Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting ItoMs ON
Various Subjects.

! Judge Carpenter, of Akron, o., WA
killed by fall at Cuyahoga Falls.
: Robert Gilbert, of Brashears, O., wal
killed and placed ON the track near Buch
tel, o.
| The three young sons of Louis Cushing
of Cohasset, Mass, were drowned whilI
boating
! While boring for water near Seymour
Ind, petroleum was struck. There are
indications of gas.
! Mrs. Robert Piper, of Wheeling, worsted
a burglar in a hand-to-hand encounter
and is now insane.
Charles Carroll Stewart, of Cleveland, is
another Ohio candidate for United States
minister to Liberia.
Mrs. Anna Jones, of youngstown, O.,
has been arrested, charged with throwing
her babe into the river.
Great destitution prevails along the
lower Rio Grande in Texas. No rain has
fallen in eighteen months.
AT Gaylord Mich, A. w. Wilcox, 20
killed his granddaughter, Mrs, West with
an ak and then shot himself.
Eugene H. Bonnick and wife suicided by
taking morphine at Denver. They did not
Alexander Neybaum's abattoir, situated
in Vailsburg, near Newark, N. j., burned.
Loss, $4,000, insurance partial.
The factory of the Henry Hart Manu-
featuring company, Detroit, destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500 insurance $4,000.
The agents of the anthracite producing
companies have ordered an advance ai
fifteen cents per ton 10 take effect Sept. J..
A rich vein of silver has been struck in
the heart of Leadville at depth of 3l2
feet 1t assays from 200 to 800 ounces to
the ton
The body of an unknown man was found
near the Baltimore and Ohio track at VII
sonburg w. Va, lie had evidently fallen
from the train.
Uncle Tommy Ellis, of Waynetown
Ind, went into spasms when he discovered
that he was chewing a piece Of a mans
finger in chew of tobacco.
The navy department has made the
ninth payment, amounting to e53, $3.50, on
cruiser No. 6, now being built by the Union
Iron works at San Francisco.
The Ohio canal commission has brought
suit against the Standard Oil company for
damages for oil used by the company OBJ
tanned by wells on state property
Joe Young, IA baker at the indianapolis
blind asylum, will test the eight hour law.
He works twelve, and has brought suit TO
recover pay for 3, 7e6 hours of oyerwork
Mabel Hart, of Cincinnati went to New
York three years ago to study music, has
been abandoned by her husband, Marvin
Buttles, for whom detective is looking.
"a fpaa q ,ht at 70
union at Ecnnsvlle, N. j., twenty men
were seriously injured and about 200 more
or less hurt. Beer caused it. No arrests.
Several skeletons were found by yanIt
cleaners at Welch's barracks, Springfie;5,
o., in the most disreputable part of tSe
city. The find has created great excite.
mept.
An attempt to put negro brakemen on
the Louisville and Nashville trains at
Mobile resulted in the new men being
driven from the cars by white men, who
shot at them.
Montgomery county Qnd farmers will
boycott the fair because the fair associa
ton did not treat them as they thought
proper when they gave picnic on the
grounds recently
Farmers in the vicinity of North Put
nam, Ind, thought their wheat was not
holding out in weight. An investigation
showed that the weights had been "loaded.
Redress by law will be sought
A thrashing machine engine on the farm
of NJ, D. Hammond, near Hiawatha,
Kan, exploded. Charles Mccartney, the
engineer, was killed, W. w. Loofboro
badly hurt, and two others slightly hurt.
Az Sat;po n Ea-,,,ar n,.,ax nm~nh
tempted to hurry up negro named Boss
Hutchinson, who was helping him thresb,
by swearing at him. The negro broke
Brooks skull with pitchfork handle and
fed
A state convention for the purpose Of
raising additional funds for worlds fair |
exhibit is in session at St. Paul The
Minnesota legislature appropriated $50,
900, and it is the purpose of the people to
raise $l25, 900 more
Colonel Hinman, of the Cleveland
Leader, will pilot crowd of Washing
ton correspondents and prominent men on
a tour of the great lakes. The invitation
comes through company carrying the
ore products of Michigan mines.
Near Scottville, KY, William Huskson
was shot and killed by posse under tie
sheriff of Allen county Huskison was
under arrest for misdemeanor and tried
to escape. The guards shot at him, but he
in the woods. His body was
found next day.
A cable dispatch from London to New
York sporting paper says the National
Sporting club has decided to hang up q
", 500 purse for Ego" between George
Dixon, colored, of Boston, the champicn
Of the world, and Fred johnson, TIE
weight champion of England.
Dixon will be allowed $500 for expenses.
Chief of Police McClurghy, of Chicago,
that unless the city council
shall take measures to increase the fund
AVAILABLE for his department IL will be nee
essary for him to discharge 500 men within
4 week. II il comes to that, the discharges
will be made from the ranks of the extra
men put on last spring, whose employment
,aused the present deficiency in the police
'und.
Editor George Jones, of the New York
Times, who was buried Friday, was offered
E5 O00, 600 not to publish in his paper the
documents exposing the Tweed ring In
New York city. II don't think the devil
Iver will make higher bid for me than
hat" replied Mr.. Jones, ''but should
lnow that | was rascal. | cannot CON
'ider your offer nor any other offer not 20
publish the facts in my possession"
Incendiary White Caps.
FREDERICK, Nd, Aug. ia large
wo-story building used as a carriage
actory in the village of New Midwa.,
his county, was burned Friday morn
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