Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
Stanley is TO receive $500 for his first
American lecture.
Delaware Republicans nominated II. A.
Richardson for governor
Ohio Democrats selected Senator Van
Cleaf chairman of the state executive
committee.
Joseph Fisher, aged "A, a farmer of IIar-
rison county, Ind, was found murdered
On the highway and robbed OF 800
Lowe Emerson was elected president of
5he Cincinnati chamber Of commerce, re
ceiving Col votes to 500 for H. Is. More
head.
The president has sent to the senate the
nomination OF Henry Sherwood to be
postmaster at Washington City, vice
John w. Ross resi- gnel
Frank Collier, Il Chicago attorney, who
has been on trial for insanity before
Judge Gary, has been discharged by order
of the judge and the ease dismissed
Among the passengers on the White
Star sleanei Teutonic, which reached
New York Wednesday morning, were DR..
Chauncey NJ. Dep, w and Archbishop Cor
rigan,
An 8-year-old child of A. 8. Highlands,
Of Manchester, N. H.. is in n serious con
diy.Oa with PRONOUNCED hydrcpLoDia
symptoms. He was bitten by u dog four
years ago.
David DOugherty, n wealthy farmer liv-
ing in Dallas county, Tex, was assassin
ated by shot from without while taking
II few minutes repose ON n lounge in his
residence
John Cordial and John Herman, sus-
pected train wreckcrs, were arraigncd
Wednesday at Albany. Both pleaded not
guilty. Examination was postponed un-
til Saturday
At Marion Ind, Joseph WATSON varied
the program and died of ferretS instead of
snakes AS is usual in the case of too much
tanglefoot He was from Pittsburg.
In the city council at Cincinnati, the
fuel gas ordinance was amended so us to
require the payment of $400, 900 by the
company to the city, and returned to the
board of improvements
Frank Dickinson and wife, Cincinnati,
were found by neighbors Tuesday even
ing shut up in their room at the rear of 40
Linn street, the former dead and the lat
ter nearly dead from the fumes of chloro-
form that they had inhaled.
Reports from British Columbia show
that the number of Chinese arriving there
from China during August was double
the number arriving in that month last
year The greater part of them were
destined for the United States.
At Pittsburg eleven men, the majority
of whom are married and have large fam
lilies, were arrested charged with outmg-
ing Martha Gilchrist "A 15-year-old girl,
of Moss Side, n Pittsburg suburb. Five
or six others are to be arrested.
1t now turns out that William +. Muir
dock, who found rail on the Boston and
Maine railroad track, near West Lynn.
Mass, placed it there himselfn not to wreck
the train, but in hopes OF obtaining IA re-
ward. lie will probably get it in the pen
tentiary
A movement is on foot to build a min
eral palace in Joplin, Mo, for the purpose
of exhibiting the mineral resources of the
district 1t is proposed TO organize n
stock company, erect the necessary build
ings ut once, and open the palace some
time in October.
Assistant Secretary Bussey has de-
cided that soldier who was injured in
crossi a river on his way to church, I'M
der leave, was in the line of duty, and ell
titled to pension. This is a considerable
extension of Cen Bussey's already lib
eral Interpretation of the cline of duty"
clause of the pension law
Complaints have been lodged in the
county clerks office Mt New York, on
behalf of the city, to Dust the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad company from the piers,
including the Cortlandt and Dcsbrosses
street ferries. The allegation is made
that the city owns the land adjoining the
piers and that under water, and damages
are claimed in the sum of 500 900 for adj
verse possession.