Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-04

A Condensation of Interesting Ite m o
Various Subjects.

boom the Chicago fair.
Platt Deutsche Veren is conversing in
low German in Denver
Charles ShaVb of Piqua, O., suicided
by shooting Despondent.
The Hanoverian movement has stirred
up the government of Prussia.
Morris Godfrey, II, of Saginaw Mich,
bitten by dog July 4, has died
Arnold Waldron, farmer, was killed by
q wheat binder near Wauseon, o.
John Brannon fatally stabbed Saloon
Keeper Stevens, at Greensburg, Ind.
The strike at the Salem wire nail works,
Findlay O., has ended. The men won.
A tornado at Checolan, l. IT, did con-
siderable damage to buildings and crops.
Reports from the oil regions of Ohio, In
diana and Pennsylvania are encouraging.
John Washington, 16, of Lock Eight,
w. Va, suicided by hanging No cause
! known.
Martin Koss, 90 Fostoria, O., suicided
with a revolver. Trouble overbalanced
his mind
Toledo, they say, has a greater variety of
Eabor organizations than any other city of
the state.
great damage in parts of Alabama and
Mississippi
Danville, Ills, is highly excited over a
dispute between the city and street rail
way company.
Federal officials at San Diego ordered
the crew of the Itata ashore, entailing
heavy expense.
A pretty unknown young lady was
found dead near Glendale, L. l. She had
been strangled.
Emperor William, now on his way north,
is intensely interested in his scheme to pre-
vent drunkenness
Rev. Carney, New Light minister of
Wingate, got drunk at Crowfordsville,
Ind, and landed in jail
According to lateA reports the present
year will be the most prosperous ever
known to Kansas farmers.
Albro Bumminger, II, of Laporte, Ind,
stabbed Ben Wells, 20, during quarrel.
Wells died in few minutes.
Johnny Mccarthy, of Charlottesville,
Ind, rode bicycle too large for him, took
header and crushed his skull
A. g. Scott, of Kansas City, was pub
licly cowhided by woman about whom
he had circulated slanderous rumors.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., cannot get a
divorce in South Dakota as she did not go
there in good faith to become citizen.
Balmaceda's new war vessel Errazuriz
sailed for Chill from Portugal fully
manned, She may end the war in Chilli
Longstreet beat Tenny in the great match
race at Morris park. They will race again.
shortly, in a sweepstakes with 5000
added
National banks have sent in $14 100000
of the four-and-a-half bonds for extension
at 2 per cent. out of the S23, 900 which
they hold
The Chicago Stockyards company has
made settlement with the packers, which
is said to be decidedly TO the advantage of
the latter
The first Bessemer steel produced in
Maryland was blown by the Maryland
Steel Company, at Sparrow's Point Satur-
dry afternoon.
Heavy rains are reported in the vicinity
of Mascoutan and Vandalia, Ills, breaking
the drouth which has prevailed there for
some time past.
Enraged citizens of Haughtsville,
suburb of indianapolis, threaten the
they are being robbed.
The Bank of Rome narrowly averted sus-
pension, caused by sudden demand of
the pope for S2,000,000 on deposit to the
credit of Peters Pence.
A disease has broken out among the
cows in the vicinity of Burlington, Ia The
cows tongue swells up, makingit it impossi-
BILE to eat, and death ensues.
At Creston, O., Friday evening, Miss
LAME Billman attempted to rescue her
sisters child from in front of train, and
was herself run over and killed.
A barn on the city farm of Fitchburg,
Mass, was burned Sunday, and Frank
Miller, head farmer, was burned to death
while trying to save che horses and cattle.
At Yellmantown, q negro suburb Of
Lexington, KY, fight between Jessie
Dickerson and Wyatt Burnett occurred,
and the latter was completely disem-
boweled
Striking Italians on the Lancaster and
Hamden railroad, are terroriZing Tarlton,
O. They say they have not been paid for
two MONTHS and being without food grew
desperate,
Tony Pastor has arrived from Europe
after visit of seven weeks. Among the
artists he engaged is the Countess Clan.
carty, formerly Belle Billion, the concert
hall singer.
Miss Maggie Blaine, a niece of Secretary
Blaine, was seriously injured at Washing
ton by jumping from a carriage while the
horse attached to it was beyond the con-
troll of the driver.
The officials of the Amalgamated Asso,
citation of Iron and Steel Workers says
there is enough competent workmen in
America to manufacture tin plate without |
going abroad for them.
There is considerable gossip about the |
probable successors of those who are said |
to be about to retire from the prominent |
positions in Washington, but there is no
definite information on the subject.
Major r. Hurst, of the Kansas live |
stock commission, has prepared a state
ment, in which he says the people Of Kan
sas will send out $40, 100000 worth of stock |
and farm products raised this year
At Cincinnati Fisherman William White |
felt pull in his dipnet, and pulling it in |
was surprised to find an unconscious boy |
therein. He had been drawn under by an |
undertow and carried the full length of a |
barge before striking the net
At Croton Landing, N. Y, J. Newton |
Baker private secretary of Colonel Robert |
Ingersoll, was shot and probably fatally |
wounded by Orville Anderson. Their |
wives had quarreled, and they undertook |
to adjust matters. They live in the same |
house.
At Greensburg, Ind, Saturday evening, |
John Brannon stabbed Taylor Stevens, n |
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