Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condensation of interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

a Condensation of interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.
The president and family have returned
to Washington.
DR.. 4. J. Pickett, of Muncie Ind. was
tally injured in a runaway.
Cotton is reported badly damaged by
heavy rains throughout Alabama.
Mrs George Collum, aged 50, Cincin-
natl, brutally u siulted for the purpose of
robbery,
A clever 81 silver certificate counterfeit
has been discovered in the treasury de-
partment
Matte Pyles aged ID, died at Middle
town. o., from the effects of a criminal
operation.
N, O. Walker, the aged editor of The
Observer, Fayetteville, Tenn, died Tues
day, aged IS.
A street car is held up and the passen-
gers robbed by two men in the western
town of Chicago.
The Lackman heirs have given $40 to-
ward establishing an Italian benevolent
school in Cincinnati.
Gustav Raabe was convicted OF man
slaughter III Cincinnati for the killing, on
Aug. q, OF Henry Ogden.
Ed. Wiggins, of Omaha, shot and killed
Allie Horne because she refused TO marry
him, then killed himself
Beatty Wickliffe, colored, Of Danville,
Ky,, for killing Evan Warren, white, in
July, 1889, gets two years
Democrats of the Seventeenth Ohio dis
triet nominated Judge A. j Pierson for
congress on the tenth ballot
Mysterious death OF Edward Morgan,
near Newport, Ky, upon whose life there
was a large insurance, is being officially
inquired into.
lliplets, two boys and one girl, COM
bined weight nineteen and one-half
pounds, were born to Owen Curtis and
wife, OF Middleport, O. All doing we'll
William Mack, a saddler, and Charles
Dicks, timer, died in Cincinnati from
falls, the former through hatchway, and
the latter from a scaftolding upon which
he was working.
The recent report of Mrs. Hestin, Of
Chicago, falling heir TO n fortune Of SOB,
600 bequeathed by an old sweetheart who
went TO the war and was never heard Of,
begins to look like a canard.
Three-fourths OF the city of Colon, Pam
anna, has been destroyed by fire. The
riotous behavior of mob of looters caused
the military to open fire, and several per-
sons were killed or wounded.
The supreme council of the Irish M
tional League of America, in session in
Cincinnati, has adopted scathing rcsolu-
tion condemning the arrest of Dillon and
O'Brien by the British government.
Col. D. w. G. Loudon is nominated by
acciamation for congress by the Repub-
lcans of the Eleventh Ohio district.
Ninety ballots were taken by the Re-
publcans of the Tenth district without n
choice.
AT Wheeling, w. Va, George Wendel,
a well known railroad man, was instantly
killed He jumped off of Cleveland
and Pittsburg train in the yard, and as he
lit was struck and knocked down by an
other train, cutting him to pieces.
The passengers, dozen or more, in u
Lincoln avenue, Chicago, street car, were
saved bath and probably n watery grave
by the timely warning of the driver late
Tuesday night. The Clark street bridge
over the Chicago river had been turned,
and was not noticed by the driver until
too late to stop the car. Everybody es-
capped with good scare. The horses were
drowned
Fishermen around the reservoir in Mer-
Ger county, o., have recently been both
cred by thieves stealing their lsh. Tues
day fisherman named Anderson shot w.
A. Botkin and Ernest Mullen, who were
taking fish from his nets, with shotgun,
putting hundreds of leaden pellets inside
their skins They returned the fire and
probably fatally wounded Anderson, his
right eye being shot out.