Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Action on the Federal election bill may
be deferred until next winter
At Paris, KY, George Jones shot Atty
Nutter because she hadn't his supper
ready.
Cyrus w. Field has sold 700 acres of his
Dobbs Ferry estate to Charles Henry But
Ter for 81 100000
The Farmers Alliance convention of
North Carolina decided not to oppose the
reelection of Senator Vance
At Springfield, o., John E. Plat, prom
inent Grand Army man, had his head
crushed under falling lumber.
At Manchester, o., j. M. Caste shot
himself through the head, and will die.
Had been paralytic two years.
At Clarksburg, Tenn, James White,
white, shot mortally Wilson Norris col
ored, at II colored camp-meeting.
The Republican convention for the
Eleventh congressional district of Indiana
IS to lie helGktt Huntington, Aug. 2s
Robert Menaugh, Republican trustee of
Delphi, Ind, has cut off his accounts
5000 and cut off for unknown climes.
Tie meanest man in Terre Haute, Ind.
IL II. IL. Thomas, who robbed II poor
widow of $4OO pension money and skipped.
Burglars who took the tow , of Elida,
o., are requested to leave it some place
where it will be found, and no questions
will be askel.
At Vincenncs, Ind, the Prospect Hill
coal miners are on strike over diff
Guilty of two weeks pay. 1t is being arbi-
Grated.
lIillsboro's marshal, John Lewis, is
held for murder in the second degree for
shooting down Edward Elliott while the
latter was resisting arrest.
Ironton, O.: The headless body of
George Adkins was found on the Sciota
track after the train had passed, and a
whisky bottle i'll his hand told the cause
Jealousy led Fleming Brooks, of ST.
Louis, to put three bullets in Josh King,
who will probably die. 1t occurred in
front of No 2315 Papin street. Brooks
escaped.
Suits aggregating $1l2, 5G94 Al have been
commenced at Lebanon, o., against the
ninety bondsmen of eXlreasurers jane
son, Durham and Coleman and Auditor
Graham.
The Chicago and Atlantic railroad has
been purchased III the interest of the Erie,
and will be recognized. 1t completes the
Erie'5 through line between Chicago and
New York.
Congressman McDuf1ie. Republican, of
Alabama, has received an anonymous let
ter threatening him with the fate of Cook,
of Mississippi, if he supports the Federal
elections bill.
Samuel II. Beard, a well known lawyer
of Leesburg, O., committed suicide by
throwing himself under train. He was
G ushed into a shapeless mass. Financial
trouble is the cause.
Nineteen million dollars worth of the
new silver notes have been printed and
five million of them SEALED" by the
United States treasurer ready to pay out
for silver to be bought in New York
The Original package" men of Iowa
have como TO a general agreement to
close up business and not contest the con
stitutionality of the new law of congress.
There were 1900 of these saloons in
Iowa.
John Buheit, of Conner.ville, Ind, dis
charged Philip Wiwi from his employ and
DISCHARGED bis revolver into Philips thigh
when he demonstrated. Now he is hiring
"A lawyer to get the court to discharge him
from the village Jail.
The first annual report of n. j, Bachel-
dor. the New Hampshire commissioner of
agriculture and immigration, to the gov
ernor's council, shows that of 1872
abandoned farms reported in the state
last August all are now occupied.
The commander of the United States
revenue cutter Bear, in the Behring sea,
reports to the secretary of the treasury
that seals are not rs abundant as usual,
and he doubts if the company having the
contract with the government can catch
tn quota Of 60,OOO before the cxpgltion
OF the season.
NJ. Hume Clay, of the Lumber firm of
NJ. II. Clay & Company, of Winchester,
Ky, went to Michigan some time ago os-
tensibly to buy lumber. lie has not been
heard from, but Il large amount of forged
paper has been discovered. lie used the
name OF his grandfather, Matthew Hume.
Over $4,000 of worthless paper is re-
ported Clay lost $4,000 in real estate
speculation last spring.