Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects,


A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.
Sengh Smith, a prominent farmer of
Brown county, Ind. is mysteriously miss
ing.
The Democrats of the Ninth district of
Ohio renominated Congressman Outh-
waite
Clark county Republicans favor f. S.
Wallace for congress in the Tenth Ohio
district.
Union Laborites in the Eighth Indiana
district nominated Oliver NJ. Curry for
congress.
There is said to be large shortage in
the sheriff's Office in Christian county,
Kentucky.
Two Poles, names unknown, were
fatally injured in a Martinsville, Ind,
stone quarry.
Democrats of Morgan and Owen coun-
ties, Ind, nominated E. S, Davis for prose
cutting attorney.
Ed CHM shot and killed James Ken
nedy in Trimble county, KY, in quarrel
about a loan of $l4.
A large amount of unsigned notes of the
circulating at Denver.
Fred Kellar was shot and killed by his
brother-in-law, at Louisville, while at
supper with the family.
Mrs. Adam II. Wise and small son were
fatally burned by the explosion of a coal
oil lamp at Orbisonia, Pa
Mrs. Morris, of Sheboygan, Wis, has
meerschaum pipe that belonged to king
of Denmark 23S years ago
A company with $3,000,000 capital has
been organized in New York to build the
Mexican Northern railway.
At Sheepshead Bay race track, Firenzi
3 years old, ran twelve furlongs in 2:33
lowering the record one second.
Mrs. John Martin, of Owingsville, KY,
has been bound over ON the charge Of
-greening her neighbours coffee
Edmund S. DeLuce, chief engineer of
the United States navy, died Thursday at
New Brighton, S. L., in the cd year of his
age.
AT Dadeville Ga, the daughter of Rev.
Mr.. BrannOn was killed and his wife ia
tally injured by being thrown from a
buggy.
Judge Seney and Hon. Boston G. Young
will contest for the Democratic congress
sonal nomination in the Eighth district
of Ohio.
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has
signitied his intention of spending his
summer vacation at Atlantic City and
Baltimore
Senator Carlisle has proposed an amend.
ment to the sundry civil bill appropriate
ing $3.50, 00O to enlarge the military post at
Newport, Ky,
John Coleman, aged H. died Thurs
day at Woburn. Mass, of hydrophobia
This is the second death in Woburn from
this disease within two months.
Mrs, DIR. Spencer, of Bourbon, Ind, has
had twelve husbands and may have an
other before she joins the glorious COM
pany of martyrs in the peaceful beyond.
Thomas Davidson, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
who murdered his uncle for property, gets
magnificent stone residence with free
board for life. But they are furnished
by the state, while the estate goes to
others.
The French Canadians of Chicago cele
brated st. John the Baptist's Day, Tues
day, with ~ large procession, in which
there We're numerous allegorical floats
followed by a concert, ball and banquet in
the evening.
The attorney general has checked the
vaulting ambition of Minneapolis to APP
pear bigger than she is, by ordering the
prosecution for conspiracy, 10 swell that
city out of all proper proportion of three
industrious enumerators
Timothy Liddy was accidentally shot on
,.,tu ,N ~
handle slipped from the drivers hand and
struck him on the hip, where, in pocket,
he carried a revolver. The weapon was
discharged, the ball entering Liddy's
brain.
The crew, ten men, Of the wrecked
scotch brig, Jennie, lost OFF Sable island
Nova Scotia coast, was brought into New
York. After subsisting since April % on
sea gElls' eggs and brackish water, upon
barren strip of land off Sable island,
they were picked up by schooner j. n.
StearnS.
Paymaster Atkinson, of the Wayne
coke works, Uniontown Pa, had Just in
closed 81 200 in envelopes to pay off the
men, when a masked man covered him
with a revolver, took the money and fed.
Now the sheriff with posse is looking
for Perry Donaldson, a former employ,
recognized as the robber.
The Norfolk and Western road will con-
meet with the Scioto Valley by a new road
from the New river TO Ceredo, near which
point it will bridge the Ohio river and lay
out new town TO be called Ken-o-va, the
letters of the name being combination
of the three states which will derive the
most benefit from the road. The Norfolk
and Western will run over the Chesa-
peake and Ohio TO Cincinnati, and the
chesapeake and Ohio will run over the
Norfolk and Western to Columbus.