Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-29
NEWS IN RRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Congressman Page is dangerously i'll.
Detroit will hustle for the Democratic
National convention of '92,
William Griffiths, aged IS, was killed by
the cars at Youngstown, o.
Seventy-first anniversary of Odd Fellow
ship was generally observed Sunday
The silver problem is still subject for
caucusing by the Republican senators.
Casper Soerr, clerk in the postoffice at
Newark, N. j., confessed 5000 defalca-
ton.
John C. Fremont's nomination to be
major general, U. S. A., was confirmed by
the senate.
George f. North, an engineer, was 50
badly injured in a wreck at Hattiesburg,
Miss, that he died.
Henry Johnson, a bricklayer of Wheel
ing, was set upon by three strikers and
very seriously injured.
English, Ind, was flooded by a cloud
burst early Saturday morning, great dam
age to property being done.
President Harrison's first veto is that of
bill 'tO authorize Ogden, Utah, to as
sumo increased Indebtedness,
The survivors of the Inflated Sultana re-
siding in East Tennessee, held their an
nual meeting at Maysville Sunday
Sallie Starbuck, aged IA years, COM
mitted suicide near Wilmington o., by
drowning herself in pool of water.
Number of railway accidents in this
country in March III, in which forty-four
persons were killed and 1856 injured
New Englanders have bought about
$3,000,000 worth of property the past two
weeks in towns around Chattanooga
Twelve inches of rain fell in Texas last
week, swelling brooks and rivers, and
washing out bridges and railway tracks.
All Europe is anxiously awaiting May 1,
fearful of the outcome of the labor demon
strations. Rioting is expected in Austria.
Farmers Alliance of Missouri propose
the erection of an immense elevator, to
store their wheat until it can be sold for
81 bushel
Sim. Coy, of indianapolis, has received a
notice from Regulators" that his disrepu-
table resort in the suburbs must be closed
by the 18th of May.
While Clark Talbert, of Carthage Ind,
was hunting, his gun was accidentally dis
charged the load entering his side. The
wound may prove fatal.
Sullivan's conditions for his battle with
Jackson are: The winner will receive the
entire $4,000, and that he may make
side bet not exceeding $50, 900 nor less than
$40, 600.
The president, tired of mob interference
with United States officers in Florida, has
directed Marshal Weeks to enforce the
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administration.
Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, thinks the eight
hour movement should be settled by trades
separately and deprecates any general
movement as unwise.
Alex. Wilson, white farmer was
beaten to death on the outskirts of Louis
vile by John Bowman, after a dispute
over game of craps. Bowman received
dangerous cut in the face during the
melee.
At Atlanta the ceremony of laying the
cornerstone of the Confederate veterans
home was witnessed by an immense con-
course of people. Gen. Joseph f. Johnson
and f. Kirby Smith were enthusiastically
greeted. Hon. j. c. Black, of Augusta,
delivered the Grafton.
A committee from the municipal con-
gress of Cincinnati has presented Mayor
Mosby with a communication stating that
unless he enforces the law governing
street railroads or resigns, the congress
will notify the city solicitor to mandamus.
Charges of impeachment will also be
filed.
Agid Arnold, awealthy man of Laudeck,
Allen county, o., was taken suddenly ill
at the supper table, and died while being
carried away. His body swelled to an
enormous size and turned black. His
stomach is in the chemists hands, and his
wife and Nicholas Schneider are in Jail
awaiting the result of the analysis.
Owing to an accident rendering the
brakes useless, a Chesapeake and Ohioe x-
press rushed into Staunton, Va, at the rate
of eighty miles an hour, crashing into the
depot, at a. m. Monday. A sleeper in
which 1.-The Pearl of Pekin" company
was, turned on it's side One of the COM
pany, Miss Myrtle Knott, was fatally in
jured, and another Miss Edith Wheeler,
had leg broken, and several other per-
sons scratched and bruised.