Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-14
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation Of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects,

uay.
Minnesota wheat beats high expecta-
tions.
President Polk's widow is dying in
: Nashville.
American Society of Microscopists in
session in Washington.
At Akron, o., Mrs. Bert Travis was
struck by lightning and killed.
Virginia Republicans will make no
nominations for the state Legislature.
The Hancock $2-bills have been called
In ON account of dangerous counterfeits
Springfield, O., is alleged TO have case
of cholera, but it is probably mistake,
At Logansport, Ind. Mrs. Frank Smith
and several children were bitten by mad
dog.
| The international convention of the Y.
M, c. A. of the world is in session in Am
sterdam
Quay says he will vote in the United
States senate next winter to seat Brice in
that body.
Stephen b. Elkins spent Sunday with
President Harrison and kept the president
from church,
The Elliott trial at Columbus cost the
county $40 l99 20 and the state 81 $50 80, a
total of SIS, 1919.
Another naval battle is said to have
taken place in Chill in which the insur
gents were victorious.
Senator Squire. of Washington state is
studying whether he can afford to go to
China rs United States minister
Two lumbermen, Mahlen Dotton and
Cornelius Zararich, were killed by a Le
high Valley train near Weatherlcy, Pa.
One man was killed and several injured
by storm blowing down new frame
building at Sheridan station, near Pitts.
burg,
Mrs Joe Brdfeld of Frazcysburg, O.,
mistOok arsenic for baking powder and
made cake The whole family may not
recover.
During the absence of A. l.. Flach aud
family, from Tffin, O., everything Of
value about the house was carried off by
burglars
Professor w. $. Scarborough, of Will
bcrforce university, Ohio, is an applicant
for minister to Hayti, to succeed Frederick
Douglass.
The third annual convention of the
United Organization of Building ASsocia-
tions of the State of Ohio is in session at
Cincinnati.
Citizens of Memphis contributed 81, 500
to the fraudulent National Capital Savings
Building and Loan association, recently
exposed at Chicago.
Vice President Morton up on his farm
In Rhinebeck has grown brown as a
farmer. 1t is the fashionable political
color this year and next.
Joseph Pulitzer, who owns The World,
is sick with nervous prostration in Lon
don. He knows how little it profits a
man to gain the whole world and lose his
own health.
New Jersey gallinippers drove crazy
man in Elizabeth, that state, and crossing
over into New York did the same trick to
a New York city fellow. Both men had to
be asylumed,
The hdnapers of Joseph Perrin in De
troit March 10 last, on the pretext of visit
ing rich friend, and who next day re-
turned him to his elegant home in that
city, just have been arrested.
Foreign houses lose 3,OOO,O forms b y
the failure of Morpurgo q Company, OF
Trieste, who were forced to suspend, with
liabilities Of $500, 900, on account of the de-
falcations of their chief clerk,
Bud Blunt, who murdered Jack Majors,
Frisco railroad brakeman, at Pierce
City, Mo-, Dec 26, $780, has been found
guilty of murder in the first degree, and
sentenced to hang Sept 25th next.
Near Towson, Md, Peter Hicks, gar
dener on Mrs. James Fishers place, was
instantly killed by lightning while gather
ing vegetables. His son, Charles Hicks
was stunned by the bolt, but recovered.
John B. Howard, formerly of Louisville
who Is charged with the murder of several
people, and whom his relatives believed to
be dead, is reported by jerome b. Webb,
resident of Sidney, N S. W, rs being II
wealthy resident of Adelaide, N. $. W.
The grand master of the grand lodge of
Ohio, l. o. o. f., has granted dispensation
to any of the lodges who may desire TO
participate in the encampment and parade
in Toledo, on the 18th to oath inst, to at
tend and wear the regalia of the order.
c. A. Fargo, one of the new senators Of
the Cherokee nation, and . man Of much
influence, says he will introduce bill as
soon as the Cherokee council convencs in
November to sell the Cherokee strip and
Immediately divide the proceeds among
the people of the nation.
At New Philadelphia, o., Samuel Nc
Keown, of St. Louis, while waiting for a
train suddenly pulled n revolver from his
pocket and probably fatally shot C.. w.
Athey, of Hanleyville, o., agent Of the
Cleveland and Marietta railroad The as
sassin says he does not know why be fired
the shot. He is probably insane.
There is wa. at Kansas City between the
local and foreign brewers. The latter
wanted the price of beer raised from 81 to
q. The local brewers objected, and the
brewers of Milwaukee,, st. Louis and
Quincy, Ills, have dropped the price to n
per barrel in order to force the local men
to terms. The local men refused to be
forced and the war goes merrily on.
Mrs. Ida Burgess Lord, wife of WoOdson
X. Lord, of the Merchants bank, 81. |
Joseph, Mo-, daughter of Thomas Burgess,
president of the Burgess Frazier Iron com
pany, has disappeared from that city The
last seen Of her was when she had a trunk !
taken TO the depot week ago. Detectives
have been put on the case, but so far not a
single clcw has been obtained Mrs. Lord |
is sister-in-law of Ex-Governor Silas
Woodson.
Evils OF PauPer Immigration.
LONDON, Aug, H.-In the demography |