Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
various Subjects

ing 5000 ditto,
Garland Petoskey the champion roller
skater of Michigan, is dead.
Sisters of St Joseph will build a
woman's college at s., Paul,
Fire destroyed the Elizabeth, n j.,
cordage works Loss 81 0l0OC0
Oil, in paying quantity was struck at
Philippi, Barbour county, W. Va.
Charles Lickson, miner was h I'd at
Brazil, Ind, while pulling pillars
Jerome Beecher, Chicago pioneer an |
millionaire, died Wednesday, aged a.
Largest rope walk in the United States
burned at Elizabeth, n. j.; loss, S100,00
charter forfeiture suit has been begun
against the Standard Oil company in New
| York.
J. X, Chauncey, Chicago collector, is
missing and is several hundred dollars
short.
A 4-year-old daughter of John Stupp,
Cardonia, Ind, fell in well aud was
drowned.
Jerseys congressional redistrcting bill
allows two to the Republicans out of the
! total of eight
The widow of Adam Reiser killed by
railroad train at Erie, Pa, has recovered
1850 damages.
August Jump, of New Chicago, Ind,
tried to kill his whole family because his
daughter joined church.
! The New York bankers, who want gold
ior export to Europe have indicated their
Willingness to take coin.
William Store, wanted in Graves county
Tor attempting rape on Mrs, Roberts, was
! arrested at Paducah XIV
John Needham, of Mount Grab, O., re
| turned home from II visit and found mis-
wife drowned in a cstern.
William Scooter, Of Connersville, ml.,
was sentenced to one year for stealing S9l
| from William Gise, q farmer
Secretary Foster says he is not clnCi
date for United States senator, and thinks
Senator sherman will be reelected.
John Asher, supposed poor man, died at
Brazil, Ind, and a belt containing 50 coo
in gold was found around his waist
In Newton, township, Licking county,
o. William Darcus was crushed under
falling tree. His injuries are serious.
James Brown gets two years from a
Peru, Ind, jury for trying to collect fifty
cents by chopping he debtor with an AK.
The Grant statue at Galena, ILL.,, will be
unveiled Memorial Day with the opening
address by Blaine or Chauncey NJ Depew
1t is reported that the famous Maxwell
land grant of 10000 acres has been sold
to New York company worth 100000
Young Griheth visitel Richard Echlas
chicken ro)st at Coshocton, O., and got
mortal load of buckshot from Eckles gun.
j. n. Norris, of Albany, Ga, tired of
petty robberies, laid for the thief with
II gun and killed Samuel Sapp, Il colored
man.
1t is found that eight people have made
Sl,OS5OO0 illegal profits out of the ten
soldiers and orphans schools o Pennsyl-
vana.
Tobey Getto was kicked to dCa,h in a
Kansas City saloon by three companions,
who accused him of cheating in a game of
cards.
For being struck with a SNOWFALL
man at Springfield, o., hit 3-year-old
George Turner with stone fracturing
his skull.
Suit has Leen brought against the
Standard Oil company, of New York, for
forfeiture of charter for connection with
the trust.
Having failed to purchase the two
breweries at Fort Wayne Ind, an En-
glsh syndicate has begun the erection of
a new one.
Frederick Trotz, who tried to burn the
cottage in which lived the little girl he
had outraged, hanged himself in jail at
Milwaukee,
Henry Clements and Jack Brown, col
ored quarreled over woman, at Albany,
Ga. Brown laid Clements abdomen open
and he died.
Joseph Noiht, &5 years of age of Mil
waukee, is in critical condition, the re-
suit of stabs inflicted by his aged father,
Alois Noiht.
The Wisconsin house passed hill pro-
hibiting the sale of opium without a ply
scian's certificate or to sell tobacco or Gig
aretts to minors.
Charles w. Longacre, agent of the
American Tack company, St Louis, con.
fessed that he embezzled 81 800 in II letter
he left behind him.
w. r. Holiday, son of a Minneapolis
Judge, stabbed himself AMI cut his threat
at Kansas City after recovering lr.m
spree. He will die.
At El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, Will
lam Flesher, aged IA years. stabbed AMI
killed William Sehwab during quarrel
over twenty-five cents.
William b. Munson Kansas CITY pgnt
of the Liverpool Royal and Hamburg
Bremen insurance companies, is short
81, AGO lost at gambling.
Twenty-Five Hungarian miners, i'm
ported from Cleveland to Coshocton, re
turned home as soon as they heard the
lockedout laborers' story.
While crossing a railroad track at La
fayette, ILL.,, Mrs, Y. NJ. Hawks was in.
stantly killed by a freight train and her
husband seriously injured
At reception in his honor at his old
home in Macoupin county, H., Senator
Palmer said he was not n candidate for
president or vice president.
Some one entered John Miillers saloon
in Anderson, Ind, turned the faucets and
allowed several hundred dollars worth of
wines and whisky to escape.
John Blew has just been sent to the
Frankfort Ky, pcnitentiary to serve a
life sentence for the murder Of the Foster
family twenty-five years ago.
The body of Andrew Finnigan. an old
Irishman, laborer, was found in de
serted stable in Kansas City. lie had evil
IDENTIFY died of cold and hunger.
Willard, son of DIR. John Wayman,
while sleeping in his fathers grocery It
New Castle Ind, was ohloroformed and
SEQ taken from the cash-drdwer.
The United States savings bank, of To.
peka, Kan, has closed its doors, and made
an assignment to Samuel !. House, pres
dent of the Kansas National bank.
At Greansburg, Ind, George Aldrch
was seriously injured by being pounded
,,,,or ba baad with a billiard cup by one of