Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The cable from Halifax 70 the Bermudas
Is finished.
Later corrections make the population
of st. Louis 44S,0O0
Woodside, the bicyclist, died of yellow
fever at Rio de Janeiro. .7.54
James Remington, prominent Demo-
crat of Illinois, died Tuesday.
Missouri Republicans will hold their
state convention at jefferson City,
Aug. Is.
A call has been issued for state con-
vention of Ohio farmers in Columbus,
Aug Is.
Two British torpedo boats have arrived
at Halifax the first vessels of their kind
ever on that station.
The Cincinnati Ice men met Tuesday
and advanced the price Of ice fifteen cents
per hundred and 81 per ton
The price of silver advanced in New
York on the agreement of the conference
committee of the two houses of congress.
At Murphy Ga, Charles Gould, while
drunk, attempted to whip his wife, aud
was stabbed by her with dagger and
killed
James NJ. Kinney, near Corydon, Ind,
prosecuting the White Caps who whipped
him last March.
A new company has been Incorporated
Mt Springfield, ILL.,, with $3000.OO0 capital,
to build a railroad from Chicago south.
westerly TO East St. Louis.
At an election held in one of the wards
OF Vincennes, Ind, under the Australian
system, about 10 per cent. of the votes
cast were thrown out for irregularity
A heavy storm of wind aud rain passed
over Cleveland, doing much damage A
tornado also struck the south end Of
Canton, o., wrecking number of build
ings
Governor Hill has declined. the invita-
ton OF the executive board of the Texas
Bar association to deliver the annual ad
dress before the association at Galveston,
on Aug. z next.
Presbyterian and Episcopal churches at
Iryington, on the Hudson, both coveted
twO-acre lot which separated their respect
i've edifices. Jay Gould bought, divided it
twain and gave it to them.
Tho Evansville and Richmond railroad
is laying track from inc miles south of
Columbus, Ind, to Westport, seventeen
Four Is expected to be made Aug. l.
Tom Bellamy was drunk and disorderly
ut Hopkinsyille, Ky Policeman ely.
burne tried to induce him to go home.
Bellamy shot Clyburne fatally and Po-
liceman McCord shot and killed Bethany.
John NJ. Glover, ex-congressman, of St.
Louis, has brought suit for $50, 900 against
K. S. Robert and John Shepley for alleg.
ing that he mismanaged the estate OF
Shepley & Glover, of which he was the ad-
ministrator.
1t Is stated on what is believed to be
good authority that President Chauncey
M. Depew, of the New York Central, will
also be president OF the recognized Union
Stockyards company, of Chicago Tho
Vanderbilts are believed to have con-
trolling interest in the yards,
The official report to June 80 Is that
oats, spring wheat and grasses suffered
from dry weather in Kansas, but corn Is
promising. The winter wheat crop has
been harvested, and averaged fourteen
bushels pcr acre, the total yield being
70, ,22S bushels, while the yield OF
spring wheat il estimated at l ,263, 229
bushels.
Portland, Ore. was shot and killed by
Charles Belgrade, saloon keeper. Bel
grade then cut his throat from ear to ear
with razor, and died soon. The men
had been drinking with each other, and
quarreled about the divorce suit of Boil
grades wife
Cruel parents are reminded that the old
fashioned applications of the dog and No
IL boots to their daughters unpopular
lovers is safest, by the sentence of James
Kinds, of Madison, Ind He will serve
five years in the penitentiary for shooting
Charles Antle, while Antle has got well
and got the girl.
Postmaster Cartwell, of Springfield, de.
clares that no amount of political pie will
induce him to move into that new $50,
600 postotfice where the people will be
Obliged to enter by the windows because
the doors are rusted and swollen shut, and
where the damp, bad ceiling is liable to
drop on his head any minute.
Ohio marble dealers meeting at Cieve-
land complain that there is too much
dead head business in their line. The law
forbids the removal of tombstone from
the cemetery. whether it is paid for or not,
and some dishonest bereaved take ed.
vantage of this to exhibit their monu.
mental check in repudiating the debt,
The interstate commerce commission, In
session at Washington, is accamulating
business, the new cases coming before it
faster than the old can be disposed Of
The most important matter now being
considered is the differential which tho
Missouri Pacific has been charging against
-four, the rate on which to Texas is five
cents per 100 more than on wheat from the
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