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

! The Nationalists have nominated a state
ticket in Rhode Island.
Al Lancaster, KY, James Francis waG
killed by the kick of horse.
Smallpox is spreading to an alarming
extent in Chataqua county, Kan.
Kittie Lentz, aged 3, was shot and killed
by John Phillips, aged Is, ut Kansas City
The building trades council at Indian
apolis ndors,d their locked-oHt brethren,
Considerable damage to property in
Madrid has been damaged by hurricane
Whisky Salesman Georga Sperber has
mysteriously disappeared at Springfield
Ohio
Judge James Cheney is requested bc
pay, at Fort Wayne, Ind, $407 ,00) in back
taxes,
7. p. O'Connor sailed from New York
Wednesday, summoned home by his col.
leagues.
Merchants OF Berlin, Germany, have de.
cided to make an exhibit at the Chicago
worlds fair
Snow storms throughout New England
are reporte |, the fall varying from ten to
| sixteen inches.
Frank Reed, superintendent of BEEN
Hllht Nv INpSCNllIc, Va Was GTuSHSd uN n
ton of slate and iron.
The j. 0. Schimmel Fruit Preserving
company's building Philadelphia, burned.
Loss $3.50, 600; insured.
The heirs of Auneke Jams met at New
Albany. Ind. to decide how to get An
neke's $500 00O0) estate
Otto Barnes and Chester Lovelqnd were
fatally injured by falling slate in = coal
mine at Coultersville, Ill
w, Q. McGaughey, saloon keeper at
Plumb Bayou, Ark, was assassinated
while closing up his place.
There is Il Russian scheme to cultivate
cotton in Central Asia, in competition
with the American product.
Under tie Australian ballot system Bur
lingtou, Vt, has elected the first Demo
cratic mayor in twenty years.
Miners convention of Indiana met al
Terre Haute to express their combined
yearn for an inspector of mines.
Jacob Scheele, of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
murderer, has starved eleven days, and
says he will cheat the hangman,
The rescued miners are improving at
Hazelton. The company is seeking a set
tlement with all disaster sufferers,
James McCombe, George McCombe and
Samuel McCombe were terribly injured in
a boiler explosion at Albany N. Y.
Joseph Powell and Harry Beadle, min
ers, were killed near Shenandoah, Pa,
by being hurled over an embankment
Joshua Langsdale, reformed gambler
and saloonkeeper, lived and died Chris
tian right in the heart of indianapolis
Harry Ferguson, 10. bell boy a. the
Brunswick hctel, Chicago, was kidnapped
when years old, and now falls heir TO $50,
600
Gen Sherman's family has written to
the head OF the Grand Army thanking the
members for all tokens of respect and
sympathy
Anderson Boswell, colored, murderer
of Mrs Barr, at Winchester, Ind, drove
the pursuing officers away at the point Of
revolver.
Vassar college, to secure undisputed
claim of $780, 0o0 to John Guy Vassar's
money, offers heirs of kin S14S0O0 as a
compromise
Witnesses against the accused in the
Hennessy murder trial in New Orleans
have been threatened with the vengeance
of the Malta
Charles Croswell, aged 20, son of ex,
Governor Croswell, of Michigan, commit.
ted suicide with morphine in a room at a
hotel in Chicago
Census figures show that during the
past ten years the increase of the white
race has been 81 per cent. and of tbs col
ored race l3 per cent.
Irwin Kellar declined to wed Miss Edith
Overholzer at fremont, O., when he
learned that she was the grass widow of n
striped bird of the pen.
1t has been decided by the executive
committee of the Scotch-Trish Association
of America to hold the next meeting in
Louisville May IA to H.
Matt Smith. colored Of Cadiz, o., asks
the court to compel Officer j. c. Bayliss
top put up 81 600 damages for causing him
to be shut up on false charges.
The United States senate, in executive
session, defeated the treaty for the sup
preston of the slave trade and the traffic
in spirits and firearms in Area
At Toledo, Iowa, Elmer Warren was
sentenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of Conductor O'Nesl, Of the Chi.
cago and Northwestern railroad
Tramps beat up John Sefried, night
operator at the Louisville and Nashville
depot, Nashville and then took his watch
and the cash in the drawer. He may die
The United States senate refused the
sanction of the United States to the Brus-
sells anti-slavery treaty, deferred by our
time-honored doctrine of non-interference.
Ed. Carnes, Of Otsego, Muskingum
county, o., while bedding his horses, was
kicked in the head by one of them, frae-
turing his skull and crushing his jaw
bone.
In New York suburb, last night, ne
gro named Perkins sandbagged, gagged
and bound hackman named Farrell, and
then robbed his house Of 30 Perkins was
arrested.
At Canton, o., the Dueber Watch com
pany gave a mortgage of 500 900 to r. II.
Bondu, of Cleyeland; A. h. Champion, of
Cincinnati, and w. A. Lynch, OF Canton.
as trustees.
Supposed that the $500, 900 worth of Sc
curities of the state Of Delaware that have
been missing are in the Philadelphia Ma
tional bank, and that they have been
there since 1873.
Mrs. Ed. Bashon, of Lebanon, Ind,
killed herself by cutting her throat with
a butcher knife. She had become men
tally deranged by reason Of the recent
death of her son
At Springfield, o., Irwin Kellar broke
his engagement OF marriage with Edith
Overhoze, because he learned on the day
before the wedding that she is the edivoreed
wife of a convict.
At Georgetown, KY, William True, on
his second trial for the murder Of James
n. Robertson, was given four and half
years in the penitentiary. His first SEN
tence was seven years.
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