Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.
King Kalakaua is dead.


/ King Kalakaua is dead.
! Mitchell, Ind, has scarlet fever.
| Voorhees, was elected to the senate from
| Indiana.
o. H. Platt was elected senator from
| Connecticut.
Train dispatchers on the Chicago and
Erie road have quit work.
! Lebanon, Ind, is furious because itf
natural gas is to be cut short.
Mitchell, Ind, is organizing law and
order league to keep its people sober.
The blast furnaces of the Mahoning and
| Shenango valleys aro to form cOmbiQe.
! The Bethlehem, Pc, Iron company will
reduce employees wages 10 per cent. on
| Feb. !.
Rufus Tennant, aged 90 years, hanged
himself to a beam in his barn at Merrill
land, Wis.
Governor-elect Reynolds, of Delaware,
was Tuesday inaugurated with the usual
ceremonies.
Governor Hogg and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Pendleton, of Texas, were inaugu-
rated Tuesday
Louis Haare has found that it costs $500
and extras 10 kiss an indianapolis girl
against her will.
Miss Elizabeth Brasher was blinded at
MAJ sfield, o., by the explosion Of a bottle
of baking powder.
The new plant of the Standard Motor
company, of Chicago, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
has purchased the Dayton, Fort Wayne
and Chicago for 81, $4,000.
Riley Thompson accidentally shot his
sister Mrs. Woods, at Gallipols, o., while
carelessly handling a gun.
The union association of lumber deal
ers in Ohio Indiana and Pennsylvania
gathers around Toledo boards
The Northern Pacific railway lays claim
to odd sections in the Puyallup Indian
reservation in the state of Washington.
William Dillon, drunken cattleman,
| killed George Mitchell, at Ogden, Utah,
because the latter refused to drink with
him.
At Toledo, O., "Sesh" Earnest, while
drunk, shot his divorced wife and then
killed himself. The woman will probably
recover.
A. A. Ross, agent of the Southern Ex-
press company in Lake City, Fla, was
robbed OF $500 by an unknown man ON
Monday
Rev. c. O. Branch, Baptist minister,
of Portsmouth, o.. broke the jaw of a
scoundrel vino made an infamous proposal
to his 16-year-ol daughter.
The Chicago city council has substituted
per cent. city bonds for the 315 per cents,
which have proved unstable. The issue
aggregates nearly Sl,30O,C0)
Assistant Secretary Bussey has decided
that the mother of soldier who became
insane from army service, and committed
suicide is entitled to pension.
AT Findlay, o., Wharton Sharkey quar-
relied with his landlady, Mrs. Carrie Aus
tin, about his board bill, and shot and
killed her. He then committed suicide
Oliver HiXon, the negro who attempted
criminal assault on white girl near
Fayette, No., was taken from the Jail
by mob and hanged from the limb of a
tree
Seven thousand dollars was found in the
hut of a hermit on the banks of the Con-
necticut river. The miser died recently in
squalor, and the find of property is sur
prise.
NapI luOnaS L. MalOueS, OF tldTflS-
burg, Pa, was found drowned in the Sus-
quehanna river. Mahoney was keeper of
the state arsenal and well known mill
tary man.
Henry Thornton, coored, who is the
possessor of "A white wife, attempted sui
eide by hanging in the Madison, Ind, jail
He was jealous of his brothers attentions
to his wife
William Meachan, a prominent citizen
OF Troy, Obion county, Tenn, was shot by
an unknown assassin and fatally injured
while he was sitting in the office of his
livery stable.
The body of Peter Sheets was found in a
swamp about eight miles from Plymouth,
Ind. He was well-to-do farmer, but be-
came dementad ard about six weeks ago
wandered away.
Negotiations have been concluded at
Findlay, o., by which the Standard Oil
company will acquire all the property of
G.. c. Harris, the largest individual pro
ducer in northwestern Ohio oil fields
William 5. Tyler, connected with the en-
gineering department of the Missouri Pa
cific railway, committed suicide at St.
Louis by taking "Rough ON Rats" He
was but %, and the cause of the act is un-
known.
Secretary Blaine says the cause of the
recent war excitement in London was a