Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-22
NEWS IN eRIEF.


Various Subjects.
A tornado blew down dozen buildings
at Pacific, Iowa.
They say some of the Minneapolis CEN
sus enumerators have skipped to Canada
The lathes for turning the gun borcs Of
our new and heavy ordnance will cost
s125, 900
Louisville, Dayton and Richmond rail-
road was incorporated Saturday with S4,
00O, 600 capital
William p. Adams, 80 years old, an
electrician of New York city, has been
missing since Friday.
Christian people of Chicago want the
fair to be closed on Sunday, and have pc
titioned the Legislature to that end
A cow on the Monon caused wreck
near Delphi, Ind, that resulted in the
death, by scalding, of Engineer Strope.
The interstate commerce commission is
reported to have decided to ask all rail-
roads for monthly statements OF earnings
Rev. Aloysius Steffens, of Woodhaven,
L. l., has been sued by one of his parish
toner's for alternating his wife's affections
Eighty eight miles in an hour and three
quarters is the fairly good time made by a
Hudson River special train the other day.
Longshoremen strikers at Toledo are do
ing an impolitic stroke of business by strik-
ing their non-union supplanters with
clubs.
Fireman Rhodhouse has been arrested
for the murder Of Engineer Vandevender
in the cab of his engine Friday night, near
Van Vert, 0.
Mahoning county has a select and en-
thusiastic audience to witness her rendi-
ton OF "A Hole in the Ground" She has
struck oil and gas.
Secretary Window has issued call for
offers of United States bonds to be made
at the office of the treasury, July "a
There is about 500, 000,O00 available for
debt reduction.
A good deal of comment was caused in
New York ON Wednesday by the fact that
the flag on the postofIice building was not
half nlasted out of respect to Gen Fire.
mont's memory.
Some practical, but inartistic, German
has made up II compound of sugar and
condensed milk and tea, from which
cup of tea can be had by simply pouring
on boiling water.
AT Chicago trio of steyedores engaged
in a quarrel. John Needham hanuied
knife and Nick Williams and Pat Clinton
were his victims Clinton stands no
chance of recovery.
For the first time in many years the
front doors in Columbus, Ind, saloons
swung on their rusty hinges and showed
the regular drinkers their long-torgotton
outsidcs On Sunday.
A factional tracas at Hubbard's mills,
KY, resulted in an episode of thick smoke
winch cleared away to reveal Messrs.
Mills, Burchett ana Hubbard with fatal
bullet perforations all through them.
Messrs. Gilbert and Carney quarreled
over a flock of geese near Louisville, and
the result was 1t sledge-hammer welded
by Gilbert brought down on Carney's
head, from which he will probably die.
Daniel keefe, OF Cincinnati, says that it
may not have been right for him TO cut
his indianapolis brother with a knife, but
the way his brother cut him out OF the
family estate was the unkindest cut of all
A coal black ghost with dagger stick.
ing uncomfortably in it's bosom is
"naunt" that is soaring New Castle, Ind,
small boys out of years growth as ii
roains in the vicinity of the school house.
Bert Holcumb, the boy who was ar.
rested at White Oak, o., on the charge OF
comm itting rape on the person of his
little S-year-old cousin, Lizzie Bait, was
arraigned before Squire Cook and bound
over " court.
The people of Collinsville, Ga, local
option town, blew up the establishment
of an original package" dealer with dy.
Mantle, and threatened that If he opened
again he would be blown up with his bot
ties the next time.
John Banta, aged 49, whose parents live
in indianapolis, was drowned while bath.
ing in Tippecanoe, near Sprlngbor Sun
day Robert Dent, his companion, at.
tempted to rescue him and came near per.
ishlng in the attempt.
Elizabeth Jones, n white woman, of Co. |
lumbus, o., died Sunday from the effects
of stab inflicted week or so ago by |
John Evans, colored man. Evans
wanted to marry her, and when she re-
fused, stabbed her twice.
The supreme court of Indiana has af |
firmed the Judgment of the lower court |
giving 5000 damages to Marion Kendall
u married man, who was whipped by
White Caps who accused him OF crimi
nally ass2ulting n young girl
An examination of he Canton, o.,
revealed that there were
in them. Millions of rich, juicy
white maggots which crawl over the
combines, and are thrown in to
customers without extra charge.
Charles A. Taylor, well known for
many years to the newspaper profession
in the wtst and southwest, was found
dead in his room in St. Louis Sunday
afternoon. His death resulted from an
overdose OF morphine, taken to allay
pa n.
b. +. Spinney, of Colorado Springs,
Col, was kidnapped by a Texan to whom
he owed g., 600, and carried into the noun
tains and held for ransom. A brother-in-
law raised the money and followed
Neither has returned and both are be-
eved dead.
Governor Warren has issued a procla-
nation calling the first Wyoming election
'or Sept IL. The Democratic and Repub-
lean state conventions are called for Aug.
Il in Cheyenne. The formal celebration
over Wyoming's admission will be held
here on Wednesday
At Leon Station, on the Elizabethtowp,
lexington and Big Sandy railroad, a
switch was thrown wrong while con-
,truction train was shunting. One car
was overturned and one negro was killed
outright, while three others were badly
Wounded one of whom has sinf,e diad