Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Philadelphia financiers will build S..
600 OO0O0bourse.
Miners and operators at Columbus, O.,
amicably agree.
Striking miners at Coshocton o., Sc
sumo their pick. an@s,
Nebraska Fire Insurance company, Of
Omaha, has quit.
Fire destroyed ten buildings at Hardy,
Neb Loss $4,000
There is one undoubted case of smallpox
at Knoxville, Tenn.
Raleigh, N. c., will have an interstate
exposition in October.
A type-setter in Lacrosse, Wis, has
fallen heir to 100000
Johnny Lucas, IL, of London, O., was
dragged to death by a horse
The last oil well shot at Portland, Ind,
is running fifty barrels day.
Next convention of American boiler
makers will be in Buffalo, N. Y, June,
1892
Forest miners at Massilon, o., strike to
have discharged fellow workman rein
stated.
Omaha has been selected as the seat OF
next general conference of the Methodist
church
AT Wilson's station, w. Va, three men
and boy were killed by the explosion of n
sawmill boiler.
Michael Davitt predicts that after the
next general election Parnell will have
only four followers.
A man registering as w. H. Smith, resi-
dence unknown, suicided in a Cincinnati
cheap lodging house.
Body of a man, murdered and buried
months ago, was plowed up on the Harri
son farm ut Cleves, O.
Onear Morgan, Dublin, Ind, boy
jumped from a moving train down sixty
feet and simply broke his wrist.
Gen. Asa S. Bushnell will give So.
0OO toward the erection of Masonic
Home, if located at Springfield, O.
The Newfoundland government has re-
fused to recognize Canadian fishing
licenses, and Canada has retalated
The Standard Oil company has purchased
1900 acres of land from the Mountain
State Oil company, of West Virginia.
Negotiations between the state depart
ment and the government Of San Domingo
looking to reciprocity are well advanced
Judge Stern holds that ex-President
Fillmore's estate goes TO first cousin (and
their heirs) alone, not to cousins farther re
moved.
Seven prisoners in Danvlle, H., Jail
knocked the turnkey down and tried to
escape but failed by the timely arrival of
the jailer.
Three of the Wright family at Indianap-
oils have died within a few days with
symptoms of poisoning and the chemist is
investigating.
Moerlein's brewery, Cincinnati, had a
100000 fire. fully insured Henry Smith,
a volunteer fireman, was killed by falling
from the roof.
Sweet Anna Moore, of Lawrenceburg
Ind, taken with. sudden illness just be
fore the day set for her wedding, became
the bride of death.
Rev Salisbury, of Abingdon, Ind, is ac
cused of quoting Scripture to a lady lamb
of his flock to lead her astray by giving il
an impure meaning.
The annual election of the Hooking Coal
and Iron company will be held at Colum
bus, o., May 20. There is opposition to the
present management
Pastor of Muncie, Ind Baptist church
communicated the family of John Mock
for too much spirituality Mrs. Mock hay
ing become medium.
Clifford Sifton, member of the legis
lature for North Brandon, has been chosen
attorney general of Manitoba, to succeed
Hon. Joseph Martin resigned.
John Corcoran, aged Il, of Cincinnati
was arrested by United States officers and
bound over on the charge of dropping a
lighted match into a letter box
BY blundcr in engrossing the law es
tahlishing depositaries for certain Ohio
cities the very ones for which the law was
madeare shut out from its provisions
Mrs Eugene Fox, of Kansas City, Kan,
cowhided attorney Joseph Lettick because
he referred to her in uncomplimentary
terms while she was a witness in court,
The Dunkard college at Mcpherson
Kan, has caused the arrest of c. a. Hege
land, president of the Second National
bank of that town, for embezzling IS, 600.
There has been a great advance in the
price of farm products since April, 1890
In corn and oats iC has been l03 per cent,
in wheat 80 per cent, and for beeves 81 TO
"a per cent.
The fight between Mike Lucien, of Troy,
n. V, and George Brennan Of the Pacific
coast, two miles north of Fonda, n Y,
for purse of 81 600, resulted in draw af-
ter six rounds.
Premier Rudini, in the Italian deputies,
explained that the withdrawal of Minister
Fava was ordered as a protest against the
course of the United States in regard to
the New Orleans affair.
Natividad Villaneuva, a celebrated
Jalizcan bandit, has been shot and killed
in battle with posse of citizens near the
city of Guadalajara, Before he fell he sue
ceeded in killing civil judge,
United States Senator A. p. German, of
Maryland, has silver service of sixty
pieces, which was given him by Demo
cratic friends for his work in defeating the
elections bill in the last congress.
Webb Hyatt, of Muncic, Ind, is locked
up for lunacy since he accused his brother
Marion of getting away with his wifes
affections and all his domestic bliss, and
tried to perforate him with a bullet.
Eleven men, all Austrians, were de
tanned at the barge office in New York be
cause they had been brought here under
contract to work in Chicago, some for the
Consumers Gas company and some for the
City Gable company
At the sixth annual meeting of the alumni
of the American college at Rome, Italy, J
held at Baltimore, fifty priests represent
ing nearly every diocese in the Union, at
tended. Monsignor Farley was elected
president for the ensuing year.
The affairs of The Evening Critic News
paper company, of Washington, have been
placed in the hands of Henry E. Davis as.
receiver upon the petition of Stilson
Hutchins and Richard Weightman. OF
Washington, who are large creditors of the