Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items of
Various Subjects.

resigned.
There are nineteen candidates for the
Cincinnati postoffice.
Eli Foster is on trial at Athens, o., for
the murder of Daniel Bottomly.
Scott Mcdaniel, an escaped train rob
ber, was recaptured at Columbus, Tex.
George Dague, farmer near Wooster,
o., was killed by falling off a load of hay,
The purchase of American industries
by foreigners is to be looked into by con
gress
Peter Massman was crushed to death by
a fall of slate in Watson's mine, near
Brazil, Ind
Augustus Dillman, German resident
of Terre Haute, Ind, committed suicide
on account of sickness
Paul Holtz, aged 16 years, cut his
fathers throat in Chicago to get the old
mans life insurance of $2,G00
In saloon fight at Valparaiso, Ind, Sat
urday night, Tip Keys, eX-city marshal,
was roughly handled and left for dead.
John Goode, while hunting near Urbana,
o.. was accidently shot through both
thighs by Robert Seips. He may recover.
A gang of New York counterfeiters, who
have been supplying Italians with alleged
silver dollars, are under arrest in that
city.
| Nathaniel Green, cashier and book
keeper for San Francisco dry goods firm,
is short $10,00 in his accounts and cannot
be found.
| AT Yorktown, Ind, Hiram Curtz died
from the effects of kick given by Daniel
Fritz, which broke the lower end of the
spinal Column.
Succi, the faster, is on his forty first day
He weighs 107 pounds. He has four days
more to go and will start in thereafter on
a cup of cocoa.
Ames Bills, white, for murder of George
Boots, colored, on Welsh mountain, Pa,
was convicted in the second degree. Sen
tence deferred.
Austrian Consul Black, of Cleveland, has
resigned because the Austrian government
took exception to his printed criticisms on
its revenue policy.
The joint congressional committee on
immigration has decided to inquire into
the purchase of American industries by
foreign capitalists.
Gen Bussey has decided that a Union
veteran is not deharred from claiming pen
sion on account of prior service in the
Confederate army.
The city council of Duluth has commits
stoned the celebrated engineer, Will am
Sooy Smith, to prepare plans for a tunnel
under the ship canal.
A deficiency of s., 800 has already been
discovered in the accounts of the abscond.
ing postmaster. at Decatur, Ala, and is ex-
pected to reach $1,000.
William Lines, who robbed the store of
j. w. Blliher, at Lincolnville, Ind, of $50,
was arrested at White Cloud, Mich, and
taken to Jail at Wabash.
Fox Anderson, the Cincinnati negro des-
perado, who nearly murdered his Colum-
bus mistress, has been sentenced to four
years in the penitentiary.
The Arab citizens of New York are try
ing to organize a syndicate TO engage in
silk culture to give employment to all
Arabians in this country.
Ex-Assstant Postmaster General Clark
son is in Boston, and in an interview re
clares fhe fight should be continued on the
lines of the Mckinley bill.
At Portsmouth, o., Messrs Henry
Thomas George Petit and Peter Pence,
Democratic politicians, are arrested for
buying votes at $40 apiece.
The grand jury is investigating an ac-
cusation against the Norwalk, o., jury
that tried Charles Gum for burglary, that
it was bribed to discharge him.
It is whispered at Kenton, o., that Mrs
Bent Lambert is not visiting in Moberly,
ILL.,, at all, but fled from her lawful spouse
with a travelling man, Charles Jamison.
Leander Payne, a Mansfield, o., farmer
has panied several well-to-do citizens by
blackmail schemes. They will show him
up for all he's worth by criminal prosecu-
ton.
Rev. Father Bernard b. Kelly, who was
ordained a priest in Cleveland, O., twenty
years ago, died Sunday in Mobile. Ala,
wanderer and an outcast ruined by
drink
William Harper, farmer of Ross coun-
ty, o., has disappeared leaving letter
in which he says he left to escape the
torments of unhappy domestic and family
affairs.
&. W. Simmons was shot at Argentine,
Kan, by James Neal, who surprised him
in Mrs. Meals room, and shot and fatally
wounded him as he tried TO escape by
back way.
Joseph Faukboner crawled into boiler
with some natural gas at Marion, Ind,
and the gas rolled up its sleeves, spit on
its hands and fired him out He is seri
ously injured
There has been found near Fresno Cal,
what is claimed to be a genuine petrified
body Of a man The features are Of eau.
casian type. The body measures nearly
seven feet in length.
Arrangements have been made with
Great Britain, France and Germany by
which twelve hours will be gained in the
transit of mails between the United States
and those countries
Assistant Secretary of Treasury Nettle |
ton has disposed of the case of Appraiser
Burdsal, of Cincinnati, acquitting him of
intentional wrong doing, and letting him |
off with reprimand.
In Mclean county, North Dakota, two |
farmers named Haugheberg and Paterson |
were attacked by three Wildcats Their |
clothing was torn from their bodies, which |
were terribly lacerated.
At GAINESVILLE, O., Manager Muldoon, of |
the telephone company, was severely in |
jured by the son Of Superintendent Hull, |
of the electric railway, in dispute about |
the hanging Of some wires.
The Michigan Grange is in open revolt /
against the National Grange on account of |
the stand taken by the National organiza-
tion in indorsing the proposition for gov
ernment loans on real estate.
The Toriiiard Brick Works company, Of |
New York and Keyport, n. j.. has been /
placed in the hands Of a receiver. They /
are short Of ready cash. Liabilities about |
81 100000 Assests estimated at 81 SEQ, 900. |
suit mas begun in the United states /
court in san Francisco, by Charles w. I
Trotter and William T. Trotter, Of New 1
York. TO annuI a CONVEYANCE 10 the Anna