Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Cool White, the veteran minstrel, died
Friday at Chicago, aged 60.
Carter Plim fell off low shed at Dun
kirk, Ind, and broke his neck,
Justice Bradley, of the United States SUI
preme court, is i'll with the grip.
Eugene Cranes, well known Boston ply
sician, was convicted of criminal malprac-
tice.
AT Lawrenceburg, Ind. Louis Ricketts,
strangled himself to death with clothes
line.
The Republican state convention of
Ohio will be held in Columbus June 10
and II.
The proceeds of the entire sale of Wash
ington relics at Philadelphia amounted to
$4,000
The velvet and plush factory is to be
moved from Crefeld, Germany, to Pater-
son, N j.
Abe Jackson's little girl at Kalamazoo,
Mich, was ohoked to death on seal ring
OF her fathers.
Two colored murderers were hanged in
South Carolina Friday-Waits Martin at
Columbia and Edmund Holloway at
Manning.
James Crany, colored, was hanged at
Lexington, Va, Friday, for the murder of
Charles Olives at Brownsburg, last
September
An agent Of the republic of San Domingo
is in Washington to negotiate a reciprocity
agreement between that country and the
United States.
Nese Gray, colored burglar, was shot
and killed by Jailer Hall as he was
attempting to escape from the Jail at
Versailles, KY
Frank Slavin and Charley Mitchell, the
pugilists, and "Pony" Moore, Mitchel's
father-in-aw, arrived at New York Friday
from Liverpool
Hume Clay, of Paris, Ky. pleaded guilty
to five indictments for forgery, and was
sentenced to ten years and six months in
the penitentiary
The Ohio state Association of Mexican
War Veterans will hold their seventeenth
annual reunion in Sidney, O., on Thursday
and Friday May md s, 1891.
Toronto detectives arrested man wanted
in Buffalo, Rochester and other American
cities. He IS known as John Nearriems,
alias John Miller, alias Kruptz.
The agriculture department announces
that it will be ready in two weeks to meet
all the requirements of Germany in re
gard to the inspection of American meats,
The suit Of Robert Howe against direc
tors Of the Metropolitan National bank, of
Cincinnati, to recover money lost by him
by being a stockholdcr has been dismissed
At Bradford, Pa, John Horan was in
stantly killed by the explosion of tor
pedo, The torpepo, containing twenty
quarts of nitro-glycerine, exploded prema
turely.
George Wharton Ritchie, receiving teller
of the Commonwealth National bank of
Philadelphia, who ON Feb. 81, disappeared
taking with him s., 500 has been arrested in
Havana.
Near Boston the fight between Ike Weir
and Johnny Griffin, lght-weights, fer
purse of 81, 100 and the championship of
America, was stopped in the fourth round
by the police
Rev. George w. Boutwell,, of Classon
avenue, Brooklyn, church of the Covenant,
is thought to be dying of cork in his
lungs, He laughed while holding the cork
in his mouth.
A Versailles, Ky, dispatch says that Mel
son Gray, a desperate awaiting trial for
arson and burglary, was shot through the
head and killed by Jailer Hall, while at
tempting to escape.
The United States treasury department
has levied tariff of 25 per cent on all lot
terry tickets coming from Mexico under
the protection of the postal convention be
tween the two countries.
The presence of thrifty and industrious
white settlers is naving beneficial inhu-
ence over the Indians near Chamberlain,
S, Oak, and many of them are putting in
fields of grain this season.
Two Mormon elders who have been prose
lyting in Lincoln county, w, Va, and
made themselves offensive by their con
troyersial dispositions have been driven
away by indignant citizens.
Rev George w. Boutwell,, of Brooklyn, |
accidentally swallowed a cork. and is dying
at one of the hospitals. 1t lodged in his
throat, and the operation of tracheotomy
was unsuccessfully performed.
In excavating for the foundation of |
building in Glens Falls, n. Y, workmen
found chest containing the body of
skeleton which had evidently been chopped |
to pieces with an ax before burial
The execution of Melville johnson, col
ored, for the murder of David Jones, and |
John Wilson, colored, for an assault on
his sister-in-aw, Mary Wood took place in |
the Jail at Port Allen, in the parish of
West Baton Rouge, La, Friday.
The Michigan house of representatives
has passed the senate bill making it mis-
demeanor to counterfeit trade union |
label, and in committee of the whole |
passed the general election bill, modelled |
closely after the Australian plan.
Frank Wilkinson, Fort Wayne's chief OF
police was probably fatally injured by |
being struck on the head with billiard |
cue in the hands of Gronendyke, the pro
prietor of low dive. Gronendyke was
beating a woman when Wilkinson inter
fered.
At Washington, Iowa, John Graham
and his 6-ycar-old son, while attempting |
to cross the Chicago Rock Island and
Pacific railroad tracks in a buggy, were I
struck by an engine and instantly killed |
Graham leaves an estate worth nearly
S5O0,00O
Brakeman Tracey Williams, of Ceilings .
wood, O., was killed, and Engineer Henry .
Wilson badly injured in freight train .
wreck on the Michigan Southern road |
near Erie, Pa Two trains loaded with .
merchandise were piled in heaps twenty /
five feet high.
Both houses of the Ohio legislature have .
agreed to the conference committee report .
on the Australian ballot bill, and it thus
has become q law. The bill embodies all /
the essential features Of the election law in +
force in Australia Blanket ballots and .
county boards Of elections are provided .
for.
At Ieadville Col, on Thursday, while /