Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Greece is now prosecuting Jews,
Kansas has had copious and welcome
rain.
The annual reunion of Elks is in session
in Louisville.
| Muskegon, Mich, lost twenty blocks by
, fire. Loss S500,000.
Sheffield Socialists attempted to mob
Henry NJ. Stanley
Too much dry weather in Tennessee for
good cotton crop.
Columbus, o., has n lady branch OF
knights of Reciprocity,
Indianapolis has cut up her base ball
grounds into town lots.
tramp with the smallpox.
Hudson river bridge, at New York city,
will be begun in September.
Two thousand people in the Rio Grandc
valley are homeless by reason of food.
Two little children died in awful agony
at st. Louis from eating roach poison
Fifteen persons were hurt in an attack
by mob in Pittsburg on ten cent circus
there.
In Denver DR.. Thatcher Graves has
been indicted for the murder of Mrs
Barnaby.
indianapolis will entertain during the
week of July 4 the grand interstate drill
tournament.
Part of the treasure buried in California
by the Donner party fifty years ago has
been dug up.
In the Kentucky Democratic state con
vention resolution indorsing Cleveland
was voted down.
Eleven hundred. Italians landed in New
York city Saturday. There were two cases
of smallpox on board.
II. b. Wright, of Clarksville, Tex, at
torney, is a fugitive having been exposed
as forger and embezzler
Charles Krockel deaf-mute of II years.
in the New Jersey state prison, is said to
youngest convict in the country.
Ghouls stole the body Of the late p. Pur-
cell, member of parliament, at Cornwall,
Ont 1t is supposed they expect a ransom.
At Nashville, Ind, Phillip Brown, 1S,
made run in n base ball game re
marked: Tally one for me,' and fell
dead.
The czarewch was assaulted by the
in sacred place. The wonnd has already
healed,
A petition has been presented to Bishop
Potter, of New York, asking for an in.
quiry into the charge against r. Heber
Newton.
Two little girls of Thedford Neb., wan
dered away to pick flowers and were lost.
A week later one was found dead ard the
other dying
Judge Caldwell, of the United States
circuit court, decided at Kansas City that
suicide does not invalidate life insurance
policy in Missouri
Louis Laycz fatally assaulted his wife
with an AK near Lee Centre, n Y. His
12-year-old daughter saved her little
brother and sister.
Louis Kingstry, of Mechanicsburg, o.,
is fined $50 and costs for returning with
interest the walloping given Schoolmaster
Lintern to Kingstry's son,
The new steamship Bismarck made the
trip from Southampton to New York in
6 days, IA hours and Is minutes, beating
the inside record of all other vessels
Young and handsome Mrs. Charles
Fraeley, who bears most excellent repu-
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home, and her husband is distracted
Father Quigley, of Toledo, O., turned "A
funeral sermon into defense of his own
course in defying the state truant law,
and many prominent members left the
church.
Willie Affeder, 13, took a stroll from his
Peru, Ind, home around by San Fran
cisco, and returned after seventeen months
unexplained absence to his frightened
parents.
Ii has been discovered that Arthur Queal
a Kansas City real estate dealer, who dis.
appeared in December, 1889, went to Lon
don and killed himself, after a month i
carousal
Passenger train No 4 on the Chicago and
Atlantic. at Huntington, Ind, collided
with freight train. Engineer Cal Lyons,
of the passenger, was instantly killed, and
Fireman Griffith badly injured.
Theodore Roosevelt was banqueted at
indianapolis Saturday night, and in his
speech jumped onto John :. Clarksons Is
collar for the article in The North Ameri-
can Review, denouncing It's statements as
to civil service false.
The Topeka Morning Capitol published
from the thirty-siX Republican members
of the Kansas senate an expression of opin-
ion on the presidential situation. These
interviews show that the Kansas senate is
in favor of giving Harrison a second term.
At Wilmington, N. C., the military
alarm, sounded on the fire bells, called to
gether the infantry and caused the sudden
dispensing of mob of negros who threat
ened to mob kid Huggins, an omnibus
driver, who had ran over and killed small
boy, and who was in the Jail.
The body of Mrs. Emma Mailer, OF
| Brooklyn, with stone attached, was washed
ashore at New Dorp, Station Island. The
woman has been missing since Jan. %,
and was supposed by her relatives 10 have
committed suicide while deranged. The
woman, who was So years old, is said to be
insured for $1,000. A searching investi-
cation is 10 be made.