Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items OF,
Various Subjects.

outhTle mas Deen MADE The Catholic see
of Indian Territory
Crops in three counties of Minnesota
were laid waste by hail
Montauk coal mines, near Fleminotop
w. Va, are sold for $40, 500.
Smallpox is terribly prevalent through
out the state of Tabasco, Mex.
Royal Hammer was arrested for receiv-
ing lottery tickets at Indianapolis.
The Ohio and Mississippi railroad is said
to be on the brink of a new collapse.
Three Americans have been murdered in
railroad camp at Tecomuvaca, Mex.
Mrs. General Grant is at Saratoga for
the first time since her husbands death.
A Norwalk we'll digger found an English
com ll9 years old ten feet below the SIR
face '-'e SUI
charles Kuhman went under the waves
OF the bay at Sandusky, O., and was
Thomas p. Courtney, of Clarksbnrp
W. Va, was killed while working in front
OF a buzz saw.
Christian Brothers e. Companv,s aopr
mil, at Indianapolis, was damaged bv fire
10 the extent of $4,000.
New York is excited over the discovarv
OF Chinese leper who has been running n
laundry for some time.
Professor Mccoy, colored Indiananolis
school teacher, is candidate for the posi
tlon of minister to Liberia.
Three men were killed and several otba,o
injured by the sudden ditching of a log.
glng train near Carson, New.
The plant of the Aniwa Manufactur;no
niA
LOSS, S5o,OOO; insurance, $4,000
President ]. II. Kenny, of the Order Of
N heliaole ma Fellowship, has disappeared with
SS,OOo OF the associations funds.
heV. Reidinger's house at North RIDGE.
Viile' o., was stoned by a mob. presumably
because he preached temperance.
Nearly three miles of snow sheds on the
central Pacific railroad, near Summit
Cal, burned. Traffic is stopped.
Arthur Doran selected the railroad for
Ded at Columbus, o., and a train walkad
over Doth legs and one arm. He will live
Inc strikers among the Spring Valley
lis, coal miners have agreed TO po back
10 work. They have been out since Nav
ueorge Brown, who waylaid New York
messenger boys and robbed them. has
been sent to the penitentiary for six
years. Ola
ueneral wade Hampton has accepted the
invitation to preside at the unwilling of the
Jackson monument on Tuesday at Lexinp.
ton, Va.
Clarence New, IS, killed boy named
Skidmore AT Riverside, w. Va. mistak
ing him fer another with whom he had
quarreled ''N
The Lone Pine group of mines Iocated
in the Vipond district, Beaver Head conntv
Mont, has been sold to an English svndi'
cate for $725 900.
Thornton Jackson shot Justice of the
Peace William Miner at Saline City. Ind
MINER had nned Jackson's son. The shot
may prove fatal.
Darwin j. Meserole, son of General Mes.
erole, has been indicted at BROOKLYN for
killing Theodore Larbig on June q He
pleaded not guilty.
The Novgorod province has decided IN
petition the Russian government for
loan of $5,l25,O 900 to provide the SUFFERING
peasants with breadstuffs.
Mrs. Eliza Haizer, a widow, and her it,
tie daughter were killed while crossing the
Panhandle tracks at One Hundred and
Nineteenth street, Chicago.
Mrs. James Caruso, wife of one Of tbo
New Orleans riot victims, attempted
suicide by taking laudanum. She said her
husband called her and she must obey.
Execution has been issued against the
Cobb Vulcanite Wire company, of VIII |
mington, Del, for $1,000 at the instance
of William Wrightman, of Philadelphia.
President Gompers decides that Or
ganizer Gruelle was too fresh in expellinp
the Indianapolis street car strikers from
the Federation of Labor and takes them
back.
Lebanon Qnd.) Baptists are fighting
over possession of meeting house. and |
withdrawing to go to court, might very
properly call themselves the se-cedars Of
Lebanon.
The body of Mrs. William wrigley, wife
of farmer living near Liberty, Mo, was
found hanging with rope around her
neck to tree on the farm Of her husband |
They had quarreled.
News has been received of the critical
illness of Thomas Bocock, ex-speaker of
the Confederate congress, at his home in |
Appomattox county, Va. He has been an |
invalid for several years.
Commissioner of immigration Owen is |
mentioned as possessing the kind of ex-
perience to fit him for steering Indiana's
ship of state from the Republican guber-
material upper deck next trip.
At Girard, Ills, 29O coal miners are out
and the farmers are unable to thresh their
crops. A coal famine is threatened. The
coal company refuses to comply with the
law relating to weekly payments.
A startling case of crookedness has been
found in the war claims of Indiana. 1t is
said that claims were changed from cents
to dollars, and figures substituted whereby
the state has been robbed of at least
SAG, ,000
Plain township, Wood county, o., was
roasted by Toledo newspapers. A
reporter, passing through the place, found
the made up effgy of aman hung to tree,
with the placard upon it. Reporters, Be
ware y
Levy Mayer, a prominent syndicate at
torney of Chicago, says German capi-
talists have invested q 10000 in the Ed
wards mines Of New Mexico. Hugo
Gumpf, a Berlin banker, is at the head of
the syndicate.
AT Hanover, N H., Miss Christie
Warden was waylaid and shot TO death by
Frank Almy whose attentions she had re-
jected Almy escaped. A large reward
has been offered for his capture. If secured
he will undoubtedly be lyHched