Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-16
NEWS IN RRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

various subjects.
Dad Connor was fatally crushed while
coupling cars at Greensburg, Ind.
A Missouri judge has ordered the arrest
of people tor playing cards at tLeir
homes.
Richard Brown, woodcarver, of st.
Louis, suicided by jumping from the big
bridge,
The business portion of Fairport Iar.
Dor, O.. was destroyed by fire with loss
of $1,000.
American naval officers are the recipi-
ents of unusual courtesies from the King
of Denmark,
Wapakoneta had $4,000 fire Tuesday
Dickman's sash and door factory and sew,
eral residences.
Jim Norris, the murderer of Wcidcr
hold, at Reading, is reported under arrest
near CynthiIna, Ky.
Chicago's government bull ling is in an
extremely unsafe condition, seemingly al
most on the point of collapse
Police census OF New York city shows o
population of l,7l0,7l5 an increase of 49,
214 over the government figures.
ID. II. Slime, Republican, has served no.
tice of contest on Col. IA :, Berry, Demo-
cratic mayor-elcc5 of n port, Ky
Charles Kinney agel Il years, living
at Bloomington, ILL.,, was run over by the
cars at Danville ILL.,, and ins :. at|Y hll!cL.
Congressman John L. ~ IN, OF the
state of Washington, lost his poc.,et book
containing $40, 0JJ in securities an $3.50
In cash.
All but four of the remaining sections
of the judiciary report ere adopted Tues
day By the Mississippi constitutional c0i.-
vention.
Two men were killed and six injured so
badly that they will die by the explosion
Of giant powder in a tunnel near Lead
vile, Col.
William Warren, barber SO years OF
age, who is we'll known in Cincinnati, was
instantly killed at Cleveland by falling
downstairs.
-Four hundred Boston walters, white
and colored, have been organized into a
union by member of the Walters Ali
ance of Chicago.
Anderson Hadey and his wife, Ruth,
Quakers, of Hadley, Ind, have donated
ITO acres of ground for an industrial home
for needy young women.
The First Presbyterian church of Gin
cinnati, and associated with it the Pleas
ant Ridge church of that denomination,
is celebrating its centennial.
Clyde II. Showalter II typo of Clarks
burg, w. Va, was forced to marry Mar
tina Wine at the point of a pistol in the
hands of the young girls mother.
The New York World announces eds.
torially that Mr.. Pulitzer, by the advice
of his physicians, has Withdrawn entirely
from the editorship of The world.
Elisha Smith, an aged farmer of Split
Log, Mo-, was robbed of his pocket book,
containing money and checks to the
amount OF "a, 1885, at Portland, Ore.
Jack McAulilfe. the champion light
weight pugilist of America, is under ar
rest in New York on suspicion OF having
caused the death of Katie Hart, the ell
known soubrette
While Mrs. Allen Blake, of Lexington,
Me-, was handling rifle On Monday, the
weapon was discharged the ball ruptur-
ing an artery in the leg of her little child,
who bled to death.
At Titlin, o., Mrs. George Homan, q
widow, aged 90 years, discovered burg
lar in her home, covered him with re-
volyer, took his booty away from him and
searched his pockets before allowing him
to CO.
! Miss Agatha Freeman, of London, o.,
eloped with a travelling salesman of Chi
cago named II. b. Carracs, but was over
taken at Columbus by the girls father
and placed under arrest. She is but II
years old.
Gilbert Bell, after fourteen years
absence from his home near Yorktown,
! Ind, returned to fnd his wife remarked.
He provided well for his only daughter
and left for the far west. An Enoch
I Arden yarn.
At Shelbyville Ind, Tom Cotton, who
shot and killed William Palmer last
Fourth Of July. pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to twenty-one years imprison-
ment. His wife and children made quite
"A scene in the courtroom.