Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-25
NEWS IN RRlEE.
A Condensation Of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects,

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In Trinity church, Boston, Rev. Phillips
| Brooks, ID. D., will be consecrated bishop
| Oct. IA.
! The Prohibition state convention of
Massachusetts will be held at Worcester,
Sept. Q.
Skeletons of giant man and woman have
been found near Chautauqua by workmen
digging for railroad.
Our hog must wait few months for the
next session of the French chambers be-
fore he can enter France.
Harry Boyd killed John Myford in a
prize fight at Black Diamond, near Mo
nongahela City, Pa. Boyd has been
jailed
John l. Blair, the New Jersey capitalist,
who has been i'll at the Coates House, Kan
sas City, has recovered and is attending to
business.
Charles O'C. Hennessy, city editor of
the New York Daily News, has been in
dicted for printing the news of the New
York electrocides.
George Anderson, a saloon keeper in st.
Louis, shot and killed Dennis Ryan, an
out his own brains.
The steamer Kansas, which arrived at
Boston on Wednesday, had on board
thirty-two assisted Russian Jews. They
were detained and will be returned by the
next steamer.
Kate Kirby, alias Nettie Hamburg, alias
Doford, alias Howe the woman said to
have been associated with Howe, the New
York diamond thief, was arrested in Bal
timore Thursday.
Charles Hasemeyer, graduate of the
Ohio College of Dental Surgery, Cincin-
natl, was killed in an explosion in the
Burlington and Missouri roundhouse in
Plattsmouth, Neb.
A deputation from the New York cham
Der of commerce visited the squadron of
evolution lying in the harbor Thursday
afternoon and thoroughly inspected all the
vessels Of the feet.
The Hon. John OConnor, member of
parliament from North Tipperary sailed
for home from New York Thursday on tho
Augusta Victoria. He was one of the Par.
nell envoys to this country
At Youngstown, o., the motion for a
new trial in the case of William L. Fitz
gerald, convicted of the murder of Police
man Freed, was Overruled. The prisoner
was sentenced to hang Nov. 10.
petition signed by 1900 members of
the Order of Patrons of Industry at OF
tawa, has been presented to parliament
praying for the removal of the import
duty on binding twine, salt and sugar.
Asa Williams, Lapere, Mich, farmer,
by the accidental discharge of his gun
killed his 12-year-old daughter and proba-
bly, fatally wounded younger child. He
was in quest of birds wings for the chill
dren's hats.
of Chicago, was arrested in Denver
charged with being fugitive from justice
It is claimed that, in connection with his
brother, Wolff has passed bogus checks
amounting to over 5000.
w. II. Harrison, of Cincinnati, at Lake
wood, is improving slowly. DR.. Whitaker
says his mind remains unaffected. He is
gaining some strength, and that in a small
degree he can move his paralyzed limb
AS to ultimate recovery he cannot tell.
The prisoners in the Camden county Jail
at Mauch Chunk, Pa, went on strike
and refused to clean the Jail any longer.
They were all locked up in solitary con
finement, and given bread and water for
thirty-six hours. They then surrendered !
The Jail will be cleaned hereafter as
usual.
The whole system of the Detroit street
railways, over eighty miles in length, has
been purchased by Waller Cook 81 Wag. |
ner, corporation lawyers of Wall street,
representatives of a New York and Boston
syndicate, for about S5,OO0,OOO. This will
probably end the raging street railway war
in Detroit.
Herbert b. Adams of Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, has been nominated |
by Director General Davis as chief of the |
worlds fair department Of liberal arts |
The directory unanimously confirmed |
Professor Adams appointment. w. X. !
Carlisle, of Wichita, Kan, son of United !
States Senator Carlisle of Kentucky, was
elected assistant solicitor general of the |
exposition.
Rev. John Q. Paxton, the famous Ne-7
York Presbyterian divine, in ali interview
in Pittsburg said the Presbyterian church
was on the brink Of a revolution. The fol-
lowers Of DR. Briggs are openly defiart,
ard the general assembly and the church
undetermined. II was his sincere hc9,
that concessions would be made hy Primes |
ton and that DIR. Briggs and his followe.s
may remain In the church. OF course, ii !
they insist that the church must aecel
reason as coordinate with the word of
God there viii be a split.