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

Various Subjects.
Hon. j. I. Mclean is dead at Warren
Ohio.
Snow fell at Huron, S. Oak, Sunday
afternoon.
Scarlet fever has closed the Banesville
O., schools.
Kanawha wooden mills at Charleston,
w. Va, will shut down
Henry Judd, a Goshen, Ind, scissors
grinder died worth S21 ,000 aged ~
1t is estimated that there are over ,00O
cases of measles at NOrwalk, Conn.
A drove of wild dogs is terrorzing the
people in the vicinity of Columbus, Ind.
Jury for the George Bennett murder
trial has been secured at Lafayette, Ind,
ID. S, Trolinger, of Woonsocket, 5. Oak.
died in his bed at the Grand Central hotel,
Columbus, o.,
Dickinson, Caunt g. Company, Of Lynn,
Mass, slipper manufacturers, have made
an assignment.
The electric car stables. at Scranton, Pa,
were set on fire and burned. Loss, $3.50.
coo; well insured.
Contractors extend quarter to GAINESVILLE,
o., striking carpenters twenty-five cents
advance in wages.
In a quarrel over 81. % at indianapolis,
Michael Welch fractured Andrew Gavin's
skull with beer-glass
There will be department for colored
people at the southern exposition at Ra-
leigh N. c., in October
Frank Kendrick, of Springfield, whohas
deserted from the United States navy three
times, is located in Kansas.
The story that Evangelist Maria B.
Woodwork had left st. Louis under
cloud is authoritatively denied.
A bullet from the gun of a midnight
assassin fatally wounded tough Dick
Adams in bed at Reachdale, Ind.
The general store of Horn Brothers, at
Bladensburg, o., was robbed of goods to
the value Of 800 early Saturday morning.
AT Philadelphia John Boucher was CON
victed of murder in the first degree for the
murder of Dennis Crowley on June "a
last.
Switchmen employed by the New York
Central had their wages cut down on
Thursday to the amount of $50 per
month.
William Clark g. Sons viii establish a
new bilItull IIllll Nv IdWJuCktl, N. l., nav
ing withdrawn from the Clark Thread
company.
The fires in the Blue mountains, in the
vicinity of Reading, Pa, after burning
over 800 acres, were put out by the rain
Saturday night.
DIR. w. Owen, ex-auditor of Huron
county, o.. is lying in critical condition
at the home of his son in Detroit, having
been stricken with paralysis.
William Smith, clerk of the Toledo
police court failed to take warning from
the life wrecks before him every day, and
is arrested for embezzling $4,000.
George Dupont took his child away from
his divorced wife with revolver, and was
forced Immediately to give it up by in
dignant neighbors at indianapolis,
Little Florence Timlin jumped upon the
back of her fathers carriage at Carrolton,
o.. and catching her leg in the wheel had
it completely amputated at the knee.
The movement of cotton last month was
larger than recorded in any previous April,
the amount in sight being 295, 43G bales,
exceeding April, 1890 by 1922 bales
r Frank Patton was arrested at Van Vert,
o., and taken to Delphos, where he is
wanted for selling a horse aud buggy
which he had hired from Alexander
Brothers.
John O'Conncll e. Sons shoe factory, on
Howe street, Marlboro Mass, was partial /
ly burned Monday morning Loss, Si5,
900, The firm employed about three hun
dred hands
Michael Connors, of Lima O., break
man who had both legs cut off at Dayton |
night died Sunday morning |
from his injuries His remains were ship |
ped to Lima.
b. w. Cowan and c. r. McLane, mem |
bers of the same church at Blandville, w |
Va, quarTeled on the way home from |
service, and Mcl.ane struck Cowen on the !
head with "A fence-rail fracturing his |
skull.
At Steubenville, O., George Burke and
Charley Mcban two Cleveland and Pitts
burg braliemen. quarrelcd over game Of |
cards, and Burke stabbed Mehan three |
times The wounds will no doubt result .
fatally Burke was arrested.
The crusade against the variety halls of
Columbus, o.. by the new Democratic
mayor was inaugurated Sunday. The
doors were kept closed and no girls ad.
mitted, but liquors were dispensed to male
customers at the bar.
At Bowerstown, Ind, Schuyler Cane and
Thomas Robertson, who pleaded guilty TO
a charge of robbing George Wheeler's
store at Freetown, were sentenced to JEFF
fersonville prison, the former for two years
and the latter for four They are mere
boys
The family OF John French, Springfield,
o., was poisoned by eating cabbage dressed
with sour cream, vinegar sugar, pepper
and salt. The poison was either arsenic
used on the cabbage to kill insects, or the
poison produced by fermenting cream.
Two young ladies are expected to die.
Mayor Mosby, OF Cincinnati, has ap.
pointed the following as members of the
new board Of administrations DR.. ID. w.
Graydon and August Hermann Repnb
licans. John L. Frey and John b. Wash
burn. Democrats. The new board Of fire
also appointed, are John
cfoetz and Robert Archibald, Republicans;
Abe Furst and j. J. Farran, Jr., Demo
.rats.