Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation Of Interesting Items {
Various SubIectA.

Various Subjects.
Caldwell, o., voted to remain wet.
Muncie, InA will roast an OK by natural
gas July4
Near Warren, Mimi, natural gas has
been struck.
indianapolis has a fresh air camp for
poor children.
The Corean alphabet is phonetic and can
be learned in a day.
Italian immigration to this country
shows large falling off.
The loss of life and property by the Red
river flood was very great
Philadelphia has lost by fire her abattoir
on the Schuylkill. Loss 100000.
Professor C. c. Miller, of Sandusky, will
be Ohio state school commissioner.
Brevet Brig. Gen. William B. Barton
died at the Giisey house, New York.
Eugene Stryer committed suicide at AS
bury Park by asphyxiation. No cause.
Phillip Brady, wife and son were burned
to death in New York tenement house
fire.
Thousands of people visited Father
Mollinger, the priest-physician near Pitts
burg
Widows of the HagArstown wreck VIC
tins will sue the Pennsylvania road for
$4,000.
Creditors of the Hill Shoe company, of
Memphis, voted to accept thirty cents on
the dollar.
A Steubenville, o., boy named Frank
Fithin lost both arms in trying to board a
moving train.
Aoh
opposing political division and denounc-
ing polygamy.
Robert Packard and wife, of New Hart
ford, Iowa, have a family Of twenty-nine
living children.
Unless France prosecutes De Lesseps
shareholders of the Panama Canal com
pany will do so.
Utah Republicans are protesting against
statehood, as it would put the state under
the Mormons' rule.
Joseph Donavin, a railroad contractor.
was killed at Indianapolis by the explosion
of a can of gasoline.
Miss Anna Bugg suicided near Hepzi-
bak, Ga, by taking arsenic She was soon
to become mother.
Delphos, o., trained battery of artil-
lery on the postofdce to prevent its re-
moval to another site.
Madison Bansley shot and killed Ed
mond Richardson, at Evansville, Ind;
jealousy because of girl
Willie Mcclellan, 10, was dragged,
wounded and made unconscious by run
away horse at Muncie, Ind.
Philadelphia banks have been warned
not to cash any draft drawn in honor of
ex-City Treasurer Bardsley.
Landlord Benjamin Farley dunned
Alex Stuart at Whitestown, Ind, for back
rent, and not getting it, killed him.
North Carolina Republicans will hold a
convention July q, for the purpose of or
ganizing Protective Tariff league.
John Carson, tramp, son of Kansas
judge and brother of leading Indiana
lawyer, fell dead at Wheeling, w. Va.
Henry Hack, Toledo, o., grocer from a
combine of deviltry, whisky and jealousy,
shot his wife fatally and then himself.
Investigation shows that what was
thought to be the heart of the Staked
plains Is In reality fertile farming couns
try.
At Whitestown, near Lebanon O., Alex
Stewart was stabbed to death by his land
lord, Benjamin Farley, whom he owed
rent
John Daugherty and George Mckee, tax
collectors of Wilmington, Del, are alleged
to be 100000 and $4,000 short respect
lively.
Owen Mcfarland, citizen of Belle
fontaine, O., paid no heed to the warning
whistles and was instantly killed by the
train.
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transfer boat at Helena, Ark, was killed
by the watchman of the boat, James
Woods
Cumberland Telegraph company, at Nash
vile, Tenn, is said to be 5000 short in her
accounts.
The steamer City of Richmond caught
fire at sea from cotton in the hold. Other
vessels rendered aid and terrible disaster
was averted.
George Brown, convicted In Cincinnati
of criminal assault on girls under IA years
of age, was sentenced to the penitentiary
for fifteen years
At Fulda, MINI, Louis Kellogg fell to
the bottom of an eighty-foot we'll and was
instantly killed. His home was at New
Hampton, Iowa.
Miss Grace Raynor, aged ID years, of
Patchogue, L. l., is kept chained by the
ankle to prevent her running away and
marrying hostler.
At a meeting of the executive committee
of the Peoples party at st. Louis, it was
decided not to fuse with any other party
under any consideration.
Herr Cahensly says the recent appeal to
the pope ON behalf of European emigra-
ton societies Is not in the interest of Ger
many as against Ireland.
Full tanks" was probably the reason of
the Indian harmony at the pOw-wow at
Chamberlain, S. Daks They want to settle
south of the White river.
Ora Randall was drowned at Terre
Haute, Ind, while bathing in the Wabash
river. He had been attending the state
normal school in that city.
The body Of the missing George A.
Fletcher, who was connected with the
johnson murder mystery at New Bedford,
Mass, was found floating in the river,
near Egg island. where Johnson's body