Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items of
Various Subjects.

Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.
Between 400 and 200 pounds of opium
were seized in Oakland, Cal.
Professional afecrackers are doinl
Rising Sun, Ind, at midnight.
Judge William Patrick died at Urbana
o., Sunday, at the age of 10 years.
A case of smallpox has been discovered
on the Urbana, o., camp grounds,
Revenue officers siezed five hundred
pounds of opium at Oakland, Cal,
Jacob Kunkle is i'll at his home on the
Urbana camp-grounds with smallpox.
Springfield, o., has tiny musical prod
ICY in the person of 3-year-old Margaret
Elliott.
Hattie Fountain, IL, shot herself al
Brownstown, Ind, because her love was
not returned.
A manhole explosion in Chicago resulted
in the death of woman and the injury Of
four other persons.
Harry MumfoId, accused of the Urbana
o., express robbery, claims to be able tC
prove a strong alibi.
George Bancroft, historian, died Satur
day afternoon in Washington. He was n
the 9lst year of his age.
Miss Ella Mallv was poisoned by Miss
Rose Zaldosky at tea party at Richland
Wis Jealousy was the cause
Gen. Michner notifies his Indiana sup
porters that if his name is put up for the
senate it will be taken in vain
William Nair, Upton, Ind, laborer, be
came jealous Of his wife and shot her, af
terwards blowing out his own brains,
Miss Zoe Gayton has reached Laporte
Ind, on walk for wager of 5000 from
San Francisco to New York in 210 days,
EX-County Clerk M, D. Hamilton, at
San Diego, Cal, is short in his accounts
&,420. He was formerly mayor of the
city,
Sam Curtis, colored, did dark deed at
the Lebanon, Ind, infirmary, by beating
to death an agld and crippled inmate,
George Warburton.
AT the county intirmary, near Lebanon,
Ind, George Warburton, an aged and
crippled inmate, was beaten to death by
Sam Curtis, negro.
AT Chattanooga, Tenn, Judge J. A.
Wordes, while drunk, shot and killed his
son-in-law, S. M. Fugette, cashier OF the
ADCtSb cilu't''iAbOt5tt h'AN lilSp Dahhs
At Vincennes, Ind, Richard Steen was
convicted of manslaUghter for the murder
of Grant Williamson, with punishment
fixed at imprisonment for two years.
Richard Steen is sentenced by a Vim
cennes jury of twelve good menand true to
retire to the penitentiary and there repent
for two years the slaughter of Grant Will
hanson.
VIII Gerber, of New Philadelphia, o.,
was cut, beat and chloroformed and laid
on the railroad track by some horned devils
from hades, but recovered in time to save
his life.
Jesse Engle, bishop in the United
Brethren church, and an extensive land
owner, has made an assignment at Hope,
Kan. Liabilities, $4,000; assets about
half as much.
The secretary Of state of Indiana has no
tilted the Legislature that the amendments
to the constitution passed two years ago
arc illegal, as they were not properly pre-
sented to him after passing.
1t has been discovered that the stranger
who died Of heart disease at Urbana, Sat-
urday was Baron Ferreirn de Santos, q
Portuguese nobleman, on his way to the
west, where he has large mining interests.
The John Shillito Company, of Cincin-
natl, has begun suit in the United States
court to recover duties laid under the Nc
Kinley tariff law, in which questions are
raised that win test the constitutionality
of the law.
The American National bank, of Kansas
City, has put up its shutters; capital 81, =
100000. The failure was caused by the
heavy run on the leading savings banks Of
the city. No statement can be obtained of
the liabilities or assets.
Alfred Lford, of Hinesville Ind, is
another man who got into trouble because
he didn't think before he spoke. Hit
Thomas Reene probable fatal blow over
the head with n spoke because he dis
agreed with him in an argument
At Chicago 1872 Knights Templar sub
mitted themselves to surgical operations
and were relieved of patches Of skin that
were transplanted 10 the body of Sir
Knight John Dickerson, to assist in heal
ing an incision made in the removal OF a
cancer
An attempt is being made by New York
capitalists to organize stove trust Tine
matter has been laid before Detroit stove
manufacturers, but they have refused to
take part 1t is believed that without their
cooperation the combination cannot be
made effective.