Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting items Of
various Subjects.

Secretary Blaine is at Cape May, with
the president.
The Illinois legislature has passed the
worlds fair bill
The decrease of the public debt during
July was 1896, POI.
Annie Staten shot at Louisville by re-
jected sUitor, may recover.
BY the will of Gen Fremont his widow
is made sole heir and eXecutriX.
Jonas Gibson went to Muneie, Ind,
with money in his pocket, and has never
been seen since
The Instruction in Salvador has been
suppressed by the government, and Rivas,
who started and led it, shot.
A mad dog bit little daughter of j.
Hayner residing near Marshall, Mo-, and
also child Of w. l.. Pinkard.
Mrs Reosar and sister, Miss Anderson,
were drowned while bathing in the Mag
ara river at Youngstown, n. Y.
A Fall River Mass, homing pigeon
few from Owosoa, Mich, $50 miles, in
two and three-quarter days, breaking the
record.
An old saw mill boiler, near Danville,
H., exploded Friday. c. Chester was
instantly killed, and John Chester fatally
injured.
Louis Durlacher, travelling crook, is ac-
cused OF the grave offense OF swindling
Columbus, Ind, undertakes by under
ground methods.
Mary Brennan and Miss Mcintosh,
young women employed at Il resort at
Elkhart lake, Wisconsin, were drowned
Wednesday night.
Two more criminals escaped from the
Columbus penitentiary, Friday night.
There have been four escapes and i've
pardons within two weeks.
Seven hundred gold bars, valued at 81
OOO,0OO, were taken rom the assay office,
New York, and shipped to Europe. There
is still 81, OOO, OO0 worth i'll the assay office.
Owing to the advance in the price of sill
yer bullion under the new silver law,
manufacturers OF solid silverware have
increased the price fifteen cents an ounce.
The heavy wind storm of Friday after
noon dad considerable damage to prop
erty in East Newport and Bellevue, Ky.
several houses were blown down or un-
rooted.
At the new Omaha Union depot the
rope on derrick broke under the strain
OF huge iron beam, and the handle
struck II. J. Kenworthy in the head,
fracturing his skull He will die.
Mrs. Charles K. York and her mother,
Mrs. Julia McCleiland, who were murder
ously assaulted with an AK by James
r. Mecks at Bengies, Md, are still alive,
Dut the doctors say they cannot possibly
recover.
Dead, with pistols in their hands, bullet
holes through them, and deck OF cards
DetwCen them, was the tableau presented
by the Coyhart cousins ut Hazard Ky,
Friday. 1T is thought they were muir
dercd and robbed.
A gang of countcrfeiters have been To-
Gated near New Cumberland, U. Two ar
rests have been made. 1t Is said "A 900
worth of the stuff was put iuto circula-
ton the days the Banum show was at
Akron and Canton.
John NJ. Atherton, ex-president of the
Liquor Dealers National Protective asso-
citation, says That Cleveland lost New
York state Ill the presidential election by
Il coalition between the brewers and the
Republican managers.
While there is life there is soap said
the physician ut Wayntown us he forced
4
who was almost dead from Swallowing Il
cup of lye. The boy threw up a pint vi
soft soap and will i've
An English syndicate has secured an
optIuIi un ali the glass tableware factories
IN Findlay, o., and vicinity, ana the
formal transfer rs to be made Dec TO- The
syndicate is trying to get control OF all
the factories III the country
l.,
with the intention of lynching the eight
murderers in jail there. The sheriff col
iected II force Of forty men and installed
V.eIn i'll the Jail. armed with Wincnesters.
The lyncnlng did not take place.
The Democrats of the Fourteenth con-
sressional district of Missouri nominated
kuDert II. Whitelaw, of Cape Girardeal,
to Mi the uneXpired term of James Z.
Walker, deceased, and Hon. Marshall
A4uoid for the next regular term.
At Chicago Jack DennisOn, II we'll
known criminal, entered the saloon OF 4. |
Dillon while the proprietor was standing
on The sidewalk III front of the building
and attempted to rob the till. In the
fight that followed Dillon was fatally |
shot.
y single bale of cotton auctioned on the |
board vi trade at Chicago netted S2,U4. 80 |
The ihgh price realized was due TO the
net that Inc proceeds were to go TO AN |
orphan asylum. EaGh successful biader
a1t,i capturing the bale, returned it to |
the aucIlOnees Tor another sale
Near Stoneville, Mass, while IA heavy |
VIM Was raging, u colored woman named |
Loue Black, her son and daughter were
drlvIng toward town i'll u buggy. When
they were near Bogue Phalaya swamp
II large tree fell on them, killing the
mother and SON and badly wounding the
daughte
y Philadelphia syndicate recently pur-
chased the ulstillery OF john Il. Roach, ut
Uniontown, Ky, tor SlOU,OOO 1t is now
claimed they propose to make cologne
spirits, rye whisky and the ike, and COM
pete with the trust known as the Distill-
ing and Cattle Feeding company when
has It's headquarters at Peoria, III,
In place OF the usual deficit in the nc
counts OF the Central insane hospital at
Indianapolis, DR.. Wright, new superin-
tendent covers back into the state treasury
$40, 900 of the usual appropriation that he
has saved. DIR. Wright should go into
or the lecture field labeled: BE
held an oiiceholder in whom there is no
guile"
Held Up and Shot.
NASHVILLE, Aug. AT II o'clock
Thursday night a farmer named Adkins
was held up Just outside the city ON the