Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condens ation of Interesting Items On
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Lower Mississippi rising again.
Owen Ferris was fatally kicked by COW
near Seymour, Ind.
Sam. Kimball, aged 10, died In New York
from smoking cigarettes
j. W. Heine, burglar escaped from the of
ficers near Eddyville, KY.
Car Inspector Westermann was killed by
an engine at Indianapolis Thursday.
Ex-President Hayes and daughter have
sailed from New York for Bermuda.
Nine cases of smallpox on board detain the
bark Sarah in quarantine off Boston.
The Massachusetts, house has rejected the
bill granting municipal suffrage to women.
j. j. Grinnell, of Dubuque, Iowa. shot
George Cornell for flirting with Mrs Grin
nell
John Larsen, of Milbank, S. Oak, mis-
took his brother for a burglar and killed
him
Gen, H. c. Sickel commander of the
Pennsylvania reserves, died of heart disease
in Philadelphia
The miners convention at Columbus finally
revived the interstate agreement and fixed
a scale of prices
The Western Cut Nail association has de-
cided to advance the price of nails to the go
base less ten cents for car loads.
One man was instantly killed, another
fatally, and third seriously injured by a
premature blast at Cementville, Ind
Rev. z. C. Mower, United Brethren
clergyman, has committed forgery for
small amounts on several local banks and
skipped.
James s. Caswell, imprisoned for life at
Montpelier, Vt, for the murder of George
Gould, was married to Gould's widow
through the bars.
A prisoner, Charles Weber, in the Cali.
fornia state prison at Folsom, on attempting
to escape by swimming American river, was
shot dead in midstream.
Charles A. Benson, a pattern maker, is
suspected of numbering Mrs. Wettiman, al
Leavenworth, Kan, month ago. Benson
is hiding at Kansas City.
George Cornell, railway engineer, was fa
tally shot at North McGregor, Iowa. by u.
Grlnnell, court stenographer, whose wifei
affections he had alienated.
Serving as governor Of Iowa appears ia
be healthy occupation It is said that
without an exception every governor Of
that state since 1859 is alive and hearty.
While trying to eject two members of
charivari party from his brothers house,
John Pine, living near Dubuque, Iowa, had
his skull fractured by blow from one Of the
rioters
Emile lola has had an offer of $3.50 q
night for forty lectures on Realism in this
country. He wrote curt answer, in which
he asked: where and what is the United
States ~
Joseph williams, respectable and inof
fenslve white man of Otter Hill, Va, was
overpowered in the woods by three negroes
and emasculated. A lynching party is after
the brutes.
In Buenos Ayres an opera box for sixty
nights cost $1,000. Coal for range or fire
place is from $8S to $40 per ton. You NAV
go to the circus for $3.50. Shoes are worth
from $40 to S12
Ex-Governor Swineford, of Alaska. has
great confidence in that territory He will
soon start daily paper at West Superior,
city that he predicts will have 100000 in
habitants in ten years.
Capt. W. l.. Couch, the noted "boomer.'
who was shot by j. G, Adams, at Guthrie
l. T., about ten days ago, is not expected to
NV GO AS 10 AON hON, anu Ulb
are that blood poisoning has set in
Fifty members of the executive committee
of the National Association of Railway
Postal Clerks held meeting at Chicago tc
discuss ways of having their salaries fixed
by law, and the regulation of the same
placed in the hands of congress-
Northwestern Ohio undertakers have
formed trust That is the way it is called
by those who believe in calling spade q
spade notwithstanding it is a grave sub
ject The organization was effected after
they had rehearsed the grounds for their &C.
ton.
The controversy between the state live
stock commission and Chicago health de.
partment, in relation to the disposition OF
diseased cattle at the stock yards, was set.
tied by decision Of the city law department
unfolding the commission as having superior
authority.
A voracious rat attacked, while sleeping,
Mrs E. S. Carter, of st. Louis and her two
children, and severely wounded them Each
child was attacked in turn, and it was not
until she herself was awakened by being bit |
ten on the finger that she realized what had
caused the mischief.