Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

homa has resulted in Republican vie
tory
An English company has purchased 5O,-
Coz acres of tin lands in California for
$3.50, 600
There are already two deficiencies under,
the administration of Governor Campbell
that aggregate 81 100.
The National commission Of the worlds
fair will meet Sept 10 instead of Oct. s to
choose director general.
At Chicago Mrs. Boersna attempted to
light her fire with kerosene The can ex-
ploded She and her little girl dead.
At Glasgow, KY, brave ferryman
saved family of five persons from drown
ing after their wagon had overturned in
tie river.
The Enterprise buggy works, of Gin
cinnati, will remove to Miamisburg, o.,
that city having voted 600 as an in
ducement.
The convicts in the shoe shop of the
Massachusetts, prison at Charlestown,
made desperate and united effort to es-
cape, but were repulsed by the guards.
Poor old Gen. Spinner, the man whose
name became famous on the grcenbacks
during the war, is at Pablo Beach, Fla,
blind and sufferin G and praying for the
end.
John Jordan, colored, arrested at Emil
hence, Ky, for attempted assault on
white child, will have a hard road to
travel if the threatening populace catch
him.
Another strike has been inaugurated on
the Mackey system, owing to the refusal
of the demand of the switchmen for an
increase of wages based on the Chicago
scale
Three ladies and one man, all of Balti-
more, were drowned while bathing in st.
Inigoes creek, st, Mary's county, Md.
The point is dangerous because of the
tides.
Professor j. NJ, Hirsh, of Chicago,
claims to have discovered process by
which he can extract aluminium from
common clay at a cost of fifteen cents a
pound.
An insane pilot on the City of Florence,
Tennessee river packet, ran his boat
against bridge pier near Danville and
badly damaged it, The pilot was NOR
phine fiend.
Milt Van Cleve, rich young man of
Hartford City, Ind, let another man carry
off the girl he loved, but never told her
so; then he committed suicide because he
couldn't live without her.
At Anderson, Ind, James Benefited
tried to force his way into John Davis
house to see Mrs. Davis. Mr. Davis or
dered him away; both men drew rcvolvers
and Benefited is dead and Davis diving.
John Caprell, aged 56, while crossing
the Reading railroad tracks, in Philadel,
phia, had one of his feet caught in Il frog,
and before he could extrcate 1t was
struck by an engine and almost instantly
killed.
Mrs. Jinsiwala, Slnskrit professor ut
the Wilson college, Bombay, has under
taken to check the vigorous Indian move
ment for improving woman's status by
lecturing against female education and
social reforms.
1t is reported that the stock of the
Louisiana Lottery company has depreci-
ated from 81 ,20J to 500 share on account
of the agitation by the Anti-Lottery
league and the position taken by the Ma
tional administration.
The National Casket company a combi-
nation of coffin manufacturers, has been
Incorporated in New York with capital
of $1,000, 900, to take advantage of i'm
proved methods of manufacture and to
make production cheaper
The senate committee on elections has
fayorably reported the Lodge bill, so
as to make it supervisor bill
pure and simple, aad to rid it of all those
Objectionable features that prompted its
opponents to call it u force bill.
Ferdinand Schiller a New York saloon
keeper, weighing 3O0pounds, while sitting
on the aft rail of a ferry boat was lurched
overheard. He couldn't swim, but didn't
sink A passing steamboat saw h IN and
had to rig derrick to lift him on deck.
1t is proposed by friends of O'Donovan
Rossa to raise fund for him sufficient
to maintain him in his old age With
this object society has been formed
which will invite all prominent Irishmen
in the country to contribute to that end
An epidemic of insanity seems to be
farmers near Martinsvillc. Ind |
The attempt to reconcile census returns
with conflicting newspaper statements |
threatens to make "A general state of
mental alteration throughout the coun- |
try
1t is whispered that Consul Sweeny is |
being brought back from Turkey to make |
the race for congress in the Fifth district |
Of Indiana, and the opposition pretend to |
wonder vainly why a man will forsake a
turkey in the hand for u fiat unpalatable |
crow in the soup.
Secretary of the Worlds Fair Directory |
and Congressman Butterworth will at |
empt to induce congress to 50 amend the |
worlds fair law as to permit the president |
to issue his proclamation without waiting |
for the assurance that $4,000 O09 has been |
pledged and ground and buildings pro
yided for
For several years n half-crazy house
painter named Ward has been feature of |
81. Louis life He slept in engine houses
and never missed fire He was known |
Us Crazy Ward, - and in his time he saved |
several lives in burning buildings BY the
Heath of relatives in New Orleans Ward |
has inherited 100000
According to The Washington Post n
resident of that city in December last re-
'eived n letter from Frederick ID. Grant,
United States minister to Austria, in
which he said of the removal Of his fathers
remains to Washington: THAT is mat
er which rests with the people of the
United States, not with Gen. Grants
amily. As to my fathers monument,
hat also belongs to the people. His
amily will he grateful for whatever is
lone
Arrested ON suspicion.
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