Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
VariOGs Subjects.


A Condensation of Interesting Items on
variOas Subjects.
Rain helped crops in Kansas.
A dispatch from Brockawayville, Pa,
reports frost Friday morning.
The president has nominated Col Alex.
McCook to be brigadier general
Jacksonville, Ind, wants an insect
power that will exterminate fire-bugs
Chris. Buckley, the blind Democratic
leader in California, will retire from active
political life.
superintendent, responsible for the Dun
bar mine disaster.
ALI. Cooper, colored, was hanged at Bir-
mingham, Ala, for the murder of jeff.
GoOger. He confessed
Samuel r. Johnson, of Cincinnati, and
younger brother were drowned while bath.
ing near Ann Arbor, Mich.
There is prospect of rate war be-
tween the Canadian Pacific and the
Pacific Mail steamship lines
Douglass Thomas, of Martinsville, Ind,
set fire to an old school house and then
committed suicide, his body being burned
in the ruins.
William, johnson, colored, who muir.
dered his paramount Octavia Dillon, alias
Mary Banks, was hanged in the prison at
New Orleans.
Information has been received in Wash
ington in regard to "a recent act of the
Roumanian government demonetizing
legal tender silver.
Judge Kelsey, of Bridgeport Conn,
city court, has decided that the barrel Oh
box and not the bottle is the Original
package" in that city
Sylvanus Palmerton, a well-to-do farmer
living near Barboursville Pa, was killed
by Albert Cummings, who was in his en-
ploy. Temporary insanity
Lake Shore bought the Canada and St.
Louis road, running from Battle Greek,
Mich, to Goshen, Ind, to prevent its ex-
tension rs a competing line.
Rev. Father Peter Verdagguer, pastor
of the Church of our Lady Queen of the
Angels, San Francisco, has been appointed
bishop of Brownsville. Tex.
Medical and scientific men in this coun
try are greatly interested in the tenth in
ternatiOnal medical congress, which is to
be held III Berlin next August
Mrs Ernst Prentice was buried at In.
dianapolis, ut her own request, with 70
funeral service except the playing of sa
cred music and a dirge by brass band
j. ID. Her, brewer, is said to contem-
plate, with associates, the establishment
OF a $3,0O0,0O0 distillery in the Missouri
corn region, to knock out the whisky
trust.
Whe committees on military of both SEN
ate and house have reported favorably on
a bill to revive the grade of lieutenant
general Gen. Schotield is to be the bene-
ficiary.
Thus far the number of licenses under
the inodus vivendi issued by the Canadian
fisheries department to American fisher
men ~ largely in excess of the figures Tor
last year.
The Louisiana lottery people have de
cided to offer Grover Cleveland u retainer
to plead their cause in the pending pro-
ceeuings TO test the constitutionaIty OF
the recently enacted law.
Hon. j. G Warwick, who was lieutent-
ant governor while Hoadly was governor,
was nominated by the Democrats of the
Sixteenth Ohio district Tor congress.
This is McKiney's district.
A Connecticut judge, in disposing of
liquor case, held that the box or barrel III
which bottles are shipped to be the orig
inal package" anu lined the saloon
keeper $l23 and costs for selling Il bottle
of ale.
The dead body of DctectiveJ. w. Napier,
who left Charleston, w. Va, with war
rants for the arrest OF some of the Hat
fields, was found within half mile OF the
hnp nf ha Hat "a I'm lot
in the heart.
The boilers of the steamer Tioga eX-
ploded while she was lying at IL wharf at
Chicago, and of thirty-elsht persons on
board, mostly stevedores, only two es-
capped unhurt. 1t is estimated that eigh-
teen were killed.
The Louisina house has refused to pass
the governors veto the bill repeating the
Sunday law passed by the legislature two
years ago, closing up all liquor saloons,
barber shops and stores throughout the
state of Louisiana
Two men made bold attempt to rob
the office of the Crawford house, Cincin-
natl, Friday night, by covering the night
clerk and colored porter with revolvers.
The former was fired at but missed. The
would-be murder was captured.
Douglass ThopAs, 20, Of MartinsHille,
Ina, TOOK a brief Course Of heroic treat
melt, foS iAcipient ,ccqnsuAptieR chat
house and hung Himself To the ceiling.
HIS charfed body WAS. found with the
Strap arouflti las fiecks.1of'iF 10 19i '.1y1
slA9site fofoi1he omaiiT Ships of the Big
Fotip read 10 se4h ployle,UeO brS,Oob men,
ihal thetst ted on7 the pIek3ttb kitlaluf
ther White river froH indianapolis, but
the secret leaked ioslt aud AonAe holders of |
she properes ibectinAe nsSa greedy that =
new site Is to 6be selected heaI the same |
tityIi sidT .t99Its Bilot3iY so 10 tn"1
lAnbvetItahseF eAiscleneeghas WRECKED |
the mind Of Baptist Konig,Aaa Newark, %, |
glass Slower.9 " Some time ago Ne threw'aI
pair of clamps to He4ffySaliHgef, ,afeIlow
Workman, 10 eatehp They struck Salinget
In the, breast, ehisfng, ms ,feath Brood.
Ing over the accident, has driven KONG 4
insane .'s ne n SItrods y1sy s9rlg sLsi u sid
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