Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-03

A CONDENSATION of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

A CONDENSATION of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Cincinnati carpenters are on a strike for
nine hours.
Chattanooga union printers are on q
strike for an advance.
Slayin has challenged McAuliffe to box
in London for $500 a side
The mercury fell twenty degrees in fif-
teen minutes at Chicago Saturday night.
Thirteen is the total number of lives
lost in the Oakland disaster Friday after
noon.
Sam. Small has accepted the presidency
of the new Methodist university at Ogden,
Utah
Sylvester Gray, miner of Martins
Ferry, hanged himself after a quarrel with
his wife
Two sons of Charles johnson, who lives
three miles south of Cbillicothe. were
killed by lightning.
In saloon at Laporte, Ind, William
Bickle struck David Reagan N the face.
breaking his neck.
Fifty non-polygamous Mormons have
established church at Brush Creek,
Highland county, o.
o. c. Brown, millionaire banker, of
Marinette, Wis, shot himself Sunday
while temporarily insane
The loss by the Middlesborough, KY,
fire will reach $350,00O. 1t was undoubt-
eddy the work of an incendiary.
Sylvester Gray got the last word in a
quarrel with the wife at Martins Ferry.
O., went off and hanged himself.
The millionaire banker, o. C. Brown, of
Marinette, Wis, suicided with pistol.
Iii health and temporary insanity
At Ashland, KY, fine brood mare
owned by John Howard, died at the race
track of lock-jaw Valued at 81 900.
Newmarket and Turf Exchange pool
rooms at Louisville were worked out of
5000 on the races by wire Taper Satur-
day.
William DUNCAN, resisting arrest at
Circleville, o., shot Deputy Marshal
Devany three times, inficting serious
wounds,
Francis G, Lowehorp, aged 81, once a
civil engineer of note, died at Trenton, N.
J. He was the inventor of the railroad
turntable.
Chicago Scandinavians held a meeting
IN memory of Marcus Thrane the Norwe-
gian reformer, who died April 30 at Eau
Claire, Wis
Philip Lyon, the A-year-old son of
Judge Lyon of Ithaca N. Y, was fatally
injured at Chicago by grip train on Wa
bash avenue.
In fight between Charles Hearld, of
st. Paul, and Tom Standard, colored. near
HI Paso, Tex, the latter was knocked out
by the first blow.
Peter Jackson and Jack Ashton. the
pugilists, were refused permission by the
police Sunday to spar two rounds in an
opera house in San Francisco.
Hon. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas and
Hon. N. B. Scott, of West Virginia, have
been elected members of the National Re.
publican executive committee.
Robert Ferguson and Michael Oueenan
fought twenty-five rounds, near Shelby
Ind, Sunday, Queenan being knocked
out. The affair ended in free fight.
Saturday night at Chicago an unknown
young man leaped into the lake to save
Ida Smith, aged 25, who leaped in with
suicidal intent. Both were drowned
The Italian government bought 900 600
pounds of Ohio, and 100000 pounds of
Maryland tobacco Saturday through
Geyer & wilkins, of Baltimore.
Rev. DR.. Dennis j. O'Donnel, rector of
the American college at Rome, Italy, and
who has been in the United States for sew
eral months, will sail for Europe ON Sat
day.
The work of taking the census began
Monday II requires $4,000 men as
enumerators, besides thousands of clerks
employed in collecting and tabulating the
returns,
Judge L. S. Huston, of Burlington
Iowa, has discovered United States su.
preme court decision that holds precisely
opposite views to the latest promulgated
by that court
Drunken James Martin stabbed Con-
1uctor n. c. Bridge fatally because he
was compelled to pay his fare on the train
on the indianapolis and Vincennes road at
Vincennes, Ind
The sixth international Sunday school
convention of the United States and Brit
ish North American provinces will omen
at Pittsburg, June "a, and remain in SEES
sion in all week
The body of an acrobat named Murdock
was found in the river at Chicago. Five
wounds on the head indicate murder. His
partner, West is suspected by the police
who are looking for him.
Emmett Crane, of Addison, Steuben
county, N. y, shot and killed Mrs. Gale
Perry, married woman and the mother
of four children, because she would not
accept his attentions as lover.
The rumor that the PHILADELPHIA and
Reading Railroad company had ordered
its conductors to withdraw from the
Brotherhood of Conductors or leave the
employ of the company, is confirmed.
1t has been discovered that the United
States supreme court, several wears ago.
in case precisely parallel in principle to
the recent Iowa original package case.
reached exactly the opposite conclusion.
English capitalists now control seventy
seven breweries in the United States in
which they have invested $50, 10000. They
are now buying corner saloons in prin-
cipal cities in order to guarantee the re-
tail sales
The seven persons bitten by mad dog
recently at st. Joseph, H., are under
treatment at the New York Pasteur insti
tute The patients are all boys. Five
more boys were added to the list of
patients the same day.
President Moffat, of the First National
bank, OF Denver, has identified Mansfield
King, the notorious robber, as the man
King says he is, who took S21 900 from
Moffat over year ago. King is in Jail at
Clayton, st. Louis county, Mo, for horse
stealing.
On Saturdays last race at Latonia wire
tappers at Chicago delayed the report
until they had the pool proprietors in for
about 5000 and then sent in the winner