Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects

WORK mas begun on the 81 100000 cotton
mill at Huntsville, Ala
John Dean, famous counterfeiter, is
arrested at Huntsville, Ala.
Rome, N. Y, had 100000 fire in her
business portion Wednesday.
Seymour, Ind, will see more ice this
summer than last-factory started
Most of the striking graders at jackson
park, Chicago, have returned to work.
In New York Tuesday there were 25l
deaths-the highest rate for nineteen wears.
Sir Charles Tupper denies he tried to
bride Sergeant, of the Grand Trunk rail
way.
The refusal of certain stockholders to
join the deal has cooked the oat meal
trust.
The state of Jalisco, Mex, has signifed
its intention to make fine exhibit at the
Chicago fair
Six men and boys were badly burned bv
an explosion of natural gas at Braddocll,
Pennsylvania
A receiver has been appointed for the
Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroads
Debts, 81 100000.
A silex mine has been discovered in Can
ada, being the first. Glass factories are be-
! iIiSS tOnIClll JltlGu'
Fourteen hundred union cigarmakers of
Chicago demand an increase of wages May
| !, or threaten to strike
Montgomery county, Ind, fair will
have building devoted to exhibits of
articles made by children
T. McCants Stewart a colored LAWYER,
has been appointed a member of the board
OF education of Brooklyn.
The tree failed to spare Woodman
Edwards, at Muncie, Ind, and he was
crushed under its falling trunk.
The hardware store of Campbell & Lud-
lum, at Marion, Ind, was robbed of about
$50 worth of goods Sunday night
Dan Eagan, the "Montana Kid" defeated
Frank Cayanaugh, of New York, in ten
round prize fight at Hobo1en, n. j.
James Flahcrty, short term man in the
Albany, n. Y, penitentiary, committed
suicide by tearing his throat with a nail.
Work has been begun on the Dallas cot !
ton mills at Huntsville, Ala, to cost ST.
OOO,oOO and employ nearly 1900 operatives
Miss Clara Meredith bookkeeeper at the
Hotel Bates, indianapolis, died of blood
poisoning contracted by counting bank !
bills
Baron IIirsch has purchased a tract of
land near Ridgcway Pa, on which he win |
colonize Russian Jews to cultivate sugar
beets
Wiley Wilmington, a wealthy planter
living across the line of Columbia county. |
Ark, in Louisiana, was murdered by !
The railway mail clerk who this year
makes the best case record will receive |
gold medal from General Superintendent |
White.
War has begun between the Inter
Oceanic and Mexican railways Both |
roads have lowered rates and are shorten |
ing time.
A legal representative of Anna Dicllin-
son took all her papers and belongings |
from PittstOn, Pa, and conveyed them to |
New York
Mrs. Niles was awarded possession of |
her two children at Springfield, O., and |
her eX-husband denied the privilege of |
visiting them.
The importation of foreign labor has |
begun in the coke regions, and trouble is |
looked for Troops are held in readiness |
at Uniontown.
East Pennsylvania dairymen demand the |
discharge of the Philadelphia collector of |
internal revenue for alleged violation of |
the bogus butter law.
William Richards gave $1,000 to the |
Steubenville, O., Hamlin Methodist |
Episcopal church before he passed through |
deaths narrow portals.
Little-Souled Sneak Ralph Everich, alias
Dalo, is arrested at indianapolis for cheat
ing typewriter girls out of fifty cents for |
bogus copying material.
Within ten days trains will be running |
to the west and south over the philadcl- |
phia, Harrisburg x Pittsburg road, the |
line having been completed
Margaret Fleming, of Wellsburg, w. Va,
left $1,000 to help establish a Children's |
home in jefferson county, O., and s. 900 to !
the New York open air fund.
A number of special United States treas
ury agents have been appointed to prevent !
immigrants crossing the Canadian border |
into this country via Halifax,
The shoe manufacturers, Elliott & Com
pany, of Haverhill, Mass, doing yearly |
100000 of business, shut down because of |
labor agitation and dull trade.
The United States district court of New !
York sustained the action of the collector
of that port in assessing duty on Bohemian |
glass according to the Mckinley tariff
The earth over the old Hillman mine, |
along the Delaware and Hudson railroad, |
at Parsons, Pa, has sunk fifteen inches,
and at Hazelton a large tract has sunk,
New tax law increasing fees for articles |
of incorporation is causing many shckels |
to drop with a sweet silyery reycrberation |
on the bottom of Indianas empty treas
ury.
Miss Rhoda Pratt, of Grand Rapids, |
formerly clerk of the Michigan legislature, ,
is awarded IS, 600 from Professor J. Clegg |
Wright, of Cincinnati, for breach of |
promise
The friends of Gen. Sherman are raising |
a fund of 800 900 to he presented to the un- |
married daughters of the general, as a |
token of the affection in which their father |
was held.
The congregation of the Fulton street |
Methodist Episcopal church at Newark, |
N, j., threaten to withdraw because the |
conference viii not appoint a minister Of |
their selection.
Five young hoodlums at Findlay, O., |
enticed two little girls into an out-of-the- |
way place and repeatedly ravished them. |
They are in critical condition The |
villains are in jail.
There is an increased mortality in New .
York city. the deaths for the last twenty I
four hours being one hundred in excess of |
the dav before, twenty-seven Of which are /
credited to the grip,
The Peters Cartridge company has Sc /
cured verdict against the Pittsburg, /
Cincinnati and st. Louis Railway com
panv for. 500, 0J0 damages in the Kings |
mills explosion case.