Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items ON
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Condensation of Interesting ItemS on
Various Subjects.
The Berlin labor conference has ended.
Stephen Harter, aged 80, fell down stairs
at Muncie, Ind. and killed himself.
William Ste ~art, county recorder, West
Bay, Mich, is mysteriously missing.
Police at Wabash, Ind, arrested Ed
Sherman, thought to be a professional
craftsman.
Fire destroyed the opera house and
number Of other buildings at Newcastle,
Pennsylvania.
William Aldridge, a young farmer, lost
his life by the burning of the Central hotel,
at Paris, Tex.
George Voss, young German lawyer of
Helena, Mont, suicided because his type
writer wouldn't marry him.
In the recent elections in Germany all
parties gained at the expense of the Car
tellers, or government party.
A boiler went skyward at the Spears axle
works at Wheeling, W. Va, Saturday, In
juring six men, two of them fatally.
Kansas farmers have. petitioned congress
to pass bill providing for an increase in the
circulating medium to $50 per capita.
The Mississippi was dashed into fury by
the storm of last week, and as a result nu-
merous crevasses are reported. 1t is feared
the river may cut a now outlet to the gulf.
In Orange county, Ind, White Caps cru
ely beat Isaac Watson, an old soldier, and
ordered him to leave the county. He has
rallied some of his old comrades and will
resist.
A prize of $500 has been offered by the
Ysft ful. ,1ax, aal,s
tale on gambling, Ito be drawn as far as
possible from actual life,n and "to wildly
depict the evils of gambling"
Congressman Wilson, of West Virginia,
has, it is said, been offered and has accepted
the presidency OF the state university of
Missouri, the position from which DIR. Laws
was removed by the legislature.
The discussion of the farm mortgage ques-
tion in congress and by state Legislatures has
had depressing effect in money centers,
and now the granger finds it hard to secure
loans without paying an increased rate Of
interest.
Ross Peters, prominent board of trade
member at Chicago, is charged by his wife
in divorce petition with coming home in
toxicated in a cab at 3 a. M, and making
her get out of bed in the cold mornings to
get him the papers to read.
Henry Cabot Lodge made an argument
before the house committee on postoffices in
favor Of his bill providing for the appoint
ment of fourthclass postmasters by the post
master general upon reports made by the
inspector of the department.
Chase June, Henry Weyer, Fred. Koehler
and w. T. Allen, charged with the murder
of Emile Fleischig, German boy, near Gal
weston Tex, in 1884, have been found guilty
and sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary.
The London Court journal says: "A num-
Der of leading American ladies are endeavor-
ing to make London adopt its fashions from
New York, and negotiations are now going
ON with view to setting up in London a
large establishment having that object in
viewn
A New York school teacher reprimanded
boy by spanking him; at least she tried to-
At the first spank something exploded
When the smoke cleared away it was found
that the lad had bomb in his pistol pocket.
The teachers hand and portions Of the boys
anatomy were scorched, while the latter's
clothing was ruined