Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Item. OF
Various Subjects,

Condensation of Interesting Item. ON
Various Subjects.
An opal mine has been discovered In
Mexico.
In New York, Sunday, 1906 foreigners in
steerage, landed
Farmer George Andrews is charged with
arson near Huntington, Ind
Augusta, KY, election went dripping wet,
without drop of water mixed in.
Gen. Alger and Gen. Hurst reviewed the
veterans at the soldiers home Saturday.
Clubs are trumps everywhere. Creencastle,
Ind, has one of the commercial variety.
Enock Jenkins was crushed to death in
the machinery of saw mill at Marion, Ind.
The Ball-New York Post libel case at
Buffalo is to be appealed to the supreme
court.
At Jasper, o, safe burglars blew Cutters
safe for $700 and got safely away with the
proceeds.
Hopkinsville Ky, had $4,000 fire in
the business portion Saturday night. In
cendiary.
Clyde Bragg was deprived of his left ear
and his watch by razor-armed highway
man at Marietta, o.
Lew. Robinson, colored boy shot and
killed George Hurdle, well known citizen of
Felicity, o. Quarrel.
Sunday was the anniversary of the battle
of Shiloh, and large delegations of veterans
reuned on the grounds.
George Noonan, wife and daughter were
poisoned at Chicago, it is believed, by serv-
ant. The two former are dead.
Conductor Tuckey was fatally shot by a
gang of tramps whom he attempted to rat
off freight train at Lima, o.
Indianapolis carpenters remark in plane
language that they will stand no further
shaving down of their present wages.
Frank Eleyin, missing Peru, Ind, boy, has
returned home Went to Michigan to pur.
sue the trail of the ferocious red-skinned
native.
At BUSHNELL ILL.,, RAINY Akerman shot
Mrs. Hess, landlady of the National hotel
and then fired bullet into his own brain,
causing instant death.
Rev Thomas Ceftons year old babe acct
dentally hanged itself in the meshes of a
hammock at Wichita, Kan, during the mo-
mentary absence of its parents.
The badly decomposed remains of a female
infant were discovered in a vault on the
premises of Jacob Pense, at Manchester, o.,
Sunday No clew to its parentage.
Twelve horses and the hostler-name not
ascertained - were burned with Monse's
livery stable, Gil West Madison street, Chi
cago, Monday morning. Loss, $25,OOO
Central Labor union of New York in.
forms the senate investigation committee
that the police department there is q
IN tho nifxr tho fpNaf
as a body being dishonest, brutal, ever
criminal"
James Wells, IS, quarreled with Eugene
Cornell, IS, at Henderson, KY, over a CIR
at an hour when all children of his age
should have been home in bed, and shot
Cornell dead.
At Indianapolis William SHEPPARD haC
his skull crushed by colored coachmar
Towns. Towns is in Jail and Matte Jones
the woman in the case, probably counts her
self we'll rid of both of them.
A whole county armed with hemp anC
shotguns is after the fendish tramps whC
criminally assaulted the l1-year-old daughter
of Joseph Rhodes and left her dying in thu
woods near Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio,
! Cynthiana, KY, announces to manu-
facturers seeking a location that its new
/ commercial club can take in the layout o.
/ other towns in the matter. of business in
1 ducements and go them one better.
The marriage of jeremiah Hinkle ant
| Leola Carroll each with four and three liv
/ ing better halves respectively, was a comb
| nation of compound fractions performed a
! Columbus, Ind, by which the two halves o
seven halves were reduced to three and |
4 half as a compromise on the matrimonial
! impossibility of making them one.
Edmund Calkins went out boat riding
with his wife and Prank Hendrix at Laporte
Ind. fell overheard and was drowned. Tn
fact that Mrs Calkins had lately marrte'
her husband after compelling him to tax
out a large p.hcy on his life, with oths
damaging circumstances, has led to an in
yestigation as to whether Mr.. Calkins wa
not assisted 20 fall into the lake.
Fruit in Asia.
The bamboo is still grown in Pekin with tn
aid of good shelter, moisture and favorabl
! soil. but it is not found naturally growing i
the forests in North China, as was its habi
1000 years ago 1t grows now in that part
the empire as sort of garden plant only,
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