Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items O.
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Crops in Ontaria, Can, are suffering
from drouth
The citizens of Wilmington, O., have
voted for electric lights.
The aggregate of wheat in stock in the
northwest is l3,4l2,477 bushels.
The trial of IL. Clay King, of Memphis,
for the murder of Sawyer David Roston,
has begun.
Christian Kneass, the well known Grim
inal lawyer of Philadeldhia, died suddenly
Monday night
In Bath and Rowan counties, Ky, the
Farmers Alliance has nominated its candi
date for the Legislature.
Nose Kynard, while working on u new
building in Birmingham Ala fell forty
feet and broke his neck.
Burglars raided number of residences
at Lima, o., Sunday night, and secured
several hundred dollars
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has com
muted the death sentence of Stanley c.
Jones to imprisonment for life.
A gang of postoilice robbers have been
arrested at Fort Scott. They have robbed
a number of Offices in eastern Kansas.
The increase of the public debt during
the month of May is $622,9l5. The total
cash in the treasury was $685. ,35691
Hugh Robins, a prominent merchant Of
Tuskogee, Ala, committed suicide by
shooting. No cause is known for the deed.
There are 2,365 saloons in Hamilton
county, O., Of which 2,ll7 are in Cincin-
natl. The yearly revenue from the tax is
$59l 900.
The czar has returned to st. Petersburg
from Moscow. The czarina and the other
members of the imperial family will visit
the Crimea.
Talbot, Wilmath & Company, of Bos-
ton, manufacturers of woolens, have as
signed. No statement OF their affairs has
yet been issued.
Rev. X. II. Willard, professor Of ancient
languages, at Heidelberg university, Tiflin,
o., has accepted Il call to the pastorate of
Grace Reformed church, Akron.
John Stewart, of Trenton, n. j., who
was president of the Star Rubber company,
which failed recently, has advertised his
large wholesale grocery for sale.
At New Castle, Ind, Monday, James f,
Lankert was sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment for robbing Rev t. A. Beekes,
of Knightstown, of his wearing apparel
o. p Boyd, local editor of The Titus
county Times, of Texas, was found dead
with his throat cut, in the suburbs of
Mount Pleasant 1t is murder mystery
Jacob DIETRICH, an employe Of the w. a.
L. +. railroad, is under arrest at Massil
Ion, o., for forging the name of Jacob
Cochin, of Burton City, to note for Sal.
Ada Townsend and Elmer Foster, of
Galena, H., whose love was opposed by
the girls parents, took strychnine, and
were found dead together in the same
room.
There will be big military display
at the worlds fair IL all the states fol
low the lead of nine states that have re.
solved to send the pick of their state
troops.
George Burnham, young railroad man
of Sedalia, Mo-, having positive evidence
of his wife's infidelity. bound her in n
chair and with lighted matches forced her
to confess, then took her to her parents in
Illinois.
Some unknown persons took d. l.. Caul-
trop's fine horse out of his stable at Zanes-
vile, o., and drove it 50 hard that it died
They also cut the harness to pieces and
damaged the vehicle.
Richard G. Oellers, the city councils
appointee, was given possession of the
Philadelphia treasury pending judicial
decision by the supreme court regarding
the governors appointment.
Henry II. Christian, of the Ocean Steam
ship company died in Jacksonville, Fla,
Monday night after brief illness. He
was well known in transportation circles
all along the Atlantic seaboard.
At Atlanta, Ga, NJ. Bolden, a guard at
the Piedmont broom factory, ran away
two weeks ago with Eliza Randall,
female convict. They were located Sun
day by the sheriff and captured after
long chase. The woman Randall il life
prisoner.
At Argenta, Ark, fire partially de-
stroyed the Little Rock Oil cOmpany's ho-
tel Fancette Brothers wholesale and re
tail liquor store II. L. Smiths grocery, l..
G. Davies meat store and ~ Jones bar
Der shop The total loss is $4,000; the in
surance only 1880.
Richard Goerdeler, a music teacher, in
the Pennington, n. j., seminary, says he
has sent challenge to the Emperor Will
lam to fight duel with pistols. He claims
to have had his business ruined in Ger
many by the emperor and Bismarck for
revealing state secrets. lie is regarded as
insane,
At the laying of the cornerstone OF the
st. Engelbert Catholic church in st. Louis,
1000 people assembled for that solemn
purpose, were excited by one man shooting
another and Immediately resolved itself
into bowling mob, shouting "Hang him
Hang him y the rope WAS around the neck
OF the offender when the police rescued
him