Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting ltou.s .

A Condensation of Interesting Iton4t 90
Various Subjects.
A decomposed body of an unhnowa man
was found near Decatur, Ind.
Fire destroyed Vests livery stable AMI
fourteen horses at Fremont, D.
A thunderbolt killed Isaac Scout, rich
farmer near Hickory Grove, Ill.
Hon. James Lawhead, of Newark, O.,
was stricken with paralysis Saturday.
DR. Lorimer's church. at Chicago, WAS
damaged by fire to the extent OF S45, 600.
Attorney General Watson says the good
time convict law of Ohio is not retroactive
1t is estimated that lS,000, ,0O0 foreigners
have come to the United States since the
revolution.
The Latonia derby was won by King
man, the winner q the Louisville derby
Time 24515
A 4-year-old girl named FhcIps choked
to death on gram of coffee at Grange City
KY, Sunday.
DIR. Harry Wood. of Sidney. O.. is in
Jail for cutting his mother and sister In u
family quarrel.
Little Carrie HOrte, was drowned in q
barrel Of water iu New York. while tryiug
to reach her doll
Professor Gorby, of indiana, has discov-
cred great chunks of ouyA underlying Jef.
ferSon county, Mo
Mrs, Corrington, q lunatic at Oshkosh
Wis, killed her son by striking him Oh the
head with n hammer.
Porter, White g. Baylcy dealers in boots
and shoes at Boston, have assigned
Liabilities about s., 100000.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad has secured All entrance
into Birmingham, Alabama
The Rev. DR.. John IL Barrows, OF the
First Presbyterian church. Chicago, has
declared for Professor Briggs,
Celia Folz, of Cincinnati, disconsolate
because of the deaths of her mother and
sister committed suicide by hanging
Theodore Schultz, a wealthy landlord, of
Findlay, was arrested for criminally as.
saulting Mrs Neal, one of his tenants.
The pope has ordered the comments of
newspapers on his labor encyclical, and es-
pecially British and American sent to him
A fire in the factory of the Sullivan Sad,
dle-tree company in the Missouri peniten.
tiary, at jefferson City, did $l70,OOO
damage
4 negro named Dunlap shot two Italians
in a row at Clarksburg, w. Va, and kept
200 at bay until the officers arrived and ar
rested him.
Carrie Harte aged 3, was drowned in a
cask of water in her fathers cellar, in New
York, in an attempt to secure her doll that
had fallen in.
City Treasurer Bardsley, of Phila-
delphia, has been arrested, charged with
appropriating $50, 600. He is too i'll to ap.
pear IN court.
Silas Slower superintendent of the Har-
rison county, Ind, poor asylum, is threat.
ened by White Caps for beating and abus.
ing aged paupers.
The members of the Cincinnati and Ath.
letec base ball clubs were arrested at Gin,
cinnati Sunday charged with the violating
the Sunday observance law.
Sidney NJ. Owen, Alliance candidate for
governor of Minnesota, says he cannot in.
dorse the fiat money and sub-treasury
planks of the Peoples party platform.
John NJ Patten, of Sand Mountain,
Ala, has been convicted Of using the mails
for fraudulent purposes, in writing to east
ern sharpers for counterfeit greenbacks.
Thomas Condry, arrested at Canton, o.,
for obtaining money under false pretenses,
says it is the Norton Loan association, and
not himself, as their agent, who did the
lying.
The Rev. DR.. c. w. Bridgman, who re-
signed the pastorate of the Madison Ave
nue. Baptist church, New York, April 30,
has joined the Episcopalians. He objected
to close communion.
Springfield, o., wants the next conven-
ton of the Peoples party, the Scotch-lrish
congress, and also wants the Masonic
home, and, with her winning ways, she is
likely to collar them all
BY the recent fire at Jacksonville, all the
records Of the United States supreme
court and the old Spanish records were de-
stroyed The court officers are in guam
Diary as to how to proceed.
AT Sutton, w. Va, a negro had fight
with some Italians, wounded two, one
fatally, and held the rest at bay until
officers came and took him to Jail The
Italians threaten to lynch him.
A medal has been struck at st. Peters
burg in honor of the courage displayed by
young Prince George, of Greece, in defend
ing the czarewitch from the japanese fa-
natic who wounded him. The latest in
formation from Kiota is that. after seN eral