Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-31
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items Oh
Various Subjects

chase jockey, is dead,
John Plankinton, the Milwaukee mill
ionaire, died Sunday,
At Ballina, DR.. Tanner was hurt seri-
ously by a street mob.
They say that confidence in the young
kaiser in Germany, is at a low ebb.
The Canadian Pacific railway will enter
New York city via the Central tracks.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles is rec, living many
tiattering attentions in the City of Mexico.
Mrs. John Henderson and husband
were buried in one gave at GAINESVILLE, o.
The United States steamer Galena has
been tloated and towed to Vineyard
Haven.
Two negroes suspected of having fired
the town of Russellviil., Ala. were
lynched
Robert Hood insane colored man, per
ished in his burning shanty at Blooming
ton, Ind,
Warden Charles Osborne, of the
Toomls prison. New York, died of con.
sumption.
Maj. Estes G. Rathbone, of Ohio, is the
newly appointed fourth assist a 1t postmas.
ter general,
Unitnd States Senator Jthl NJ. Palmer,
of Illinois, is down with the grip at
Springfield, H.
John Kinney was convicted at Washing
ton c. H., o., of shooting Ella Levick
with intent to kill.
At Steubenville, o., Amos Weems was
shot and killed by Horaito Caldwell whose
wife he had assaulted
Charles Cotton, an iumate of the insane
hospital, at Richmond, Ind, choked to
death on piece of meat.
A prowling devil tried to wreck the New
York limited train by placing rail across
the track at Claiborne o.
William Kellett, switchman, was
killed at Louisville by having a coupling
link driven through his body.
Uncle Sam had to pay Sls, 900 EXPENSE of
the jolly crowd that went with Senator
Helrs3s funeral to G ilfornia
Mrs. Lucille Andres, in "a at Colorado
Springs, charged with attempting to muir
der her stepson, hanged herself in her
cell.
At Philadelphia John Hayes shot an
seriously wounded Andrew Mcfarland.
He found Mrs. Hayes in McFarlauds
room
The first surveying party of the int r.
continental railway between North and
South America will leave Washington this
week
f. f. Solomon was shot and killed by
w. c. Eagle, at South Bend, Ark, for
being criminally intimate with sister of
Eagle.
Henry Miller, the siugle=handed stag
robber, who has he'd up many coach
and killed several men, has been arrested
in Los Angeles, Cal
The steamer Lizzie Bay, with 100 passen-
gers on board, during n dense fog struck a
rock, near PoWhattan, O., Sunday, and
narrowly escaped sinking
AdeX, Slater, prominent citizen OF
Erie, o., is arrested on a charge of doing
John X. Wilson out of $2ll hy the elo-
quence of a forked tongue.
Several Shelbyvl!e, Ind, youths filled
with the evil sp'r,t and jag, drove the
EasmF congregation from st. Vincent's :
church with loaded revovers
Bohemian workingmen of New York
held meeting Sunday to protest against
the brutal treatment of their fellow -coun
trymen at Purcell Camp, w. Va.
The cancarous growth sin the mouth of
Mrs. w. p Jones, at Hope, Ind, dropped
out the other day just before it choked
her to death, and she is now recovering.
Just as bankrupt Indiana is sretching
out gleeful arms for that SO, l44 of tax re
funder, payment is stopped to examine
into n former partial liquidation of SAG OOO
A farmer living nine miles from Peoria,
ILL.,, has discovered n rock vein of silver
ore ON his farm about thirty feet below
the surface. The vein is said to be rich
one.
William Simmons "A farmer near Plain
field, Ind, while prying up stumps, re
ceiyed fata! injuries by the prying pole
accidentally slipping and falling upon his
head
Louis Napoleon, by his fathers will
gets all Victor, though, will get the $50, b.
600 annuity from King Humbert which
his father and mother had been jointly
drawing.
A dangerous counterfeit Of the Hancock
So silver certificate is out The treasury
department will substitute new series
caring the vignette of the late Secrctar,
Window.
Goshen, Ind, l. whispering since the
conviction of Frank II ndryN fer the
murder of Calkins, that Franks paternal
ancestors hands are rot entirely clean of
the crime.
William A. c. Kerr, prominent law
yer of Toronto, Canada, died of heart dis
ease at the St Cloud hotel New York
Mr.. Kerr was the owner Of the AllintOn
house in Toronto.
w p. Moore who is accused of embez
zling $500 from the Southern Express
company, while acting as chief clerk. has
been arrested at Portland, Ore, on a
dispatch from the chief OF police of
Omaha.
The stand-pipe of the Defiance, o. Water
company, 140 feet high and "a feet in q
ameter, suddenly collapsed Sunday, and is
a total wreck Tine engineers residence
was carried away by the water and several
persons were hurt
The Ohio State Register plant has been
sold for s. 567 and will be removed from
Washington G.. II. to South Charleston
and used for the benefit Of the Farmers
Alliance, where it is expected to -four sh
like green bay tree.
A train loaded with pleasure-seekers
went over an embankment near Birmng
ham, Ala. Alfred Brown and Bob Taylor,
colored, were killed. a. j. Rigsby, en-
gineer, was fatally crushed and "A number
of others were seriously hurt.
E.. Belden, boy from Knoxyil c, Ill, f,
was sentenced TO hang at Wichita, Kan,
for the murder Of Charles Grant, as was
also j. C. Adams for the killing of Capt
w. L. Couch the Oklahoma boomer. The
date set for both hangings was June 26.
Judge Kohlsaat and other prominent
citizens of Chicago have started move
ment to prevent begging on the streets
A building is to be erected and fitted up
with dining rooms and beds. Tickets will