Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation OF Interesting Item, on
Various Subjects.

Condensation oi interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
David Binkley was killed by cars near Cor
win, O.
indianapolis labor unions have a general
eight-hour war on hands.
Wheeling w. Va, job printers have de-
manded an advance of wages.
Kentucky legislature passed the bill max
ing ''oontz" or craps" a felony.
At Omaha, Neb, George Nicholson was
shot by bis daughter. Family quarrel.
indianapolis is trying to lay the dust and
fifty miles of pavement simultaneously.
Mr., Quintet, Canadian, fed the country
with another mans wife and owing $25, 900.
The estate of the late American banker,
Junius 5, Morgan, is estimated at $4,000.
Mrs. Dr. Pettyjohn, Of indianapolis, lost
her life in saving horse from a burning
barn
Excitement and oil are bubbling up in i'm
mense quantities in the Eureka Newport, o.
oil field.
The Canadian cabinet has decided to ex-
tend the modus vivendi for the coming fish
ing season
Employees of the Rockaway, L. l. hunt
club have been fined and jailed fol docking
ponies tails
r, G. Tweeton, cashier of Fosson, Mimi.
National bank, left ON April 8. He is about
S. 600 short
In the Iowa senate, the bill providing for
capital punishment by electricity was in
definitely postponed.
There are indications that Cinnamon are
being struggled over to Detroit from Sarnia.
Ont, in large numbers
The United States Rolling Stock company.
OF Decatur, Ala, lost 100000 by fire at
their works Wednesday,
An Italian section man, name unknown,
was struck by a train and instantly killed,
at Alliance, o., Wednesday,
The late heavy wind storms have caused
phenomenal tidal waves in Lake Michigan,
rendering harborage unsafe.
Charles L. Lancaster, ex- treasurer of the
Buffalo press club is short in his accounts
about 81, 100, and has gone to Canada.
j. r.. Morgan and Marion Powers, Lexing-
ton, Ind, politicians exchanged harmless
shots and chin music at that place Wednes-
day.
President Ray has ordered SOC Journey
men tailors out of the Youngstown, O.,
shops until the requested advance is
granted.
Dauid Hunnicut, railroad and mining
contractor, was shot by an unknown assassin
at his home, fifteen miles east of Birming-
ham, Ala.
Three Presbyteries in Indiana voted for
revision of the confession of faith. The
Presbytcry in session at Logan, O., also
voted for it,
The only daughter of Steward o. Camp
bell, proprietor Of the Continental hotel, at
Cresullne, O., eloped and married one of the
negro walters,
A gypsy wedding in which I. W. Camp
and Maggie Stanley were made intensity
happy occurred at Hopkinsville, KY,
Wednesday evening,
A wind storm Wednesday evening al
Roanoke, Va, destroyed the Crozier steel
and iron works, and crushed four colored
laborers to death in the ruins.
The Pan-American congress will probably
adjourn next Wednesday, A Pan American
arbitration treaty has been recommended by
the general welfare committee.
Near Cyuthiana, Ky, Cass Garnett res
turned from the field to find his wife dead
on the floor with her skull fractured Sup
posed to be the work of tramps.
Peter WushargsU, OF Leetsdale, Pa, Joined
the Economics, an order forbidding matri-
mony, The restriction preyed on his mind,
resulting in suicidal mania. lie hung him
self Wednesday,
Samuel W, Rhode, connected with the
United States signal service at Milwaukee,
was found dead in his room at the Windsor
hotel Denver, Col He is believed to have
committed suicide.
The Chicago carpenters strike is costing
the union about $685. 900 week, but they
affirm that they are good for an all summer
siege, backed by tbs National council and
the Federation OF Labor
The grand jury at Warrenton, Ga, found
a true bill against Charles E, McGregor for
the murder Of j. M, w. Cody at that place
OcO. II last year, Cody had previously at
tempted to assassinate McGregor
At San Diego, Cal, Customs Inspector
Eldridge captured ten more Cinnamon being
Struggled in from Lower California in fish
ing boats. This makes thirty-three SNUG
gled Chinese now in custody there.
Some women at Oakland, Cal. have be-
come insane on account of the prediction of
the crank Erickson that an earthquake
would swallow up that city, San Francisco,
Chicago and Milwaukee this week.
At Chicago, the jury in the case of Henry
Lyons, charged with the murder of Peter Pet
erson, found Lyons guilty in the first degree,
fixing the penalty at life imprisonment. The
prisoner, only IS years of age, merely said:
"Well, I'm in luck"
c. w. Hatch, Of Boston, general agent of
the Travellers Insurance company for New
England, is on trial at Colorado Springs,
Col. ON a charge of having murdered his
uncle Henry Hatch, on the latters ranch,
near Flagler, Col, in April, 1889
Advices from northern Texas say that rs
per cent. of the wheat crop in the counties
of Cook, Grayson Collin, Denton, Wise and
Montagus has been destroyed by insects.
One of these creatures is very similar to the
northern cinchbug, and the other is the
common ladybug.
The Western Flint-glass association has
advanced prices in the various classes of
goods five cents to meet the heavy advance
made in soda ash recently. 1t was resolved
hereafter to refuse orders from jobbers &c
be filed on demand, as some jobbers have
been taking advantage of the manufac-
turers
Jennie Carney, Of Birmingham, the
lightweight champion of England, is
anxious to have another go with Jack Nc
AulifTe before the California Athletic club,
with two ounce gloves. Carney wants the
/ fight to be for purse of $4,000, the contest
to take place within four or six months
from signing articles.
The report of the Chicago commissioners
/ licensed to organize TIE corporation of the
worlds exposition Of 1899, has been filed with