Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Etems ON
Various Subjects.

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Various Subjects.
The Ohio pharmaceutical convention is
in session at Toledo o.
A parasite is killing the maple trees at
indianapolis by hundreds.
L. B. Grimes, ex-county recorder, drank
himself to death at Cadis, o.
Fred. Handley was charged with mur-
dering his father at Huron, S. Oak,
The house caucus Tuesday evening au-
thorized more extensive Federal election
law
Congressman Jason B. Brown was re-
nominated in the Third Indiana district
Tuesday.
Capt. Charles R, Western, Fourteenth
United States infantry, died at Van
couver, Wash, of apoplexy.
Father Quigley, of Toledo, has been in
dicted for refusing to report the number
ofpupils in his parochial school.
Barber shops are to be closed at Cleve-
land. The courts there have decided that
they are not Sunday necessities.
Robert Demarcus, an aged colored
laborer, and his son John were killed by
cave-in of dirt at Knoxville, Tenn.
Frank Dell, of Indianapolis, interfered
TO protect a young boy from gang of
toughs Sunday, and is dying from their
assault.
Harry Mcbride and Frank Larue,
rival lovers, fought prize fight at San
Francisco. The former received injuries
which resulted fatally.
Ex-Alderman James Pierson was fatally
injured by an Erie train at Jersey City
Monday night Pierson was one of the
Doodle aldermen of New York
A. Kohlbry, a wealthy junk dealer and
hardware man of Memphis, Tenn, was
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
for receiving and dealing in stolen prop
erty,
John Harvard, of Gorrie, Ont, and Will
lam Whalley, of Cohoes, N. Y, were
drowned at Keewatin, Man, by the cap
sizing of their boat in the rapids of the
Winnipeg river
Mrs. Ley visited her brother in France,
and probably took the average Akron, o.,
appetite with her. Now her brother comes
over the briny and sues for 500 as the
price of six weeks board.
At South Lebanon, o., little girl by
the name of Clemmons was drowned in
the Little Miami, and her mother died
from the effects OF the excitement attend
ing her efforts to save the child
At Clay City, KY, James T. Neal shot
and killed his father-in-law, Coach
Holmes. Neal claims that Holmes was
mistreating his daughter, Mrs. Neal.
Neal interfered, and in the fight that fol-
owed shot Holmes.
I'm all broke upr' sighed the cam
shovel at Urbana, o., after exploding in a
gravel pit and mixing four half-cooked
men among the sand and little pebbles.
They will recover, but the shovel will con-
tinue to repose in pieces.
Wharton Barker, of Phila elphia, has
organized a great American and Euro
pean banking company, with capital of
$25 ,000, 600, half of which is to be
issued at once. The company will con-
duct general financial business.
The Canadian government has decided
to advertise in the leading English papers
for tenders for fast Atlantic steamship
service. The advertisement will call for
minimum average speed of eighteen knots
per hour from port to port, a French
port being the starting point on the other
side, the vessels to call at either Southam-
ton or Plymouth, as may hereafter be
agreed upon.
o. II. Stevens, jewelry salesman from
Kansas City, was "bunkoed" out of con-
siderable cash and jewelry worth about
81 500, by May Sheridan, disreputable
Chicago woman, on Monday. The woman
aud her husband, Henry Sheridan, a well
known ''crook," were subsequently ar
rested and the jewelry recovered. together
with a lot of other valuables, also sup
posed to be stolen.