Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Cond ensation of Interesting Items Oh
Various Subjects.

A ndensation of Interesting Items Oh
Various Subjects.
Youngstown, o., will manufacture metal
lath.
Frank Lake. of Stockwell, Ind, was
struck dead by lightning, Thursday.
A storm Thursday evening in north
western Ohio did considerable damage.
Kent o., voted to bond herself 800 00O
to cultivate little manufacturing plants.
While boring for gas near Leechburg,
Pa, oil was struck at depth of 300 feet.
DR.. Joseph Leidy, the eminent physician,
scientist and naturalist, of Philadelphia,
is dead
Adrien Marie, the celebrated French
painter, died of yellow fever in the Senegal
state, Africa.
1t is now claimed the shortage in the
Ninth National bank, of New York will
reach $600,000
Cleveland will fine. abandoned women
and devote the proceeds to the shelter for
friendless girls.
Hon. Joseph Breckenridge, one of the
best known lawyers of norther Indiana,
died Thursday at Fort Wayne.
DIR. r. C. Goodwin, alias r. II. Hotson,
wanted in North Carolina for forgery, was
captured in Cincinnati Thursday.
j. Fl. Thomas alias Moore, said to be the
leader of the "green goods men of the
country, was arrested at Chicago
Farmer Oliver Morgan was found shot
to death in his home at Lynn, Ind A
tramp has been arrested on suspicion.
Earnest Morris, the explorer, escaped
from cannibals and other dangers of wild
research only to diein indianapolis, aged S5
A suit has been brought in the Ohio SUI
preme court to test the recent reapportion
ment of the state for legislative purposes
The cornerstone of the San Francisco
Presbyterian Theological seminary was
laid Thursday with appropriate ceremo-
MES.
Albert II. Bolin, an insane prisoner in
the Newark, O., Jail, tried to hang himself
with rope made of his clothing, but
failed
Mrs Almira Locke, of Wheeling, w
Va, mother of "Nasby," has been allowed
a pension for her husbands services in the
war of 1912.
Five thousand carpenters in Pittsburg
have gone on strike for an eight-hour day,
and 10000 members of the building trades
are affected.
John H. Hooker fatally shot John b.
Derreseaux at Pine Bluff, Ark, in quar-
rel which began in the fencing up Of
piece of road.
Twenty thousand dollars worth of Paris
dresses have been seized in New York
upon complaint of importers who charge
differentiation.
The National Association of Railway
Surgeons is in session mt Buffalo, n. Y.
DIR. S. S. Thorn, Of Toledo, O., has been
chosen president.
William Martin, a Cincinnati thief who
has been working New York jewelers.,
was arrested, convicted and sentenced to
four years in prison.
The reports to the chamber OF commerce
from all parts of the grain belt Of Wash
ington indicate the greatest grain crop in
the history of the country,
w. b. Snooks, the bridegroom of the
Louisville wedding, where several persons
were poisoned at the feast, died Thursday,
at the Burnet house, Cincinnati
II is believed the American Tobacco
company, the gigantic trust owning all the
big cigarette factories in the east, is after
the Louisville plug tobacco houses
John Grubb, aged II, who has been loaf
ing around Mitchell, Ind, and living Off u
hord working mother, was given a severe
whipping by mob of masked boys of his
own age.
Stranger entered Mrs. Charles Drkers
parlor in indianapolis while she was enter
tanning "A caller and compelled both
women to give up their iewelry at the
point of a revolver.
Homer Campbell, wanted in Clinton,
Tenn. for the murder of Averill MELON
aid, was arrested in Winchester, Ky. John
Stevens, wanted in Virginia for murder,
was found in Irvine Ky.
Ohio senate passed the house bill abolish
ing struck iuries in Cuyahoga county
Senate agrees with house that Columbus,
o., must hereafter not go beyond her
capital in contracting debts
Nathan Whitney sues the Spencer hotel
men at indianapolis for ejecting him from
his room, calling him yagrant and EN-
bezzler and having him arrested. He was
honorably acquitted and wants $500
Richard ID. Young, n perfumer Of New
York city, and Delano D. Richards, his
clerk, were found guilty Of
to ruin the character Of Mrs
Emma Il. Young, the wife of the former |
The Cincinnati board Of public improve
ments has had an ordinance submitted TO |
it providing for the purchase Of the gas /
works, the value of the plant TO he deter (
mined by non-residents. II is said the 4
gas company wants something like sl4,- /
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