Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Item, on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects,
Stock of corn on hand is now the largest
ever reported in March.
The great Kelly gas well at Marion, Ind,
is on fire and can't be put out.
Bert Stalter, aged IA, had his head cut off
by the cars at Huntington, Ind
Andrew Sanborn and George Kenies were
arrested at Bull Run for counterfeiting.
Indiana Service Pension association in
dorsed the ingalls, and the Cheadle bills.
Louis Leach was arrested at HaIrodsburg,
KY, Sunday night on a charge of forgery.
Fire destroyed Costs hominy MILL at
Frankfort Ind. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
So, 900.
At Bookwalter, o., the schools have been
closed on account of the prevalence OF
measles.
Washingtons father was buried at Wake
field, Va, by the side of his first wife, it is
now claimed
The poll-tax revenue ON Chinese at the
port of Vancouver in January, $780, was
~, 22S against $3.50 in the same month last
year
The horse and buggy of W. r. Ethering
ton were stolen while the owner was at
tending church Sunday night at Kirkwood,
Ohio.
Georgen p Tjaden, treasurer and general
manager of Charter Oak Camp, Modern
Woodmen, of Peoria, ILL.,, is missing with
81 900
Andrew Ewing, of Alliance, O., fell down
an elevator shaft at the shop of C. Aultman
q Company, at Canton, O., Monday, and
was very seriously injured,
Hector C., Havemeyer, who died at Paris
recently, left an estate worth s., 500 600
His will gives $780, 600 to charitable institu-
tions and the rest goes to relatives.
Two thousand shirtmakers of New York,
mostly women, have struck against a refusal
of the bosses to reduce the hours from four.
teen to ten and to provide machines
Congressman Butterworth accompanied
Herman Cooper, of Cincinnati, before the
ways and means committee, and opposed
any further increase of the duty on hops.
c. B. Henkle, book keeper of the Globe
Light and Heat company, Chicago, has been
M ssing since March 5. A partial examina
ton of his accounts reveals a shortage of
$1,000
The statement of the department of agT-
culture shows that the stock of corn on hand
is the largest ever reported in March-970,-
| 100000. There are 156,000,000 bushels OF
wheat on hand
Advices from Sonora, Mex, state that on
the 4th inst. a posse of Mexicans overlook
and had a fight with six Apache Indians.
One Indian and one Mexican were killed and
another Mexican wounded.
Mayor Scott, of Laporte, Ind, claims to
have discovered a shortage of IS, 600 in the
accounts of Herman Hansheer, formerly city
treasurer, who has been dead for several
years. The alleged shortage is believed to
| be an error
| Senator Stanford has introduced resolu.
! ton in the senate favoring loans of public
money to farmers ON real estate security at
l or 3 per cent. interest as a means OF
relieving the embarrassment of the agricuL
tural industries.
| At Owen Sound, Ont, the hardware es-
Enlistment Of p Buchart & Brother, and
the furniture warerooms of b. Brec kinridge
s. Sons were burned Several persons were
hurt by falling walls, among them the Fire
Marshal, Thomas Gordon, whose injuries are
serious. The loss is SO 600
A large assignment of cotton seed has been
received in Oklahoma, which will be dis
tributed among the settlers Immediately,
and planting will begin at once There
Oklahoma this year, the soil and climate
being admirably adapted to cotton growing
The trial of Sheriff James A. Flack, his
son, William l.. Flack, and Lawyer Joseph
Meeks, who are indicted for conspiracy with
Judge Ambrose Mcneil, since deceased, has
been begun in the New York court of Oyer
and Terminer The conspiracy consisted of
trying to procure "a divorce for Sheriff
Flack from the latter's wife.
Grover Cleveland was recently offered the
presidency of a $20 100000 company, organ
lied by EnglshInen to operate in this
country, Guggenheimer & Untermeyer
were the attorneys for the syndicate.
Through them $50, 900 salary was tempt
ingly placed before the ex-president, but de-
clined Mr.. Cleveland's friends, who know
of his declining all such offers, regard it as
indicative of his set purpose TO go back to
the White House.