Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Various Subjects.
Ezekiel Sullivan, aged 1O3, died Wednes-
day at Columbus, Ind.
Jesse Walker, pioneer, died Wednesday at
Martinsville, Ind, aged "a.
The Winchester, Ky, real estate sales
amounted to 100000 in two days.
At Fremont, O., the new shear works
starts April 1, with 175 hands
The president left Washington Wednes-
day for Maryland on a duck hunting ex-
pedition.
Conductor Houghtaling, charged with re-
sponsibility for the recent Lake Shore
wreck, was bound over at Buffalo
Gen Lester b. Faulkner, of New York,
left his property to his mistress and children,
No mention was made of his widow.
AT Chagrin Falls O., Mrs. r. r. Walters
and Mrs John Walters, sisters-in-law, both
over 30, were buried together They died
the same day.
Miss Jessie White a highly respectable
young lady of Joliet, ILL.,, was driven to sui
eide by an anonymous letter writer who had
been annoying her for three years.
Near Eulia, Macon county, Tenn, last
Sunday evening, John Patterson was fatally
H.,
Patterson lived only about three hours after
he was stabbed.
Judge Hart declares he was approached
dGring the Forty-eighth congress and
solicited to take an interest in the ballot-box
bill. He will be summoned by the nvestiga-
tion committee.
While attending dance at the home of
Mr.. Robinson, four miles north of Anthony,
Kan, Charles Reed was struck ON the head
by Ed Devore with a club, from the effects
of which he died
Charles Blake, convicted of burglary at
Valparaiso, Ind, was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for three years, disfranchised for
five years and fined 100000 and cost. He
robbed a farm house.
Chemicals used in the manufacture Of
glass have advanced in price over 100 per
cent, and glass manufacturers say it is inn
possible to get as much for their goods as
they cost to manufacture
The Toronto Empire, chief organ of the
Dominion government, opposes the grant
ing Of permission to export American cattle
via the St. Lawrence, saying it would be
suicidal on the part of Canadian stock
raisers.
The temperance crusade at Lathrop, Mo-,
has been followed by the separation of Rev.
J. l.. Carmichael and his wife, the president
of the local Women's Christian Temperance
union. The reverend gentleman alleges in
fidelity.
Prosecuting Attorney Davidson, of Cole
county, Mo, has filed an information charg-
ing ex-State Treasurer holland with embez-
zing state funds. Mr.. holland was present at
the time, gave himself up, and was admitted
TO bail in the sum of 5000.
Paul Morton, a western railroad man.
told the interstate commerce commission
that the matter with the Kansas and Ne
braska farmers was that they paid too high
interest on borrowed money and that freight
rates were very reasonable.
A portion of the Pullman Palace Car com
pany5 works at Pullman near Chicago,
was totally destroyed by fire early Thurs
day morning. The company has not yet
figured up the loss but it is estimated to be
between $4,000 and $4,000. Fully in
sured
a murder resulting from whisky and an
old gIudge wBs committed at Braidwood,
H., by Joseph Nodak, who shot and killed
the 14-year-old daughter of his brother-in-
law, Statsa Sokoloski, instead of his intended
victim, her father. Nodak fired through the
window.
Michael B. Kelly, banker of Manson,
Iowa. and John f. Mulroney, his brother-in-
law, accidentally walked off a railway
trestle, fBlling about sixty feet upon the
rocks below. Kelly was insta ntly killed,
and Mulroney suffered injuries which may
prove fatal.
Mai. w II. Clark, who shot at Wilton
Randolph in front Of the Southern society
rooms, in New York, on Jan 10 last, has
forfeited his bail and disappeared His
bondsman is Vernon X. Stevenson, in the
sum of 81 900. A bench warrant for the ac-
cused has been issued.
A party was given at the house of Finley
CasSey, at Orrville, o., Monday night.
During the evening young Caskey, aged
q, became jealous of the attentions Of paid
to Alice Hupp, his sweetheart, by other
young men. Leaving the house he shot
himself in the head with a revolver.
A resolution praying that steps be taken
by the Dominion parliamep5 to negotiate
with the government of the United States,
with view of arriving at some agreement
by which there should be unrestricted re-
ciprocity in trade between the two coun-
tries, was unanimously carried in the Mani
tobe legislature.
The Pacific coast board Of commerce, com
posed Of delegates from various commercial
organizations in California, Oregon and
Washington, has adopted resolution pro.
testiag against the repeal Of the Chinese ex-
clusion net, and asking for such additional
legislation as will effectually prevent Chi !
nese immigration.
bill introduced in the Iowa legislature |
provides that the question Of license or no |
license in any city, town or township in the |
state, shall be submitted 10 vote of the |
people, upon petition Of one-fifth of the |
voters at the regular election, if it is due to |
be held within two months, but If not, then I
at a special election.
Jacob Arnold, shis son Charles and Joseph |
passengers on the steamer Werra,
bound for st. Paul, Mimi, were searched at |
New York, by custom house inspectors, and |
five gold watches, three gold breast-pins, |
and three gold chains and number Of |
smokers articles they were smuggling were
confscated. They were allowed to go home
without the iewelry.