Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A CONDENSATION Of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

A Condensation Of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.
Daniel Hertel was drowned while bath.
ing in the canal at Indianapolis.
Charles H. Van Tine committed saicide
at his stock-farm near Republic, o.
At Huntington, Ind, Howard Thomp-
son, Democrat, was nominated for state
senator.
Capt. Hugh Espy, of Rising Sun, Ind,
erects soldiers monument at his own
expense in the cemetery there.
Springfield's new government building,
costing $4,000, is said TO be so bad that
the postmaster refuses to move in.
Eighty-three machinists and round
housemen discharged at Huntington, Ind,
by the Chicago and Atlantic. Reducing
expenses.
Robert Brukan. Indianapolis travelling
salesman, cut his throat and started on the
long journey from which there is no re-
turn at Louisville Sunday.
Robert Brecken, representing Van Camp
& Co., of indianapolis, was found dead in
his room at the Fifth Avenue hotel Lou
isville, having committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
A Greencastle, Ind, baby swallowed
twenty belladonna pills, and being boy
will live to tackle the green apple period
of existence, with reasonable prospects of
coming through that also all right.
Kentucky court of appeals has decided
that it piers as if the Henderson Bridge
company should abridge its boarded gains
by SIS, 900 per annum and pay that sum to
the city of Henderson for overdue taxes.
Two prominent farmers of Westville,
ILL.,, quarPeled Saturday evening Blak-
ney emphasized his opinion with blow.
Cook replied with jack knife Blakney
is dying from hole in his body six inches
deep.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
fixed the telegraph rates the same as last
year, which the Western Union refused.
The Western Union again refuses to ac-
cept, and will bring the matter before the
courts.
"There's one that will never burst"
said Thomas Box, pointing to his sawmill
at Lees Lick, Ky. A minute after he was
dead, and his employees, Joseph Giles and
James Kinney, fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of that same boiler.
The school book board, created by an
act of the last session of the Ohio legisla-
ture, has determined that the maximum
price to be paid for school books shall be
at a reduction of 1875 per cent. from the
"list" price, competition to settle still fur
Their reduction.
There is to be an interesting auction sale
in London on July g. The property to be
put up is none other than the entire island
of Anticosti, at the mouth of the st.
Lawrence river. 1t contains 2,501, 0OG
acres, and the advertisement in The Bos.
ton Herald makes it out rich in fish, lum.
Der, minerals and probably petroleum
1t is said the island has not been Thoroughly
explored.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott writes to The
Christian Union in favor of opening the
Libraries, museums and art galleries ON
Sunday, He says that in st. Louis, where
the reading rooms are open on Sunday,
and in Boston, where the art galleries are
open ON the same day the experience has
been that these places are visited by work
ingmen and their families who are gener-
ally unable to visit them during other
days of the week
Two young men were returning to their
home at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday night
in buggy, when three masked robbers
jumped out of hedge and flashed dark
lantern in their faces. They not only
frightened the young men, but the horse,
which, paying no regard to the "stand
and deliver went off on the jump. The
robbers put three bullet holes through the
buggy top, but missed their victims A
posse with guns is locking for the high
waymen.