Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

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munds, OF Vermont will resign
Ex Policeman Pat Horan mysteriously
murdered on the streets in Kansas City.
The governor of Nebraska has been
petltioned 10 veto the maximum rate bill,
San Domingo will enter into a roci-
'9city agreement with the United States.
state debts of the United States, s %,
CJ)C0J, which is $60,0C0,j0) less than in
1880.
Sam. Rines the counter'eiter and horse
thief, was sentenced to three years at In
dianapolis,
Arnold Green, of Cleveland, has re-
covered So, 100 damages for liLel against
The Leader.
Thomas Hunter, colored, who assassi
mated j. A. Burke, at Cumberland Gap,
Tenn, was lypchel.
Millie Capeci, aged 16, suicided at Hazel
ton, Pa, because her parents wanted her
to marry a rich old man.
DR.. f. d. Lyon, Chicago, wanted to
travel without Mrs. l.. she demurred and
shot him through the ear,
d. S Morrison, deputy circuit court
clerk of Scott county Va, is wanted for
forgeries aggregating 5000.
At Hillsboro, o., during quarrel over
horses, Philip Hook enptied load of shot
into Charles Vests shoulder.
Investigation shows that sisal grass cln
be cultivated in Florida of a quality equal
or superior to that grown in Yucatan.
DIR. +. y. Lyon, of Chicago, who desired
to travel without his jealous wife, was
Shot at by her and woundld in the car
~E L.,
Safes army, retired, died Thursday at
Louisville. He had been sick for weeks,
The 9-year-old blind daughter of A. j.
Nelson, of Knoxville, Tenn, burned TO
death by her clothes catching fir from
the CRATE.
A 5-year-old daughter of James Morrow.
of Sealoyor's Station, o., tippel over
k tile of boiling water, burning her in Il
atal manner.
Mrs. Solomon Neidefler wife of a young
farmer living near Mitchell, Ind, was
murdered in her home during the absence
of her husband,
Tie Olympic club, of New Orleans, has
withdrawn its offer of IS 0)0, and the
Myer- McAulilfe match is Off McAulifTe
refused to fight
The contractors for the Croton aqueduct
will sue New York city for $40, 600 600
which they claim wa wrongfully with
held from them.
Millie Calel, Hazelton, Pa, loved a
young man. Her parent wanted her to
marry an old nan. She shot herself
through the heart.
William Pierce, at Marshall Mo, after
due trial, has been found guilty of rape,
and has been sentenced TO death, accord
ing to Missouri law.
A portrait of George Washington, hang
ing in the Arkansas legislative chamber
for twenty years, has been removed for
painting.of Jefferson Davis.
At Lafayette, Ind, Capt. Daniel Drew
was acquitted of the charge of murder
preferred against him for the killing of a
man to protect the honor of his wife
At Anderson, Ind, while removing
large bowlder from field by horse power.
Samuel Bronnenberk had his skull frac-
tured by being hit with piece of broken
chain.
The house Of Albert Hail. of Park Place,
o. was wrecked and his wife badly in
iured by the explosion of a can of oil
which she was pouring on a fire to re.
vive it..
There is an organization of farmer and
labor representative in the Illinois legis
lature, the immediate object of which is to
secure leg station for the regulation of
corporations.
The railroad companies have agreed TO
furnish transportation to the members Of
the National E litorial association which
meets in st. Paul in July next, and take
pay in advertising.
A key of powder tx xDloaed in J. +,
Ruley's grocery, at Madisonville, Ky. j.
b. Stewart, clerk, and d. A. Bond rant,
customer, were badly injured The
store was wrecked.
Col. Brown, of Aspen, Col, has decided
to abandon his proposed subtgrranean
mine in Chicago during the worlds fair,
owing to the changing of the site from the
lake front to Jackson park
At cycloramc exhibition of the Bat
tie of Mission Ridge, at Chattanooga, an
ex Confederate visitor amu'e himself by
shooting at the figure of kneelng Fed
eral soldier, He was arrested.
r. l.. Robinson, upon application of the
stockholders was appointed receiver of the
st. G air Ccal company, in Alabama The
property consists of valuable coal fields
and the Raglaud furnace properties.
The Maine house of representatives has
passed u bill providing for $500 fine CT
two years imprisonment for preventing
by intimidation or force any person from
entering or remaining in any mans EN-
ploy.
James Bernard, one of the New York
grafters who sent green goods circulars to
Russell Harrison and other well known
persons, has been convicted of Improperly
Us NJ the mails and was remandel for
sentcnc1.
Much dan agc has been dona Mt Des
Moines by high waters Bridges II We
been swept away, and much valuable
prot erty is threatened with destruction.
The river, which is already very high, is
still rising.
Senator Walthall and Ex-Governor
Lowry both of Mississippi, have accepted
invitations to deliver orations at the un-
yelling o. the Confederate monument at
Jackson, Miss. on June 3. Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis and Miss Winnie Davis are ex-
pected to be present.
Under instructions from the governor
of West Virginia, the alleged cruelties to
Hnnuarians in this state are being in
Nestigats1. The prosecutir & attorney of
Charleston is inquiring into the matter
and will present the facts to the next
grand jury if the charges prove true.
John d. Lewis, a colored lawyer Of
Philadelphia, who recently died, be
queaths portion Of his estate, valued a.
$40 600. as fund fer "the Lewis prlt.c-
tive bureau OF civil rights, the object Of