Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
n Condemnation OF Interesting Items OF
Nnrinns Subjects.

n Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The Presbyterian general assembly de
clared against progressive euchre.
A fire in the Schufeldt distillery, Chi
cago, did 100000 damage, Incendiary,
Chambers is becoming epidemic among
the rses at Chattanooga and vicinity.
AiMorris Park race track Tristan made
a new record of l;5l . for nine furlongs.
John Osborn, of Eikhart, Ind, was
frightened to death by n flash, OF light
ming.
A deficit of 100000 francs has been
discovered in the Peters pence fund at
Rome.
The Democrats of the Thirty second Ohio
senatorial district nominated Geyer, of
p.Slding.
At Hyden, Leslie county, Ky, Grant
Burton was shot and fatally wounded by
Joe Thomson.
Furnace employees in ten Mahoning val
ley mills will have wages reduced 10 per
cent. on June Is.
John Spellman, the keptomaniac son of
the Peoria, ILL.,, distiller, will be placed in
an insane asylum,
Near Xcnia, o., Baby Charlton was run
over by train and killed within sight of
its agonized mother.
Rev. Northrop, of Fort Wayne, Ind, is
waging war in his city against Sunday
ball playing and other sins
Lightning cut the Holy Cross Episcopal
church in two at Keokuk, Iowa, and fatally
Injured Mrs. Edward Keith,
The decrease in circulation for May was
200 lint no for bn va m
ended June / was S73, 0S4S5
Minister Robert Lincoln says he knows
nothing of the reported changes that
would put him in the cabinet.
The trial of Mont Mabbitt, on1a change
of venue from Marion county, was com
menced ut Lebanon, Ind, Tuesday.
The jury ON the case of w. w. Will
coxen for embe22lement, returned YER
dict of not guilty at Shelbyville, Ind.
A boy named Ogle, IL years Old was
thrown from n buggy at Dresden, o., and
his skull crushed. lie cannot recover,
Erastus Ogle, of Rush county, Ind,
has a canine fit for a museum star The
dog eats live Goals and ticks his chops for
more.
According to the Indiana state law
squirrel shooting is not legal until July
/, and not June l, rs many nimrods sup
pose
The farmers of Ohio and Marshall
counties w. Va, are going to hold n
monster picnic July to boom Alliance
matters
Charles Crew, shot and killed Richard
Clark at Carriers Mills Tenn, because he
was n rival for the affections of n Miss
Hutchns
Martin Finn, roadmaster of the FL Paso
division of the Santa Fc railroad, was
killed by the cars, one mile east of An
thony, n NJ.
The supreme court Of Ohio has reversed
the decision of the Cincinnati superior
court which at the instance of the tele-
phone company, ordered the electric street
railway 20 substitute double for single
trolleys. the latter interfering with the use
of telephones, The adverse decision will
affect the telephone exchanges in all the
larger cities of the state.
The schooner-rigged scow Mayhower
WAS upset near Duluth, MINI, and the
.captain, Theodore Zebolt, drowned.
Fben Tlegge, Champaign county, O..
farmer after hard struggle, killed with
club a bald eagle that had been carrying
off his lambs
Fish in the waters about Elkhart, Ind.
are dying of in large numbers. White
spots appear before death, and the disease
is contagious.
At Roachdale Ind, Dick Adams was
shot and killed by Noah Evans of4GroHe