Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28
NEWS IN .eRlEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Lebanon, Ind, will have natural gas
Nine, Adelina Patti-Nicolini and Signor
Nicolina sailed Saturday for Italy
Adam Haskett, Martinsville, Ind, cured
his wearing sickness by sclf-administer-
ed leaden pill
Carpenters union at Fort Wayne, Ind,
has demanded and will receive g. 25 per
day for nine hours work.
A meeting of Indiana miners and oper-
ators at Terra Haute will decide the Ques-
tion of strike or no strike for the coming
summer
Frank, Brady, Aggie Ashton and Leard,
who are accused of stealing money from
Walton, the express messenger have been
arrested in Montreal.
John Dixon walked the Vanoeburg, XIV,
streets with Jack Wright's wife, and now
he is laid up with a bullet in his abdomen
from Wright's revolver.
The Central Illinois Millers' association
have adopted resolutions favoring the pas
sage of the Butterworth anti-option bill
now pending in congress,
Surgeon General Hamilton says If emil
grants who become insane within one year
after their arrival here were sent back IL
would reduce the inmates Of hospitals
one-third
A cloudburst struck Gainesville, Tex,
Thursday night, deluging the town sew
eral feet Immense loss to property and
crops will ensue, the country for miles
around being heavily flooded.
Capt. Jake" Vanderbilts daughter-in-
law Mary Vanderbilt, has discontinued
her suit against the captain for $50 900 for
alleged alienation of the affections Of
young jake The matter has been set
tied out of court.
Warrants are out for the arrest of j. H.
Stone, young travelling salesman for Il,
G. Atkins & Company of Indianapolis, he
being charged with forging the firms
name to checks and cashing them in
various sections of the south.
Daniel Rittman, prominent brewer of
Altoona, Pa, made desperate attempt to
murder his wife, and then shot himself,
dying instantly. The wife will probably
recover. Rittman had been drinking and
was intoxicated when he retired at night.
On the streets of Lexington, Mo-. FRI
day, Pat. Brennan who had walked
thither with his wife and children from
Wier City, Kan, in search of work, cut
his throat and wrists with razor because
he had the stomach ache and couldn't
stand the pain. His injuries are not
fatal
George B. Ives, ex-assistant district at
torney of Salem, Mass, has been arrested
on a charge of forgery The amount in
volved is said to be $4,000. Ives is said to
have used up his wife's estate of about
$50. 900, and that of Jonathan Barney, for
xuybi hp trng Of IN
$1,000
Socialist leader Sergius Il. Schevitch,
editor of The New York Volks Zeitung,
who is Russian nobleman, has, as re-
ported, been forgiven by the czar and had
restored to him his large estates. He will
soon return to Russia, and the Socialists
of America will lose their recognized
leader.
Mrs. Sarah Coulson, relict of the late
Henry Coulson, of La Harpe, Ill, was ad-
Judged insane and taken to jacksonville
for the fifth time While on the witness
stand Mrs. Coulson told with wonderful
dramatic effect the story of horrors at the
overcrowded asylums at Jacksonville.
Her attacks are transitory.
The Panhandle railroad officials have
made an unfavorable reply to the demands
over the matter to the supreme council of
the railroad organization which will hold
its first session on Sunday. If the rail-
road officials do not compromise with the
council strike will follow.
Gen. Spaulding, of Detroit, treasury
agent, has been petitioned by $50 Fort
Grauoit workmen, asking that the law
against foreign contract labor lie enforced.
The petition states that there are 100 Cana
dians employed in Fort Gratoit. Mr.
Spaulding has presented the matter to the
United States district attorney.
Governor Thayer, Of Nebraska, has be-
gun crusade against the classification of
corn at Chicago and other grain centers
In letter to Senator. Paddock he urges
that a government inspector be appointed
TO look after the grading. His complaint
is based on the fact hat Nebraska corn,
which is known to be the finest in the
world is generally graded Nos. and 4,
instead of No. 2
A band of White Caps, armed with gads
and other weapons, visited the house Of
Luther Dunniok, at Halcomsyille, n. Y,
to chastise him for his alleged non-support
and ill-treatment OF his invalid wife and
family On bended knees he implored
forgiveness, and promised to reform. He
was then allowed 20 go, with the warning
that If he did not behave himself the Wis
itors would return.