Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Item, on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
In celebrating st. Patricks Day in New
York two tons of shamrock were sold.
'Old Gabriel" the Indian said to he $50
years old, died Monday at Salina, Cal.
Kentucky Wesleyan college will be re-
moved from Millersburg to Winchester
The committee says the worlds fair will
open April 80, 1892, and close Oct. 20 follow
ing.
A gasoline stove exploded and fatally
burned Mrs. Henry Hamer, at South Bend,
Indiana.
The New York cloakmakers have all re-
turned to work, the strike having been de-
clared off
Maj. E. d. Willett, of Carrollton, Miss,
fell dead Sunday while teaching his Sunday
school class
Henry Wilson, of New Albany, Ind, beat
his wife while drunk, and was fatally stabbed
by his nephew.
The Iowa senate has passed the bill reduc.
ing the maximum rate of interest on nego-
table paper from 10 to per cent.
George W. Carter died at Eaton, Ind,
from stroke Of paralysis. He was the dis
coverer of natural gas in Indiana.
Frank Blair, head man at the Debar-
deleben furnaces at Bessemer, Ala, suicided
with morphine. Domestic troubles the
cause.
highly respected farmer of Madison county,
N. c., accidentally shot and instantly killed
his mother Monday.
Sensitive Adam Fogle, of Canton, O., has
sued his better u half for divorce because
she ignored him in passing ice cream and
oranges when company was present
Reports coming from the great tobacco
counties in western North Carolina show
that at least one-third of the plants in the
beds have been killed by the cold weather.
Frank Aiken, brakeman ~ years old,
employed on the Wisconsin Central road
was killed at Glidden, Wis The entire
train passed over his body, cutting it in two.
South Bend, Ind, is provoked at herself.
She is going to lose the Walworth and Law
renee Manufacturing company, one of her
largest enterprises. 1t goes to Bay City,
Michigan.
A young girl named Ella Coble commit
ted suicide at Steelton, Pa. She was 1nelan-
choly on account of her betrayal by man
whose name she gives in pathetic letter to
her parents,
ID. ID. Spencer who wrecked the Cook
County National bank of Chicago in 1877, re-
turned to that city Monday after an absence
of thirteen years in Germany. Indictments
against him have been stricken from the
docket but may be revived.
The trial of man named Morton, aged SO,
who shot down his son and daughter-in-law
in cold blood at Miami, Man, last month,
took place Monday. The jury returned a
verdict of insanity, and the prisoner was
committed to Jail
James II. H. Jones, the young man from
Pittsburg who attempted suicide recently on
the steps of Church Of the Heavenly Rest,
New York, was discharged at the police
court on the promise of his friends to take
him back to Pittsburg.
Professor A. Baruther, who fed to Canada
from Oshkosh a month ago, turns out to be-
defaulter, his law partner having an
nounced that he took with him over $1,000
of their clients money. Liquor and gam
bling got the best of the professor
Sunday morning at Carrollton, Ala, Msj.
e. B. Willett, prominent lawyer, aged IS,
while on his knees at prayer in church was
suddenly stricken with heart disease and
died instantly. Maj. Willett was distin-
guished in his profession and known through
out Alabama
The farmers of South Dakota are prepar-
ing to begin their spring blowing, and they
state that the ground is in much better con
dition than year ago. The frost is almost
entirely out, and several falls of snow re-
Gently have given the ground sufficient
moisture to insure good crops
Three masked men attempted to rob Ten
nebaum's store near the San Pedro copper
mine in New Mexico. Joseph Gibbets, a
young man in the store, yelled for help and
was shot six times. He will die The assas-
sins, who belong to the worst gan of despera-
does IN the territory, fed and have not yet
been captured.
The special train bearing the American
Association of General Passenger Agents ar
rived at Ell Castillo, Mex, Monday and took
a special train for the falls of Juanacatlan,
where they were rendered a reception and
banquet by the governor of Jalisco. These
great falls are truly termed the Niagara Of
Mexico" and constitute one of the greatest
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