Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.
Toledo Bee has moved into its fine new
building.
Another republican conspiracy has been
discovered in Spain.
Marion, Ind, subscribed $400, 600 for DR.
Gatlings gun works.
The Irish National League of America
is in session in Chicago.
Halifax, N. S., had big fire in the lum.
Der district along the wharves.
Frank Refs, an aged farmer of Tiffin, O.,
was fatally gored by q mad bull.
Frank Harmoning, fifteen, of Indianap-
oils, is missing No cause known.
William Ridgeley, of Findlay, o., was
dubbed insensible by two unknown men.
HoutZdale and Clearfeld banks, at
Houtzdale, Pa, have failed for about 300,
600.
Farmer Baldwin, living near Omaha,
was shot and instantly killed by a stepson
named Long.
Spencer Cameron fatally beat William
Houser, at Kenton, o., in quarrel about
peck of apples.
Harvey M. Watterson, father of Henry
Watterson, of the Louisville Courier
Journal, is dead, aged eighty.
Alice Williams, sixteen, of Martin g
Ferry, o., fatally shot herself while
handling her brothers revolver.
There is great excitement In the New
England states over the range of prices in
the Connecticut tobacco market.
One man was killed and several injured by
Big Four construction train backing onto
an abandonded handcar near Miamisburg,
Ohio.
Near Fillmore, Ind, the earthquake
made hole near Fitrcw's grist mill and
apparently bottomless. II is filed with
water.
The Itata has been released on bond of
$4,000, and bond for the same amount
for the cargo of arms. She has left for
Chilli.
At South Charleston, o., Farm Hand
George Smith stole $115 from his employer
and skipped. He was captured and
jailed.
Robert Nuchols, cashier of the Mercer
National bank of Harrodsburg, KY, has
disappeared. He left note, saying his ac-
counts were straight.
Jay Gould is said to have broken down
at meeting of the Missouri Pacific di-
rectors Thursday, and wept like child.
His sons deny the story.
Milford V. Boston, huckster of Colum-
bus, O., is one of the heirs to fortune of
k12, 900, 900 now in litigation in Berlin, Ger
many. His claim is valid
DR.. June Abbott, of Brookville, Ind,
was found guilty of malpractice upon the
testimony of Minimize White. and given
three years in the penitentiary.
In Cincinnati Mike McNally, who was
fatally injured in a saloon row several
days ago, has died. Saloonist August
Karrus has been arrested, charged with
the crime.
The New York chamber of commerce
passed resolution favoring the repeal of
the law compelling the purchase by the
government of 100000 ounces of silver
each month as against the public welfare.
A swindlcr, representing himself to be
an agent of 81. Louis house, is taking in
unsuspecting Hoosiers, who advance $40
with the understanding that they are to
be started up in almost any business they
may desire.
The independent convention Of South
Dakota was in session the best part of
Wednesday night, and after several ballots
nominated w. H. Smith, of Sioux Falls,
for congress The platform swings to the
Peoples party.
While the cildren in st. Aloysius' or
phan asylum, at Bond Hill, near Cincin-
cinnati, were at prayer, fire broke out in the
belfrey. Father Kilgenstein quietly mott
fed the sisters, and the 200 children were
quickly removed from the building. Loss,
$500
The wonder and admiration of the oil
world continues TO be the 10000 barrel
gusher at Mcdonald Station, Pa The pc
troleum spurts up in gasps to a height Of
$50 feet The ground for some 300 feet
around the well fairly oozes oil under each
footstep from the spray thrown by this
most wonderful well Of the world.