Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ol
Various Subjects.
Barnum left 100000

Dig ulSCONefleS OF Tin IN OallOrhlA.
F. & Macder, the playwright, is dead.
ST. Louis Evening Call has suspended
Pat Borcn an died At Hurley, Wis.
aged l(2
The D,sMoines Water company's dam
washed out.
Another New York Brooklyn bridge hai
been authorized
Sioux City is trying to kill off her spar
rows by poisoning.
Now they are talking about 1s,C0) Penn.
| sylyania miners going strike.
The annual Behring sea exclamation
was issued Wcdnc by the president.
United State, Senator PETER, of Kansas,
advises lglni2ed labor to run its own
candidates,
The New York board Of trade is aroused
/ as to the danger of that city and Brooklyn
/ in case of war.
Postmaster General Wanamakcr and
| Secretary Irlcy will accompany President
| ii Prison on his trip
! The president has issued his annual
| Behrng sea proclamation az lin.t the un-
| lawful catching of seal.
| Three men We're blown to atoms by an
cxplosion at Bradley's nitco-glycerine fac
tory near Pie rolia Olt.
| Sldie Nye, aged II, was fatally burned
at Goshen, Ind, viii kind ilg the
| Kitchen fire with gasoline.
A. j. Morr -, the lHst survivor 4 tho
Fort Minis mas sacr', did Tue 'Gay, at his
home i'll Alabama, & ii 100 years.
| Frankfort will continue to be Ken
| tucky's capital unless the next legislature
| by two-thirds vote decide TO move it,
A mob of SOD negroes at Kansas City Jail
WIS ST, o Off by brave guard, and pre-
vented from lynching a negro prisoner.
fevelal Of the American flags raised
over school LoUse3 in EIkhart c)lnty,
Ind, have been torn down and bum ID.
FREQ. Hol,r, WHO d appeared from Met.
amora, Ind, about twenty years go, has
returned to his family. He gives no cause
for his absence.
Two unknown tram)s quarreled in the
railroad yarGN south of Grand Rapids
Mich, One stabbed the other to death
with n pocketknife.
Pennsylvania coal operators and miners
are so far apart on the eight-houE day
question I hat there is probability of II
strike of the IS, 0 miaers May l..
Thomas Leonard proprietor of IA shoot
| ing-gallery at Chicago, was stabbed and
killed by an unknown man who had re
fused to pay a nickel for shooting.
Gen. Horace Porter has been selected to
deliver the Grafton ON the occasion OF
breaking ground on April p for the River
side park memorial to Gen. Grant.
The executive committee of the Missis-
sipp Farmers Alliance is divided on the
sub-treasury plan. The majority favors
it. The state organ of the party is against
it..
At meeting of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railway company, at Tracy City,
Tenn, an offer of ~, 500, 0)0 by an English
syndicate for the property in Tennessee
was considered
The Kentucky constitutional convention
decided il favor of continuing the state
capital at Frankfort, unless the neEt
legislature, by u two-thirds vote, shall de
eide to move it.
Indiana veterans at indianapolis fifty
celebrated the silver anniversary Of the
organization Of tie Grand Army Of the
Republic he order was born in the
IIoosicr capi a.
Charles Ostmann, n locomotive fireman
on the Nickel Plate, was nstantly killed
at Burr Oak, Ind, by his head striking the
stock shute while his engine was switc',.
ing on the side track.
Thieves enterel the rcs'd nee of Iaco,
Ullery at Goshen Ind, ana by prying open
a drawer made off with 500 which UlIers
had placed there, j tending to use it
Wednesday morning.
Byron w Cohen, James D.s5em,
Howard Belcher and Cassie Helen Brooks,
the consprators who tried to get hold of
Loring A. Robertson's millions, in New
York, have been indicted,
A proposition is under consideration for
the consolidation of the Hooking Coal and
Iron COMPANY. and the Ohio and Western
Coal company. 1t is proposed to capital
ize the consolidated company for 80 400 0 O.
The New York board Of trade has peti-
toned the state leg sla1 1re to urge upon
the president and congress the impor tance
of immediate action looking TO the better
protection Of that city and Brooklyn from
attack by sea.
Kansas City Packing company, which
failed last November aud which has since
been reorganized with capital stock Of
100000 AMI is now styled the "Phmnix
Packing company" resumed active opera
ton Wednesday.
neglect and cIrelessness on the part OF
Naval Constructor Feaster, Master Ship
wright Williamson and Master Shipftter
Webster, in repairing the United States
steamer Alert All have e,n dis harged
Secretary Noble has ordered all in
truders out of the Sac and Fox. Cheyenne
and Arapahos, and Iowa and Pottawat-
tonne Indian reservations, and has in
structed the soldiers to clear the entire
country. He is bound TO give everybody a
fair chance when the lands are open for
settlement.
The New York Central management has
set aside 81 tsf8. 0t9 to be expended this sea
son in improvements to roadbed alone.
When it is taken into consideration that
the New York Central has one of the
finest if lot the finest, roadbcds in the
United States this means great deal A
good deal IS TO be dcne in replacing light
rails with heavier pattern.