Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects

Fort Wayne, Ind.
The whisky trust has absorbed all the
big outside distilleries.
Sandusky wants Ohio's Democratic state
convention this summer
George B. Hoehder and child, of Green
vile, ILL.,, were killed by lightning
Over 20,000,00o barrels of petroleum are
held in reserve in the Ohio oil fields.
Ex- Congressman Owen, of Indiana, has
been appointed superintendent of immi-
grafton.
An English syndicate is said to have
bought the Omaha, Neb., stock yards for
$6,000,000.
Worlds fair officials will not decide the
Sunday opening question until the fair is
under way.
On Tuesday 4, 1856 immigrants passed the
New York barge office to swell our Italian
population.
The Texas State Music Teachers asso-
citation cOnvenes at Austin, June q, with
1900 delegates.
At Xenia, O., Mrs George Seibers shot
herself through the heart while playing
with revolver.
The Indiana Midland railroad has set
tied all the claims of the employees, and
the strike is ended.
Mrs. Adolph Zencker of Stanton street,
New York, recently gave birth to boy
baby without eyes.
About 1850 members of the Ohio Ensti-
tute of Mining Engineers are ON a trip
throughout West Virginia.
The whisky trust is reported to have
purchased the Shufeldt and Calumet dis
tilleries at a cost of $2,0O0,00O.
The Rev. DR.. Brooks, having been ap-
proved by twenty-seven Episcopal dioceses,
is elected bishop of Massachusetts.
Will Davis, Jeffersonville, Ind, tel
egraph operator, has inherited $50, 600 by
the death of an aunt in Pennsylvania.
On account of gas war in Frankton,
Ind, between rival companies the people
are getting the illuminant free of cost.
j. p. Allen took the Democratic nomi-
nation for state senator at Owingsville,
KY, aftera dozen Others had declined it.
The report of naval battle between the
Magallanes and the government vessels
off Valparaiso is discredited at Washing
ton.
Albert Dillon and Harvey Whitehill, of
Bellefontaine, o., were drowned in the
Lewistown reservoir by the capsizing of
boat.
Garrett Thomas, colored, has been sen
fenced to hang, at Greenville, Mo-, ON July
81, for the murder of another negro named
Bryant.
Section hands on the Pittsburg, Akron
and Western railroad, between Akron and
Delphos, have struck for their four months
pay due.
Arthur Sayler, clerk in the dead-letter
division of the postoffice at Washington,
has been arrested for stealing money en-
closures.
Two farmers in Allen county, Ind, are
having legal fight over a SOW involving
the amount of $40. Court expenses are
500 per day.
John You, of Reading, Pa, starved him
self to death, having reduced his weight
from li5 to thirty-eight pounds in twenty
seven days.
The Huntingburg, Ind, bank has sus-
pended, caused by the cashier allowing the
depositors to overdraw to the extent of
about $4,000.
Governor Campbell has decided ON Pro
fessor G. c. Miller, of Sandusky, o., as
School Commissioner Hancock s successor,
if he will accept.
DR.. w. G. Arons, a travelling specialist,
has been arrested at Pomeroy, o., for
charging $25 for removing a wart. He
pretended it was cancer.
w. f. Meade was acquitted of embezzle-
ment from Seiberry & Company at Omaha,
Neb., and sued them for $500 wages and
81, 500 for false imprisonment.
Archbishop Ireland, of st, Paul, de-
clares Herr Cahensley's scheme of sending
priests and immigrants to America as a
gross insult to this country.
In the furious storm of Wednesday
morning, Alexander Simpson, mate of the
schooner N. B. Moore, at Chicago, was
swept overheard and drowned.
Evansville, Ind, was the scene of
twenty y-six-round prize fight between Male
Liddington and John Smith, both colored.
The mill was declared a draw.
Secretary Foster has called on National
bank depositaries for 50, 900, 600 of deposits
to replenish the depleted surplus. This
will make the surplus $9,000,000.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, Charles w. Sci
dell pleaded guilty of bigamy, admitting
the existence of five living wives, and that
he was preparing to take sixth.
Lightning struck the Methodist church
at Belpre, w. Va, and, besides tearing out
the back, burned all the gilt stripes in the
wallpaper, leaving the rest entire.
AT Wabash, Ind, William Cripe and
Mrs. John Mickesell for adultery, were
sentenced to forty and thirty days, re-
spectively, in Jail and fined 81 each.
After six weeks strike the GOO miners
of the Gable Coal company, at Washing
ton, Ind, will resume work, the difficulty
having been adjusted by arbitration.
Spreading rails caused train loaded
with excursionists, between Cedar Falls
and Des Moines, Iowa, to leave the track.
Great excitement and little damage.
Mrs. William Derringer, of Watson,
Ind, gave birth to twin babies two months
ago. One died and the other is alive
and we'll and now weighs but two pounds.
John Allen, lake steamer fireman,
was murdered near Painesville, o., and
his body was carried to railroad track to
have it mutilated by a train, to hide the
crime
After thousands of carloads of dirt had
been dumped into the approaches of the
Lake Shore railway bridge at Sylvan Lake,
Ind, the great pile slid off into the deep
water.
Near Greensburg, Ind, William Fort
une, farm hand, attacked his employer,
George Logan, with a knife. Logan shot
his assaiIant five times, killing him in
stantly
A cat with litter OF kittens at Wave
land, Ind. in the grocery firm of Garwood
q Foster has adopted small mouse,
which plays with the kittens and nurses
with them.
The Japanese murderer, Juguiro, was.
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