Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.


Cars killed Charles Heinke at Wood
vile, Ind.
Two men were killed by lightning in
Columbus, O., Monday.
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson
is now in San Francisco. M
William Quicksalt, aged IS years, was
drowned near Augusta, KY, while bath
ing So
Charley Miller had leg badly lacerated
by moving machine, near Upper San
dusky o.
Taylor Muller, young man of Worth
ington, Ind, was drowned in White river
while bathing.
Idaho and Wyoming may be admitted
into the Union of states next Friday, the
Fourth of July.
Ex-Sheriff John Boyd, of Hopkinsville,
KY, has buoyed up his sinking finances
with 81, 900 county funds.
Job Houghton was drowned Sunday
night in Saltwater creek, near New Phil
adelphia, o. He was drunk.
While bathing in st. Joe river, at Fort
Wayne, Ind, Monday, Charles Orvis was
seized with cramps and drowned.
The Great Admiral, 1O4 days from Hong
Kong, is unloading 100000 punches of
fire crackers at Pier 40, North river, New
York.
The test of the new cruiser Philadelphia
have proved the new vessel satisfactory,
and it will be accepted by the govern
ment.
A youth named Ketow, residing near
Lightsville, Darke county, o., aged IA,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed
Frank Welch, young man about "a
years of age, of Maryville, o., was found
dead in his bed. Cause of death I'M
known.
AT Chrisney, Ind, Charles Jones was
shot by James PEARSON over game of
cards, the bullet passing entirely through
his body.
An attempt to change seats in row.
boat on the lake at Chicago resulted in
the drowning of Michael Sheehan and his
wife, Nora
Hon. p. A. Foster and Robert Lind were
drowned in the Minnesota river, near
Mankota MINI, while bathing. Neither
could swim
Ransom Bethune Welch, professor of
theology at Auburn theological seminary,
Clifton Forge, Va, and leading literary
man, is dead.
The population of Wabash, Ind, accord
ing to the census supervisor of the dis
trict, is 8, 119, a gain of "A per cent. in the
last ten years.
Herman Lackman, a leading brewer of
Cincinnati, who was FRUSTRATED by the
heat Saturday, died at his residence in
Glendale Monday.
Sheridan Stoner, in jail at Madison,
Ind, for several months awaiting trial for
the murder of William Bowles, was re-
leased Monday on 5000 bond.
Rev Father Mollinger, the faith-curist,
whose reputation extends throughout the
United States, is lying at the point of
death, and will not likely recover.
Charles Decker, of Morris, Ill, died
without becoming sufficiently conscious
to give any particulars of the attack upon
himself and motaer Saturday night. Il
Every rolling-mill in the Mahoning val
ley was ordered to shut down Monday at
midnight, the manufacturers having re-
fused to sign the Amalgamated scale.
The disbarment proceedings against w.
B. Walls, the we'll known Indianapolis
attorney, were begun in the circuit court
Of that city Monday before Special Judge
W. p. Fishback.
Joe Keith, city marshal of Childers-
burg, Ala, was shot and killed Sunday
night by a colored man, whom he was at
tempting to arrest for burglary. The
murderer escaped.
j. f. Callan, while working at a grind
stone at Waldron s. Maxim's handle fac
tory, at New Castle, Ind. Monday, be-
came entangled in the machinery and had
his left hand nearly torn off.
Near Harrodsburg, KY, Monday, John
Ruby shot and killed James Donovan.
They had previously quarreled, and Ruby,
seeing Donovan passing his house with a
crowd on horseback, fired upon him.
Rev F. ID. Huntley, pastor of the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Annapolis,
Nd, in his sermon Sunday, denounced
st. Johns college, of Annapolis, as an
unfit place for Methodists to send their
sons.
Sarah Miller, of Tifin, O., a half
witted woman of bad reputation. was
visited by band of masked moralists,
who stripped her, covered her person with
tar and ordered her to leave the neighbor-
hood
In fight with four burglars who were
trying TO break into the saloon of Joe
Myers, at Delphos, o., one policeman
was severely injured, and one of the burg
lars had finger shot of. The robbers es-
capped.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia has completed the purchase of
the Louisville Southern railroad which
will give the former an entrance to Louis
vile via the Cincinnati Southern and
Louisville Southern.
Stephen Fogarty, boiler tender at the
Linden steel works, Pittsburg, was stand
ing upon ladder making a connection
with steam pipe when a steam valve
burst in front Of him. He was dead when