Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
CONDENSATION of Interesting Items on
various Subjects.


various Subjects.
There is joy in Zion, o., over the discoy-
cry Of gas there.
Standard Oil company has swallowed the
Lima syndicate in exchange for 81 200. 600
grease.
Fourteen thousand workingmen at Bar
celona have struck for shorter hours and
more pay.
Mrs John Wurick, of Goshen, Ind, quar-
relied with her husband and found eternal
peace in the suicides grave
William Thompson, farmer living about
three miles south of Covington, O., commit
ted suicide by taking poison.
Conductor Houghtaling and Engineer
Rooney have been found responsible for the
Lake Shore accident, March 6.
The Kentucky association emphatically
denies the rumor that there will lie no
racing this spring. They will race as usual.
Rev. DIR, d. d. Gurrell, of Minneapolis,
has declined the call extended by the Col
legiate Reformed church, of New York
city,
w. d. Howells, of Boston, heads the 'zu-
boir,n club which will investigate the
claims of alleged foreign noblemen and ce-
lebrities
p d. Starr, an insurance man of Kansas
City, is missing and is thought to have'fied
to Mexico His partner alleges that he is
$20OO short
Tho miners of Gallitzin, Pa, have struck
in opposition to a steam driller introduced
by the company. The Gallitzin company's
works are closed.
fbnt loo Il g,f II,
porte, Ind. has mysteriously disappeared.
1t is thought he wandered away during a fit
of temporary insanity
Losing side in the Benton, o., rat. mice,
sparrow and hawk hunt gave a supper to
the winners, whose layout of Till oorpses
vote it a CHASTITY morguery,
The city council Of Logan, o., granted
franchise Of the streets and alleys of that
city for an electric light plant to Messrs.
Welsh & Ressinger, of Athens
The torpedo boat Cushing had her final
trial Thursday in heavy sea outside of
Newport harbor, and behaved admirably.
The board will report favorably
The criminal court jury at indianapolis,
Ind, returned verdict sentencing Robert
Phillipot for four years for numbering
Marshal Williams, his brother-in-law
&. Gordon Adams, prominent attorney
of Los Angeles, was found dead in his office
with bullet wound in his temple. The
shooting is believed to have been accidental.
A portion of the Conyngham mine, owned
by the Delaware & Hudson company, at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, caved in Thursday, caus-
ing settling of the earth above. No casual
tiles.
Eighty coopers of Woods & Smith, of In
dianapolis, Ind, are ON strike. The men
demand that an agreement to work at a re-
duction shall last until September, which
the firm refuse
1t is understood upon good authority that
the burial of Gen. George Crooks remains at
Oakland, Md, is but transient, and that in
the fall they will be removed to the National
cemetery at Arlington.
The body Of a man about 60 years Of age
was washed ashore near Madison, o. From
papers found in the pockets the body is sup
posed to be that of c. G.. Crickmore, an at
torney of Windsor, Ont
Dudley Farlin, principal owner of the
Lima Oil company stock, denies the tele-
graphed report that the Standard Oil COM
pany has purchased the Lima company He
says there must be some mistake.
Leading citizens Of St Paul met Governor
Miller, of North Dakota, Thursday, and ar
ranged to raise guarantee fund of 500, 900
for the purchase of 100000 bushels of seed
wheat for destitute farmers of North
Dakota.
Mrs. Crook, who is completely Frustrated
since the sudden death of her husband, Gen.
George Crook, is quietly residing at the
I'D in,
termined to make her permanent residence
in Oakland
The Iowa house of representatives has
passed, without opposition bill to compel
all railroads in that state to make joint
through rates with their connections. The
act also provides against discrimination in
favor of cities.
John A. Davis, the defaulting city treas
urer, of Rochester, N. Y, who embezzlcd
800, 900 of the city's money, pleaded guilty to
a charge of grand larceny in the first de-
gree Thursday, and was sentenced to five
years in Auburn prison
Tobias Elliott, young farmer of Jackson
township, Shelby county, o., is missing.
His horse returned home Monday morning,
dragging the remains Of his buggy, and it is
feared that the vehicle struck a bridge in
the dark and that Elliott is droHned.
The Ohio Legislature has enacted law
prohibiting railroad companies from requir-
ing employees to join insurance associations;
making companies responsible for damages
for injuries sustained by employees through
the negligence of other employees, and declar-
ing defects in cars and machinery prime
faCie evidence of gross negligence
ttWhnn a follow ,vants tn unalya a damned
fool of himself why don't you let him
alone |" asked r. II, Fowler, after twice
having the suicidal chloroform pumped out
of mira by Delphi, Ind, doctors. The doctors
decided that he would make better success
at the business alive than dead, and sent
him back to his Chicago home.