Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-23
NEWS IN RRlEE.
A Condensation of interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
Isaac Rice, colored, died in Indianapolis,
aged 100.
Fanny Davenport is very i'll in New
York, of pneumonia.
Capt. George Mckenzie, the chess
player, is dying of consumption.
r. b, Hayes is president of the Army of
West Virginia for the coming year
Cholera scare at Carfollton, O., is de-
clared hoax. Only cholera morbIs.
James Shirk felled tree on his 5-year-
old boy near Newark, o., killing him in
stantly
Vice President Walter Webb says he
won't take strikers back on the New York
Central
At Evansville, Ark, creek rose so
rapidly that six of nine negroes in cabin
were drowned
An incendiary fire at Whitehall, Mich,
caused loss of 500 900. Thirty build
ings were destroyed
tull tickets have been put in the field
by the Prohibitionists and Greenbackers
of Boone county, Ind.
John l.. Sycirs, farmer, living near
Muir's station, Ky, blew his head of
with shotgun. Tired of life.
AT Columbus, Ind. Fathan Bell, who
recently cracked three safes in the county,
securing 81 200, is under arrest.
The Indiana election board organized
by electing Governor Havey charmal
and Q. A. Bookwalter secretary.
Holloy Houc&, of Newark O., foun
life u burden because OF spinal trouble,
and blew his head off with shotgun.
Edward Uhl, 49, got drank in Gallon,
o., and laid down on the Big -Four track.
When the train cane along he was killeI.
James G. Collins, rs, ex-railroad fire
man, criminally assaulted Sarah Will
Jams at Terre Haute and is under arrest.
Arthur Boles shot and fatally wounded
Charles Halihill, the marshal OF Higgins
port, o., while Halfhill was trying to ar
rest him.
Five thousand bushels of wheat in the
grain loft OF Israels inseed oil works and
elevator, at Mount Vernon, O., were dam
aged by fire.
Adam Phillips, %, of Marion, O., was
sent to state PRISON for two years and
fined 500 for criminal assault on Grace
Vanmetre 10.
A battle is said to have occurred near
Wayne G. H., W. Va, between Italian
railroad laborers'and II sherlif's posse ana
several of the former were killed.
Frank Richey, of Scottsburg, Ind, car
ries two pistol bullets ia his BODY as tie
result of quarrel with his hrother-.h-
law, Joseph Z. Howell Not fatal.
At Youngstown, o., the yard brakeman
of Pittsburg and Western railroad strdcs.
Brier Hill crew refused to 60 to the relief
of a broken down engine ut Hazleton.
The reason why Secretary Window re
fused to lend Uncle Sans money 10 tie
banks during the recent money panic was
that Harrison positively forbade him.
The house of representatives has post
poned until next " edncsduy the consd
Grafton OF the bills granting pensions to
the widows of Gen Mcclellan, Fremont
and Crook.
The president and a party of friends
spent Saturday among the bituminous
coal fields in the vicinity of Clearileld,
Tyrone, OsCeola, Houtzdale, PhillipsOurg
and Curwensville, Pa.
M. d. Flood, married employed by the
Baker McMill.n planning mill, at Akron,
o., eloped with Brittle Sponsiar, who is
said to be ugly. Flood sod his home and
took all the proceeds except SO.
Henry Burris, a wealthy Quaker farmer,
near Smitklicld, o., was swindled out OF
5000 by n couple of sharpers who bor-
rowed that amount, giving as security u
satchel said by them 80 contain about SlS,-
600.
Governor Millette, of South Dakota, and
three others, on n hunt, got lost and were
almost starved before they had found
civilization again. From Friday morn
ing till Sunday night they were without
food.
Thirteen families were rendered home
less 10y the burning Of a row OF tenements
on Dorman street. Indianapolis. Loss S.
90; partially insured, The fire started in
a stable, ana is supposed TO have been in
cendiary.
A 3-year-old child of George Weaver, Of
Hudson, N. Y, wandered from home last
Tuesday, was found Friday in Il swamp
not over three miles from home, playing
contentedly in mud puddle, His pei
dog, which accompanied him, attacked
the men who found the boy Hundreds
of searchcrs had been securing the coun-
try for almost four days, and the child
had been given up for dead