Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

sembly has been inaugurated.
Sailors on ocean, lake and gulf have
formed National organization.
Miss Jennie Waltz, of Hillsboro, KY, sui
cided with strychnine, No cause.
State Treasurer Archer, of MARYLAND. was
admitted to bail in $25, 900 bonds.
Philadelphia scientists have made valu-
able discoveries in Yucatap and Mexico
Ex-Secretary Whitney will be pushed for
the Democratic nomination for president
j. H. Ferguson was arrested at Leon, w.
Va, on the charge Of violating the postal
laws.
Mrs Peter Monaghan and Herman Helm
richs were horribly gored by COW at South
Orange, N. J.
The National Linseed Oil trust has
changed its named TO the National Linseed
Oil company
indianapolis union carpenters are on a.
strike for eight hours day and thirty.five
cents an hour.
Miss Jennie Waltz committed suicide with
strychnine at Hillsboro, KY. No cause is
known for act.
Senator Plumb wants the treasury balance
reduced by applying it to the payment Of
the public debt
The life of Judge Sharp, of Pineville, KY,
has been threatened by the brother of a con.
vict whom he killed.
Maggie, who shot Judge Terry in defense of
Justice Field, has been sustained by the
United States supreme court,
A physician named Stenkard, at Terre
Haute, Ind, was attacked with knife by a
drunken man named Cress,
Minneapolis grand jury has indicted the
city clerk and two aldermen for Doodle,
bribery and malfeasance In office
The proposed sale of the cotton duck mills
Of New England and Maryland, to an En-
glish syndicate, has fallen through.
The Iowa senate passed the house school
book bill. The plan is district purchase Of
books, with optional county uniformity.
The body of a man murdered in Copen-
hagen, Denmark, was found in a barrel at
New York, having been shipped by the muir
derers.
The biggest sales of wheat ever transacted
on the New York Produce Exchange were
made Monday About 44,00O,OOO bushels
were sold
Ex-Mayor William c. Culbertson has SO.
cured a judgment against the city of Mt.
Vernon, o., for nearly $500 salary due him
while sick.
Joseph Miller, a prominent farmer, living
near Roanoke, Ind, visited Huntington Sat
urday to pay his taxes, and has not been
seen since.
AT North Manchester, Ind, gang of
fourteen boys, ranging in age from Is to 81
are charged with brutally assaulUing a IT,
year-old girl.
The celebration of the twenty-fifth ami
versary Of the establishment of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion begun in Phla-
delphia Tuesday.
Moonshiners on the New river branch of
the Norfolk and Western railroad on Satur-
day assassinated Walter johnson, chief Of
police of Bluefeld, w. Va
A package containing three and one-half
pounds Of dynamite, several cartridges and
twenty-fve-foot fuse was found near the
state reformatory, st. Cloud, Mimi.
The Chicago bricklayers' and masons'
unions have declared their intention of sup
porting the carpenters strike if non-union
carpenters are employed by contractors,
The Wisconsin judicial decision prohibit
ing the reading of the Bible in public schools
only applies to its use for a specifically re-
ligious purpose AS history it can be used.
A memorial service in commemoration of
the twenty fifth anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's death was held in Boston Sunday
under the auspices of the Boston Turn
| Verein.
1t seems almost incredible that quarter
of a century had elapsed since the fatal shot
was fired by Booth that robbed the nation
of its head at a critical period in its ex-
| istence
! Cromer, the missing agent of the Peoples
bank at Edmunstoh, N. B., is reported to
have carried away $4,000 of the banks
money with him, and nothing is known of
his whereabouts
In the common pleas court at Wapako-
meta, O., Jerome Glynn, who criminally
assaulted Ia year-old girl, pleaded guilty
and was sen fenced to fifteen years in the
! penitentary at hard labor.
The cause of the disaster to the steamer
Handy Boy at Saginaw, was the man at the
/ wheel losing his head because of the swift
ness of the current, and signaling the en-.
| gineer to go ahead full speed, instead of to
stop.
John Day and Mary Newman, two Of the
| parishioners of Roman Catholic church at
/ Plainfield, N j., were accommodated be-
cause they were united in marriage by a
Brooklyn clergyman during the lenten
! season.
Monday night while Edward Grant of
Newark, O., formerly railroad employee,
was going to his home he was fired upon by
some unknown person and two bullets lodged
in his side and back, inhieting probably fatal
injuries No trace of his assailant has been
found.
The New England Methodist conference
has outlined program for a celebration OF
the centennial of New England Methodism
on Boston common, Oct. 2l-23, to end with
banquet in Faneuil hall on the evening OF
the 23l, with addresses by prominent Meth
odists.
Misses Viola McGrail and Ida Monroe
aged II and IS years, were arrested al
Marion, Ind, as they were about to board @
Pan Handle train for Chicago Both ran
away from good homes near Upland, their
intention being to see the world. They
were returned to their parents.
A package containing three and one-hali
pounds Of dynamite, several cartridges and
a twenty-five foot fuse, was found near the
state reformatory, at St Cloud, MINI, and
it is thought that some one intending tc
blow up the institution had left it there
probably being frightened away at a critical
/ moment
J. Monroe Shellenberger, the lawyer, who
is now a fugitive from justice, after having
swindled residents of Bucks county, Pa.
out of about $4,000, was seen in New Yorl
on Saturday. In answer to questions Shsl
lenberger said that he 'got himself into
hole, and had 10 skip" Large rewards ar
offered for his capture.
Thirteen years ago Allen c. Lewis, Of
New York, left property in Chicago, which