Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Ives is o;t on 900 bail.
A runaway horse killed William Lewis Al
Fowler, o.
/ Old state capitol of Georgia sold Tuesday
for Sl23, SEQ
Grand Lodge o. U. A W. s in session a
Richmond Va.
All lottery projectors in Indian Territory
are to be arrested
Charles Weiskettee choked to death on an
egg at Newark, o.
The May musical festival is to be fixture
in indianapolis hereafter.
A bogus postoffice Inspector has been an
noying several small offices in Ohio.
John j. O'Brion, the notorious late chief
of elections in New York city, is dying.
The funeral Of Mrs Catherine Hurst. the
wife of Bishop Hurst, took place at Wash.
ington.
Sheriff Hecker overlook and shot three
prisoners who escaped from Jail at Monte
Vista, Col
A fund for the relief Of the families of the
victims of the Indianapolis fire has reached
upwards Of $4,000.
The followers of George Schweinfurth. the
Second Christ, are holding general con-
vention at Rockford, Ill.
The supreme court of Wisconsin has de-
c1ded unanimously that the Bible has No
place in the schools of that state
Mrs. Margaret Shepherd was assaulted
with stones for lecturing at York, Pa, on
The Romish Priesthood Exposed"
The Ohio Coal Traffic association, at its
meeting in Cleveland failed to agree ON @ BAL
rates from Pittsburg and the Hooking val
ley.
Conductor Houghtaling is held culpably
responsible by the coroner's jury at Buff
falo for the lives lost in the Lake Shore acci-
dent.
In a prize fight near Tacoma, Wash.
Barney Curtis was knocked down thirty-two
times before he was knocked out by Jimmy
Smith.
Mrs Hewlett, Long Island m:ser, died
In squalor Tuesday, Concealed in her
wretched quarters $4,000 in money was
found.
Four passengers were seriously injured
and several slightly hurt by collision on
the Chicago and Northwestern at Lavalle,
Wis, Wednesday,
Thomas Foster, who tried to rob an At
lanta man of gold watch in the Maxwell
house at Nashville, Tenn, has been identi-
fled as a noted hotel thief
grist mill boiler, which went up like
sky rocket at st. Adams, w. Va, scalded
several persons and demolished the rear Of a
tenement house coming down.
Auditor Whiteside, of Chattanooga.
Tenn, has skipped with Mr.. Metz, leaving
deficiency of $1,000 or so in his accounts,
and wife and three children behind.
The grand jury at Washington has in
dicted Charles e. Kincaid for the murder
of William 2. Taulbee C. H. Grosvenor
will assist Senator voorhees, in the de-
Tense
Farmer" A. w. Smith, of Mcpherson.
Kan, will probably be the candidate of the
Farmers Alliance for governor. The alli-
ance has organized in every township
throughout the state
The car, upon receiving the report of q
duel between officers of the army, said:
"Duels in the army are absolutely necessary,
and desire that reports of such escapadeS
shall not be brought to my notice"
Governor Smith and Postmaster Halo
way, of the soldiers home at Fort Leayen-
worth, Kan, were arrested Tuesday on COM
plant of Comrade J. Batson, who charged
them with purloining letter addressed to
him.
Monongahela Presbytery has censured DR.,
Ewing, for twenty-five years pastor in
Pittsburg, for marrying the sister of his de-
ceased wife. His congregation refused to
accept his resignation, but the Presbytery
did not decline it.
Commander-in-Chie Alger told the an
nual encamPment of the Grand Army at
Milwaukee, that congress was irrevocably
opposed to the service pension bill which
will call for $l50,00O,0O0 additional appro-
priation each year.
At Salt Lake, Utah, J. B. Weston, of Col
1rado, visitor, formed the acquaintance of
Two strangers, who gave him dragged
whisky and thea attempted TO rob him.
Weston fatally shot one of the men named |
Warner, and, after an exchange of shots, |
dl!ed the second of the ruffians, man
named Granville. Mr.. Weston then surren-
tered himself.