Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The South Boston iron works will re-
move to Middlesborough, KY
The Doggy bayou levee cutters have
been indicted by the grand jury.
The treasury department has issued a
call for silver bullion under the new law,
The San Francisco chamber of com
mercc Endorsed Blaine's reciprocity pro
ject.
The treasurers of all the print-cloth-
mills have agreed to shut down one week
in August.
Mrs. Sallie Brown, aged 1885, died at Chi
chester, N. II. She was the Oldest person
in the state.
A child with well formed dogs head
was born at Cairo Wednesday 1t lived
several hours
At Monmouth race track Raveloe low
cred the one mile record, making the dis
lance in 1897
The Blythe will case ended Thursday in
favor OF the natural daughter, Florence,
who bt comes heir to the 100000
The wheat crop of the Da5otas and
Minnesota is estimated at 100, 0O0, 900 bush
els, one of the largest ever harvested.
Tolstoi's new book, "KreutZer Sonata"
has been excluded from the United States
mails by order of the postmaster general
The late Edward Elliot raised his last
row in a Hillsboro saloon when he tried to
resist Marshal Lewis and his loaded re-
volver
Gas was struck at X ngsville, Ont, at q
depth of 900 feet, and the flow is estimated
at 20,0O0,000 cubic feet day. The roar is
deafeEing.
July 81 was the centennial of patents
under the United States government. The
first one was issued on the corresponding
day or 1890
Undertaken Meredith undertook to kill
himself at Lancaster, O., because of
deafness in his line of business, but did
not succeed
Charles Arnold, the Monon conductor
charged with the murder of William Hill
bert by pushing him from a train. has
been discharged.
A natural gas explosion at Latrobe, Pa.
wrecked Peters paper mill and seriously
injured workman named Beattie. The
loss will be heavy.
Charles H, Tongue and wife, of Phila-
delphia, were killed by cars near Magno-
liza, N. j., Thursday night They were
walking on the track.
The total number of dead of the Johns
town disaster of fourteen months ago is
put at 2,lS1. Two hundred bodies have
not yet been recovered.
The BOldry family, five in number. of
Sunman, Ind, claim $4,00000O worth of
property in New York leased to the gov
eminent for ninety nine years in l776
The schooner Charger lies fathoms deep
with $1,000 bushels of wheat aboard,
meath the blue waters of Lake Erie Col
lided with the steam barge City of Cleye-
land
Judge Tuthill, of Chicago, has enioined
the moving of the books of the Order of
Modern Woodmen of America to Iowa.
Charges of fraud are pending against
officers.
The caving in of the river bank is
threatening New Orleans and other points
The washOuts We're caused by the recent
floods. Piles are being driven, but have
no effect.
At Live Oak, Fla. Kelly Stewart, col
ored, was hanged yesterday, for the muir
der of John Hawkins, about two years
ago Two thousand people witnessed the
execution.
fight occurred at Massillon Thursday
between gang of drunken tramps and a
posse of citizens. During the melee sew
eral of the tramps were wounded. All are
under arrest
At Braddock, Pa, Thursday forty-one |
dwellings were burned by fire which |
started in stable. Three hundred people |
were rendered homeless. Loss about $G0,-
600; insurance estimated at $200O0.
Nearly all of the stock has been taken
of railroad from Columbus, Miss,
through Hopkinsville, Ky, to Cumber-
land Gap, to be called the Cumberland |
Gap and Mississippi Valley railroad
Secretary Daniel Kreis, of the Ohio
Farmers Alliance, has issued "A call to the
farmers organizations throughout the
state, instructing each to send delegate,
with proper credentials, to the convention
at Columbus Aug 10.
Fred Lee worked with Pneville, Ky.
abstract company and learned the lusi-
ness so well that he succeeded in abstract
ing sums of money ranging from $50 to
s., 600 from his trusting friends previous
To his unannounced and somewhat hur-
ried departure from the town.
Peter McCrary of Louisville, became
jealous Of Annie Staten and proved him
self coward, idiot and murderer, and al
together sweet specimen for girl to
love, by shooting her, probably fatally,
and pretending to attempt suicide. His
carcass will be preserved to
adorn the gallows.
CONcRECc