Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting items on

Number of southern flood sufferers is
placed at $4,000
Nathan Bray, pioneer, died at Bloom
ington, Ind, Monday, aged o.
Muncie, Ind, people are all doubled up
with cramps, and no physician can tell the
whyfore.
About 1890 o'clock Sunday night three
slight earthquake tremors were felt at
Saratoga, N. Y.
Nine representatives of the American
republics have signed the international
arbitration treaty.
The dead man found at Terre Haute,
Ind, is thought to be Albert, brother of
Charles BrutSing, of Cincinnati.
The Canton glass works have finally de-
cided to locate at Marion, Ind, where
large inducements have been offered
The indictment against ex-Alderman
Wendell, of the 'boodle" board of New
York aldermen of 1884, was dismissed.
Joshua Fields, worth $4,000, died near
Danville, Ky. In the sixty-seven years of
his life he had spent but two hours out of
the county he was born in.
One boy year ago, two girls and boy
last night, is the rate at which the Knight
family is replenishing the earth in the
vicinity of Bellefontaine, o.
Tailor Joseph Ausbaum has cut away
from Lima, o., to divest himself of the nu-
merous suits forced upon him by the
sheriff and creditors, which he says are all
financial misfits
A protest against the passage of the But
terworth bill has received many signatures
among cotton firms in New York. 1t is
addressed to cotton growers and business
men of the south.
Leopold Linden, financial secretary Of
the National Association of Flint-glass
Workers, has left Bellaire, O., leaving be-
hind him stained record in place of the
1866 he took along.
Thomas Morrison, who killed his three
children, at Shelburne, on Thursday night,
and who afterward ATTEMPTED to kill him
self by taking poison and throwing him
self In the river, is dead.
The senate bill providing for the inspec-
ton of meats for expectation, and prohib-
iting the importation of adulterated ar
ticles of food and drink, has been favor
ably reported to the house.
Employees of the Bellaire nail works, at
Floodwood, O., struck while the iron was
hot, went on a spree and let 100 tons of the
metal cool in the furnace at probable
loss of $4,000 to the company.
Julius Addison, of Newcastle, Ind,
failed to persuade his sweetheart to name
an early date for their marriage, and has
funeral instead by putting bullet
where his brains should have been.
A 3-year-old daughter of Jeweler HON.
berger, at Lawrenceburg, Ind, discounted
Cleopatra's pearl drink by swallowing
fourteen of the pale gems and five dia-
monds from tray in her fathers store.
1t is reported that Senator Quay, on ac-
count of i'll health, will resign the chair
manship of the National Republican com
mittee so soon as he sees his way clearly,
and that John S. Clarkson is likely to sue
coed him.
Investigation shows that the body of the
woman found beneath the hay in barn,
at Wichita, Kan, was placed there by
medical student named Schaefer, who is
now pursuing his studies at Louisville,
Kentucky.
w. w. Allen, superintendent of mails in
the Buffalo postoffice was arrested Mon
day, charged with robbing the mails. 1t is
supposed that he has been connected with
the robberies that have made the Buffalo
uua
Allen formerly ran from Cincinnati.
Chicago is to have new theatre of dis
tinctively European design and to be con-
Quoted on methods for the first time in
troduced into the United States. 1t is to
be called the Crystal Palace theatre and
will occupy the site and circular structure
of the Jerusalem panorama building on
Wabash avenue, two blocks south of the
auditorium.
Julia A. Moore, the "sweet singer of
Michigan" now keeps store at Hare,
Mich. because her husband would not let
her appear in public again, although she
was offered 81 600 for ten lectures in the
big cities. A publisher of her poems, who
was to give her a good royalty, has not yet
whacked up dollar,
The English newspapers are earnestly
discussing the question of honoring Stan
ley by comforting a title upon him, and
favOring the idea are unanimous in sug-
costing that the explorer be created Lord
Stanley Of Congo 1t is not believed by
the more intimate of Mr. Stanley's friends,
however that he will be willing to accept
a title, which would unquestionably de-
tract from his greatness.
William H. Allen, Benjamin Knower,
Arthur L. Shipman and Lyman r. Ingra-
ham, trustees of the Yaqui River Mining
company, have petitioned the supreme
court of New York for the dissolution of
the corporation. The company's only
PROF erty is certain mining privileges in
Sonora, Mex. OF capital full paid) of
So, 100000 only $50 was paid in cash, the re-
mainder representing transfers of mining
privileges"
The American Theosophists held their
fourth annual convention at Chicago. DR..
j. d. Buck, of Cincinnati, filled the chair.
A letter was read from Madam Blavatsky,
the founder of the organization, in which
she declared there is nothing spiritual or
divine in the so-called christian science"
or mind cure" 1.-The healer" she says,
"interferes, consciously or unconsciously,
with the free mental action of the person
he treats, and this is black magic"