Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

fields about Laporte, Ind
Chicago people are talking of building a
through road to Birmingham, Ala.
At Denver, Col, Aaron N. Jones shot
and killed his wife and himself Insane
At Terra Haute, Ind, Sunol trotted
quarter OF a mile in 81 Is seconds, a 2:04 is
gait,
An English syndicate is about to in
vest about $20,000,000 in Kansas City prop
erty.
Sol Kessler, of Milton, Miami county,
o., committed suicide by hanging. Poor
health
Admiral Porter has hired the estate of
Miss Kate Lincoln, "Rocky Nook" near
Boston.
Emanuel Good, prominent farmer, liv.
ing near Corydon, Ind, was gored to death
by bull.
1t is rumored that the general offices of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
will be removed to Cincinnati.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Lottie Geisman,
aged Z, fell on a fence, and the pickets
pierced her abdomen She will die.
Frank w. Smith, of Boston, has built
at Saratoga an exact copy of Pumpeiian
villa, his model being the famous house of
Pansa.
A Clinton county Ind, jury sentenced
Jasper Hill to twelve years for robbery
He tried to suicide by swallowing pow
dered glass.
John Charvous, Hindoo and cannibal,
originally from the Fiji islands, but more
recently from Canada, is delivering lee.
lures in Georgia
Adolph Busch the st. Louis beer king,
is at the head of an establishment which
employs 5000 men, and he receives sal
airy of $4,000 year.
A young Philadelphia, Miss Katharine
Bailey, is announced as engaged to be
married to Count de SiDourg, whose
mother is an American.
A daily newspaper is about to be pub
lished in the City of Mexico in the English
language. A Mr.. Seay, of Chicago, is
father to the enterprise.
The work of census enumerators at
Fort Wayne, Ind, has been so heavy that
an extension of time until July 81 has
been granted for the completion of the
work
The Columbia and Cincinnati Midland
railroad will be known no more after the
LIST, when it will probably be known as
the Midland division of the Baltimore and
Ohio.
After an electric storm of many months
duration Indianapolis celebrates the open
ing of the electric road, pats the company
on the back and says she has loved it all
along.
Henry Anderson, while at work in the
Geneva, Ind, hoop works, was struck on
the abdomen by piece of timber, from
the effects of which he died within few
hours.
Near Trenton, Pa, a number of con-
struction cars broke loose on down
grade, left the track where gang of men
were working, killing two and injuring
several Others.
George Watson, a veteran of the Next
can war, and TO years of age, was arrested
at East Milton, Mass, charged with
drawing the pensions of four
other veterans
Alva Hofston, a bridge carpenter on the
and Vincennes railroad, was
knocked from bridge over White river,
south of Gosport, Ind, by a piece of TIM
Der, and drowned.
Near Strassburg, Ala, Morris Price,
took refuge during storm in barn
struck the barn, illing Price
instantly and paralyzing the hand.
1t is said that project has been spoken
Of to establish, either in Washington or
New York, "A daily Catholic newspaper
in character, and to place Mr..
Ballard Smith st its head.
Henry Buckner and George Coleman,
colored baseballist at Hopkinsville Ky,
fought, and Coleman usurped the UNI
pire's privileges by getting his skull
crushed with Buckner's bat He will die.
Superintendent and inspectors of build
ings from nine of the principal cities of
the union are in session at Chicago for the
of a national association.
The object is to establish uniformity of
building laws.
Miss Ida Il. Bowser is the first colored
female to graduate from the department
of music of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. She is an accomplished violinist,
and has arranged severable creditable
musical compositions.
Following the example of the bricklay-
ers, the Cincinnati plasters, hodcarriers
and ironworkers have Endorsed the car
penters' strike and refuse to work until
the trouble is settled. All the other build |
ing trades will follow suit
The Roman Catholic priests of the |
arch diocese of New York are agitating
the question of establishing home for |
aged and intrm priests. This scheme was
A pet project of the late Rev Father
Brophy, of the Church of the Sacred |
Hearts of Jesus.
w. c. Albertson, trader, who achieved |
notoriety year or so ago be-
cause of his operations for Fanny Blinn
and other system" players, has ordered |
MS trades on Change at Chicago closed |
lut. His troubles. it is said, are due to
he operations of dishonest clerk
While approaching a house near Gurnee,
Ala, Charles Lolly and Wilmer Mills, two
young men of the neighborhood, We're fired |
lpon and dangerously wounded. The as
,assin is supposed to be a desperate con-
lict named Barlow Thrasher, who escaped
rom the Pratt coal mines recently
Summit county, O., had two deople
killed by lightning, one drop dead, one
Jumped from a second story window, one
lad hand cut off and there were numer-
rus fires all in twenty-fou= hours The
'arer such days in June as this are the
better suited Summit county folks
will be-
$. Guy Harris, of Atlanta, Ga, was IS
when he surreptitiously married Susie
Walker, IA. But Col. Walker an hour or
alter took the bride home and sent her to
northern convent for two years. Since
Ter return she had not been permitted to
zee her husband. But love again laughed
It locks and the two eloped Wednesday
md were remarked on board train on
he way to Greenville by Clergyman who
to be on board