Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-04
NEWS m aRlEF

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Newark with Flobert rifle.
A beer wagon and contents were demol
ished by women at Farming ton, No.
Abner Falls fell through trestle nea
Covington, Ind, and was fatally injured.
Mr.. Ann Kise, aged 20, Of Vincennes, Ind.
fell in fireplace and was burned to death
The Australian ballot system was sue
cesstully tried in local elections in Ms
souri,.
A son of Ex-Governor Lowe, of Indiana
was killed while coupling cars at Hopkins
vile, KY.
Constantine Kemper, saloonist at Pana
ILL.,, suicided because everybody asked credit
for drinks.
Morits Grether a Canton, o., saloonist
was fatally shot by drunken man who h
refused to serve.
Furnace No. of the Debardeleben Goa
and Iron company at Bessemer, Ala, wa.
blown in Wednesday
AT New York Isaac Winner, retired
Jewish rabbi, died Wednesday, aged 19t
| years month and IA days.
There is strong opposition to the new tariff
bill iii the east and south There is lively
kick on silk, sugar and hides
White Caps near New Castle, Ind, have
warned Holman Davis, colored man, t.
leave the country He will resist
The California Athletic club has matched
George LaBlanche and young Mitchell tc
! fight June n for purse Of $1,000
The commandment OF the Brooklyn navy
yard has received orders to put the United
States steamship Enterprise out of commits
sion.
Rumor has it that Jay Gould will estab.
lish steamship line from the United States
to Mexico and Central South American
ports.
Congress has appropriated $4,000 for a
geological garden in the District of Colum.
bia, sort of branch, as it were, of the con.
gressional bear pit
An ice trust has been formed by Chicago
dealers and prices were advanced Tuesday Is
to 30 per cent. over the figures current at
this time year ago,
The validity of the Virginia meat tax law
was argued in the United States circuit
court at Norfolk, Va, Tuesday. Decision
will be rendered Monday next.
Two young Anglo Canadians, James Gibbs
and Robert Rogers, were arrested at Mon
treal, and sentenced to six years imprison-
ment for insulting the French flag
The articles of agreement for the seasons
athletic sports between Harvard and Tale
universities bar Princeton from participa-
ton in the great collegiate contests,
At Savannah, Tenn, Henry Love and his
son, aged 10, have surrendered themselves to
Sheriff Gounce for the killing of Guile
Hodge, blacksmith living at Clifton,
Wayne county.
Evan Novagratz, Norwegian, aged "a
years, was drawn into an ore-crushing ma
chine at the Vulcan iron works at Pitts
burg, and almost instantly his body was
ground to a pulp,
Near Dayton, Wash, Henry Sanders, 10
years of age, shot and Instantly killed Della
Eddington, young lady aged H. and then
blew his own brains out, Jealousy was the
cause of the deed.
Mrs. SnellMcCrea, the daughter of the
Murdered Chicago banker already regrets
her elopement to Europe with Douglass
Green, and talks of supporting herself by
going ON the stage
George W. Morris, young man from
Chicago, was sentenced at New York, YES
terday to ten years and eleven months in
state prison for outrageously assaulting a
little 14-year-old girl.
Harold st. John, who claims the foil
fencing championship of the United States,
Tuesday defeated Sergt. William Williams,
late of the British life guards, in fencing
match at New York, winning four bouts out
of five.
1t is announced that both Premier Green
way and Attorney General Martin have re-
signed their positions in the Manitoba gov
ernment, and Col. Mcmillan, member for
Winnipeg, will be called ON to form new
cabinet
In the wreck of freight train on the
Cumberland Valley railroad near Martins
burg, Engineer Thomas Lightcap was
caught under his engine and one side of his
body and face was terribly burned He and
his fireman will die.
A portion of the dam on the Little Ka-
nawha river at Palestine, w. Va, gave way
Tuesday, making break from sixty to 100
feet wide and drawing the third pool for ten
miles Navigation will be suspended by the
break till the last of June The damage is
fully $4,000.
A Chicago newspaper saysit has it from an
entirely trustworthy source that the re-
Gently formed school book trust among the
leading publishers of the country has deter
mined on horizontal reduction of % per
cent in the price of all school books, the cut
to go into effect May /.
Mai James G. Colt, who was nominated
for lieutenant governor by the farmers
convention at Columbia S. c., last week,
has written a letter to Capt Schell, who
called the convention, declining the nomina-
ton on the ground that he cannot support
Mr. Ullmans platform.
Architect Il. =. Jennison explained to the
Chicago real estate board Wednesday his
conception of big circular building 5000
feet in diameter, with a central tower ,492
feet high, to be used for the worlds fair.
The entire exhibition would BE contained in
this one structure, which would be in the
form of an immense tent.
Mrs Hetty Green, of New York, does not
propose to give up the fight for the posses
sion of section of land in the town of
Cicero, ILL.,, recently sold to the Grant loco
motive works, of Paterson, N. j., for an in
adequate price, as she claims. She has filed
a bill in court in which she offers to pay
$602, 900 for the land.
The Gautemalan consul called upon Col
lector Erhardt, of New York, and informed
him that Michael Colomee, who was arrested
on the steamer La Normandie for smuggling
diamonds, pearls and gold watches should
be released, as he was a subject of Gaute-
mala, and being on his way thence was not
liable to pay duty at this port. The col