Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.


1t is now thought that the worst of the
lower Mississippi food is over.
Mrs. Ellen Mckee died at Columbus, O.,
on the 18th inst, aged l01 years.
Three persons were killed by cars at rail-
road crossing near jackson, Mich
Rev. d. W Hemick who killed Ed.
Palmer at Nicola, Iowa, was acquitted
John Clary, 2S, fell in a gutter at Urbana,
o., while on a spree and froze to death.
A farmer named Eastburn and his wife
were killed by cars at Bridgeport, Penn.
Townsend Ware, OF Garfield, O., vino
tried to murder his wife, drowned himself.
Frank Sipe and his wife were fatally in
jured by IA runaway accident at Mansfield,
Ohio
A three-weeks' jaunt through the south is
being arranged for the Pan-Amerlcan dele
gates.
The -four mill of J. c. Corners, at George
town, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire Saturday
night
Two men were blown to pieces by a
boiler explosion near Carbonate, Pa, Sat-
urday.
The question of admitting Idaho and
Wyoming will be considered in the house
March 35.
Citizens Anti-gambling league has
closed up the gambling bells Of Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
The indictment against John L. Sullivan
was quashed by the Mississippi supreme
court Detective
The Kentucky house has passed the Senate
bill compelling witnesses to testify in the
lottery investigation.
The troops at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
are preparing to move to the Cherokee strip
to expcl the boomers
New York papers, hard up for news, print
an imaginative account of the capture of
jay Gould by pirates in 1892
George Thomas, Of Newark, o., has
skipped out on account of gambling debts,
leaving a broken hearted wife.
John Brown, 81, serving his seventh term
for counterfoiting, died at this Ohio peniten-
tiary Sunday with consumption.
Agent Adams, of the Richmond and Dan
vile railroad at West Point, Va, has COW
cred an alleged $4,000 shortage.
A bill, combining the Australian sys-
TEN with control Of elections by the general
government has been introduced in CON
gress,
Mayor Pond, of San Francisco, has ap-
proved tho law removing chinatown" into
the suburbs. John and his josses are ex-
cited
Fire in the House of the Good Shepherd at
Chicago caused panic among 800 girls and
other inmates, but no one was seriously in
jured.
The senate in secret session Monday con-
G,,-,,. ~ H..
of New y ork, first deputy commissioner Of
pensions.
Louis Goldsall, who stole $4,000 worth Of
jewely from his brother-in-laW's store at
Cleveland, o., has been arrested at st. Jo-
seph, Mo,
House committee on military affairs will
introduce a bill to revive the Office OF lieu
tenant general OF the army for the benefit of
Gen. Schofeld.
Eulogies on Father Kelley were pro-
nounced in the house Saturday by Repre-
sentatives ONeill, Mckinley, Holman, Mills,
Cannon, Mckenna, Reyburn and Others
Burchell, the supposed murderer, is said to
have sWindied society at Philadelphia and
Long Branch, some years ago, by represent
ing himself as Lord Hugh Leslie Courtney.
Bithop Foster astounded the Washington
Methodist Episcopal conference by asking
that members who We're tipplers should rise
up in their seats and ask to be- dismissed.
No member arose.
Rev Il. b. Mantell of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal church at McKeespor6, Pa,
was suspended, having been found guilty of
one Of the four charges of lying by jury.
Defamation Of character was not proved
or l,
reputed wife, at Washington, d. c., with
knife, and also Warren johnson, who inter-
fered, and made his escape The woman
will die with twenty-five horrible wounds
The presidency of the United States is the
highest gift in the power OF the people, but
the president has the power TO make a still
higher one lie can appoint the postmaster
at Mineral Point, Col, 1900 feet above the
sea.
Aninsurance charter granted by Richard
and Thomas Penn prOprietora and govern
ors Of Pennsylvania during the reign Of
George III of England has been found in
the Office of the Ohio insurance commits
siuner.
A peculiar religious sect in Elliott county,
KY, known as Bobby Greencrs,n do not
observe the Sabbath In summer they carry
bushes over their heads to keep off the sun
and wear sandals in preference to other foot
gear.
Bishop Mckenzie, of Zululand, who died
on Feb . OF enteric foyer, gave instructions
previous tohs demise that his corpse should
be buried in Zulu fashion Accordingly no
coffin was used, but the body was tied up in
a blanket in a knoeing position and was
thus placed in a hole
Early Monday morning Joynes' livery
stable at Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati,
was burned, presumably by incendiaries.
Five horses were burned alive The fire
spread to the adjoining buildings, end
blacksmith shop, one or two dwellings and
the toll hOuse were destroyed.
The Ladies Hollywood Memorial associa-
ton, at Richmond Va, will petition the
city council to have the house occupied by
jefferson Davis during the war preserved
from destruction and turned over to the
association, to be used as a museum Of Con-
federate relics and memorial hall
Harry W King, project of the PennsyI-
vana institution for the instruction of the
blind, at PhilG lelphia, was arrested Sunday
for abusing boys at the institution, on
warrant sworn out by Thomas W Barlow,
a member of the state board Of charities
The arrest is the outcome of an investiga-
ton begun on Tuesday last by the board Of
managers at the instance of one of the in
structOrs.