Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-18
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

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of thirty-six killed and the month only a
little over half gone
Sixth Ohio district Democrats in ses-
sion at Defiance nominated ID. ID. Done
van on the fifth ballot
Ex-Governor Foster was nominated
by acclamation i'll the Eighth Ohio con-
gressional district by the Republicans
The new Western Union telegraph COM
pany building in New York win be Of
brick and stone and fourteen stories high.
Joachim Anderson, the Danish COM
poser, will be married to Miss Sarah
Watson, professor of music in Vassar
college.
Jacob Hart is under arrest at Lafayette
Ind, on the charge of incest, preferred by
his wife, His victim was his l6-year-old
daughter.
Henry f. Abbey says Sarah Bernhardt
VIII opel her American engage ent Feb.
at the Fifth Avenue. She will probably
play La Tosca."
Threats of strike drove Charles Wag-
ner to suicide at Connersvile, Ind lie
was superintendent of Munk a. Roberts
furniture factory.
The Democrats OF the Eleventh congress
sional district of Ohio, in session at
Georgetown, after 271 ballots nominated
john M Pattison.
The state board of health is investigat-
ing as to whether it is cholera or torked
tongues which is doubling up the popula-
tion of Carrolton,O.
II. Levy, Tiffin, O., insurance agent,
takes the biggest risk of his life by levy
ing on his trends for all their available
cash and flying the town.
Francis Birk, who, after being intro
duced by George Deistel in.o his family
ran away with Mrs. Deistel, was shot and
killed by Deistel in New York
AT the Dem cratic convention of the
Eighth Alabama congressional district
held at Decatur, Gen. Joe Wheeler was
nominated without opposition
Charles Wagner, superintendent o. the
Munk q Roberts factories at Coaners-
Vile, Ind, committed suicide because of
a threatened strike in the factory.
Leonard Wagner, farmer, living near
Sandusky, O.. was stabbed in the meek by
masked robbers, who entered his house
during Monday night and stole S25l.
Tommy Kelly, the Harlem Spider"
and Tommy Russell also of Harlem,
fought rattling battle in New Jersey
Tuesday. Twelve rounds settled Russell.
The boiler of the Hartford City, Ind,
saw mill exploded and played ball with
the owner and two other men for a brief,
exciting space of time, but they will re-
cover
Maggie Howard, of SEQ, tsburg, Ind,
shot and killed her betrnyer John RAIDER,
because lac refused to right the wrong he
1 bul
ciety people.
Jacob S. Beach, c'erk of the superior
court of Glynn county Ga, was shot and
seriously wounded by Maj. John j. Spears
at Brunswick, Tuesday. They quarreled
ever land sale.
Hon. j. j. Hemphill was renominated
at Rock Hill by the Democrats OF The
Eighth South Carolina congressional dis
triot. He was opposed by an Alliance cum
didatc who withdrew
A mob Of drunken Austrian miner, ter
rorized the towns of Perth and Caseyvile,
Ind, dragged n boarder from the otel
and almost killed the landlord, who tried
to save his guest from abuse.
l.. f.. Francis and wife, and Miss Corne
Cornelson, prominent members of the
Christian church at Richmond Ind, have
been expelled for claiming that George
Schwtinfurth, of Rockford, H., is the
true Messiah.
Hon. II. H. Dickey was unanimously
nominated for congress by the Demo-
cratic convention Mt Georgetown and de-
clned. The convention then resumed its
balloting, continuing until the 25Jth with
out a nomination.
Jennie NJ. IIeston, formerly of James
Switch, indianapolis, must forward her
address to i. J. Ray, of Pullman, H., be.
fore Jan. | next or the 10000 cash and
5000 in real estate willed her by james
Miller will revert TO charitable institu-
tions.
The fourteenth annual reunion OF the
Society of the Army of West Virginia is
in progress at Parkers urg, and will con-
tinue until Saturday Despite the rain
that fell all Monday night the city is well
filled with soldiers. The city is profusely
! decorated.
Last Sunday afternoon, at Cane creek,
Breathitt county, Ky, Bob Little and a
man named Hadden were quarrelling in a
bar room. Little tried to put Hadden out
of the place and WIS shot dead by him A
posse are after the murderer Little was
the son of the notorious Jason Little and
leader of q gang that kept Brcthitt county
in whirl some years ago.
The Texas Democratic state committee
has arranged for all the candidates on the
state ticket to take the stump, except the
nominee for state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, he being left out of the APP
pointments because, as one member of the
state committee said. the Office for which
he is nominated should be rs far re-
moved from politics as judicial positions
are.
At Hazard, Ky, Deputy Sheriff German
Holiday, with a posse OF men captured
Bill Bnville, one OF the remaining out
laws at large, after most exciting n d
dangerous chase. Linyille boldly defed
his pHrsuers, and broke for liberty, under
the fire of the posse. lie escaped ushurt;
then stealing horse in the vicinity Of his
capture, made off in the direction Of
Knott county. The posse is still after the
escaped outlaw, and being heavily armed,
may capture him before long
Foreign Notes.
Henry ", Stanley and his bride arrived
at Milan Tuesday.
Another priest WAS shot in the Armenia
cathedral at Kokoaumpon, on Saturday
His assailant exclaimed while firing: