Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Gold has been discovered near Danville,
Illinois.
Total of oil wells yielding grease in the
Ohio field for the past year is 2, ISL
Fire in Trenkmann's factory, Center
street, New York, did $4,000 damage.
O. II. Purdy, agent OF the American
Express at Abba, Iowa, was robLel of
$500
Chicago is to have new Young Mems
Christian association building, to cost
81, 100000.
President Harrison shook hands with
more than 4,C0) people at his New Years
reception
Judge Joshua Seney, of Toledo, has
bought a controlling interest in The Co
lumbus Post.
Bauchemin. wholesale bookseller at
Montreal, was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of $l00,00J
Chicago parties are negotiating for the
purchase of the Union and National Stock
Yards, of st. Louis.
The new prison ut Plattsburg; 2T..s i4F>..
burned. Less, 100000 The $40 prisoners
were removed safely
Marshall Field & Company, of Chicago,
of the Mckinley tariff.
Charles Beale was lynched in Falls
county, Tex, for the outrage and murder
OF Mrs. James Fisher.
Nearly 100 teachers got life term in the
public schools Thursday at Columbus, o.,
per perpetual certificate.
Justin A. Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls, S.
OAK, who was treated by Christian Sci
entsts, died New Years eve
The firemen of the Western New York
and Pennsylvania road have been granted
an advance of over 10 per cent.
The remains Of the eight miners killed
at Wilkesbarre, Pa March 3, have been
recovered, identified and buried.
The Blaine mansion, Washington, Occur
pied by the Letters, was damaged Sl2. 900
to $4,000 by fire and water Thursday.
Eli Foster, convicted at Athens, O., of
murder in the second degree, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
The state of Kansas is blanketed in SNOW
and a blizzard is raging Snow storms
prevailed in other portions of the west.
James Biggs, the sole survivor of the
Mcclure expedition for the rescue of Sir
John Franklin, has just died in London.
A Wabash, Ind, boy of 10, gave himself
lift into the reform school by climbing
the elevator shaft to Milliner Staadecker's
cash drawer
Vice President Morton has sold his sum-
mer residence Fairlawn, at Newport, r.
l., to Isaac Tansend Barden, of New York.
The price was about $4,000.
viii Nickerson, of Wellington, O.. i'm
ma on, 4 hp al
trying to take his own life and not that of
the girl who didn't love him.
The Louisville Courier-JournaI has re-
duced its price from twenty and thirty
cents per week to fifteen and twenty cents,
and $40 and S12 per year to IS and $40.
The American wool growers, Boston.
estimates the supply of wool on the last
day of 1890 at 92,Sl7 SS2 pounds, against
q, 24S $50 pounds ON the last day of 1889.
Death from severed iugular and a
prospect of hemp were the prizes found in
quart of whisky by viii Mclean and
Dan McCauly, respectively, at Brazil, Ind
Governor Campbell has ordered snecial
election in the Seventeenth-Twenty-eig
Ohio district, for a successor to the late
Senator Zimmerman to take place on the
18th inst.
Urbana, O., grew light-hearted and al
most lighted headed in joyful contempla.
ton of the new natural gaslight on her
streets last night piped from the Mercer
county field.
j. p. simpson, of Scranton, Pa, is en-
route to Chicago with the avowed purpose
OF killing the man who assaulted his little
daughter. The criminal is in charge of
the Pnkertons.
AL Trout was shot dead at Fort WAYNE.
Ind, while attempting to force an en-
trance into house of ill-repute The pro-
prietress, Mrs, Sarah Landes, her daugh-
ter and two inmates and Noah Flager
have been arrested
An extraordinary demand for safe de-
post vaults in Washington during the
past two weeks provoked inquiry as TO the
cause, and it was found that the demand
comes from people who are boarding gold
and greenbacks from fear of extreme
silver legislation by congress.
AT the Edgar Thompson steel works, at
BraddOck, Pa, Thursday more than q
dozen men were hurt, four of them seri-
ously, in a riot between some furnacemen
at work and 200 striking Huns. Five of
the rioters were jailed and 1000 deputy
shcriffs were sworn in to protect the work
men.
On Saturday last William Jones, who
has been police officer at West Chester,
Pa, for thirteen years received an APP
pointment in the service of the Scotland
Yard Detective agency, and expects reach
his new post of duty in London in Janu-
airy. The old country has been looking to
this republic for a long time for efficient
business men, but the general impression
has been that we were comparatively weak
here. in the detective line.
Acting Governor Murphy, OF Arizona,
has granted respites to f. Nelson and
Antonio Grinado, both convicted of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced to be
hanged The respite is for thirty days.
The grounds for the stay are that the
grand jury was an illegal body and the in
invalid. Nelson and Grinado !
their wives and children Nelson |
when drunk; Grinado through jealousy.
In the physical laboratory of Colby uni |
yersity, at Wateryille, Ne, Professor Ed
ward w. Morley, of Adelbert college, |
Cleveland, and Professor William +. Rog- |
ers, of Colby university, succeeded in meas
nring, by means Of wave lengths of light, |
the changes in the length of bars of metal |
caused by radiation of the temperature. A |
machine constructed by Professor Rogers /
for the special purpose was employed, and |
changes in length were measured in mill
.onths of an inch.