Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items On
Various Subjects.

"A condensation OF interesting Items On
Various Subjects.
Fndlay, O., now boasts of an oil ex-
change, and 10000 barrels were sold first
day
Decomposed body of an unknown man
was found in some brush near GAINESVILLE,
Ohio.
Officer Treadway shot Creth Golf at
Winchester, Ky, because Creth resisted
arrest.
Nicholas Brandon, near Hazelton, Pa,
upset lamp, and was burned to death in
bis house.
Sally Cowen, of Somerset, O., MIXED
her COWS early in the morning returned
to the house and dropped dead
Lulu Pickerell, promising indianapolis
miss of 10, died of disappointment because
her father refused to let her become a
school teacher
Web Matthews, bartender, Muncie
Ind, has novel way of stopping custom
ers He used shotgun on William
Gem with fatal effect.
Daughter of Eli Beekman, near Marion,
Ind, was bitten by Il mad dog five years
ago She awaits death now with genu-
inc case of hydrophobia
George MADDEN, cattle drover from
Tarkis, Kan, was knocked down in the
streets of St Joseph, Mo, in broad day
light and robbed of $500.
An Italian scissor grinder shot Martin
Flecnan at Delaware, o., because he
wanted n convenient target for practice,
Flecnan's wound Is fatal
Thomas Donnelly is now in the grave
from having come in contact with Frank
Stitts fist in a saloon row at GAINESVILLE,
o. His skull was fractured
A wild freight ON the Wisconsin Cen.
trail eollided with astray flat car Brakeman
james w, Emley was killed and Engineer
Lessard and a fireman injured
Those in Indiana, at least, who have
trellising in their grape vineyards, say the
wire has had some electrical effect upon
the grapes and Shrivcled them up.
II believe the Louisiana lottery takes
$1,000 a day out of Indiana, is what a
citizen of that state says. He thinks the
state is being robbed Systematically by
this evil.
Collector Scott, of Louisville Ky, will
be called upon to answer charges for vio-
lating the civil service law in making as
seSsments on subordinates in Office for po-
litlcal purposes.
The design of William Clark Noble, of
Newport, r, l., has been accepted by the
Burns monument committee. 1t repre-
seuts the poet seated with books and
papers around him.
August Ortman was arrested in Cincin-
natl Monday, charged with being the man
who has been for some time conducting
the ''custom house swindies" in the CITY.
lie denies the charge.
Wenzel Kantsky and Daisy Stuck were
ma "ried in New York, but they left their
marriage license behind and were again
married at Indianapolis because their
parents weren't sure"
Considerable gas is exploding on the
subject of gas at Shelbyville, Ind, and the
company threatens to take up its pipes
and leave for other parts where the people
don't kick at high prices.
At GAINESVILLE, O., Monday, Frank Swan.
aged IA years, died, and his parents say he
was killed by n horse, but a report is cur
rent that his brother struck him in the
abdomen in fight Saturday
Carlisle's successor in congress, Worth.
Dickersun, introduced his first bill in con
gress. Ii authorizes the Louisville. Gov
ington and Cincinnati Railroad company
to construct IA railroad bridge across the
Ohio river at Carroliton
Henry Henschy was arrested as he
landed from La Normandia fresh from
Paris with lot of diamonds sent by
Howell Osborne, a New York clubman, as
a present to Fay Tompleton the actress.
Henschy is charged with smuggling.