Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

foundry has smut down,
Editor Dana, of The New York Sun, is
making tour of the south.
Godfrey and Kilrain will fight before
the California Athletic club for IS 900.
Hancock county, Ind, is awful wicked.
The grand jury found 32l indictments
Newfoundland controversy between
France and England will be arbitrated
EX-State Treasurer Woodruff, of Arkan-
sas, is short in his accounts about $110 COZ.
EX-Treasurer Woodruff's shortage is
now placed at $4,000 by the Arkansas
expert,
Secretary Mcbride calls a meeting
mine owners and operators at Pittsburg,
April Z.
A. Gale, OF Sioux City, Iowa, lost his
fortune specializing in Chicago and killed
himself.
Serious trouble is brewing in northwest
ern Oklahoma between the whites and
negroes.
Bessie Jobe eg ID Is years, was killed by
train at Dennison o., in the presence of
her mother.
Edward Buckley, of Cadiz, o., is the lat
est disappearance without cause and with
out explanation.
William Deeds, deaf mute of South
Fincastle, o., was killed by railroad train
near Blanchester.
AT Butte, Mont, r, II. Turner fell
down 3G5 feet in the Gognon mine, pnI
was fatally injured
The jefferson Insurance company
New York, will retire from busints.
on account of bad TIM IS
John II. Wallace, of New York has
signitied his Willingness to sell Wallace's 5
Irotting Register for 100000
A representation of Venice inminature,
built out into the lake, will be one of the
attractions of the worlds fair.
The Pacolet cotton mills at Pacolet, S.
c., were destroyed by an incendiary fire
Wednesday. The los is $50 600
Mrs. John FinnCg gan, Of Miles, O., went
calling and has never come in again ana
mol ly knows her whereabouts
DIR, w. ID. McGregor, Steubenville, o.,
druggist, forgets his troubles in sleep in
duced by an overdose Of morphine.
Old Veteran John Hobs found with his
throat cut, near Frankfort O., did the
deed with IL razor and his own hand.
Connecticut Republicans, in caucus,
agreed to "A proposition which is a possible
way out Of the present gul ernatoral con
test.
Three hundred Chinese pirates and rob
bers were beheaded in KWantung province
during the last few days of the Old Chinese
year
A. Gale, banker and politician, a ter
losing his fortune on the Chicago oird of
trade, committed suicide at Sioux City,
Iowa.
Edward MUIR hy, brakeman on the
Ohio and Mississippi, was run over b. Il
freight train at Cincinnati crossing and
killed.
The state Citrus fair is under way at
Los Angeles, Cal. Over 100000 oranges
were used in making the designs and eX-
hibits.
Seven-year-old Keno was purchased
by f. /. Smith, of Boston, from Peter
Olinger. of Dubuque, Iowa, for the sum
of $500.
Alf. King and John Allison fought a
duel with knives, near Blount Springs
Ala, about a woman King is dead, Ali
son dying.
William J. and Patrick J. Elliott, of Co.
lumbus O.. were indicted for murder in
the first degree in the killing of Hughes
and Osborne.
Joseph Edwards, dangerous Martins
vile, Ind, lunatic, defied anyone TO take
him, but voluntarily surrendered himself
TO the sheriff
Charles G. Curran, an artist of Norwalk,
o., has sold his painting "Winter Morn
ing in a Barn-yard, - to Mr.. Tyson, of New
York, for $t0
At Albany, n. v, Peter Hecker, g
years old, cut his wife to death with n
razor, inflicting twenty slashes. He then
killed himself.
A woman and two children were
drowned near Pickcnsville, Ala, Tuesday,
while being taken from their home, which
had been flooded,
The police commission of Denver has
given orders to the chief of police to see
that saloons and gambling houses are
closed on Sunday.
Judge Robinson, of Youngstown, o.,
says that pension money, for which old
soldiers risked their lives, cannot be
touched by creditors
W. lltbiStiib NtNill llDNlitll anu tltNtI
immigrants arrived in New York Wednes-
day, the largest number o arrive on any
single day this season.
An Indian squaw charges that Charles
Friedlander, II Democratic state senator Of
Michigan, was her husband at the time he
married his present wife.
The Indiana state board of agriculture
will appeal to the supreme court to see if
the late legislature wasn't trespassing
when it tried to turn it out of its terrific ory
John Logan, Jr., has reduced the Ma
honing and Shenango valley fair directors
by one LeCaGse he could not agree with
them that the premium list should he cut
down.
The Rhode Island state convention
unanimously 1enominated John w
Davis and w. c. T. Wardwell for gov
ernor and lieutenant governor respect
lively.
At Blount Springs, Ala, Alfred Kind
and John Allison fought to the death with
pocketknives about a woman. King was
killed, and it is not certain that Allison
will live.
Mrs. Kate Essimorne of Youngstown,
o.. wi husband was killed by train
at EGon Valley, Feb. y, has commenced
suit agail the Pennsylvania railroad for
So, Coz damages
The Tennessee house of representatives
has passed bill prohibiting the running
of freight and excursion trains on Sun
day, with the exception of those carrying
fruit and live stock.
Mrs. Norton, the fashionable Chicago
dressmaker, has proved her claim that she
is the mother of young Harry Ferguson,
the bell boy vino lately fell heir to con
siderable sum OF money.
\ house occupied by an old man named
Thomas Harwood, about two miles south
east of Yorkshire Centre, n. Y, caught
fire and Ii rwood was burned TO d dsath