Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
Blaine is much better, but fears sudden
death.
Oberlin, o., had fatal case of black
diptheria,
Mr.. and Mrs Parnell will come 70 the
United States.
A Moran Qnd) mad dog bit thirteen
dogs and a boy, and is still biting.
Martins Ferry (O) new mines, employ.
ing 400 men, gave the town boom.
Little Jesse Streitt, of Seymour Ind.
is again in one of his interminable sleeps
At Ravenna O., Mrs. NJ. Stuart took a
fatal dose of poison while temporarily in
sane.
Sheriff Francis posse, which was sur
rounded by Navajo Indians, escaped in the
night.
A forest fire DESTROYED the hamlet o.
Whitney, Wis. Seventeen families are
homeless.
Toledo is walking now Over COO street
car employees are out on strike for better
pay and less hours.
The principal business portion of Mount
Vernon, Wash. has been destroyed by fire.
Loss about 900.
Two attempts were made to wreck the
Adirondacks slceping-car express, near
Mechanicsville n Y.
Green Potts, Jr., aged about twenty,
was drowned in the White river at Mitch
ell, Ind, while fishing.
George Francis Adams, of Boston, has
been elected president of the reorganized
Westinghouse Electric company.
Ten people were hurt by collision at
the crossing of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, near Fort Scott, Kan.
Tax payers of Peru, Ind. went in body
to the Office of the county assessor, and de-
manded deduction of the tax levies
Jacob Freed is notified to get himself
and saloon out of Newmarket Ind, which
is a temperance town and means to stay
30.
John Currier, aged 40, is in Jail at Val
paraiso, Ind, for an outrage on n six-year
old girl. His victim lies in critical con-
tion.
The League of American Wheelmen is
holding its annual meeting in Detroit.
Fully 1000 cyclists are in the city in at
tendance.
At indianapolis, Philo w. Masten was
hpDOLilbcu ICCtlNtI VI bht lhlh1tblb
works, under friendly arrangements of all
concerned.
A bastardy suit was stopped at Muncie,
Ind, by the marriage Of Abner Sherer and
Miss Rosa Kidnocker, both of whom are in
their teens.
Thomas Patton, of Clarksburg, w Va,
killed himself with laudanum because
Nero Davis objected to his making love to
his daughter.
While Allen r. Green was blowing near
Webster, w. Va, the plow struck a root
and the handles were forced into his groin,
causing instant death.
At Woodsfield, O., while some boys were
playing with arevolver, it was accidentally
discharged, the ball striking s-year-old Roy
Baker in the face. Not fatal.
Mrs. Eph Altman, of Hartford City,
Ind, has had gripes for four years, but
since she threw up six-inch gray reptile
of unknown species she is well.
The suicide of Riley Greenleaf, West
Virginia farmer, is said to have been from
a broken heart at the approaching death
of his son-in-law DR.. c. Castro.
Bankers of Huntington, Ind, refused to
tell the state how much cash certain tax
payers Hdu Oh utpOblu, anu Hucu SI,VUN
and costs each for contempt of court
Nat Hyder, prominent shoe manu-
facturer Of Johnson City, Tenn, shot his
brains out because his friends criticised
him for marrying woman of ill-fame.
Orville Starlin, an aged farmer, was
thrown under the cars by runaway horse,
at the Baltimore and Ohio crossing near
Guysville, o., and was ground to pieces,
Jim Johnsons confession at Charleston,
w Va, of killing Butcher Wise, was all
mixed up by the appearance of the alleged
victim as good rs new from Boone county.
The Clay County Telephone company
have completed their line to Sailor |
Springs, Ills, giving that summer resort
access to the telegraph Office at Clay City. |
Mrs. Elizabeth Zeller committed suicide |
at Sandusky, o., Tuesday, by jumping |
into the bay. She was widow, aged no
years and leaves four children. II is sup |
posed she was insane.
The citizens of Bicknell, Ind, who want |
a new railroad depot, assembled the other |
night and tumbled the old building over |
and out of the way and served notice on |
the company TO build new one.
The Glasgow Weekly Citizen says that |
luTs AIhEtW NdEutkicg VI ANtW AOTht ubS /
been inspecting the salabie estates at |
farraline, Reyers and Invergloy, and i
that IL is believed that it is Mr.. Carnegies |
to settle down as Highland |
aird.
Not child has been born in the White |
Hills school district, in Connecticut, In |
nine years. The youngest child attend
ng school is years of age. The popu-
ation is about five hundred persons, and
soon the schools will have TO be abandoned,
,he prospects for an increase being very |
poor.
Marion Noe, alias Low, who, with II. H.
Harman, shot and killed Mike Denine,
railroad man, formerly from Lexington,
and James Turner, at Cumberland Gap,
KY, in May last. and who escaped from
he Justices Office at the examination, was
,aptured at Harlan. KY, and is now in Jail n
It Tazewell, Tenn, where HarmRn has
been confined since the murder.