Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-03
NEWS m BRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items Ol
Various Subjects.

various subjects.
The mother of Senator Voorhees, is dead
at Veedersburg, Ind, aged SO.
Frederick Morgenstern hanged himself
to peach tree at Massillon, o.
Peter Berg was found murdered in
Rogues' Hollow, near Akron, o.
John G. New is mentioned as the prob
able successor Of Secretary Window.
A case is on trial at Marion, O., involv-
ing twenty cents. The costs are about $50.
A Washington dispatch says the death
of the elections bill isformally announced.
The Indiana Farmers Alliance is to
have a newspaper devoted to the interests
of the order.
A disastrous break in the bank of the
canal, at Chillicothe, o., destroyed $50, 0G0
in property.
1t will take S15 900 600 to run the worlds
fair, and that is 100000 more than the
amount available.
The Farmers Alliance will have news
paper of Its very own at New Castle Ind, ,
called The Peoples Press
Jealous Logan McAfee, colored, Indian
apolis citizen, shot his young wife and then
himself both dying instantly,
William Shehan, Of Toledo, O., being
arrested on the charge of abuse of family,
shot himself and will probably die.
Two trains on the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railroad collided in fog. One
passenger was killed and others injured
VIII Guy, while hunting near Mechan-
/ icsburg o., shot and killed a bald eagle
measuring seven feet from tip to tip of its
wings.
A fight between Tommy Warren and
Johnny Griffin has been arranged to take
place March 9, at the Audubon Athletic
club, New Orleans.
Minnie Markle has lain for week in a
state of hysterical coma, at Springfield, o.
She was accused of setting incendiary fires
in her aunt's house.
jefferson Meyer, alias Rice Maxey, a
wife murderer, has been arrested in Chi
cago. He killed his wife with a carving
knife at Argentine, Ark.
Too previous discharge of an anvil
spoiled a Washington, Ind, fox drive by
seriously wounding the captain of the
drivers, Samuel Carnett.
Twenty-seven years ago John Bond, col
ored, got mad and said he would go to he'd
and never get up. He kept his word and
is still in bed at Mitchell, Ind
Two children of Engineer William Rein
hart, a boy of 3 years and girl of nine
months, were burned to death at their
fathers home, at Weeds S Lake, Wis.
Two Columbus, o., chicken thieves
dented Policeman Davis skull in seven
places with their dubbed reyolvers and
flew, leaving him not dangerously hurt
William Spehan promised Toledo police
judge that he would swear off from strong
drink and made sure of keeping his prom
ise by shooting himself through the heart.
At the Manhattan club banquet in New
York city Saturday night Cleveland
toasted Hill ard then Hill toasted Cleve-
land They had long and cordial talk to-
gether.
Judge Sage, of the United States court,
has granted preliminary injunction in
the case of The Covington, KY, Common
wealth against Typographical Union No.
3, of Cincinnati
Miss Helen Potts, a sufferer from neFv-
BUSINESS, died in New York from the
effects of an overdose of morphine taken
upon the prescription of a medical student
friend of the family.
A brother OF the burglar Baker who
escaped from the Cincinnati Jail Saturday
tells a story of terribly brutal treatment
by two of Sheriff Helms deputies in
search Of the fugitive.
The mother of Frank Robinson. who
shot himself while intoxicated, has
brought suit against three saloonkeepers
of Westville, Ind, for selling liquor to the
boy, who was a minor.
Edward Kisner's butterfly attentions to
the Wabash county, Ind. girls cost him
something, He has paid for one set of
damaged affections, and now jury as
sesses him 81 ,00O for the broken heart of
Ella Ray.
A couple of burglars probably thinking
! there was nobody but helpless men in the
house, broke into the residence of w. c.
Cannon at Locust Grove, o., encountered
two women and were wounded and driven
of at the point of a revolver.
An appeal has been issued to the
knights of Labor by Master Workman
Powderly in behalf of the families of the
victims of the Mammoth mine disaster.
Remittances should be sent to John w
Hayes, treasurer, No. 314 North Broad
street, Philadelphia.
A report comes from Carbon Hill mines,
Walker county, Ala, that last Friday four
negroes were killed and FIVE wounded in a
difficulty with white miners The negroes
had taken the places of the whites, who
were on a strike. Troops have been asked
for to quell the disturbance which threat.
ems. Another report says there is no
truth whatever in the report of race
war.
All day Friday Fort Worth was in a
fever of excitement over. the widest
rumors from Salisbury, Wellinton and
/ Childress. The news was that 900 Kiowa
bucks had gone on the warpath, sacked
and burned the town of Wellington and
killed and scalped thirty people. Troops
were ready to start when word was re.
4 ceived that the whole affair was a conspir
acy TO frighten the people of Wellington
/ out OF the town and move the county yseat