Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-07
NEWS IN eRlEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Navigation open at Kingston, Ont.
The direct tax claim of Ohio, 81 1872 O!5,
has been paid
Augusta Ga, cotton receipts 10 date
are 200, 557 bales
Ex-Congressman Peter NJ box died at
Huntsville, Ala, Friday.
DIR. Ransom Decter, Of Chicago, a surgeon
OF National reputation, is dead.
Three members of William Aliens fam
lily died of the grip at West Lancaster,
Ohio.
II. p. Lewes, butcher of Florence, Ala,
is heir to n fortune of 100000 in
England.
The Havemeyers neither deny or con-
firm tine report of sugar trust with
Spreckels.
Luigi Belgieri and his young wife were
butchered by Malta near Aiberdi, Argen.
tine Republic
David Taylor, associate justice of the
supreme court Of Wisconsin, died sud
denly at supper
The census of California shows that the
proportion of Chinese is one in seventeen
of the populat
Minnesota senate passed bill 10 make
author of every article in newspaper
sign his name to it,
The amount Of silver exported last year
from Mexico was s O0O 0lO, and the
amount coined $2}OOltO)
The will of the late Rufus King, Of Gin.
cinnati, contains public and charitable bo-
quests aggregating 100000,
The committee OH location of capital Of
the Kentucky constitutional convention
has reported in favor Of FRANKFORT.
The Wisconsin legislative joint COM
mittee has reported for the passage o. the
worl Is fair bill ap2ropriating 5000
Congressman Lorenzo CrOung, Of
Nebraska has been II. pointed assistant
secretary of the United States treasury
Elk Congressman Lorenzo Crounz, of
Nebraska, las Len appointed assistant
secretary of the United tates treasary
Robert Griqsby, of Newark o., blew tho
top of his head off with an ld-fashion |
horse pistol borrowed Of neighuor for he
purpose.
At Bloomington, Ind, Ward DeMarre,
in u fit Of insanity, cut his sick mothers
throat as she lay in bed, and then his own
Both died
The bill appropriating $ls5,O'O for the
Ann Arbor university during lS9l-52, was
tabled by the Michigan senate to save it
from defeat.
Alphonse J. Stephan, tried in New
York for the killing of Clinton G. Roy
nolds, found guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree.
Miller II. Hagcman, deGauting grain
dealer of Cass, ILL.,, has been captured at
Visalia, Tu are county, CAL Amount Of
shortage, $1,000
II is said to be settled that the Choataw
council will ratfy the sale of what is
known as the leased district 10 the United
States government.
Lous j. Frey, in the employ of w. Il.
Bennighof 81 Sons, liquor dealers at
Evansville. Ind, missing He is charged
with embeZzicmput
Nine Mexican bandit mail robbers, in
January last, near Brownsville, Tex, are
indicted. One is dead, two arrested In
Mexico and three are loose.
Reports come from various sources Of a
movement among certain Italians in this
country to avenge the massacre Of their
countrymen in New Orleans.
Kate Roache was found starving in
squalid quarters in New York Two thou
sand dollars II gold aud $4,000 in bills aud
book accounts were found in her room
Porters census shows there were II 81
Chinese in California in 1890 as against
20, 1879 in 1850 The total population o. tic
state is POS, 1870 as against 6 ,GH in 1850
A week ago Lizzie Parker. aged 9 wears,
while Mt school near Murc,o, Ind, lull on
a stove aud bruised hec lex so badly that
amputation was necessary to save her llre.
Charles Stewart was strrch ly a train
at Wilmington, Del, AMI Instantly killed.
Mr.. Stewart had just arrived to attend
the wedding of his son when the accident
occurred.
The international monetary conference
has closed its session, it being cons red
impossible at this time to adopt a common
monetary unit or fix IA 10 between gold
and silver,
After several failures the new guubost
Bennington has at last succeeded I'm meet
ing the contract requirements, according
to the statement Of y T. Palmer, the con-
tractor. No Official r.p0r. has yet been re-
oeived at the depart maut.
The Allen line steamship Norwegian, at
Boston from Glasgow had among its PISS
sengers l73 boys from S 80 II years OF aAe,
with three attendants, front the orphan
age of d.. H. J. Bernardo, They will 1e Ct S.
tnbuted among farmers N Canada.
"Judge" Baker and "Dr. Howard. under
arrest at Fayetteville, Ark, for swind!tng
Capt. w f. Dowoll the Alliance treas
urer, ont of 500 are also charged 10y
Farmer Blackburn, of Galloway county,
No., of getting $500 from him, and an
Iowan named Ell is oJJf35
Estate of John pIa9lioto1. Milwaukee,
it is believed will exceed $50 100, though
his will has not yet been al.d The bulk
of it will be divided among Mrs John
Plankinton, Elizabeth PaHkinton and
William Plaukintou l.ar-e ] < lcies arc
left to number of charitable Institutions,
the Young Mems Christian association TO
oeving one of the largest.
ODDS AND ENDS.
A carpenter in Jersey is SO humane that
ne won't hang "a door or drive "a nail
Put on clean stockings every day in