Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-06

Willie and Freddie Preston, Phila-
delphia boys, drowned while bathing at
Norristown, Pa.
Chicago company is about to invest
100000 in a pipe line from the Indiana
oil fields to that city.
Returns from the election in Kentucky
indicate the election of the Democratic
state ticket by 81 600
William Rezell, charged with murder,
tried to murder himself with poison in
the New Castle, Ind, Jail
The first performance of "Moses" under
the auspices of the Order of Cincinnatus
was given in Cincinnati Monday night.
The United States cruiser Baltimore
will convey President Harrison to Boston,
where he will attend the Grand Army re-
union.
An epidemic of typhoid fever is re-
ported at Muncie, Ind. There were thirty
deaths during July, and the disease is
undated.
Secretary Window does not consider the
present shipments of gold to Europe
heavy enough to warrant any interference
on his part.
Mrs Patty Galloway died at Baltimore
ripe age of l06 years. All her faculties re-
manned intact until few days ago.
Cleveland man milliner, Grosenbaugh,
is said to have forged notes to procure
stocks and is closed up pending an in
quiry as to where he got those hats
The birth of baby without a tongue is
reported from Martinsville, Ind, as oc-
curing eight miles south of that city,
Mrs. John Fulford being the mother,
While company of negroes were re-
turning from church at Aberdeen Miss,
they were fired upon from ambush and
one woman killed and a man seriously
injured.
In Boone county, KY, goat, mad from
from hydrophobia, began an attack on
other animals in the same pasture. In
course it attacked mule and was kicked
to death.
The people of San Francisco have pre-
scented to the new cruiser of that name Il
81, 500 silver service that is said to be the
handsomest thing of the kind owned in
America.
Within the past week $4,000 cartridges
have been shipped to Reddick and Month
cello, two towns in a Republican section
of Florida. Other towns, also, are being
supplied.
Tom King, a l6-year-old boy, was fatally
wounded and James Striker, 3s, seriously
injured in a street brawl at Newport, Ky,
late Monday night. Their ASSISTANTS are
not known
Miss Helen Leah Reed, Harvard an
mex girl, who captured the Sargent prize
of 500 for the best metrical translation of
an ode from Horace, spent the money for
French dress
When the foodgates of the dam across
the Hudson river at Mechancsville were
opened, day or two ago, over 100 salmon,
weighing from five to thirty pounds each,
were caught in the shoal water.
George Beck of Indianapolis, and j. p.
Elliott, of Kansas City, shot for the
American field cup and championship of
the United States at Indianapolis. Elliott
won by score of A. to Beck's ~.
At Stanford, KY, Bill Teeters ordered
Marshal Rowland to release his prisoner,
Jim Buster, and to enforce the order shot
Rowland through the lung. Lynchs
court is awaiting the result of the wound.
The house committee on elections has
reported III favor of seating Goodrich, Re
publican, from the Second district of
Florida. They put his majority at 337,
while the Democrats according to the re-
turns, had 8, 1885,
After waiting one month for an answer
to their request for higher wages the COM
mittee sent by the Panhandle freight
handlers, oilers and yardmen at Indianap-
oils are sent away by the superintendent,
saying he was too busy to see them.
Indiana has so many underground adj
vantages, such as gas, coal, stone, ETC.,
that if she could flop herself over and
bring these to the top she wouldn't much
care if few things like her legislature
and one or two dozen of her leading pOliti-
clans should happen to slip under in the
flop.
1t is ascertaned that L. NJ. b. Cook, who
was assassinated in Jasper county, Miss,
because he persisted in running for dele
gate to the constitutional convention
against Democrat, was respected white
Republican and member of the Farmers
Alliance.
The st. Joseph, Mo-, News relates that
the mayor of Keytesville, that state. was
arrested the other day for violation OF a
city ordinance which prohibits the throw
ing Ol paper III Iue SlfSetS, lue CIT IildI-
shall caught him in the act and the mayor
fined himself 81 for the offense.
A good deal of interest has been ex-
cited at the antipodes by the appearance,
after twenty seven years of submersion,
of the wreck of the British warship
Orpheus, the singular loss of which,
with nearly 200 hands, caused such a com
motion at the beginning Of the last Maori
war.
W. c. Bronson, who has just been
elected by the faculty of De PAW uni
versity. of Indiana, to the chair of rhetoric
and English literature in that institution,
is only - years of age. He has, however,
taken the highest ran at Brown, liar
ward and Cornell as brilliant student
and scholar.
Elizabeth Comstock, an aged Quaker"
preacher, living at Union Springs, y. Y.
has visited in her lifetime l22 600 persons,
and nearly twice that many sick persons
in and out of poorhouses, on the battlefield,
etc. The injunction to visit the sick and
ransom the prisoner has serious and
practical meaning in her estimation.