Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items Of
Various Subjects.


is now provided for.
Five hundred men are thrown out by
the shutting down of the Eagle Hill, Pa,
colliery indefinitely.
L. N. Barns, a horseman, of Millersburg,
o., had hole cut in his head by being
thrown from horse.
Combine of carelessness and natural gas
has kindled three destructive fires in
Muncie, Ind, this weak.
AT Washington, Pa, a house was blown
up by an explosion of natural gas and two
men were seriously hurt.
Miss Emma Augustine, daughter of
wealthy farmer, of Pontiac, Ill, died from
IA dose of morphine, taken with suicidal i'll.
tent
Harvey Pease, 25 years old, president of
the Pease Piano company of New York,
and worth $3.50 600, has been declared iu-
sane.
A backward tumble out of spring
wagon at Daleville, Ind, killed Elias
Snyder and dangerously injured Joseph
Remsberg
Robert Boyle, cowboy, was instantly
killed by j. +. Ketchercides, foreman Of
the Pleasant Valley cattle ranch, at IIol-
brook, Ariz.
The New York Equitable Insurance
company, because of small capital and un
profitable business, will wind up its own
affairs and quit
In an alteration over game of shiny
at Canton, o., August Metzger and boy
named Freiburg drew knives and seriously
carved each other.
Senator Thompson, of Sidney. o., elected
in the place of Senator Robertson de.
ceased, is on the verge of the grave from
severe hemorrhages.
John Belyes, of Rondout, n Y, is a.
forger and defaulter to the amount of
about 900. He is one of u milling firm
which is in bad shape.
Twelve sons and six daughters gather
round the family board of Mr. and Mrs
Vestal Beeler at Brooklyn, Ind, and "one
in the graveyard lies, -
A large meeting of the Crawford county
Farmers Alliance, held at Bucyrus, o.,
Monday, was addressed by n b. Ashby
lecturer of the National grange.
The explosion of stick of giant powder
at the Lampson mines, near Ashland
Wis, seriously injured five men and
caused $4,000 damage to the mine.
Mr. Shidler, who is accused of marrying
Mrs Sarah Wright, of Anderson, Ind
when he was already welded to Mrs Mary
Eagan, of Cincinnati is on trial at Ander-
son.
Lizzie and Emma Taylor, aged 16 and
10 years, walked from Cedarville to Spring
field, o., to escape abuse at home They
were taken home by a constable in II car
riage.
BY their horse and buggy going over a
one-hundred- foot embankment Mrs
Henry Smith and Mrs Nehslin, of Orc,
Col, were internally injured, the former
fatally
Grant Davis was arrested at Somerset,
KY, and taken to Knoxville, Tenn, to
answer charge of numbering Mr..
O'Dell. A heavy reward was offered for
his arrest.
Stewart Lake was disfgured for life by
Icing struck in the face with bat by a
boy named Priest, while playing ball at a
school in Madison township, Licking
county, O.
Grant Maddox, the only person tried for
a criminal offense at this term of court, at
West Union, o., was taken to the peniten-
tiary Wednesday en- a two years sentence
for burglary.
Walter j. Quick, of Columbus, Ind, has
received tender from the State Agricul-
tural college, at Fort Collins, of the pro.
fessorship of the chair of agriculture, and
will probably accept.
The legislature of Tennessee has post
poned action on the bill to appropriate
money for state exhibit to the worlds
fair until the disposal of the Federal cleo
tions bill in congress.
An ArkaQsas mob assaulted a negro
named Richard Brown in his house, near
Little Rock He defended himself with a
shotgun and killed one and wounded an.
other of the assailants.
Young Eaker, colored, wanted at Charles.
ton Mo, for killing another negro in Oc
tober last. and who is charged with au.
other murder at Cottonwood Point, Mo.
is under arrest at Mayfeld, Ky.
William Israel of Franklin, Ind. has
earned for himself a course of penmanship
at the expense of the state by exercising
his delicate Italian hand on notes with
other mems signatures attached.
In New York Robert Gujer was held
for trial, accused of stealing silk valued at
$1,000 from his former employers H
Rechter & Sons, manufacturers of neck.
wear Gujer confessed his guilt.
The Western Tobacco journal mas col
lected reports of the manufacture of to-
bacco, cigars and cigarettes in the United
States for the year 1890, from which it APP
pears there has been large increase.
The report sent from New Castle, Ind,
that Lincoln Gossett sent to the peniten-
tiary for five years for assaultlng his aged
grandparents, at Honey creek, some
time ago had committed suicide, is de-
MED.