Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

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Various Subjects.
Bass bite beautifully in Put-in-Bay
The village of Ellicottsville, n ", was
one-half destroyed by fire.
Nine hundred and twenty-seven immi-
grants arrived in New York Sunday.
Winchester, o., has twenty-seven de.
ceased mad dogs as the record of the past
week,
The woman's National board of foreign
missions is meeting this week in Martins.
vile, Ind.
This will be a dry summer in Newcorl.
merstown, o., by the decision of voting
majority of 8.
A company has been formed at London,
with electric light.
1t is now rumored that at least thirty
lives were lost at the Chemango county,
N. Y, poor house fire.
In Mercer county, w Va, an old man,
William p Rogers, was burned up in his
own house by incendaries.
A Texas mob Saturday night at Hearne
took a colored rapist convict, Edward Ben
rich, out of Jail and hanged him.
Cumberland county, KY, people see
with wild hilarity and joyful shrieks the
oil bubbling up through the blue grass.
Bookkeeper Whitney, of the Albany
City bank, is now thought to have appro-
priated about 100000 for losing specula-
tion.
And now it is Mr.. Kinder, insurance
commissioner of Ohio, who is made ex-
hausted and weary unto death by office
seekers.
The American Life Insurance company.
of Philadelphia, has discontinued bust
ness in consequence of the writ of quo
warranto.
Eight miles from Chico, Cal. in a ranch,
the bodies of two Cinnamon were found
horribly mutilated after the Chinese High
binder style
At Wheeling, w. Va, several buildings
were unroofed, chimneys blown down and
considerable property destroyed by Satur-
day nights storm.
Burr Wallace, aged years, was
drowned at Marion, Ind, while trying to
ford a creek A younger brother lodged
in drift pile and was saved.
A defalcation in the City National bank,
at Albany, N. ", amounting to nearly
EOb,UUOy HAS DCtu lEdCtu W bcOIBt =. w Iltl-
ney, the individual bookkeeper.
1t is proposed to establish a system of
underground tubes to facilitate the trans
action of business between the capitol, at
Washington, and the departments.
About $4,000 worth of military stores
belonging to the United States govern
ment were burned by an incendiary fire at
Millet's Point, LII, Saturday night.
The Central Labor union, of New York
City, has refused admission to delegates
of the Saloon Keepers union, on the
ground that they are not wage-workers.
Ralph Allen, the young man who at
tempted to rob a diamond salesman in a
room of the Palmer house, Chicago, was
sentenced to nine years in the peniten-
tiary
In the suburbs of Buffalo q Lehigh Val
ley switch engine exploded with terrific
force hurting the body of the fireman 100
feet in the air, and the engineer to a dis
tance of $50 feet.
William O'Keefe, of Cleveland, O., was
killed by Jimmy O'Donnell because
O'Keefe tried to defend his daughter from
an assault by O'Donnells vixenish friend
Mrs. Allie Daisey.
Al faton, ", Ut. a. =. hdWley TOOK
forty and one-fourth grains of morphia
and then shot himself through the heart.
He was graduate of Miami medical col
lege, Gin sinnati, and 81 years old
William Berry, n New YORK matchmaker,
attempted 10 murder his sick wife He
beat her about the head with "A stove lid
and crushed her skull into small bits. She
will die. Berry has been arrested.
TOrnadocs have been frequent in Mis-
souri, lately. A large amount Of property
has been destroyed and several persons
killed. They have occurred in Harrison
county, Gentry counts and near Blythes-
dale
Senator Pierce, of North Dakota, states
that experiments with the sugar beet IN