Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interestin. Item, on
Various Subjects.

Condensation of Interestin. Item, on
Various Subjects.
Pomeroy's big rolling mill commences to
revolve after three years rest.
Benjamin +, Haller, grand master Mason
of Tennessee, died Friday at Memphis.
The United States senate will investigate
Chicago's worlds fair subscription fund.
A woman in Chicago got $1,000 judg.
ment against her own husband for slander
Postal Telegraph company has withdrawn
its special rates to the Chicago board of
trade.
Ten persons were injured, none fatally, by
passenger train rolling down an embank.
ment near st. Charles, No. -
Professor William Hyde Appleton declined
the presidency of Swartmore college, to
which he was recently elected.
Michael Cibo has been acquitted at Rome,
| N. Y, for killing James ellison for invading
his home and assaulting his wife
Saloons at Klingman, Kan, were visited
by the Womans' Christian Temperance union,
who dumped the liquors into the street.
At Atwood, Kan, Graceau Chleborad,
charged with poisoning his brother, was SEN
fenced to fifty years in the penitentiary.
A negro named William Williams was
| lynched, near Kosse, Tex, for outraging the
person Of Charles Griffith's S-year old daugh-
| ter
Judge Boyd is holding court at Harlan G..
H., KY, encased in spring suit Of boiler
! iron and surrounded by a company of
| soldiers.
The bill providing for the appointment of
an alcoholic liquor traffic commission has
been favorably reported in the lower house
of congress.
By the capsizing of a sailboat near Mad:-
son, Wis, Ralph Seligman, aged II, was
drowned. His companion, a son of James
Spencer, was rescued
The Dominion government will shortly or
ganize an expedition, headed by American
experts, to explore the oil regions in the far
north, near Athabasca.
Whitelaw Reid, United States minister to
France, is visiting the old log home Of his
| father, at Cedarville, O., and says it is the
best and prettiest place on earth
Pickpockets ~tvorkedn the congregation at
the New York Methodist conference, and
thieves carried off several overcoats of the
ministers from the church basement.
Two hundred farms were sold in Atlantic
county, N. j., last week to satisfy
mortgages. One farmer went crazy and
fired his house, being burned to death him
self.
At Columbus, Ind, Newton Williams had
sixteen teeth extracted by a street doctor,
who broke his jaw and severed small
artery. He is now lying in critical condi-
tion.
Walter Learn, Is, is the third Peru, Ind /,
boy who has mysteriously disappeared IN
the last week. Supposed to be trailing the
trembling savage through the wild western
woods
Isaac Gebhart, wealthy farmer living at
Osborn o., is missing and foul play is
feared. He was last seen at Springfield last
Tuesday, and had several hundred dollars
on his person.
Congressman Stone, of Missouri, Friday
spoke against too many pension bills, and
deplored the demands Of the @. A. r. Sew
eral of his colleagues sharply criticised him
in their speeches.
The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling rail-
road hns killed two husbands for Mrs. Ed
ward SLAMMED at Urichsvile, o., within
three years, and she declares that either the
railroad or herself must move elsewhere.
Sol Smith and Charles Broader fatally
shot James Mcclure, colored, at a Hopkins
vile, KY, dance, because he Gro ~ded them
of the floor, and made the prospects for q
dance in the air very good for themselves.
The Fresno, Cal, water works have been
sold to the Municipal Investment company,
of Chicago and London, for $4,000 The
water supply is derived from eight wells
from $50 to $50 feet deep, which yield $780,
600 gallons per day.
Capt. w l.. Couch, the leader Of the Ok
lahoms boomers, and ex-maycr of Okia-
homa city, WIS shot by j. C.. Adams in e
quarrel over II claim. Though amputation
Of his leg may not be necessary, the saptain
is crippled for life. Couch seems TO have
been the aggressor.