Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

A Condensation Of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The official census figures for Coving-
ton, Ky, are 81, and for Newport, "a
03s.
The Army of the Cum barland will
erect a monument to Little Phil. . Sheri-
dan.
Dr. Harper. of Yale college, has been
elected president of the new University of
Chicago.
lottery and river and harbor appfonria-
tion bills.
The house members of the tariff confer
ence have agreed to the senate reciprocity
amendment.
The Milwaukee and Northern has been
sold to the Chicago, Michigan and ST.
Paul company.
One hundred swallows, by actual count,
took up nights lodging in chimney at
Waycross, Ga a few nights ago.
One police court in New York in three
hours disposed of 800 cases-ln average of
minute and IA half to each case.
A reasonable extension will be made of
the time for delivery of four-and-a-half
per cents. offered to the treasury.
Mckee Rankin, the actor. has been sued
by his wife for support, in which she
Gains he has failed Tor three years.
Charles Drum, saloon-keeper of
| Springfield, o., killed his wife Thursday
evening, and then committed suicide.
Massachusetts, Republicans nominated
William E. Russell for governor, and
John Corcoran for lieutenant governor.
A new play is to be written for John l..
Sullivan and Duncan Harrison, and they
will star through England and Australia.
Freight trains collided at Columbus,
Ind, aud Alex. 81 eHart, a brakeman, was
caught Le5ween the cars and instantly
killed.
Crews from five different vessels at
tended prayer meeting on the deck of Il
macherel schooner ut Portland, Me-, on
Sunday
Brakeman Alexander Stewart was
crushed to death between two freight
trains on the j., NJ. & L., near Columbus,
Indiana.
While working in u lumber mill at
Ford, Ky, Rodney Thompson became en-
tangled in shaft and was so BADLY hurt
that ne will die.
At Montichiari batteries of artillery
nsing smokeless powder kept up fire
for half an hour without their positions
being discovered.
The Ohio Southern railroad is to be ex-
tended from Springfield north to Decatur,
Ind, and from Jackson south to Point
Pleasant w. Va.
A Petroleum engine has been intro
duoel in u lighthouse in Scotland for
working the siren OF the fog signal appa-
ratus recently installed.
At the Upper Sandusky fair Grace He'd
den, 9year-old girl, caught her dress in
shaft wAich was used in running the
display and fatally hurt.
A method of rendering tobacco smoke
harmless to the mouth, heart and nerves
without detriment to its aroma is claimed
| to have been discovered at Vichy.
Hon. j. j. w. Billingsly, of Indianapo-
lis editor of The Farmers Journal was
nominated for congress by the Seventh
district Republican convention, at Ander-
son, Ind.
At Monticello, H., Calvin Holden, Al
bert Durham, Ltiza Holden and Edwin
Holden were convicted of murder, the
first two sentenced to death and the 9TH
IS to Imprisonment.
Gustav Koch and Emile Rossie, young
Germans whose love affairs had been in
terfered with by the girls mother, com
mitted suicide in New York by slmultan-
eously shooting themselves