Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condensation Of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Canada.
Anderson, Ind, grand jury is on the
trail of White Caps.
Sweeney was chosen grand master of
the railway switchmen.
The recovery of ex-Congressman w. L.
Scott, Erie, Pa, is doubtful.
A Chinaman at Anderson, Ind, was re-
fused naturalization papers.
Seven young ladies took the veil Mon
day at Ursuline convent, Tifiin, @.
Fire in the parafine works at Bergen
Point, N. D., caused loss of $l50,009
Samuel Murrell, oldest Mason in Ken
lucky, died at Bowling Green aged 9S
John Eveysole and Joe Bowling were
admitted to $1,000 bail at Winchester, Ky.
Emil Schoerberg, the forger, died in
Philadelphia several days ago while in
hiding
A Cleveland syndicate has purchased
the Evansville, Ind, street railway for
$4,000.
1t is said that the railroad buainess of
Middlesborough, KY, amounts to $1,000
| a month.
! Dion Boucicault was buried Monday at
| The Little Church Around the Corner"
| New York
EX-Deputy Sheriff Omar Brown, of
| Hopkinsyille, Ky, is not to be found, nor
is $500 which he is accused of embez-
zlng.
A dispatch from California says that
Mra. Fremont is i'll and on the verge of
destitutton, with not a dollar in the
! house,
Jim Colson Davis, an honest noun
tainecr, shot and killed "Slim jim, ," the
desperate, who was trying to terrorize
! Davis
| The Cincinnati board of education de-
cided, by a vote of II to II, against GUST
ing married lady teachers from the public
schools.
Charles Minnemacher agel Z, was fa-
| tally burned by setting his clothes on fire
while trying to smoke a cigarette, ut Ere
mont, o.
Samuel Wilson, bachelor, aged 65 years,
died Monday near Paris, KY, 1t is believed
through grief for a sister, who died abolt
ten days age.
1t is believed outsiders have been plot
ting to blow up the Kentucky pelit1nti-
airy, at Frankfort, in order to liberatc GER
tam prisoners.
VIII. Dudley, drunk, shot and killed
his step-father, Mason Thomas, at
Payne's depot, near Georgetown, Ky,
without cause.
The shells OF the enemy fell too thickly
into the life of Samuel Carbaugh, Indian-
apolis Salvation Army leader, and he beat
IA retreat by suicide.
Fire fend mt Fort Wayne, Ind, ptted
himself against soap aud water as gen
ola ant Il t1l,
soap factory IS heap of ashes
The German Catholic congress opened
in Pittsburg Monday with an initial at
tendance of several hundred delegates,
representing every state in the union,
Mr.. Silas Graves, who was stabbed at
New Albany, Ind, by DIR. Gresham, died
Sunday night. Gresham surrendered
Witnesses say he acted in self-defense.
Queen Victoria has ordered proceedings
against Reporter O'I'rien to be stopped
lie is the man who furnished the account
of Prince Georges knocking out three
toughs on the street.
A pearl diver is making big money on
the Licking river. He found very large
pearl near Falmouth, KY, that he sold to
Duhmc, the Cincinnati jewcler, for $lS2
Fifty small ones were found in one week.
A rear end collision occurred on the
Wabash tracks Mt Forest park, st. Louis,
Monday evening. Engineer Charles W.
Howard was instantly killed and brake
man and about fifteen Others injured,
some seriously.
The engineers and firemen of the new
switching association of the Chicago
stock yards struck Monday. because two
men were employed whom they said were
scabs Later they were persuaded to 20
to work until an investigation could be
made
A man supposed to be Thomas Carlisle,
of Newport, Ky, was fatally shot in "a
quarrel in front of the Eureka hotel, Cat
lettsburg, KY, late Monday. His slayer,
Il club footed man, was pursued by officers
and shot once, but managed to escape in
the darkness.
The test of armor plate ut Annapolis
navy ward demonstrated the superiority
of French nickel steel over the English
Cammel compound steel. The thirteen
mound shot shattered the English armor
into fragments, but only indentcd the
French plate.
The history of the Christian church by
DR.. Philip Ichaff has just been issued,
with some additions and abbreviations,
in the Chinese language. The transla-
tion covers the first six CENTRES and has
been made by the Rev. ID. l.. Sheffield
who has spent twenty years in northern
China rs missionary of the American
board.
A special committee OF the Columbus
city council have reported that Auditor
Rcinhard, during 1sSS-9 illegally apwo-
priated $1,000 in fees, and during the
same period Treasurers IIeifner and
Pausch appropriated $S,5si The commit
tee recommended that the officials be
given ten days in which 20 cover back the
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