Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting items ON
Various Subjects.

! The Alliances of North Carolina are not
in favor of third party.
William Rife was killed by rolling log
at Raleigh c, H., w, Va.
The strike of the London journeymen
tailors is virtually settled
! Washington real estate boomers failed
to secure recount of the state.
Rev. DR.. c. E. Doolittle, newspaper man
and preacher, died at Mansfield, o.
Francis Murphy claims to have sobered
up 1890 Hoosers since he came to the
state.
Experiment in the University OF Illinois
resulted in the discovery of la grippe
bacilli.
A life sized painting of ex-President
Cleveland has been placed in the White
House.
The United States war department will
be draped thirty days for ex-Secretary AL
phonso Taft.
Muncie, Ind, burglars spun gaily off
through the night with Deputy Treasurer
Will Kirby's S135 bicycle.
Bert Heulett, aged Is, died at Asbury
Park, N. j., from injuries received while
playing leap-frog at school,
George Atkins, awaiting trial for crook
edness at Indianapolis, is identified as
George Train, of Medina, O.
David Williams, 5, died at Pittsburg
from the effects of having swallowed a
small piece Of a clay-pipe stem.
Trial of the Niles children kidnapers at
Springfield, o., petered out because the
prosecuting witnesses were non est.
The San Francisco Alta will shortly
suspend. Too much competition. The
Alta is the oldest paper in California.
K. M. Duffield, West Virginia mail
carrier, has walked an average of 2l0 miles
week for SIS weeks. He is u years old.
The annual meeting of the grand lodge
the Ohio knights of Pythias is in session
IN Cincinnati. About 200 delegates are
present.
Charles Craig, murderer from Cincin-
natl, will be hanged in the Ohio penitenti-
airy next Monday morning between IL and
! o'clock.
Ten lives were lost by fire in petro-
leum refinery at Condekerque, France
Many houses in the vicinity of the refinery
We're burned
Three men, named Burns, Perry and
Dobson, were suffocated in foul well at
Central Wash Another man fell in, but
his life was saved.
Representatives of Ohio's numerous
farmer organizations are in session in Co
lumbus They will no doubt nominate
a full state ticket
The Wheelock Iron and Salt company,
English manufacturers of cotton ties, have
suspendeded operations, owing to the
effect of the tariff bill
Thomas w. Leach, former employe of
the Cincinnati water works, attempted to
put bullet through his head, at Madison.
Ind, but missed his mark
The New Orleans grand jury has found
another indictment against McCrystal and
Cooney, two of O'Malley's assistants, for
attempting TO bribe a juror.
At Paducah, Ky, Beverly Reed shot
and fatally wounded John Slaughter for
guying him. The young men were friends
and both are highly connected.
Green Wells, colored, who shot and
killed John b. Fly at Columbia, Tenn,
was captured and lynched at midnight at
Polk station, Mary county, Tenn
Harold f. Spaulding, cashier of the
Aver National bank, Boston, who con
fessed to embezzlement of $50, 600, was
sentenced to five years Imprisonment.
The British bark Virbilia went ashore
Monday night near Currituck Beach, Va.
The crew and the captains wife were
saved The vessel caught fire and is
total loss.
At Cairo, H., Fannie Myers, married,
and Nellie Claypool, single, both colored,
quarreled over one man Fannie cut Nellie
no. 4 It,1 90,
was arrested.
Three convicts, named Ohare, Harman
and Ingram, made u break for liberty at
Pratt IS mines, in Georgia. The vigilant
guards shot and killed Ohare and Harman,
Ingram made his escape.
Dick Cheatham made slanderous re-
mark about Mrs. w. T. Hubbard, at Sey-
mour, Ind, which came to the ears of Mr..
Hubbard. Dick takes his meals in bed
now, but refuses to retract
John Ryan's Sons dry goods house, at
Atlanta, has been closed by the sheriff.
Liabilities over $l,0O0,000; assets about
$780, 600 The house was one of the oldest
and the largest in the south.
Governor Hovey refuses to honor the re
quest of John Bonhommie, backed by the
governor of Kentucky, for the return and
prosecution of his daughter, who mis-
represented her age and eloped with Mr.
Jones.
The grip is epidemic in Newfoundland
Hundreds of persons are down with the
disease, and the physicians have their
hands full. Many persons have died of
the disease at Burin, Placentia and For
tune Bay.
A trillana ss;.
acres is said to have been discovered near
Parkersburg, w. Va Numerous skeletons,
stone and bone implements fragments of
pottery, beads, and many other relics have
been found.
Nine japanese women who were refused
a landing at San Francisco by the customs
officials on the ground that they had been
brought to this country for immoral pur-
poses, were ordered set at libery on writ
of habeas corpus
Harry Allen, a grandson of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, has brought suit against the
executors Of William II. Vanderbilt to re
cover about 100000, which he claims
his mother was to receive for withdrawing
her contest of the will.
The corpse of man with his skull
crushed and weighted with stones was
found by fishermen in the mud along the
bank of the Ohio, near Chilo, o. The
body looked as if il had been in the water
for two or three months, and was exposed
by the fall of the river.
The identity of William Sherman, who
murdered Officer Freed, at Youngstown,
o., has been established. His right name
is William f. Fitzgerald, New Yorker
The woman VINO visited him recently was
was his wife, formerly Miss Carrie McCor-
rick, of Detroit. They were married last
Mar;.h
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