Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-14
NEWS IN eRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Niff9Ous Subjects.

/ JoAn H. sullivan was acquitted by the
! El<s committee in Newark, =. j.
| Florida legislature still is balloting in a
leisurely way for United States senator.
Rev. j, p Morton, of Lake Charles, La.
was killed by the cars at New Orleans
Boiler-makers brotherhood will allow
! one apprentice to four old hands hereafter.
/ The Standard Oil company has secured
leases on 10000 acres Of land in West Vir-
| gina.
Professor Edward A. Curtis, of McCor-
mick Theological school, Chicago, has
been called 10 Yale.
The Salyadorian government has named
a committee to make preparations for the
exhibit at the Chicago fair.
Az church trial near Attala, Ala, sam
| Atwood was shot and wounded murtally
! by l.. +. Burgess, who, later, escaped
The lake schooner, Kimball, with her en-
tire crew and several passengers is sup
posed to he lost. She is six days over due.
Secretary Foster intends to make the
fractional silver coins of corresponding
weight and fineness with the silver dollar.
A committee of the New York Presby-
terry will present Professor Briggs, of the
Union Theological seminary for trial for
heresy
Three men were drowned and three
others badly scalded by the collapse Of u
flue on the steamer My Choice, near Cairo,
Illinois.
Simon Powell's 9-year-old daughter dis
appeared; had the entire town of Delphos,
o., hunting her and was found at Home
wood Pa
The Millers National association has
agreed to form a league for the benefit of
their business in the handling and trans
portation Of freight.
Mrs Margaret Lang has confessed steal
ing a watch in Cleveland ia 1874, for which
Otfense John Gassaway, of Steubenyille
served two years sentence.
The Louisville Deposit bank, has been
refused admission to the clcaring-hou
the claim in objection being that not 50 per
cent. of the capital is paid in.
MIR, and Mrs Charles Miller, of New
York, being too poor to afford fire to cook
meat, ate it raw. The wife has since died
of trichinoss and the husband is dying.
One hundred and forty leases on West
Virginia oil lands covering 10000 acres,
have been transferred to the South Penn
sylyania company, representing the Stand
ard
Insurance Agent Roland is accused Of
FORGETTING his best policy by being dis
honest in the administration of the affairs
of Holmes county, o., when he was aud
itor.
At Bentonvlle, o., Sam. Leedom shot
Frank Stevens, who was a witness against
Willie Leedom. The quarrel grew out o,
what Stevens proposed to testify at the
trial
Professor Edward A. Curtis, of Nc
Cornick theological school, Chicago, has
been selected professor OF Hebrew Ian
guage and literature at Yale divinity
school
john Barry, member Of parliament, says
Parnell is losing ground in Ireland, and
that his attitude toward Home Rule is
placing the tenants at the mercy of the
landlords.
A jury at Toledo has convicted Rev
Father II, L. Quigley, of refusing to make
report of the pupils attending his parochial
school MS required by the compulsory edu-
cation law.
Levy Brothers & Company, one of the
largest Wholesale clothing houses on lower
Broadway, New York. closed their doors
Monday, owing more than SS00,0O0 The
firm is composed Of Julius Levy.
While loading his wagon with ashes at
Altoona, Pa, Isaac kyler and his team
were pushed through the brick wall of the
Pennsylvania road round house by
switch engine and terribly mangled
Sam Lcedum shot Frank Stevens at
Bentonyile, o., because Stevens testified
against Lccdoms brother in whisky
case Stevens will recover to tell some
more tales Of interest about the LecdOms
to the courts.
A Nelson, Neb,, druggist named Steven
son, just has been convicted Of man
slaughter for putting up corrosive subj
mate instead Of calomel in "a prescription,
by which mistake Carrie Easley was
poisoned to death,
The net reduction of gold by shipment to
Europe is 5l3,O03O $50 since March 10, but as
Uncle sam atill has S2tl 80 $40 in hand
against about $4,000 600 Of which no Ger
tifcates have been issued. the European
demand is not "A cause for alarm.
In 1874 John Gassaway, young clerk Of
Cleveland, was sentenced to two years in
the Ohio penitentiary, for stealing watch
from Ny Conger Now comes a letter
from a dying woman in Youngstown, O.,
who confesses that she stole the watch for
which poor Gassaway suffered disgrace
and punishment.