Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

various SUBJECTS,
The militia force of the several states is
1O9 469
Senator James i. Pugh, of Alabama, has
been rejected.
Levi $. Fulton has been chosen Superin.
tendent of the Cincinnati house of refuge,
Charles Wallace, of Somerford o., de-
serted his wife and eloped with his servant
girl.
The two-round fight between Jack Gibbs
and Dick Moore, at Dayton, o., was de,
cided draw
The Goulds will enter the directory Of
the Richmond Terminal railway at the
next meeting.
The officers of the visiting Brazilian
squadron were received by President Har-
rison Saturday,
Fifty-three Parnellite members of parlia
nent are pledged to vote against Parnell's
retention of leadership.
1t is said the revised count of the popu
lation of New York city will show 1875 00C
more than the first figures given out.
James NJ. Wise, a well known tobacco
mist, nephew of Ex-Governor Henry A.
Wise, and brother of Congressman George
ID. Wise, died at Richmond Va
Jay Gould has bought the extensive
works Of the Hutchinson Salt company at
Hutchinson, KAN, whose plant is said to
be the largest in the United States
President ingalls,, of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, is negotiating with the White
Star Steamship line for line of steamers
direct from Newport News to Liverpool.
At Columbia, Ala, John Daniels, a ne.
gro; whom a mob went to lynch escaped
from Jail dressed as a woman, and accom-.
panied by the deputy sheriff, reached Bir
mingham
Maj. Sanger, of the inspector generals
corps, suggests a new military school, to
be located near Lexington, KY, in which
American boys shall be trained for non
commissioned officers.
The postofice at Walton, Boone county
Ky, was entered early Friday morning
and safe was blown open. The robbers
secured $500 in stamps and registered
letters and a gold watch. There is nc
clew.
Capt. Dinsmore, of the ship Cleaning
which reached New York Friday, reports
that on Sunday last, William Monteith, OF
Maitland, n. S, and J. Wagogo, of Japan,
sailors, were washed overheard and
drowned
Mr.. Hascal L. Taylor, of Buffalo, n. Y.
says there is no truth whatever in the
dispatch from Baltimore which stated that
he intended to establish there an asylum
for the cure of persons addi cted to the
opium habit.
1t has been discovered that John Isen.
hart, a farmer living near Portland, Ind,
ybo ,roc et,,,ppepd m baNra ,1ouorto1 /, IL
family in 1868, was murdered at that time
by one John Ifindman. His remains have
been discovered under Hindman S stable.
Col. c. d. Curtis, Postmaster w. j..
Fuchs, Thomas Dennison and Harry Wool.
rich, of Helena, Mont, have been acquit
ted of assault on Capt. James Thomas, OF
the Salvation Army, during the political
excitement on the night after last election.
An unknown man, about 80 years of age,
committed suicide Saturday afternoon by
jumping over the palisades, falling a dis.
tance Of 175 feet His head was crushed
and left arm broken. There was nothing
positively in the dead mans pockets tc
reveal his identity.
The press house of the Queens county
oil works at Blissville, on Newton creek,
Long Island, was burned Saturday morn.
ing with a valuable lot of machinery,
chemicals and stock. The loss is estimated
at S75, 900. The works are owned by the
Standard Oil company.
In the suit to forfeit the charter Of the
Standard Oil company an amended petit
ton has been filed in which it is charg ed
that there are only seven original Stand
ard Oil company shares, all the Others
having been turned over TO the trust,
which is controlled absolutely by non-resi
dents of Ohio.
Sampson and Isaac Heidenheimer have
been arrested, charged with burning the
Texas Standard Cottonseed Oil mills, at
Galveston, Tex, in April last in which
they were largely interested The Heiden
heiIners are leading merchants and ship
owners. The accused gave bonds in the
sum Of 5000 each,