Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

SuDJeCJSs
Three Hatfields who were present at the
killing of Affair Mccoy will be tried al
Pineville, Ky.
Cowles Is sufficiently recovered to make
deposition, but refuses to prosecute his
brother-in-law, Hale.
Maj. Butterworth says that If the secre-
teryship of the worlds fair is offered him
he thinks he will accept.
A house in south Fairfield, Mich, was
set on fire by the rays of the sun reflected
from some tin pans that had been set ou
to dry.
An aged lady and her granddaughter
were fatally burned by an explosion Of
natural gas in the cellar of their house in
Pittsburg
Elizabeth Coward and Kate Young
carved theirway out of the Indianapolis
female reformatory by saving off the bars
with c,se knives.
The men who gave to Mrs. Harrison her
cottage at Cape May were George w.
Childs, A. j. Drexel, Wanamaker, Gen
Sewell and A. II. Hamilton.
Miss Elsie Hall, aged 12 years. is the
latest prodigy in musical way She is an
Australian production, and plays any
thing and everything at sight.
Postmaster General Wanamaker's life
and accident insurance now amounts to
81, 300, ,0O0-thc largest insurance carried
by any individual in the world.
In the second race at Morris park
Wednesday, Brother Ban, 6-year-old,
dropped dead near the quarter pole. Gar
rison, his rider, escaped injury
The Eropd uNr,,rl Ias
main in the Central Traffic association.
the latter having consented to recognize
the difference claimed by the Grand
Trunk.
John Coraty, inmate of the Hendricks
county, Ind, poor house, has back pen
sion of $13,500 granted him in compensa-
tion for his reason lost through injnries
received in the war.
1t rained chunks of ice at st. Louis
Wednesday, and n span of frightened
hearse horses dumped the coffin in the
gutter and dashed up the street with the
remnant of the hearse.
Mrs Lavina Williams has just finished
grading portion of the Evansville and
Richmond railroad at Columbus, Ind.
and comes to Wellington, o., where she
has similar contract.
Ex-Governor Holiday, of Virginia, was
in the Transvaal region of Africa when
last heard FROM ON his third tour around
the world. There Is no half-holiday bust.
ness about the governor.
The sheriff Of Miller county, Ark, has
arrested five men near Texarkana on sus-
picion of being the Lien who robbed the
train on the Cotton Belt railroad One of
ho naunad Do1ioh ITo,.,nr,4 loa
been identified.
There is no change in the Columbus
street car strike, except that the danger
of serious riot grows more imminent
The mayor has called a meeting of prom
inent citizens to confer with him as to the
best methods of settlement
In indianapolis Maud johnson Childs
was granted divorce from Austin Cor
bin Childs, a nephew of Austin Corbin
the railroad magnate Ee had deserted
her soon after marriage, because his
wealthy relatives opposed his alliance
with poor girl.
The cyclone that swept Dewitt county.
I'll wrecked school house near Birk.
beck, injuring five children, Of whom two
may die. At Wapeila IL wrecked the Cen.
trail depot and Methodist church and IA.
tally injured a man named House. BE.
sides which IL destroyed barn and killed
three horses.
The American steamer 81. Lawrence.
taking the Canadian Foresters on an ex.
cursion, at Kingston, refused to lower the
American flag when the band Of a British
battery, engaged for the occasion, were
about 70 go aboard. Both the colonel and
American owner OF the boat were stub
born, and the band was left behind
Assistant Postmaster General Whitfield
has made new departure aud put a stop
TO the practice OF compromising fof actual
damages with professional -sar roate mai!
contractors. He has enforced tia law
against one W. A. st0idard. who has
eboat 900 of snch contracts which have
been thrown upon the governments
hands. ene ease Involves about f1o.0o
damage aud imprisonment and stotldard
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