Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items Oh
Various Subjects.

Inc SIfeeu car Slrlkc continues IN De-
troit
The American Car Equipment company
has practically suspended
The British ship Curlew is at Chandelier
quarantine with yellow fever ON board,
John Dean, famous counterfeiter of
Winston county, Ala, has been arrested
A stone weighing 300 pounds, found near
Huntington, Ind, is believed to be garnet
Much damage was done by the storm
of Wednesday night throughout central
Ohio.
Frank Price was literally cut to pieces
at st. Louis, by James Harris. Both men
are negroes.
The worlds fair bill appropriating $685.,
OOO, was passed by both houses of the Wis
consin legislature.
Secretary Foster will urge upon the
next congress an educational test to restrict
foreign immigration.
An epidemic of measles has closed the
schools at Killbuck, o. There have been
q number of fatal cases.
United States Treasurer Nebeker has
selected j. f. Baker, of Covington, Ind,
for his private secretary.
Arthur Hutchison, of Frankfort, Ind,
was given two years in the penitentiary for
forgery amounting to $1,000.
John Graham, aged l3 years, fell in a
well ON his fathers residence near Cald-
well, o., and was drowned
The dry goods store of I. b. Fellows, at
London, o., was robbed of a small amount
of goods, Wednesday night.
George Whitmore, president of the Neppi,
Utah, National bank, was buncoed out of
$1,000 by a gold-brick swindler.
Pittsburg has an outlook for an all
round strike of the building trades May /,
due to the stonemason lockout.
Lightning struck and instantly killed
Jack Cruze, well-to-do farmer, a few
miles south of Knoxville, Tenn.
Henri Michel Antoine Chapu, the
French sculptor, is dead at St Germaine
He was born September 20, 1888.
Mrs William Shilling, of Ruraldale,
Muskingum county, o., was burned to
death by her dress catching fire.
The amalgamation between the League
of American Wheelmcn and the Amateur
Athletic union has been consummatcd
Alexander Benton, mine owner near
Napoleon, Mo, was shot and instantly
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The statistics of exports and imports for
the year ending March 81 show balance
in favor of the United States of 81, ,15O, 900
Governor Hovey has pardoned Edward
GOcum, sentenced from Clay county, Ind,
in 1889, for fourteen years for attempted
rape.
The State Farmers Alliance of New
York was organized with eleven county
organizations and $4,000 members in the
state
Chief Justice Green, sitting rs district
judge at Guthrie, O. r., has rendered de
cision that women are eligible to public
Office.
The Monongahela river miners, number
ing 1900, have refused to join the eight
hour May 1 strike, and have returned to
work.
The Tiffin, O., woolen mills have been
sold to a Canadian firm, and will resume
operations, giving employment to $50
hands.
At Burlington, Iowa, five men who drank
from an old well poisoned with sewage,
died, and several Others are reported
dying.
H. G. Caldwell who shot and killed
Charles l.. Weens, at Steubenville, o.,
has been indicted for murder in the irst
degree.
Robert Mulyaney is under arrest at
Mount Vernon, o., charged with stealing
$40 from the residence of Mrs. James
Benson.
William Gross, farmer 63 years old, liv-
ing near perryville, Ark, attempted to
hang his wife, and failing, stretched his
own neck
The little 2-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs Miller, of Birmingham, Ala, was
ground to death under the wheels of
street car.
Secretary Foster has plan for distribut- |
ing the sub~idiary silver in the treasury
and at the same time increasing the avail |
able assets.
Joseph Ryan shot and fatally wounded |
Sam McRae at IIopkinsvilc Ky, the re
suit Of a quarrel over a woman All parties
are colored.
The whites of Opelousas parish, La
will assemble to protest against the APP
pointment of Harry Block colored, as
postmaster,
Tin Plate Manufacturer II. H. Lauff- |
man says home competition has begun, |
and the price has been reduced from S2 to
Sl.5O per box.
John w. Locknane, of Winchester, KY, !
while attempting to stop runaway mule, |
was run over and fatally hurt, his skull |
being crushed.
The production of iron and steel in the
United States during 1890 statistics show
now to have been greater than ever pro
duced in any country.
The grand jury at Steubenville, o., in
dicted II. d. Caldwell, the printer who |
killed Amos Weems on Easter Sunday, for
murder in the first degree.
Kate Dunsmith aged 49, actress in
concert saloon in New York, was shot and |
by Albert Stoll, a book binder, |
who then attempted suicide.
Bellevue, O., and Wheeling w Va. are
accused of being too anxious to get into
the swim and thereby obstructing the .
crystal waters of the blue Ohio.
Mrs. Michael Sullivan, of Pittsburg,
tired of quarreling with her husband, stab
bed him with butcher knife as he slept,
and cut her throat from ear to ear
Fire in St Paul starting in livery and |
board stable swept away an entire block,
one employe, siXtysiX omnibus
horses and three fine trotting horses.
Miss Ellen Talbot, who helped secrete
the Niles children at Springfield, o., al
lowed a slick deceive to kidnap her heart
and then confded to him the whole plot.
Dewitt Sevacool, an epileptie iVthe VIII
lard State hospital, New York, killed an
other patient named John Morrow by fell
ing him with pitcher and then smother
ing him.
J. b. Rae, president of the United Mine
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