Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The Peoples party campaign has
opened in Ohio.
The st. Clair river tunnel will be for
mally opened Sept 10.
The Bremaker-Moore Paper company,
of Louisville, has failed.
The national camp-meeting of spiritual
lists is in session at Ashley, o.
Harding's saloon in suburb of Indian.
apolis, was burned by incendiaries.
Mrs. N. w. Fairchild, of Knoxville,
| Tenn, gave birth to triplets Thursday
A band stand floor gave way at Inde-
pendence, Mo-, injuring number of peo
pie.
A cloudburst in the mountains near
Sand Lake, N. Y, did thousands of dollars
| damage.
Miss Beatrice Travis, of Defiance, O.,
was killed in runaway at Tecumseh,
Michigan.
People at Dunkirk, O., suspect certain
citizen of that place as the Columbus
Grove robber.
George Little, of Greensburg, Ind, was
fatally beaten by an unknown man hid in
Little's stable.
James Waterfeld, a young society
Adonis of Nashville, suicided Thursday
with morphine.
John Baxter, of New York, killed his
wife and two children and then shot him
self with the same revolver.
The president was ut Ruthland, Vt,
Friday. Friday night he left for New
York, en- route to Cape May.
At Cumberland, Nd, one man was
killed and another injured by the collapse
of bridge in the course of repair
At Jeffersohville, Ind, Brewer Kirch.
genuer accused Lorenz Palmer Of stealing
beer and whipped him. Palmer wants
$4,000.
George f. P6ngst, owner and manager
of the Grand hotel indianapolis, for the
past thirteen years. is alarmingly i'll of
dropsy.
A call for statehood convention, to be
held at Oklahoma City, Sept. next, has
been issued by the Commercial club of
that city.
The condition of William Bullard, des
perado, incendiary and would-be mur-
derer, in Jail at Columbus, Ind, is grow
ing serious.
The entire police force of Middlesboro,
KY, are on trial charged with lynohing
Stonecutter Rosmuss, of Cincinnati, sew
eral months ago.
DIR. Will X. Stewart and Della Reed
were the contracting parties in the first
marriage at the Indian training school
near Wabash Ind.
William f. Clark, lunatic, suicided at
Weston, w. Va, by getting into bath
tub and turning on the boiling water. The
case will be investigated.
At Ironton, o., Dora May was accident |
ally shot and fatally injured by pistol
shot at the hands of Mrs. l.. Richman,
who didn't know it was loaded.
At Atlanta, Ind, Jake Miller found |
Clint Boyer in his (Miller's) house, and |
proceeded to knock him out with his fists |
Boyer shot Miller through the arm.
A sawmill boiler exploded at Jerome,
o., Thursday morning, totally demolish
ing the building. Five men standing sew |
enty feet from the boiler were not hurt
Constable Davenport in trying to arrest |
John Wood on a bench warrant near Dug |
Down, Ca, was held for an hour by five |
women in order to give Wood time to |
escape.
The three robbers who robbed the ex-
press car between Atlanta and Macon,
Ga, Aug. 90 were captured on the /
eth and the money recovered. 1t |
amounted to $4,000.
Charles Shepp was caught at Anderson,
Ind, in the act of saving hole in the |
floor of Levison's jewelry store. He is be.
lieved TO be the man who has committed !
several other similar robberies there.
Mrs Rev. Parsley, of Albian, Pa, died
five minutes after acting the part Of an
angel in tabeau. A moment before her
death a girl made the remark that she
(Mrs. Parsley would make lovely angel
At Nyack, N. Y, w. c. johnson, of
New York, swan one hundred yards In
I'm. 10 3-5s. The mile race was won by J.
r. Whittemore, of st. Louis, In 24m.
II Sos, a hundred yards ahead Of the next
best
Robert Paxton, of indianapolis, last
month went TO the home Of Charles Lans-
man and attempted to criminally assault
his ten-year-old daughter, and In the
struggle the girl was severely injured.
Thursday he entered a plea Of guilty,
and was sentenced 10 ten years imprison-
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