Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items IN
Various Subjects,

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killed himself
Thomas +. Williams, of Atchison, Kan,
has received "a treasury draft for $50, 5O3-
his back pension.
The Republican convention of the
Eleventh congressional district of Ohio
will be held ut Hillsboro, Sept. 90
In LOWS county, KY, the combined
Democrats and Farmers Alliance candi-
dates are downed by the Republicans.
Jacob Diamond, New York merchant,
is in Jail in Chicago charged by his wife
with bigamy and the abduction of their
child.
The Brotherhood of Machinery Molders
ordered that day work shall take pre-
cedence of piece work in all brotherhood
shops.
Emma Null, of Wabash, Ind, on ac-
count of unrequited love, attempted to
commit suicide by taking dose of NOR
phinc.
Attorney General Miller has decided
that there IS no leesIl riSht to cary Gen
Adam Badeau's name on the retired list of
the army.
A school census of Chicago, just COM
pleted, makes the population l,208,G69
This is about 100000 more than the Fed
eral census
The Brazilian government has ordered
the immediate delivery of a large guam
tity of swords from factory in Salingen,
Rhenish Prussia.
The Pittsburg South Fork Fishing asso-
citation has given its lake, which caused
the Johnstown food, to the Pittsburg
Fresh Air society.
A Falmouth, KY, officer took a pris-
oncr out for moonlight stroll, and sat
wn beside him for Il nap, and the pris-
oner leisurely walked away.
Mr. Maria DeCamp was found burned
to death in the cellar of her residence,
Cincinnati 1t is not known certainly
how the accident occurred.
A committee of 100 citizens has been or
ganiZed to work for the pardon of Oscar
Neebe, who is serving fifteen years SEN
tence for participation in the laymarket
riots.
The Monon train conveying the body of
Mail Agent Talford, killed on the same
road Sunday, was derailed ut Providence.
There is hoodoo connected with that
road somewhere
a man giving his name as Stofford
Shocks, from Amanda, o., Tell through a
high treStle on the Scioto Valley railway
near Wayerly, o., receiving serious and
probably fatal injuries.
James l. Middleton, one of the wealth.
est and best citizens Of Harlan, KY, who
left home for Harlan court house To tes-
tify against William Jennings, was assas-
sinated before reaching his destination.
Count" Charles Arneaud has been in
dicted at the instance OF the pension
bureau, on the charge of attempting to
defraud the government in an application
Tor pension by impcrsonating another
man.
DR. Lomax, of Grant county, has do
nuted 100000 to the Indiana Medical col
lege, and the institution has been re-
organized and will start on II new career
Under the name of the Medical College OF
Indiana.
The Ohio state canal commission has
leased forty acres of land near the Mercer
county reservoir to H. b. Gordon at 50 per
acre per year. There is n wei! on the land |
lowing go barrels "a day. and oil is forty |
cehts barrel
Dollie Anderson, cut almost to death by !
Fox Anderson, has Il torgiying disposition |
and short memory. She swore that she |
didn't know who "slung dat razah," and |
kissed Anderson repeatedly i'll the court |
room at Columbus, 0.
Logan county o., Farmers Alliance |
thinks the Office should seek the man, ana |
will vote for no one who doesn't literally |
nave to be run down by that Office and |
cornered in Il barb wire fence with u shot
gun before he will accept it,
Some scoundrel put dynamite cart
ridge in sheaf of wheat on the farm of |
Jesse Stewart, near Xenia, o. 1t was fed |
INTO the thresher, which was totally de-
molished. One man was seriously burned
ny the explosion, which set fire to the
,trawstack and destroyed considerable
quantity of wheat.
BY IA decision of the school book board
of ohio, all boards of education are lett
free to act as heretofore in selecting and
supplying the necessary textbooks for the
schools this fall. This action is on account
81 the inadequacy of the proposals sub
mitted by publishers to supply fully the
wants of the schools of the staUe
1t took nearly II half hours time and
the conductor, engineer, brakeman and
Daggageman combined to put Travelling
Man ALI Mayo of a Lake Erie an Western
Grain becauSed he refused to pay ten cents
eXtra-a fare required from passengers
who have no tickets. He has sued for SlO,-
tOJ damages to his dignity, wardrobe and
general peace of mind.
Near Anna, ILL.,, u farmer named Castle
and his wife and three daughters were re-
turning home i'll wagon drawn by mules.
Just as they reached home Il dog ran into
the road and the mules ran away and
overturned the wagon upon the occupants.
The daughters were killed, the wife
.atally hurt and the man 50 badly injured
that he will be IA cripple for life.
The name of Thomas A. Hendricks, of
Indiana, is dear to the hearts of members
of the party in his native state. The com
of his birth is new idea,
and tn, Democratic clubs of the state will
signnlizc it by opening the state cam
paigns hereafter on that day, Sept. Z.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and Senator {
Voorhees, will speak at Indianapolis on
the occasion the first commemOration
exercises next month.
National Bar association at Indiamap-
dis elected the following officers: Presi-
lent, Charles Marshall, of Maryland; sec
rotary, William Reynolds, of Maryland;
treasurer, Il. II, Pike, of Ohio; vice presi-
lent, first judicial circuit, George w.
Chapman, of New Hampshire; third, II.
NJ North, of Pennsylvania; fourth, Rob
'rt White, of West Virginia; fifth, Edwin
T. Taliaferro, of Alabama; sixth, Il. NJ.
Ilnklc, of Ohio; seventh, A. &. Harris, of
eighth, w A. Johnston. Of
Kansas; niiith, James II. Finlay of Cali
ornia.
4 Canadian College Burned.