Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

various Subjects.
During April 6O,449 immigrants landed
at New York,
The April reduction of the public bebt
was $l,5l4, 1897.
new life-saving station is to be es-
tablished at Ashtabula, 0.
Senator Sherman has returned to his
Mansfield, o., home for the summer.
A chamber Of commerce has been organ
lied at Middlesborough, Ky, with 129
members.
Another strong vein of natural gas has
been struck almost in the heart of the city
of Bloomington, III.
The Kreamer fireworks factory, New
York was destroyed by fire, and three girls
perished in the flames
A man named Greathouse, living near
Weston, w, Va, fell on a drawing knife
he was using and was killed
Walter Gould, aged Is, is under arrest at
Peru, Ind, for criminal assault Oh the 13-
year old daughter of Alexander Thayer.
At Pence, Wis, two saloonkeepers
named Lund and Hauge quarrelod Lund
shot Hauge fatally and then committed
suicide.
At Lafayette, Ind, Friday, Hugh Nc
Caffery, of Lebanon, gave Il $500 bond to
answer charge of receiving stolen
property
The bill providing for an exhibition of
Rhode Islands products at the Columbian
fair was indefinitely postponed by the
state senate.
Mrs Trimmer, wife of a saloon keeper at
Mt. Vernon, o., eloped with an Adventist
preacher named Burnbrack, and Trimmer
is in pursuit.
The Farmers Alliance store at Man
natl creditors. ~
The saloons of Elgin, ILL.,, refuse to pay
the 81 900 license fixed by council and are
running unlicensed by indulgence of the
retiring mayor,
The law repeating the special tax on
dealers in leaf and manufactured tobacco,
and manufacturers of tobacco and cigars,
went into effect May |,
At Frankfort, Ky, Robert Dawson was
caught and whirled around with a revolv
ing shaft and dashed to pieces. One arm
and both feet were torn off
The three months old child of Marion
Wilson, living near Muncie, Ind, fell from
its 1l-year-old sisters arms, and was killed
by its head striking the floor.
Two engines collided in the Baltimore
and Ohio yards at Newark, o., and were
demolished, causing damage Of $4,000.
Two men were badly injured.
Near Pine Bluff, Ark, John j. Hooker
fatally shot John B. Derreseaux. Hooker
is we'll known in this section, while Derre-
seaux belongs to the Lucas family of st.
Louis.
Judd Sullivan, of Seymour, Ind, aban-
doned his wife and two children and ran
away with Hetty Cannon, a divorced
woman, who left her two children with a
neighbor
Albert Hommel travelling through Cen
tral Kentucky for Curry, Tunis & Nor
wood, Lexington grocers, was seriously
kicked by horse during runaway, near
Danville.
The shortage of Cashier ii. W. Coving-
ton, of the Farmers and Traders bank,
Montgomery, Mo, is put at $4,000. The
stockholders paid the deficiency No It'd
ings from Covington.
Suits were begun in Chicago against ex
County T'reasurers George Davit and Will
lam Seipp to recover the sums received by
them as interest on the county funds while
they occupied that Office.
Decisions have been announced b. the
circuit court at Cincinnati fully support
ing the Sunday saloon closing law, and
holding that the keeping open is viola
ton though no liquors may be drank.
The tax levy of Albany, N. Y, this year
is one and three-eights mill being for sup
port of schools and canals only. 1t is the
first time in forty years that the people
have not been taxed for general purposes.
During qnarrel between Bascoe Dorrcll
and John Finn at a dance at Richmond,
Mo, Dorrell drew his revolver Finn and
q young man named Thomas Cooper were
killed and Mrs. Thomas Stewart was seri-
ously wounded
"Chicken Eater" jackson and big Bull
dog Crabtree, two desperadoes OF the
Cumberland mountain region of Ken
tucky, came together and both are dead,
one shot through the heart and the other
through the b5lin.
A fountain and statue TO the memory of
Henry Bergh founder Of the American So
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty 80 Ami
mails, was unveiled at Milwaukee in the
presence of several thousand people. The
statue cost about $l5, 600, and is located in
the City Hall square
The English government has proposed
to the United States an agreement to sus-
pend the killing of seals in the Behring
for term to be decided upon, that com
mission be chosen to examine the whole
subject, and for that time England will
engage TO keep out poachers from Canada.
1t is thought Blaine will agree to the
proposition or do something like It,
The estate of the late Robert N. Edwards
is soon to be divided among the heirs. This
estate comprises sixty-fve acres in the city
Of New York, lying in three separate par
cells on both sides Of Broadway, and it is
valued at $2OO,000,O00. Two of the heirs
Thomas Edwards and Mrs. Ann Mcdonald,
residence of Independence, Iowa, expect TO
receive about 100000 apiece. The prop
erty was leased for ninety-nine years