Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of InterestIng Items on
Various Subjects.


United States.
AT the next session of congress Arizons
will ask for admission as state
1t is estimated that 100000 will bt
paid in sugar bounties next year.
1t is alleged that Denver has been robbed
Of about $50 900 by dishonest officials
Commissioner Raum says he will ad Judi
cate $4,000 new pension cases this year
Grasshoppers are destroying growing
crops in portions of northwestern Ohio.
Melbourne, the alleged rain king, failed
to produce the promised shower Sunday.
Henry Guenther, of Dayton, o, accused
of poisoning Us wife, has been discharged
Chief Byrd has decided that no more
whites are wanted in the Chickaaaw Ma
ton.
John Uniack, 40, and his son, aged 1,
were trampled TO death byan enraged horse
at Brooklyn
| Six lives were lost on Dorchester bay,
Mass, Sunday by the overturning of a
| pleasure yacht.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union OF
the United States has declared against
Sunday saloons
! At a shooting aifray at camp-meeting
at GAINESVILLE, Md, one man was killed
and three injured.
tornado struck Ashland and Wash.
burn, Wis, doing great damage. Several
people were injured.
Alabama Republicans will send Har-
rison delegation to the next Republican
national convention.
Judge Botkins, of Kansas has been
threatened with assassination if he pre-
sides at murder trial.
Near English, Ind, at a picnic, George
Taylor, a local tough, shot and killed La
ban Hughes and escaped.
The Alliance Democratic political com
bine in Louisiana, to put up a fusion
state ticket, has snapped in two.
Dave Wilson, colored, abducted Mrs
Sophia Make at the muzzle of a pistol
from dance at Argentine, Kan.
Four children were drowned at Lake
Pewauke, near Milwaukee, by the over
turning of boat during q squall
An aeronaut was thrown from his bal
loon and killed at Leeds, England. His
female partner jumped and escaped.
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania has
sued the county of Philadelphia and John
A storm in the southern part of the city
of Chicago Sunday blew down several
frame houses and injured number of
people.
Mrs. Nellie Webb, of Louisville, aged
and wealthy, suicided in u bathtub at Gin
cinnati. She was victim of drink and
opium.
Louis Eichengreen, of Philadelphia and
S. Newmark, of Cincinnati, were arrested
at Gallatin, Tenn, charged with being
counterfeiters.
At Chandler Station, Ind, George Gra-
ham, %, of Terre Haute, was overcome by
blackdamp and fell forty deep. He was
instantly killed.
AT Philadelphia Frank Hetzelberger
was stabbed by Ida Howard, colored, be-
cause he made an Objectionable remark
about crap game
Mrs p. w Parker, wife of the proprie-
tor of The Morning Astorian, was drowned
at Clatsop Beach, Or. She was carried out
by the undertow while bathing.
At the Salem wire works, Findlay, O.,
Fleming Hardwell fell into vat of boil
ing water and quicklime and was fatally
injured, dying in few minutes,
The Economic society, Economy, Pa, is
disturbed by the conversion of its trustee,
Duss, to the views of u spirtualistic me
dunn named Franciska r. Emmertz.
Hezekiah Arp, nephew of Bill Arp, of
the Atlanta constitution, is hiding some
where in Texas, having killed his man
last week at his home near Fannin. Ga
At meeting of the Orleanist party the
Count of Paris refused to take active
measures to assert his claim to the throne
of France, thus disappointing some of his
followers.
L. X Buntain, fish and game warden of
Montgomery county, fatally shot Jake
McIlvaiu near Dayton, o. Buntain was
attacked by party of seine fishermen oi
whom the latter was one.
During a dense fog Newport Or. l. } ex-
cursion steamer while entering the harbor
struck rock which caused her to leak
badly. panic was averted by the cap
tain assuring the passengers that they
were safe.
At Chillicothe, o., George Dullmeyer,
while drunk, shot and fatally wounded
Officer Hall and broke the thighbone of
Officer Won KENNEL, who were trying to
persuade him TO stop abusing his step
father Won KENNEL may die.
At Cincinnati George +. Nieman was
shot and killed by his son Charles, aged 20.
The elder Nieman was in the act of strik-
ing his divorced wife when his son shot
him in order to protect his mother who is
a cripple. Young Neiman surrendered.
A storm at Ottumwa, Ia, did considera-
BILE damage. Rhinestone, Corydon, Cen
terville, Franklin Park, Batavia, Agency
and other towns also felt the effects of the
wind No persons are reported killed, but
the damage to crops and other property
will be great.
At English, Ind, Robert Pike and Benz.
b. Brown, Jr., shook dice for drinks, got
drunk, quarreled and began shooting.
After nine shots had been fired Brown fell
dead, shot through the body. Pike escaped
with three flesh wounds. He was jailed.
Chattanooga is his home.
4 terrific wind, accompanied by rain
and hail, passed over Decatur county, Ia,
about noon Sunday. 1t was the worst
storm ever knows in that part of the state,
and the damage was great. Crops over "A
wide tract of territory are destroyed
Trees were Frustrated and buildings de-
stroyed So far as known no lives were
lost