Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Thunder storms in New England Friday
did great damage. Two lives were lost.
Alpheus Bull, prominent Californian,
was drowned in the bay at San Francisco.
An Indiana miser named Hilton tried
just before his death to destroy bonds
worth 5000.
Houston Blue, a colored man, was shot
and killed at Chattanooga, Tenn, while
resisting an officer
A farmer named Staver committed sui
eide near West Aleqandria, o., by hanging
to beam in his barn.
Maj. Ball, colored, was drowned while
attempting to ford Dix river six miles
from Lancaster, KY, Friday.
Oliver Bell Bunce, the we'll known
author and editor of Appleton's publica-
tions, died Friday in New York, aged so,
JUICE Como won the medal for general
proficiency at Victoria university, Ontario.
He is a native of Toxic, and of high rank.
Hon. John G. Carlisle was nominated on
the ninth ballot for United States senator
from Kentucky by the caucus at Frank
fort
Mrs. Frank Leslie's business manager
says that by cable to him she refutes the
statement that she is engaged to be mar
ried.
The Prohibitionists of Kentucky have
nominated Mrs. Josephine X. Henry, of
Versailles, for clerk of the court of ap-
peals.
Three of the New York excise commits
sioners have been indicted for neglect in
failing to investigate election law VIOLA
tions.
Ten girls in an elevator in New York
fell through six stories to the bottom as
the result of broken cable. None were
injured.
The Portland, Me-, grand jury indicted
DR.. Orrin C, Murch for murder, in caus-
ing the death of Julia A. Shain by NAL
practrice.
A company has been formed in England
to buy the Jackson Iron Mining company,
one of the best properties on Lake Supe-
rior, for 81, 10000.
Senator Sherman is opposed to free
coinage of silver, but favors giving the
country more money and advancing silver
to the gold standard.
A. S. Bright a Chicago and Atlantic
brakeman, was caught in switch at
Markle, Ind, and had both legs cut off.
His recovery is doubtful.
A sensation was created at Hopkins
vile, KY, Friday, by the finding of the
body of an infant in box, in a vacant lot,
in the suburbs of the city.
Texas Farmers Alliance men are in an
excited state of mind, million dollars of
their money being said to have been wasted
by the managers at Dallas.
Kentaro Kaneko, secretary of the privy
council of Japan, called at the worlds fair
headquarters in Chicago TO make arrange
ments for the japanese exhibit.
Charles Congleton, aged % years, while
standing on moving train, ON the Valley
road, near Mineral Point, o., was struck
by bridge and had his neck broden.
Frank Griffith, machine tender, and
Otto Bell and James Wilcox, laborers, en-
ployed at Blacks paper mill, at York
vile, ILL.,, were drowned while fishing.
Near Winchester, o., Charles Mcintyre
tried to force a shell into shotgun by
pounding it with an iron pin. The shell
burst and Mcintyre was fatally injured.
Charles Randolph, ex-secretary of the
board of trade of Chicago, was found in
Portland, Ore. He states that the circum-,
stances of his leaving Chicago are blank
to him.
William McKinnon, prominent farmer
and cattle dealer, was assaulted near
Bellefontaine, O., and robbed of $500.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest
of his assailants.
Albert Harsfeld, president of the Chi
cago Quilting company, committed sui
eide. He was afflicted with tumor on
the neck, and physicians told him he
could not get WELL
The friends of John Eye, who disap-
peared from Brush Creek, o., last Sunday,
and who has not since been seen or heard
from, fear that he has been killed or met
with some accident.
Officials of the Chicago gas trust declare
that there is no truth in the published
statement that the Standard Oil company
has secured a controlling interest in the
stock of the gas trust.
The Attic Debating society of the Dem
yer high school offers yearly prizes for the
best essay. James j. Mosier, II years old,
whose effort proved failure, went home,
procured a revolver and put an end tn his
life.
Two alleged diamond thieves, George
w. Brown aod John Ginderat, of Phila-
delphia, aIe held to the Chicago criminal
court Their plan was to inspect rings in
iewelry stores and substitute paste for
genuine stones.
The drouth, in some measure SO favor
able to sugar manufacturing in Cuba, in
terferes with labor in the fields, and cane
planting for next year has been delayed so
long that it will be difficult, If not impos
sible, to retrieve lost time
Mrs Mary Bangerwede, a young mar
lied woman of New York, who has been
confined to her bed by illness for some
time past, was awakened by the bed
clothes catching FIRE through some unex-
plained cause. She became so excited that
she rushed to the window, jumped out
and was instantly killed.
That John L. Sullivan's challenge to
fight Joe McAuiiffe with gloves to a finish
for SO, 900 side will be accepted there is
no longer any reason to doubt. Several
prominent business men of New York and
Brooklyn are eager TO back the champion,
and he could get 100000 behind him just
as easily as $4,000 il it were wanted.
In Chicago Mrs. Ada Ekstrom was sud
denly possessed of hDmicidai mania, and
seizing her children, two and one-half
years and nine months old respectively,
threw them out Of the second story win
dow. An arm Of each child was broken
and the skull OF one fractured. Both were
probably internally injured The maniac
mother was secured