Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Item. ON
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Saloonist Debusman took poison at Tiffin,
Ohio
Another big gas well has been struck at
Lancaster, o.
James Devine, of Logansp rt, Ind, fell
and killed himself
Virginia courts decide the dressed beef
law unconstitutional
Now they say Count Pappenheim and Miss
Wheeler will marry after all
Richard Richards, convict in the Ohio
penitentiary, suicided with arsenic
fire at Waterford, Ont, destroyed
buildings and goods valued at $64,000
Engineer William Galloway, who ran the
first Baltimore and Ohio locomotive, is dead
Harpers Ferry, Ky, is said to have been
completely destroyed by the tornado, and
woman and child killed
1t is said that Governor Fifer of Illinois,
will call special session of the legislature at
once, to deal with worlds fair matters
Dudley Foster, of Bellerica Mass, has
been town treasurer for forty consecutive
years and town clerk for thirty-four years.
Ebenezer Nichols, the popular minstrel,
who became famous as Little Mack died
of Bright's disease, at New York, Monday.
NJ Chanteloup, the well known brass
founder in Canada, has left his fortune of
$500, 900 to be divided among his former en-
ployes
James Brown fell dead at Mitchell, Ind,
Monday night Immediately after the an
nouncement was made that he had been
elected township trustee.
Theodore Wilcox, superintendent of the
Brooklyn hospital, was sentenced Monday TO
four years Imprisonment for swindIing the
county by charging for the care of mythical
patients.
The state live stock board and the city
health department of Chicago have again
locked horns on the question of the disposi-
tion OF "lumpy-jawed' cattle found at the
stocl yards.
Robert Adams, the American minister to
Brazil, who is now on his way home, does
not expect to return to his post. Since
Brazil became a republic the mission has
not been all his fancy had painted.
At Waverly, Ind, Sunday, Melville Bates
and Conner Sawyers became involved in a
quarrel when Saul Sawyers, brother of
the one engaged in the fight, attacked Bates
with knGe, intiicting fatal wounds.
At Chapel Hollow, w. Va, Saturday, W.
L. Morgan ana w. Thompson had trouble
over line fence, and Thompson fired a
double-barreled shotgun into the crowd,
seriously wounding workman named
Cochran.
Larelo, Tex, adopted resolutions protest
ing against the imposition of DUTY on
Mexican ores imported into the United
States, AS proposed by the bill recently pre-
pared by the ways and means COMMITTEES Of
congress
In consequence of inundation of the ma
chinery at the Dallas, Tex, water WORKS,
there is almost water famine prevalent.
There is no water to sprinkle the streets or
to run electric street lights, ana the city is
in darkness.
By the breaking of the rope on the hoist
ing machine, running two elevators in a
building being constructed on Michigan
street, Chicago, two men on the elevator
we're precpitated from the third floor, and
probably fatally injured.
1t is reported that the Indians of Cour
d'Oreilles reservation, in Minnesota, are suf-
fering for food, and that the aged and in
firm are liable to die of starvation unless
supplied at once. There are about 800 In
The resolution of the New York cham
Der of commerce protesting against
the pending bill for the census enumeration
of the Chinese rs absurd unchristian and
cowardly, was presented by Mr.. Evarts in
the house of congress Tuesday
The authorities of the Cherokee nation are
preparing to bring about an investigation of
the official acts of John w. WALL e. special
disbursing agent of the interior department.
1t is charged that Wallace conspIred to de
fraud the Shawnee and Delaware Indians.
Hon. II. c. Tupper, Canadian minister of
marine and fisheries, Is on his way TO
Washington. The negotiations in reference
to the Behring sea matter are TO be re-
sumed there this week, necessitating the
minister's presence 10 assist Sir Julien
Pauncefote.
1t has been discovered that V. ID. Kerfoot,
supposed to have been elected one of the
directors of the worlds fair as the represent
ative of the Chicago real estate board, is de-
feated The defeat of Kerfoot lets in w. IL
Colvin, who represents simply himself and
his personal friends.
Edward Damn, of the United States
army, is making sensation in Berlin 10y an
exhibition of a monster balloon for war
purposes. Phe balloon is called the
Bismarck. 1t is lifted by electricity, and is
capable of signaling at tremendous dis.
tance. The machine will i,e adopted in the
Germany army.