Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-30
NEWS in BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

rogued.
The rainy season has commenced in
Bengal.
Sunday law is rigidly enforced in Hunt
ington, Ind.
Rumors are rife of plots against the Sui
tan of Turkey.
Ohio and Indiana farmers are busy in
the harvest fields
Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Morley are both
improving in health.
The national military encampment opens
at indianapolis Wednesday.
There is a project for cable between
the United States and Brazil.
Fred Dengler, a Lima (O,) miser, died,
leaving 10000 in gold behind.
At Lebanon, Ind, Otto Montgomery,
aged II, was drowned while in swimming.
Harry Sutherland, 10, dropped dead on
the street at Mansfield, o., from apoplexy.
Springfield, o., gets the Masonic home,
twelve of the fifteen trustees having so de-
cided.
All but one of the fourteen glass factories
at Findlay, o., have shut down until Sep
tember.
William Mcpherson died at his home,
near Kalledega, Ala, Saturday, at the age
of LOG years.
| Troops have gone to Kern's Canyon, A.
| t., to arrest the ringleaders in the Indian
troubles there
Henry Martin, at Pine Bluff, Ark, was
shot and killed by Edward Price, a col
ored policeman.
Ed Burgess is under arrest at Muncie,
Ind. for stabhing Policeman Hughes, of
Richmond, Ind.
Dan Graves, white. and George Bailey,
colored were drowned in the Cumberland
river at Nashville.
| At Warrensburg, N. Y, Rev. William
M. Ogden fell dead in the pulpit while
preaching Sunday.
Jasper Portiss, colored, of Springfield,
O., was killed while stealing ride in the
Big -Four yards there.
At dance near Arcadia, O., William
Winters was fatally stabbed in the back
by an unknown party.
Rev. John A. Jaynes, a prominent
Christian preacher of northern Kentucky,
has decided to 90 on the stage.
Elk Empress Eugenie insists that Prince
Victor abandon his mistress and marry
member of some reigning family.
Jacob Freed, of Charlottesville, Ind,
sworo that he never was drunk. He is
now under 5000 bonds for perjury.
Ex-President Cleveland spoke on "Pri-
vate and Specie Legislation" before the
Commercial club, of Province, X. i.
Will Bronnon at Point creek, w. Va,
was shot in the neck by j. M. Stone, of
| Catlettsburg, on an excursion train.
Dan Morgan was sentenced to eighteen
months in the state prison at Parkers-
burg, W. Va, for robbing postoflice.
Mrs. Henry Marshall, of Wooster, o.,
claims to have been cured OF fainting
spells by Father MoIlinger, of Pittsburg.
James A. Crawford, of Xenia, o.. was
driving his horse by traction engine
which so frightened the animal that 1t
died.
Sylvester Bassett, the Shelby county
lind fratricide, sent up in 1887 for
eighteen years, was pardoned by Governor
Hovey.
The Dalton gang of outlaws is reported
to have robbed the Sac and Fox agency,
Indian territory, of large amount of
money.
Preparations are being made for series
of naval maneuvers off the New England
coast to test the value of our ships in ac-
tual war.
Elaborate arrangements have been made
for the reception in London of the German
emperor and empress, who will arrive next
Saturday.
William G. Bennett was killed Sunday
at Des IIoines, by touching guy wire
used in holding in position an electric
light pole.
Ohio ranks seventh among the limestone
producing states of the Union, the annual
product for the census year being valued
at 81 ,5l4,934.
Michael Loone met death in a mining
shaft. near Hurley, Wis, and Gustavus
johnson, a Swede, was killed in a mine
} near Ashland.
Sir George Baden Powell and Mr.
Froude, members of the British Behrine
sea commission, left Queenstown Sunday
for New York.
Charles f. Gunther, a curio collector oi
Chicago, has bought portrait OF Christie
pher Columbus, by Chevalier Antonio
Moro, for $4,000
Leonard w. Averill, a Boston merchant
and prominent Mason, died at his home n
Cambridge Saturday night aged 40. tie
leaves a wife and daughter.
It is said that John Havlin, Of Cincin
natl, will build a fine theatre on the site
of the Hotel Walnut, which site he has
secured on perpetual lease.
2 During a quarrel with Joseph Reed
Mrs. Ellen Daugherty fell off the roof OF
high tenement in New York ana wal
killed. Reed is under arrest.
For the forty third consecutive time thu
figure 2 turned up in MitchelPs policy
; shop, at Lowell, Mass, breaking the bank
From $40, 900 to $5O, 900 was won.
While removing the body of Walter De
Beck from an Orange county cemetery, i
was found to be petrifed. 1t had been II
3 the ground about thirty-five years.
, Samuel Richie shot Louis Matheas, a
Mansfield O., inflicting scalp wound
: Ritchie accused Matheas of using disre
: spectful language in regard 70 his wife.
Professor Siemerings sculpture, "Amer
q lea Awakening Her Sons to Fight for Lib
ertv" is almost ready for delivery. |
will be placed In Fairmount park, Phila
delphia.
i, Five Apaches attacked a Chinaman II
e Canyon mountains, A. T., leaving him TO
@ dead with four bullets in his body. Ill
i was found and carried TO Tombstone AM
a is still alive.
A company has been organized in New
= York. with a capital of 81, 100000 for cult
- waiting a farm of 600 acres in Florida
. II will be devoted to the raising OF suga
cane and cocoanuts.
The building occupied by David G. Nict
! olson e. CO., grocers, on Sixth street bt
n tween Market and Chestnut, St Louis, wa
!, Totally DESTROYED by fire. Loss about $50
. 600; partially insured.
n,l,;~,oan ataletous were found under tn