Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| wesley Drake was arrested at W heellng
W. Va, for horse stealing.
Two children of Jessie Bates, were killed
| by runaway team at Lodi, ILL.,
That English syndicate opens its capa
cious NAV to gobble the Springfield, o,
breweriea,
| A special dispatch states that there is NJ
truth in the report that an epidemic has
struck Muncie, Ind.
Covington, Ind, bitches on toward tht
millennium with new Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union.
Harry Work, aged years, was fatally
injured, near Millersburg, O., by the acct
dental discharge of a revolver
AL. Wallace, charged with completely
in the murder of Station Agent Trainer, at
Poseyville, Ind, was acquitted.
A fieshless skull, supposed by some tc
be that of Hiram Sawtelle, has been found
between Cornish and Limerick, Maine,
Frank Woodruff, the lying, self-incrim
mating witness in the Cronin case, has
been given six months for horse stealing
Miners meeting, at Pomeroy o., cry
for quarter, but won't yield a point
want quarter of cent per bushel adj
vance.
The penchant of school teacher James
Latte, of Geneva, o., for marrying several
times each week, is worrying the neigh
borhoOd.
1t is predicted that the Chicago carpen-
tiers will go to work for the new bosses on
Friday, and continue the boycott of the
old association.
Herman Hess, who recently left Weston,
o., and eloped to Muncie, Ind, with a
woman named Rocky, was arrested at the
latter place on the 9th inst.
Charles jacobson and another Finn who
We're handling timber at the Queen mine,
Negaunee, Mich. fell down the shaft, a
distance of 100 feet. They are dead.
A furnace at the Edgar Steel works at
Braddock, Pa, exploded Tuesday. Four
Hungarians were seriously burned, and
one of them, Jacob Kronhi, fatally.
Attorney S. w, Sweezy, formerly of
Marion, Ind, is now on trial in Brooklyn
n. Y, on a charge of malpractice, pre-
preferred by girl named Annie Murphy
At indianapolis Pat Killian and George
Harter quarreled. Result: Harter
stabbed in the head and Killian shot in
the mouth, both wonds being dangerous
The Mexican chamber of deputies has
approved the bill granting an indefinite
number of terms to presidents by 17S
votes, and the bill has been sent to the
senate
James Phillips, section boss in the
Chicago and Indiana Coal yards, mt Brazil,
Ind, was badly and perhaps fatally in
jured, while loading ties at Mecca, Parl1e
county.
Sixty persons caught in the raid on Chi
cago pool rooms were fined 800 each,
though the justice expressed the opinion
that the law closing the rooms was uncon-
stitutiOnal.
The defense in the Jones murder case
at Paineville, o., is producing the usual
well stocked family insane asylum to
prove that the murderer was not response
bic for his deed.
Agent Sommers is charged with ship
ping whisky down his neck and the Pitts
burg and Western railroad funds in
his pocket, and fitting from Morris, Pa,
TO Columbus, o.
William Robinson, an attache of the
Carboudale mines, near Birmingham,
Ala, was called from his house by I'M
known assassins Monday night and fatally
shot. Cause unknown.
The body of Miss Matte Bacon, the
daughter of Col Bacon, of Niles, Mich,
who jumped into the lake on the night of
March ~, was found floating at point
near where she plunged in.
The Fostoria, o., trench diggers decide
that to dig trenches ten hours daily and
retrench twenty-tour hours is double work
and want an advance of twenty-five cents
on the 81 % wages now paid.
The body of an unknown man about q
years old was picked up ut the west harbor
Of Ashland, KY He is supposed to have
been in the river four or five days. A let
ter dated Ironton, o.. March q, was found
in his pocket.
The southern zephyr that swept all the
baggage off a sailing vessel along the
Florida coast, near Punta Garda, came
near taking with it Mr. and Mrs. A. ID.
Mullikin, of Louisville, and Miss Rose
Elizabeth Cleveland, who were on board.
George Weeks, son of Rev. S. l.. Weeks,
Baptist minister at Murphytown, seven
miles above Parkersburg, w. Va, was
found dead in his room with bullet hole
through the head 1t is supposed that he
was accidentally killed while cleaning his
gun.
William Lambert, the richest man in
Michigan, committed suicide at Detroit
while temporarily insane, by hanging. He
was a confidante of John Brown, Fred
and ether abolition leaders
before and during the war
In removing with dynamite a stump |
standing in the way of the workmen at |
D O. Il ,n,'
Ind, Alfred Mendenholl was |
injured in the right eye. This is |
the third accident at the same place |
within the last three days
c. c. Traweck, formerly of Leon county. |
TEX, and wanted there for arson, was |
killed by Deputy Sheriff Wallis, ON sun
lay, near Stewards mill, on Bayou Croco-
lille, La. When ordered by the officer to
Traweck reached for his gun. |
when the officer fired, with the result as
stated above.
A furnace Mt the Edgar Thompson steel
works, Braddock, Pa, exploded Tuesday
morning scattering debris in all direc-
ions. Four Hungarians were seriously
burned, one of them, Jacob Khroni. it is
bought, being fatally injured The cause
If the accident is not known. The loss
will be quite heavy.
Berry Ward, eolored and quarrelsome
,itizen of Harveysburg, O., loaded his
shotgun Tuesday morning with several
bullets destined to finish the earthly
.areer Of several of his neighbors, so he
,aid. But one barrel was used, and that
vas fired at Ward with fatal effect by his
stepson, Dan. Washington, in
lefense of his mother, whom Ward was
rying to kill
May Nullify License Laws.
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