ind,
took carbolic acid by mistake and died in
great agony.
Charley Bunch was struck from life by
flash OF lightning In the doorway of his
house at Lancaster, o.
Secretary Blaine is announced to preside
at the alumni reunion at Washington and
Jefferson college June "A.
Half million dollars worth of prop
erty was destroyed at Rockford, Ill, by
heavy rain storm Friday night
Johnnie Shortle, dry goods clerk of
Kokomo, Ind, II years old, was drowned
in Wildcat creek while bathing.
John Dennurl, brickmason of South
Carolina, was struck at Knoxville by a
switch engine and instantly killed.
Engineer ]. G.. Walton and Fireman
Archie McNulty were fatally injured in a
collision near Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Sim. Coy invited the ministers to his
resort near Indianapolis Sunday. Evan
gelist Doutney went, and induced twenty
six persons to sign the pledge.
Tell mamma good-by for me- am
drowningt" called little 9-year-old Oliver
Pritchard, who was swept under the
waters of the river at gainesville, o.
Twenty-Five persons were injured at
Cleveland by the falling of platform on
which they had assembled to witness @
man jump from cable into the lake.
Montgomery WEIGH, of Derby, Ind,
who, fifteen years ago, murdered his
father and served thirteen years for the
crime, committed suicide Saturday In a
fit of drunken remorse.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has writ
ten letter indorsing the principles of the
Farmers Alliance. 1t it possible that
Gen. Gordon may succeed Senator Joseph
f. Brown in the United States senate.
Farmers are complicating the political
situation in Indiana They will hold
meeting at indianapolis next Thursday to
form political league, the object being to
secure legislation favorable to their inter-
ests.
On Rum river, near st. Paul, Lizzie
Murphy, 20; Nellie Mahoney, II, and John
Mahoney, H. while in bathing, were all
drowned together. The little boy got be-
You'd his depth, and the girls lost their
lives in trying to save him.
A portion of the new city hall of San
Francisco will have to be taken down, as
result of the walls being stuffed with
rubbish. The contractors aliege that it
was done by an employe who expected to
make money by making revelation Of
the fact later.
Two Kansas farmers, Charles Falsen
and Robert Eckstein, ON the way upon
horseback to church at Wichita, quarreled
on the way and emptied their revolvers at
each other Both were shot from their
saddles and continued to fire while pros.
trate. Both are dead
A Chicago meat inspector found just
2,700 pounds of diseased meat that had
been condemned to be soap grease at the
Jacob Hess slaughter house, all nicely
slowed away in the basement for sale to
the denizens of the Windy City, and the
health department is sick at its stomach.
In Chicago, brothers, Otto Berta aged
L. and Herman Berta aged 10, became
paralyzed with terror on a track in front
of aswiftly approaching train. The terrific
blast of the whistle, intended by the en-
gineer to move them, only rendered them
more powerless to move, and both were
instantly crushed into fragments.
Mrs. John H. Scarborough, one of the
victims of Saturdays wreck on the Rich
mond and Dahville railroad, near Mar
shal Tenn. died of her injuries at Ashe-
vile, Saturday. OF the eleven injured
but one other is expected to die, Mrs J. c. |
VanBuholew, of Hickory, N. c., who is
paralyzed from spinal conclusion.
The quarrel of Sunday before last, In |
the ranks of the Central Labor union Of |
New York, over the exclusion OF the rep |
resentatives of the Socialistic press, cul- |
minated last Sunday in q split A bolster |
Gus meeting was broken up by the retire |
ment of the conservatives. The Socialists |
remained and admitted the Socialist press |
men.
A. Arnot, an aged shoemaker of San |
ford, Fla, formerly of Philadelphia died |
Mt the former place on the sth of June. T. |
II. Herndon, a merchant of Sanford, re-
lates that after the old shoemaker was
taken i'll his nurse could not keep him in |
bed. He would get up in spite of all re-
monstrances and sit ON his shoemaker's
bench. He said he had sat there for thirty |
years, and it was the only place he could
die in comfort, and there, sitting ON his
bench, he died on Sunday, the 9Th inst.
Chinaman Sam Kee arrived in New
York from Providence, with white fac
tory girl, Annie Lawrence, an orphan,
whom he enticed into his laundry in
Providence, the girl now says, and first
assaulted, and then induced to go to New
York with him. On arrival, he entered
a cab and gave cabbie Mott street ad-
dress; but cabbic, suspecting all was not
right, quietly drove them to the police
station. Now Sam Kee is in custody, and
the girl turned over to the Children's so
ciety.
A graded Alderny milch cow, four