Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-19
NEWa nm RRlEe.
A Condensation of Interesting items ON
Various Subjects

indianapolis is thinking of annexing
territory.
lelghty-one deaths from ehc:era were re-
ported from Europe Sunday.
Nine blocks of buildings were destroyed
by fire at Highmore, S, Oak.
Henry George reports that his ideas
are making great progress in Australia.
The first ear load of hops was shipped
from San Francisco TO o New York firm
j. c. O'Toole plunged knife into
George Mack's heart, at indianapolis. and
killed him.
William Ellis stopped burglars flight
at Wabash, Ind. and the fellow gave him
II severe drubbing.
Professor Aaron Holt suddenly expired
at Somerset, Ky, after having lived to
teach school forty years.
Colored militia complain that the laws
OF Ohio don't allow them enough blue
coats and brass buttons.
George Shaw and John Davis were killed
by lightning at Senecayille o., while
standing in charch door.
Oklahoma was visited by heavy rain,
insuring good pasturage and a second
growth of garden product.
Five thousand four hundred and fifty
steerage passengers from Europe passed
through the barge office last week.
Mrs. Mary Root, of Gallon, O., has been
bitten twice by copperhead snakes, yet she
still lives and the reptiles are dead
While men were digging at "a clay
ban three miles from Bordentown, N.
j., the bank cayed in, killing Fritz Solo
man.
Alice Mcbride, II, attempted suicide
at GAINESVILLE, o., by taking laudanum,
and when restored said she would try it
again.
Rev J. II. Hartman preached at Bey-
cries beer garden in Cleveland Sunday.
After the sermon the festivities were re-
sumed
AT Paris, Ky, Joseph Loar, workman
ON the new Kentucky Central railroad
bridge fell to the ground, ninety feet, and
is dead.
Poscy and Vanderburgh counties, Ind,
are mad at each other politically because
the latter wants to hog all the Democratic
persimmons.
Clarence Good proves to be very bad,
He embezzled IS. OC0 of his EMPLOYERS
money, the Henry st. Clair company, of
Gre envillc O.
Miss Lena Myers, IS, of Martinsville,
Ind, is mysteriously missing. She re-
tired, but the next morning no trace of
her could be found.
During the absence of Jackson Miller
and family from his house near Muncie,
Ind, somebody stale 800 in gold and
some silver money
Roadhouse, the fireman who murdered
Engineer Matt Nandcyere, at Van Vert.
o., will claim at his trial that he did the
killing in solt-dpfpnsc.
Mrs Huston, the wife of United States
Treasurer Huston, says the report hat
she gave expressions OF disgust at Wash
ington society are untrue.
Besancon, tbs French aeronaut and
Hermite, the astronomer, propose to make
balloon expedition to the north pole,
starting from Spitzbergen.
The press censors of Sweden and Nor
way have been instructed by King Oscar
to relax the severity with which the cen
sorshIp has recently been exercised
The number of desertions of troops at
the H&liiaX garrison has increased to
alarming proportions during the past few
months indicating much disconttnt.
Cigar lakers to the tune of 400 are out
advance IF 81 per / 900 and the manufac-
turers refuse to pay it after consulting.
AT Indianapolis, William Akers, ex-
convict, fred Love and Hiram Richard
aon played highwaymen, and robbed
everybody who passed their way, and this,
too, inside the city limits.
a tornado and hail storm in the depart
ment Of Aube, France, Sunday, ravaged
eighteen commune3, destroying the har-
vested and growing crops. The loss is es-
tImated at nearly 95,OOJ0aO francs.
lshmacl Pasha was foolish enough to 90
to Constantinople a year ago, aud now the
sultan will not let him leave there. The
othe" day lshmael announced that he
must go to Italy for u change of air. but
the sultan said no
The family of Aaron Thompson, living
at Branch Hill, O., were poisoned by
drinking coffee made from berries that
had not been sufficiently roasted The
poison that should have been eliminated
by perfect roasting was distilled by the
slcaming.
Oh Saturday last Mr.. and Mrs. Glad
stone received Il hundred deaf mutes from
Manchester, at llaWardcn Mr.. Gladstone
addressed them Ill u short speech which
Mrs, Gladstone rendered into the deaf and
dumb alphabet TO tac great contcntnent
Of the Wis. tors, who rcturhcl much pleased
With their kind reception
The London Daily News says that the
blue book plainly shows the ptirul soph-
i,tIies to which > cretary Blame has been
reduced in his attempt TO justify the high
handed proceedings OF his Cuunlrymen in
thp ~ tiers OF Iehliuu sen Che A mpr eln