Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items Of
Various Subjects,


A Condensation of Interesting Items oi
I Various Subjects.
/ Snow storms prevail generally in Great
+ Britain.
Oil has been discovered near Chester
ton, Ind
: The two New York base ball clubs have
J consolidated
J The weather is so mild in North Dakota
that children play out doors barefooted,
ExTreasurer Francis f. Spinner is
dying from cancer in Jacksonville Fla.
-Four Indians, who murdered white men,
were hanged at Missoula Mont, Friday
Nevin Davis overstuded for the minis
try at Evansville, Ind, and hanged him
self,
Mrs, Frank Uist, of Canton, O.. was
seriously burned by the explosion of a
! lamp
George Blazier of Anderson, Ind was
crushed and fatally mangled by u 2,40O-
pound safe
The Pittsburg and Wheeling division of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad is block
AIDED by snow
There is less excitement in Dublin since
Mr. Parnell ceased to edit United Ireland
with y crowbar
The receipts of the Stanley lecture at
Indianapolis We're attached for an old debt
of $500 belonging to Maj Pond
Mrs. Custer visited Burnside post, G. A.
! r., in Washin gton the other night. The
| "boys" gave her rousing reception.
Fremont, o., Daily News is shut out
from the mails because it published the
result of Catholic church fair lottery.
Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, returned
the Kingfsher bill to the legislature. The
legislature refused to change the bill.
Benjamin Osborne is adjudged deserv-
ing of fifteen years imprisonment for
manslaughter, by Warsaw, Ind, jury.
A soft-spoken stranger took in Urbana
people by purchasing turkeys with S. gold
pieces and getting good money in change
indianapolis Murderer Mnnich's dreams
were haunted by the ghost of his victim.
Lewis Linn, until his reason has left him.
Bishop Whipple, Episcopal, OF Mime
sofa, will spend the winter in the south of
France as the guest of j. Pierpoint Nor
gan.
The Helena board of trade has unanim- |
ously adopted resolutions favoring the free |
and unlimited coin; g of all American
silver.
A small cottage in Newark N. j., was |
destroyed by fire, and Mrs. Mcclure |
and her granddaughter were burned TO
death
William Cooley and James Sneed got
only roasting by setting fire to their cells
in the Manchester, o., Jail, in an effort to
escape.
Charles Stader, an Indiana farmer. is
said to have discovered two stones on
his farm that are pronounced to be dia-
monds.
Christ Knieling, tailor at Dayton, o.,
who put $1,000 in cigar box and buried il
for safety, has been robbed of the whole
amount.
Edward Thompson, marshal of Harden
burg KY, was stabbed to death by des-
perado, Samuel Harrison, whom he tried
to arrest.
Leonidas l., Amey, of Canton o., con
victed of a criminal assault on a 7-year-
old girl has been sentenced to the peni
tentiary for life.
Maggie McDermott, the girl who was
bitten by mad dog in Cincinnati, is to be
taken to New York for treatment by the
Pasteur method.
The senate finance committee has agreed
10 report the financial bill, subject TO
certain individual reservations as to GER {
tain portions of it.
James Calvin, white miner at Coal
burg, Ala, is in Jail, charged with firing :
upon a number of white mihers who had {
TO work. '
phineus Fair, of Millersburg, O., is or
Tered to pay John Weaver one cent to re-
pair damages done by Fairs tongue to
Neaver's character.
Charlottesville, Ind, school children
brought on the last day of the term sew
,ral wagonloads of eatibies to be given to
he poor for Christmas.
The wife of Amos Fox, farmer near
canton, o., has gone crazy on account of
he conviction of her husband on n charge c
If assault and battery. \
John Scanlon, Of Cincinnati, must pay 4
Timothy Raridon, of Shelbyville, Ind, So 4
100 for injuries received in an explosion at q
'canlons stone quarry. 8
The Empress Eugenie Is reported to be a b
eayy loser by the recent depreciation in &
'outh American securities as she had in v
ested very largely in them c
The naval appropriation bill provides for y
ne rev crusier of !, $50 tons displacement. p
o cost s., 2,7500J0 II carries total appro- 6
riation Of about $30,0O0,0oO I
At Canton, o., Leonidas Arney. san y y
enced to life imprisonment for criminal =
ssault on child, protests his innocence =
gainst convincing proofs Of guilt. =
Many people have left western Kansas
n account Of the dronth Over 1000 have :,
,ft Rocks county alone. Many Of those
are unable to get away.
The country school boys near Hunting
IN, Ind, have the teacher locked out and y
treaty Of peace means a treat Of peanuts u
nd candy by the deposed potentate. d
Lee Moonshiner had prelimif ary hear u
" at Canton, O., and was bound o1 or to u
,urt in the sum Of 81 900 on the charge of u
assaulting two young girls. =
Elyira and Charity Hilton, Of Louisville. =, y
~, has been sued in behalf of their !,
rphan nephew, Joseph j.. Hilton to recover -
$4,000 Tue specification Is that they
took from the child's father,
leir brother, that smeHnt ~ bonds Just ia
afore his death. q
Miss Kate Drexel, whs wss, received as oi
novitiate into the Roman Catholic q
lureh ns s ter Catherine. 4 year ago. ~