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

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Emperor William of Germany is now in
England.
Washington will have an auditorium to
seat 1900
Missouri Democratic editors are for
Cleveland, 43 to 4.
Corn is up and sugar is down; and that
makes the farmer happy
jesse Paulus, of Fort Wayne, was killed
at Burboun by lightning.
j. Woolf, of Mitchell, Ind, lost a leg
while boarding moving freight
The Kenova Eand company at Hunting.
ton struck gas while boring for water
The Farmers Alliance held meetings in
every county in Kansas on the Fourth.
r. B. Hayes spoke to 25, 900 people for two
hours at Beatrice Neb., on the Fourth.
George Gordon, of Newark, drowned at
Cedar Point, o., Saturday, while in bath
ing
A committee organized to kill stray dogs,
at Jacksonville, Ind, killed fifteen in one
night.
Charley Haines, 10, lost his hand in a
chopper in u Norwalk Falls O., basket
factory
Grading has been commenced on the
new Sandusky and Columbus Short Line
railroad.
The military encampment ut Indian
apolis is over. Dallas, Tex, carried off the
first prize.
Several business houses were burned at
Lafayette, Ind, by fire started by some
drunken boys.
Muncie, Ind. fed the multitude July
with an 1916 pound OK roasted over a
natural gas fire,
The mysterious lake In the California
desert is merely the result of an overflow
of the Colorado river.
Seven people at Franklin, o., are suffer
ing severely from the effects of eating
dried beef at a picnic.
Charles Baughman. of GAINESVILLE, o.,
was bound over to the common pleas
court for wife-beating.
In Colorado grasshoppers are plenty
enough to stop trains by greasing the rails
with their crushed bodies
College Corner, Columbiana county, o.,
Is mysttied over the finding of an infant
found floating in stream.
While doing drunken act in the parade
at Washington C. H., o., Glenn Murray
fell dead from heart disease.
James Parker 10, blew into the muzzle
of "A gun at Upton, Ind The gun exploded
and James was killed instantly.
Mary McGhee gets $1,000 from Salem,
o., as a salve for broken limb, the result
of falling on n defective sideW ak.
Edward Kennedy, of New Albany, Ind,
who killed his father-in-law, Eugene Col
Inns, has been sentenced to prison for two
years.
William Hennessy, balloonist, fell at
New Lisbon, O., July 4, and was killed,
and~Mlle. Bently met the same fate at
Elyria, o.
William Virgins, of the soldiers home
at Sandusky, lost both eyes and nose by
the premature discharge of a cannon on
the Fourth.
Thomas Hadley and Lily Venoy were
married at jamestown, o., before 10000
people, and got $50 for being the Fourth of
July attraction.
Solicitor General Taft is being congratu
lated on the verdict the government got in
the hat-trimmings case, in which Uncle
Sam saves SIS, 100000.
At Louisville Joseph Filter, so, sent a
bullet through his heart because his ply
stefan told him that recent spell of sick
ness might result in insanity.
At sham battle July 4, at Youngs-
town, O., two spectators were killed, one
blinded and two others were seriously in
jured by the explosion of rocket.
j. r. Greenleaf, one of the best known
citizens of Roane county, w. Va, com
mitted suicide at his home by hanging
himself in the absence of his family
While celebrating the Fourth, at Akron,
o., John Merrill, of Chicago, was shot
through the body by a skyrocket. He
died in few minutes after intense agony.
At Denver an elephant became fright
ened at balloon, Five children were on
the animals back. A little boy fell off
and was instantly killed by being stepped
on.
At Youngstown, O., William Coe and
Charles Adgate quarreled about girl on
a train Adgate threw Coe off. Both feet
were amputated and his skull crushed.
He will die
Monday in London occurred the mar
riage of a granddaughter of Queen Vic
toria, the Princess Victoria Louise Of
Schlesweg- Holstein to Prince Aribert of
Anhult- Dessau.
Take stock in the Tennessee
National b. d L., of GAINESVILLE. 1t
is growing rapidly. j23 diff.