Clarksville evening tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1890, 1890-03-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condemnation of Interesting Items oa
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Bishop Bowman was deposed until the
next general conference.
The Standard has bought the Fostoria and
Wabash oil wells for S25,000
Gold has been discovered in q gravel bank
just east of Sioux Falls S. Oak
Another mine cavern at Plymouth, Pa,
wrecked one house and damaged Others.
A wildcat railroad scheme was postponed
in the Canadian house of commons Fri
day.
At Maben, Miss, man named Lynch was
shot and killed by William and John Cum
mings.
The Admission National bank, of Admission,
Ala, capital $i00, 600, has been authorized to
be gin business.
An Indianapolis junk dealer managed to
get possession of the valuable painting '"rhe
Battle of Tippecanoe."
William ii. Fursman, the noted $500, 600
forger of deeds and mortgages, has arrived
at Pontiac, Ill, in custody.
Deputy Sheriff O'Neil, of New York, has
arrived at Denver with requisition for G.
s. West wanted for forgery.
Hon. John C. McGregor died at Zanes-
children died few days ago of the same
disease.
Contracts have been signed for the re-
moval of the woolen mills at Kankakee Ill,
to Laredo, Tex They have been idle for
three months
John Hodgson, Of Cleveland, was married
Friday afternoon and shot himself to death
an hour later His brother says la grippe
drove him crazy.
The dwelling of Alexander Stokes, near
Ridgeley, Ind, was destroyed by fire. Mrs.
Stokes perished in the flames Sho was sub
iect to epileptic fits
George w. Blanek was committed to the
Jail at Camden, N. j., in default of $1,000
bail, for robbing the United States mails
Blanck is a letter-carrier.
At Providence, h. l., Ira S. Brown, aged
81, was burned to death in fire, which de-
stroyed the cottage of Policeman Isaac Fair
brother, in which he lived.
Milton, Iowa, citizens have suffered so
much from the ravages of rats that a grand
rat hunt was organized. The hunt began
Feb. 81 March l the total tally was 3,676
killed.
A telegram has been sent to Governor
Toole, of Montana, asking that detachment
of militia be sent to Missoula Residents of
Gbe Flat Head lake region entertain fears Of
a renegade uprising
The farmers OF Pope county, ILL.,, are
alarmed over the spread Of glanders among
their horses Many valuable animals have
been killed or condemned by order of the
state veterinary surgeon.
Funeral services over the remains of the
late George H. Pendleton, ex-minister to
Germany were held in Music Hall, Cincin-
natl, Saturday. The interment took place
in Spring Grove cemetery.
The formal order of Justice O'Brien in the
Sugar Trust injuntion suit confirms the de-
cision handed down Feb. IL, no change what
ever being made in the proposition which
Justice O'Brien then set forth
On the Randall farm, southwest of Du-
buque Iowa, has been discovered great
sheet of lead over thirty feet high and four
teen inches thick EXPERIENCED miners gay
there is over 100000 pounds of galena in
sight.
Superintendent Fuller, Of the Pacific Ex-
press company, and the father of +. d. Wall
ton, the absconding Dallas agent, have Sc
cured from house of ill-fame package
containing Sl6940 This makes $24,94 re-
covered of the S35, 900 stolen
The Baltimore Sun says that Jacob s.
Rosenthal, who recently returned from Lon
don, where he placed the "City of Baltimore
breweries, limited, y is now perfecting plans
to obtain controlling interest in the cam
ming and packing houses of Baltimore.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil COM
pany is attempting to secure control of the
st. Mary's reservoir west Of Wapakoneta,
o. The reservoir is located in natural gas
and oil territory, and at 800 an acre, the
price now being paid for land in that vicin-
ity, would be worth almost $2,000,000
A controlling interest in the Twenty third
Street Railway company, New York city,
was sold at the office of Drexel. Morgan &
Company for $780, 900, TO a syndicate made
up of w. c. Whitney, Daniel s. Lamont, z.
A. B. Widener and W. L. Elkins and other
owners of the Broadway railroad syndicate
The price paid is equal to about $500 per
share.
The stockholders of the Robert NJ. Green
company, Philadelphia, manufacturers Of
soda-water apparatus decided to increase
the capital stock to $1,00O, 900, for the pur-
pose OF enlarging the works in that city and
erecting factory in Chicago. This action
was bakeh because oI Ine repoTteu shle OF bhe
four other great manufactures to an En-
glish syndicate.
Damaging testimony against J. Burchell,
suspected of the murder of L. c. Benwell,
She wealthy young Englishman, was pro-
duced at the inquest ct Princeton, Ont, yes
terday. Witnesses identified Burchell as
going under the assumed name of Somerset
The father of young Pelley, who came over
with the party, says that Burchcll repre-
sented that he wanted help on his stock farm
near Niagara Falls Pelley met Benwen on
the trim for the first time