Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A CONDENSATION of Interesting Items ON
YariOGs Subjects.

Baltimore has 433, $50 people.
Silas Coe, halter, sick, Carmi, Ill.
Repu leans of the Twentieth Ohio con-
vene at Cleveland Aug. I.
State Senator Fassett, of New York,
wants to succeed Senator Evarts.
George Gass, Of Mooresville, Ind, fell
from bicycle and broke his back.
Seven arrests have been made in Harri-
son county, Ind, for whitecapping.
The Arkansas Union Labor ticket was
Endorsed by the Republican state conven-
ton.
The Republican state convention OF
Arkansas endorsed the Union Labor
ticket.
George Crawford, of Newark, O., was
kicked in the face by horse and was seri-
ously hurt.
Mike Burns, railroad section hand, had
his right foot cut off by passenger train,
at Canton, o.
Congressman David b. Henderson was
renominated by the Republicans of the
Third Iowa district.
John Stansbury was hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark. He killed his wife near Eu-
faula, Creek nation.
State Senator Fassett, of New York, is a
candidate for the seat of Mr.. Evarts in the
United States senate.
A shortage of nearly 1000 has been
discovered in the accounts of the ex-sheriff
Of Christian county, KY.
Philip c. Miller, the German giant of
Jeffersonville, Ind, died Wednesday, aged
3d. He weighed 400 pounds.
Tho RaOr1h linan ~ he
Twentieth congressional district of Ohio
will be held at Cleveland Aug. Z.
A Georgia man has been pardoned after
serving sixteen years of life sentence for
a murder of which he was innocent.
1t Is said an English syndicate is at
tempting to bring about consolidation
of certain large Chicago packing houses.
Baltimore kackmen have raised the
price for attendance upon Sunday
funerals, which they wish to discourage.
There is colored Farmers Alliance in
South Carolina, and it supports Tillman
for governor against the Democratic nom
inee.
The president has signed the bill admit
ting Wyoming as state. This makes the
number of states now in the Union forty.
four.
At Fred, l. T., John Graham was shot
and killed by his hired man, and the latter
in turn served the same by Johns son
James.
The senate, in executive session, Wednes,
day confirmed the nomination of Gen. r.
N. Bachelor to be quartermaster general
Of the army
Maj. Butterworth has sufficiently re-
covered from his illness that came on him
in Philadelphia to 20 to his home in
Washington.
Bruce L. Seaman, prominent farmer
OF Scott county was nominated for con.
gress from the Second Iowa district by the
Republicans.
Gen. Sherman receives salary of SIS, 900
year as retired general of the army, with
nothing TO do and good, active clerk to
help him do it,
Nicholson Euslay, living near Hope,
Ind, was shot through the right knee
while carelessly handling a rife The leg
was amputated.
The Republican state committee of West
Virginia has resolved against any further
participation in state politics under the
present election law.
The census returns show that in some OF
the densely populated sections of Cincin-
natl the average number of persons to a
house is as much as IA
In the Chickasaw nation Frank, George
and Sim Groves and Henry Benton quar-.
relied over division of cotton crop Frank
Groves and Benton dead
The Republican state convention of Vir-
Dipin has PnanIya1 f,,, hos
participation in state politics under the
present odious election law.
The Democrats of the Eighth Illinois
congressional district nominated Lewis
Steward, of Plane, Kendall county, for
congress to oppose G. A. Hill
Two brothers in Maryland, who had not
seen each other in forty-seven years, al
though but forty miles apart, celebrated
the Fourth together in Baltimore.
The steamer Gaelic brought from the
Orient to San Francisco $50 tons of tea
and merchandise and thirty tons of new
silk, the first silk shipped this season.
The Boston Art commission has form
ally accepted the model for the Admiral
farragut statue as submitted to the city
government by Henry II. Kitson, the
sculptor.
There have been seven arrests in Har-
rison county, Ind, of men accused of
White Cap brutal les. Eight arrests on
similar charges have been made in Orange
county, same state.
At New Concord, o., while a construc-
ton force was erecting poles for tele.
phone between GAINESVILLE and New Cam
bridge the workmen were arrested and
indignant citizens chopped down the
poles.
Harvey Porch the Bridgeton letter car.
rier, won his wager of walking from
Bridgeton to Trenton Tuesday in sixteen
hours. The distance Is seventy-one miles
and he covered the same in 10 hours and 3
minutes.
The lvorydale soap works of Proctor &
Gamble, at Cincinnati, are to be reorgan-
lied, with IA capital stock of 81, 500, 900, of
which $3,000,00O will be retained by the
present owners and the remainder dis
posed of to Americans exclusively.
Judge Garnett. of the Illinois appellate
court ruled that husband and wife living
in tAe same house and eating at the same
table are not living separate and apart
within tbs meaning Of the statutes, and
that wife is not entitled to decree of
separate maintenance under such circum-
stances,
Renewed interest In foot ball will be oc-
cas.oned by the visit to the United States
in the autumn of a picked foot ball team
of the best PLAYERS in the leading Scottish
clubs. Against them will be pitted team
picked from several American clubs, and
those fhmiliar with the game believe that
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matched,
Murdered Bis White Mistress,
HAMTJNs, w. Va, July ia muir