Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A CONDENSATION Of Interesting Items ON
Various Subiects

telephone boxes Of Salem, Mass.
TitSmas w. Means, father Of Hon. Will
lam Means, is dying at Ashland, Ky.
Reports are TO the effect that wheat in
Missouri is not promising for good crop.
The Democratic state convention of In
diana will be held at Indianapolis Aug. 2s.
NJ +. Women's Homo Missionary soci-
ETY. Of Cincinnati conference meets at
Dayton.
Valparaiso, Ind, has twenty saloons
running ut their sweet will, without leave
or license.
A violent sand storm passed over Car
man, Ill, doing much damage to crops in
that vicinity.
John Flood and Michael Cody, working
near New Lexington, o., were struck by
lightning and killed.
Two men We're perhaps fatally scalded
by the bursting Of mashtub in the Sny-
der distillery at Milton, KY
The deaths from the storm disaster at
Bradshaw, Neb. are reported at fifteen,
and the destruction of property at $685.
600
The street railway strikers at Column
bus, o., have succeeded in persuading the
new men to quit, and the cars are neces-
sarily stopped.
Wealthy New York and Brooklyn capt.
talists will esta fish race course at Fort
Hamilton, eclipsing both Westchester and
Monmouth park.
There are reports of the swelling of
streams generally over the northwest and
much destruction of property as the result
of the late rainfall
Ohio wool growers met at Columbus
and requested Mr.. Mckinley to make
plain the clause defining carpet and cloth
ing woods in his bill
The remains of man, who is supposed
to have committed suicide in suburb of
Jacksonville, Fla. has been identified as
H. House, Of PiQua, o.
During the progress of the Brotherhood
base ball game at Cleveland, the grand
stand was struck by lightning, and three
occupants badly stunned 49,
Samuel Hester, of Hopkinsville, KY,
brakeman on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, had his left leg crushed so badly
that amputation was necessary.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians in
convention at Springfield, o., passed reso-
buttons indorsing the efforts of Gladstone
While attempting to drive vicious hog
from his orchard, near Gallon, o., Wilt
lam Linn was attacked by the animal, and
had a leg broken by being knocked down.
Rollin Beers, a young lawyer of Bridge
port, Conn.,, is an embezzler to the extent
Of $4,000, a large part of which he had
secured from his brother and sister to in
vest.
At Marion, Ind, Coroner Hamilton ex-
onerated the conductor and engineer of
the train that struck Mrs. Poe Winnie.
and Mrs. o. j. Stone and two children,
last Friday
An employe of the Calumet and Hecla
copper mine named Peter Olsen has in
vested his twenty years savings in the
stock of the company, and he now owns
100000 worth of it,
The senate committee on military affairs
has amended the Chicamauga park bill so
as to take in that portion OF Lookout
brated battle above the clouds.
Miss May Rogers, of Debuque, Iowa, is
the author of "Waverly Dictionary" in
which the 1890 or more characters in Sir
Walter Scott's novels are all described,
with illustrative extracts from the text.
Dan. Hawkins and Fred Began con-
tinued their seventy-three round prize
fight OF Tuesday evening at the Golden
Gate club, San Francisco, Thursday night
Hawkins was knocked out in the fifteenth
round.
The temperature of Washington City on
Thursday was the hottest on record for
the season. There wa one case OF sun
stroke that will probably result fatally |
Fatal cases are reported from other
points
Judge Beach, of the New York supreme
court, has decided against the validity of |
the trust created by the will of the late |
Samuel j. Tilden, and ordered the exc
cutors to account to the nephew, George |
H. Tlden.
The prospect of settlement Of the Gin |
cinnati carpenters strike was dissipated |
Thursday, when the carpenters rejected |
the proposition Of the master builders and |
decided to hold out for ten hours' pay for |
nine hours work.
The remains of Mr.. Matt Morgan, the |
artist, have been deposited |
in Woodlawn cemetery, New York, to |
await the decision of the family in regard |
the deceased to lie cremated.
Rosina Rossiter, the young married |
woman, of New York, who, some time |
ago, stabbed Geroldi Gindice through. the
heart with an old rusty bayonet, wai hon
orably discharged in the court. Ms RIOS
sitter showed conclusively that at the time
OF the stabbing she was protecting her
honor.
Mrs. II. Green, of New York, said to be
the richest woman in the world, has for
years been holding enormous quantities
of vacant land on the west side OF the city
Of Chicago, declining to either improve or
sell. The assessor has determined TO
double the valuation of her property to
force her to improve.
Col. And. II. Dawson, of New York,
yesterday sent challenge to ex-Judge &.
5, Bedford to fight "A duel, to which the
ex- Judge paid no attention whatever
Now, the coloners southern blood is boil
ing because that legnl ghost John Doe has
applied for warrant to arrest him for
sending the challenge.
At Kankakec, ILL.,, Philip Peacock, Il,
confessed to the murder of his father,
William Peacock, a week ago. Peacock
was found dead in bed with "a bullet hole
In his forehead. A few years ago he was
the largest land owner in Milk Grove
township, Iroquois county. Father and
son had lived alone together fer ten years.
An Ohio River railroad train, carrying
Baltimore and Ohio officials en- route to
Wheeling, w. Va, was wrecked at Clar-
ngton Station, the train jumping the
rack and going over trestle twenty
feet high, turning upside down It is
considered remarkable that none were
killed. Several however, were seriously
injured