Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-08
NEWS m nnlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Hens Of
Various Subjects.

Malignant diphtheria prevails in central
Illinois.
lion. Andrew Deem was killed by a fall
ing tree near Winfield, Tenn
Some of the farmers of johnson county,
Ind, propose growing tobacco.
Danville, Ind, court house was dam
aged $4,000 by fine, but the records were
saved.
Drunken men quarreled at Belle Union,
Ind, and George Wallace was fatally
stabbed.
Natural gas men are converting at
Marion, Ind, to arrange for series of ex-
positions.
Over ST. coo was paid as duty on oleo-
margarine manufactured in Chicago dur
ing December.
A rio5 ensued during a religious meeting
at West Fork, Ind, and five persons are
seriously hurt.
Lineman Francis, at Brazil, Ind, was
fined for cutting away shade trees for
telegraph wires.
The board of receivers appointed by the
supreme court for the sugar trust is about
ready to make its report.
The Chesapeake and Ohio express went
through a trestle near Stepstone, Ky.
Two persons were killed.
A natural gas furnace burst at Lebanon,
Ind, and Baker Hohl and his man Walter
Marley will probably die.
DR.. Trcmblay, of Windsor, Que, took
aconite by mistake, made his will, received
the sacrament and then died.
In dispute at San Jacinto, Tex, Mr..
Zorro, railroad contractor, was killed by
a negro named Tom Gwynne.
Mrs John Stinson attempted TO commit
suicide at Danville Ind, by pouring oil on
her clothes and igniting them.
The Indiana state Republican committee
has selected John X. Gowdy, of Rushville,
to succeed Chairman Kitchener.
Adam Weaver, station agent on the Gin
cnnati Southern at Memo, Tenn, was ar
rested, charged with robbing cars.
Ulysses Miles, while hauling stone at
Bloomington, Ind, fell and his wagon
crushed his head. Ulysses dead
Druggist Okey, Of Caldwell, O., mixed
the Was, and Gordon Hutciins almost
died of a dose of acont3 and cocaine.
DIR. James ID. Maxwell, Jr., one of the
best known surgeons of Indiana died
"Wednesday at Bloomington of cancer.
Mrs. William B C elor is contesting her
husbands 5000 will, which leaves the
greater part Of his estate to strangers.
Near wellington, o., Tuesday, j hn
Collins shot William Finn in the loco
while hunting Both are from Cleveland
Mrs. Edgar Beckman stabbed her your G
husband to death ~ Newburyport, Mass,
when he came home drunk and abused
her
Ira Fisher is wanted at North Grove,
Ind, for the brutal assault on the little
daughter of Ira Smith, a merchant of that
place.
At Mt. Vernon, o., Mrs. Kate Ransom,
deranged by illness, made an unsuccessful
attempt to commit suicide by cutting her
throat.
1t is reported that Senator Carlisle has
said he will give cordial support to the
candidacy of Hon. w. r, Morrison for
president,
John Curran and Robert Davis, of Steu-
benvillc, o. were killed at Coshocton by q
Pan-Haldle train which collided with
their hand-car.
A colored man attempted to murder
Charles Ryker, young farmer of South
port, Ind, near indianapolis. with a razor,
intending robbery.
The Urited Mine workers of America
meet at Colun bus Feb. 10 to consider the
eight-hour movement, prices and to elect a
secretary.tleasurer.
he election contests in New Hampshire
have been so a. settled that it is known a
Republican governor and United States
or will be chosen.
Hattie Roberts was drowned a Hunt
ington, w. Va, by the oapsizing of skitf.
Her escort Nelson Wheeler, deserted her
and swan safely to shore.
Desperate Kuhns has been taken from
the Jail at Fort Wayne to Tiffin, o., where
he will be tried for the murder of his fell
low highwayman, Campau,
A band Of dozen boy burglars has been
detected at Kent, o. They had duplicate
keys to business houses and hid their
booty in a deserted glass-works.
Philo Woodwork, husband of Maria, is
at Anderson, Ind, where she is conducting
revials, and threatens to make startling
disclosures in his answer tc the divorce
suit.
The state board of agriculture will
sell it's fair grounds consisting of eighty
acres in the heart of indianapolis, and
worth $4,000, and will purchase else
where
Hugh Thacker, farm hand for Robert
McClung Of Martinsyille, Ind, and Beta,
the pretty daughter, eloped, the stern
parent following just in time to CON
graduate.
DR.. II. A. Hart. of Wooster bas been
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governors staff