Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

No mere Sunday base ball in Maryland.
The strike the iteight handlers of Gin
cinnati is over and the men are beaten.
During a storm Sunday at Mays Land
ing n. j., hailstones as large as hickory
nuts fell
1t is reported on good authority that
there is leprosy in family on the Cana
dian island of Anticosti.
Miss Nancy Goodrich died at Bloom
field, Conn.,, Sunday aged ITO years. Her
health was good until Friday.
Secretary Tracy says the remains of
John Ericsson will be sent to Sweden on
either the Philadelphia or Baltimore.
There has been incorporated in Chicago
the American Woman's Canning COM
pahy. The incorporators are women.
At Ottawa, Kan, Mrs. Flortes Russell
drew $4,000 from bank, and on her way
home was robbed of the whole amount
The mangled remains of John Nettles, a
sign writer, were found ON the tracks at
Oneida, n. Y. His home was in Erie, Pa
Two boys, 10 and II respectively, dis
covered gold mine in Wyoming, the ore
of which assayed $685. 900 and $40, 900 per
ton.
At Sherman, N. Y, Excelsior hall,
eleven business places and seven dwell
ings were burned. Loss estimated at $50
COO
Matthew Tobin, Jr., and James Kelly,
in Jail at Anderson, Ind, for brutally as
saulting Maggie Woods, are threatened
with lynching
Flags at Fremont, o., were displayed at
half mast in respect to the memory Of
Gen. John c. Fremont, after whom the
city was named.
At Lake Village, N. H., John b. Hend
ley, well known citizen and prominent
Grand Army man, committed suicide by
cutting his throat.
Melville RAIDER was found dead in Web
ster county, w. Va. 1t is thought he was
killed by n man with whose wife he was
said to be intimate.
A passenger and freight train came into
collision near Smithville, Ind Three per
sons were fatally injured, and several
Others less seriously.
James c. Ward, drover, was thrown
from freight train near Wilmer, Pa.
and killed. He was terribly mangled He
formerly resided in Chicago.
A Washington special says that Senator
Sherman will retire to private life at the
end of his present term in 1893. He will
not lie candidate for president again
At Portland, Me, Mark j. Sullivan, for
refusing to perform the duties of census
enumerator after he was appointed, was
held in 81, 900 for trial In the United States
court.
Abraham johnson, colored, was shot
and killed by a man named Millendcr,
overseer on s. NJ. Spencers plantation,
near Greenville, Miss. Millender es
capped.
1t is reported that Patrick O'Sullivan,
the ice man, now serving life sentence
for his completely in the murder of DR..
Cronin, is dying in the Joliet peniten.
tiary.
MIS-. Jessie Dill quarreled with her hus.
band at Wooster, o., Sunday night, and
made two attempts to commit suicide by
throwing herself under moving freight
trains She was saved both times by her
husband.
Christopher Anderson and George
KreitZmeyer, shoemakers, were run down
by u passenger train at South Englewoo
(Chicago), and received injuries that may
prove fatal Liquor. Anderson's family
lives in St. Paul
Three masked robbers entered the office
of the Northern Pacific Express company
in Chicago at II O'Clock Saturday night,
covered the two clerks with pistols chloro-
formed them and secured, according to
first reports, $4,000, but the company Off
ciSls declare less than $780,
Through the fragrant stupidity of gate
l. faN NolI Int.
at the intersection of North Paulina street
and the Northwestern tracks in Chicago.
The three were in delivery wagon, and
while driving over the crossing were
caught by an outlying train.
At Eau Claire, Wis, jury of six lead
ing citizens disagreed as to whether five
women and four men OF the Salvation
Army were guilty of violating city ordi-
nance in parading the streets. The Saliva
tionists had been in Jail almost week,
but are now out on parole pending new
trial
G. c. Terry, q young man 2s years Of
age, WAS arrested at the general postofiice,
New York, by Inspector Ryrnes' men on a
charge of embezzling $6l0 from Buecking
& Company, of Kansas City. Terry claims
To- he q relative of the late Judge Terry, of
California, and at the time of the alleged
embezzlement was in the employ of the
Kansas City firm.
On July 8 constable's posse at Hazard,
Perry county, KY, in search Gs Buck and
Zach Fugate, two desperadoes. had a fight
with their band Ia the mountains. The
constable and one of the posse were killed
aud two others were wounded. Buck
FuSate xes captured and lodged In Jail at
Hazard. His friends threaten to rescue
him aud further blcodshed il feared.