Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-07

NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

A case of leprosy is reported by New
| York physician,
Snow fell Wednesday at Lancaster, Pills
ton and Frackyille, Pa
Goshen, Ind, shrtmakers strike for re-
turn to their old wages
Damaging frosts in northern Ohio Mon
| day and Tuesday nights.
Frank Freeman was badly injured by an
exploding still at the Manhattan refinery,
near Lima, O.
The Federal council of Venezuela has
signed the reciprocity agreement with the
United States
Governor Hill, of New York, has signed
the bill making free the foot passage on the
Brooklyn bridge.
Bank checks are stolen from Indiana
mails, raised in amount and passed off on
innocent bankers.
The house of the Illinois legislature
killed the bill fixing the saloon license in
the state at ~ coo
Colored woman put in an indianapolis
cemetery ya,lt fourteen years ago is found
petriied and turned white
The trustees of the Hira IN fund propose
to buy u tract of land in this country for
DON lnh bOi'lllhsAtibu PURPOSES
Burlington, Iowa, beople want to fire
their mayor Duncan, charging him with
standing in with the gamblers
There is a movement on foot to organize
a Southern Traffic association to be COM
posed of railroads south of the Ohio river.
Wooster university boys blacked eyes,
broke noses and arms and raised Cain
generally in a cane rush over ball game
There is probability of tin plate plant
being established at Elwood Ind Col.
Couger, of Akron, o., is president Of the
company,
The man found dead in the Grand Cen
trail hotel at Columbus, O., is identified as
William Scheuvrout, OF Point Pleasant,
West Virginia.
John Williamson, aged 49, accidentally
shot himself in the bowels while hunting
near Pigeon creek, Logan county, Ky,
and died in n few hours.
Five tough towards jumped onto Yard
master Griffin, of the Mackey system, at
Evansville, Ind, and satisfied an old
grudge by nearly killing him.
River thieves entered the warehouse of
the Maloney Bronze Manufacturing com
pany at Pittsburg and carried off five tons
of brass ingots valued at II goo
New York S new palace of music, Music
Hall, was opened Tuesday night with
grand musical festival. The new struct-
ure is owned by Andrew Carnegie
The United States France and Brazil
offer TO assist the factions in Chill to come
to terms in the interest of the perpetlity
of republican principles of government.
Mrs William Blondell, of Brazil, Ind,
swallowed a large dose of laudanum, and
with difficulty her life was saved The
cause of her swallowing the dose is not
known.
The mayor of Burlington, Iowa, is
charged with having acted in collusion
with a gang Of gamblers who have infested
the city, and with gross corruption in
general,
The trial Of ex-Treasurer Nolan on the
charge of cmbezzling nearly $4,000 of
state funds and of loaning state money
unlawfully has begun at jefferson City,
Missouri
W. Coleman, of Bedford, Ind, charged
with corresponding with Edward J. Evans,
of Lafayette for tie papaae Of buying
counterfeit money, was found gilty at
indianapolis.
A man who was known only by the
name of Wilbur shot and killed Il woman
known as Laura Ida Breeyort IN the Excel
sior concert saloon on 10" BoWcry, at
New York, and then shot ami killed him
self
The California Athletic club has decided
to match Abe Willis, the Australian
bantam weight, and George Dixon, colorad
champion, lor Fight. The purse will be
s. 600, and the fight will take place In
June.
Senator Stanford, it is said, has decided
to undertake to manufacture champagne
on his big vineyard in Tohama county. Cal !
He has hired a French champagne expert
from Lyons, who will have charge of all !
All the saloons of Beloit, Mich, are
closed, their license having expired A
majority of the citizens voted at the recent |
election not to renew the licenses, and con
the town is dry for the first time /
in twenty years.
Tom Ryan, of Chicago, the champion 1
welter- weight has accepted the challange |.
Of Charles Kemmick, OF Minneapolis, 10 .
fight to a finish for stakes Of sl0,o90 and Il
purse of 81, 800 offered by the Athletic clubs (
Of ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
Bernardno Ciombelli, editor of an Ital- /
ian newspaper in New York, who recently !
testified under oath that he had never been .
In prison, has been arrested for perjury,
the records in Rome showing that he had +
served eight years in prison there for /
forgery and larceny.
Drs. Daniel Binclsley, of Wooster, went
10 Canada to change 81 800 bill Bank
officials took snap shot picture other as
she received the money, and it will be used
10 identify herself, husband, son and
grandson as perpetrators of the $4,000 (
robbery mt the house Of NJ. Shelby one year
ago.
As an outgrowth Of the naturalization
iraudn in ST. Louis, in October and Noyem-
ler 1890 the United States circuit court
ior Missouri has entered final decroes ad-
udging null and void the naturalization
papers Of seventy persons on the ground
hat they we're ffaudulentiy obtained.
There are some fry other cases pending