Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.



Josie Mansfield has married in London.
Hog cholera is epidemic around English,
Indiana.
Rich strike of silver in the Port Arthur
district of Minnesota.
At Scranton, Pa, Stephen D'Ayala shot
and killed his wife. Jealousy.
Mrs. Lena Neuminger, of Columbus, O.,
will receive $265l back pension.
Kate Field says bachelors over forty
should be taxed to support maids over
forty.
Frederick G. Troutman, of Baltimore,
had a tooth pulled out and died from blood
| poisoning.
At Brazil, Ind, Thornton jackson was
| fined $50 for shooting and manning Will
lam Miner.
The National Butchers association will
fight the big Three'-Armour, Swift
ana Morris.
indianapolis has a woman's real estate
! association-the only one of the kind in
! the country.
Murderer William Bullard, who killed
George Rothroc&, July 4, is on trial at
| Columbus, Ind.
Mayfeld Snydar was seriously scalded by
| the explosion Of a boiler at Duoilttle's $
mills, near English, Ind.
Allerton won the match with Delmarch
at Lexington, Ky, in three straight heats
Time, 2l3}4, 2:i5, 2:1534.
At Omaha twenty-one people have been
arrested for participating in the mob
which hung Rapist Goes.
The remains Of an unknown man, evil
IDENTIFY a foreigner, was found in the woods
near Hamilton, O.. Suicide.
John Adair, one of West Virginia's
most notorious moonshiners, has been ar
rested and is in jail at Charleston.
General w. H. f. Lee, who was incor-
rectly reported dead some time ago, died
Thursday morning at Fairfax, Va.
Miss Hattie Grimes has sued Thomas
Mccarthy, at Vanceburg, Ky, for breach
of promise and wants $4,000 damages.
At San Antonio, Tex, w, L. McGhee, a
defaulting collector, suicided by lauda-
mum. His home was in Owensboro, KY
Crisp of Georgia, Mills of Texas, and
Mcmillan Of Tennessee, are the Demo
cratic candidates for speaker of the house.
AT Cape Charles City, Va, George Dyer
killed Mrs. Fannie Fadden for her money
Mrs. Aleshire, of Washington c. H., o.,
saw ghost in black and fell down stairs,
injuring herself III a probably fatal man
ner
AT Bedford, Ind, Joseph Finley is under
arrest, charged with the murder of Mrs
Alice Nedetfer, his sister-in-law. last
March.
At Canton, o., John Hawkins shot and
killed Annie Lacy, aged thirteen and then
shot shot himself. No cause known. Both
colored.
DIR. H. X. Spooner, of Republic, o., is
charged with embezzling the pension
money of ablack blind veteran, for whom
Spooner was guardian.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck a train on the Nickel Plate near
Findlay, o. The obstruction was discov-
cred by a farmer and removed.
The closing of the famous Kieff univer-
sity in Russia and arrest Of 500 students
was due, it is said, to a conspiracy discov-
cred there against the life of the czar.
At Toledo f. j. Smith set $4,000 ems cor
rected matter on Mergenthaler linotype
type-setting machine in eight hours,
breslling the worlds record He took the
regular run of copy.
Morgan's stable of thirteen fast horses
at Sabina o., was burned by incendiaries
Harry Strathmore, the famous PAGER, was
in an adjoining lot and escaped. Loss,
$4,000; no insurance.
The Adams Express company will sue
President Hoey for money they believe to
be due the company from him on account
of his connection with the purchase of the
minor New England companies
Pennsylvania has a sensation. The state
auditor and state treasurer are charged
with having dealings with Bardsley, the
ex-treasurer of Philadelphia, now in
prison, and an investigation is in progress.
Dr. Seymour Bullock an ex-federal sol
dier, and prominent Grand Army man, was
shot and killed by Thomas p Brewer, both
residents of Mobile. The killing took
place at Navy Cove, a settlement on Dau-
phin island.
A Denver, Jim Connors, a notorious
character, killed G. J. Finnicum, whom
he found in his mistress room. Finnicum
was bound, gagged and thrown from II
third story window. Mike Ryan is held
as an accessory.
Colonel Weber, of the immigration
commission, sent abroad TO learn the cause
of the ilocling of 50 many Europeans, says
il is due to poor crops, desire 60 escape mil
itary service, high taxes, poor wages, and
the good reports sent home by relatives
already in the United States.
The New York Recorder has published a
statement retracting the charge that Gov
ernor Campbell, Of Ohio, was in debt. 1t
was the republishing of the assertion by
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette that
caused libel suits aggregating 100000 to
be brought against the last named paper
A farmer in Fulton county, Ind, wants
to have Lake Manitou, famous summer
resort, drained He says it causes sick
ness, but the state board of health rather
think he wants to get an addition to has
farm at the states expense. No other
people in the vicinity of the lake favor
draining it.
There is great indignation in Indianap-
oils over the election board allowing the
election officials five days pay Such an
allowance will run the cost of the election
up 10 about SIS. 900, or s. 600 above the APP
preparation. An effort win be made to get
the comptroller to disallow all claims
where five days pay is demanded.