Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-02

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The outstanding four-ahd,ashalf per cent
bonds win probably be continued at 2 pei
\ cent.
A GAINESVILLE, o., firm has contract t
furnish Grand Rapids, Mich, 800, OOI
bricks
Harley Davis put two bullets into hil
stepfather's flesh for abusing his mother al
Piqua o.
Two Mount Vernon 20 } girls were found
! with Robinson's circus, at Newark, o., ant
sent home.
Montana taxable property is increased
$20,OO0,0O0 by the return of all railroad
mortgages.
The Gale Oil company, ON Middle Island
near Parkersburg, w. Va, struck a 200
barrel we'll
Melbourne, the rain producer, got a little
moisture. His next wet day has been SET
for July IL.
Over two hundred and fifty bats were
found in one nest in a window casing al
Wapokoneta, 0.
A curious phenomenon of a ball of fire
floating in the air is soaring the people Of
Allen county, o.
VIII Thomas, 90, found dead in bed at
Mansfield, o., is supposed to have taken a
dose of morphine.
Five prisoners escaped from the Massa-
chusetts state prison, at Charlestown, and
three are still at large
Mrs. Catherine Smith, of Circlevile, O.,
wants VI 900 damages from the city for fall
ing into an excavation
Hugh McMurry, of Findlay, O., cut his
throat with razor, but not bad enough to
die, which was his intent.
Mrs. George Morton, of Newport, KY,
was badly poisoned by having her tongue
punctured with hat pin.
j. H. Leese, a South Charleston (O)
druggist, ate toadstools for mushrooms
and came very near dying.
Thirteen glass factories at Findlay, O.,
have shut down for two months, and over
1900 men are idle thereby
A natural gas explosion in Mrs Kra-
mer's cook stove at Dayton, o., demolished
that handy kitchen utensil.
The farm house of Rev. d. H. Whetsel,
of jackson, o., was struck by lightning
and instansly killed one of his children.
Editor Butler, of Huntington, Ind, has
been sued for $4,000 for calling the Elk
change hotel "delapidated old fire trap. "
The old tobacco firm of p. Lorillard
Company has passed nnder the control OF
stock company, with d capitaitof S., &C.,
000
The $4,000 Masons in Ohio will be as
sessed twenty-five cents each per annum
to support the Masonic home to be located
at Springfield.
Governor Peck, of Wisconsin, has APP
pointed John M. Coburn, of Lacrosse
county, worlds fair commissioner. vice
Benjamin, resigned.
A Utica Qnd.) farmer has collie dog
that knows every animal on the farm by
name, and picks it out of flock when told
to bring it home.
The 2-year-old son of w. H. Krause of
Seymour, Ind, died from the effects of
drinking a half-pint of whisky that was
left within his reach
The Fraternity of Financial Co-operat-
ors, of Wheeling, which promised 800 in a
year by paying S44, found it's promise too
big and it has gone up.
A silver thimble lost six years ago by
Mrs. John Starr, of English, Ind, was
found in the liver of the family COW which
was butchered last week
Postmaster General Wanamaker, Murat
Halstead, Hon. William Mckinley and
Maurice Thompson will be the speakers at
the Woodstock, Conn, Fourth of July Gel
ebraton.
Pugh Prewitt, colored boy, was found
lying in front of church near German
town, Tenn, with butcher knife sticking
in his breast. Nose Johnson was arrested
OIL suspicion.
Fred Steinman, an iron molder, fatally
shot his wife, at Chicago, and then blew
out his own brains. The double tragedy
was caused by jealousy ON the part of
Steinman regarding Peter Refs, carpen-
ter, who boarded with the family.
A broken coupling pin resulted in bad
wreck on the grade near Wilder's station,
just back of Newport, Ky, on the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad. Two brake
men were injured. Seven cars ran down
a steep grade, colliding with train follow
ing.
Herr Cahensly, who wants the Cath
Ollie church in the United States Eu-
ropeanized, tells the pope that IL, 100000
Catholics have been lost to the church be-
cause of the lack of foreign born priests of
the same nationalities as those of our i'm
migrants.
Japan's display at the worlds fair is as
sured by the appropriation of 100000. On
June 6, by an imperial ordinance, the
special exposition bureau was created,
of one chief, two assistant |
chiefs, several councillors, five managers |
and several secretaries, all men of rank.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, has |
appointed General William Hasson, of |
Oil City, member of the worlds fair |
instead of Herbert Welsh, of |
declined. Robert Pitcairn, |
of Pittsburg also declined and William |
H. Barnes, of Pittsburg, was appointed in
his place.
Secretary Foster refuses to make any |
terms with the discharged plate printers
of the public printing office other than to |
allow them to go in again at the foot of |
the list of applicants The intercossion of |
the Knights of Labor has been futile, and |
the secretary's course is approved by the |
of Labor