Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-24
NEWS IN RRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
YariOus Subjects.

Various Subjects
Malignant diphtheria at Portsmouth, O.
Jay Gould is again reported to be in bad
health.
Mrs. John A. Logan has returned from
Europe.
James Green, 50, killed by cars at Mil
ford Center, o.
The Baltimore canned goods men deny
the story of a trust.
New Albany, Ind, glass works were
damaged $4,000 by fire.
AT Dennison, O.. Will Barnett fell from
bicycle and broke both arms.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, George Herring
suicided with a revolver. Drink.
At St. Louis John Il. Brady fatally in
jured his wife with an AK. Jealousy
The plant of the Utica Brewing com
pany, Utica, N. Y, has been burned, at q
loss of $4,000.
The Republic iron mine at Ishpeming,
Mich, is on fire. Already the damage has
reached 100000.
Con Sullivan shows signs of hydrOphobia
at Cleveland. He was bitten in Ireland
some months ago.
Engineer Frank Wood WAS killed in tho
wreck of his engine at Tyrone, Pa, caused
by COW on the track
w. Il. Peyton, of Louisville, has been re-
elected grand master of the United
Brothers of Friendship
At Clairborn, Ala, during church a
young negro was shot and fatally wounded
by farmer named Brewer, who escaped.
The Pennsylvania steele works, at Stel-
ton, Pa, near Harrisburg, has shut down.
The men considered the wages too low and
struck.
Richard S. Newcomb, of New York, and
one of the best attorneys of that city, is
dying. He is afflicted with cancer of the
stomach.
Thirteen-yea Jennie Garayer had
her throat cut from ear to ear by thief at
Hazleton, Pa, who rihed the family saw
ings bank.
President Diaz, of Mexico, who has been
suffering from an attack Of influenza ac-
companied by insomnia, is better and able
to leave his bed.
At Edenburg Ind, young man named
Owens had his arm amputated at the
wrist by being drawn into the machinery
at the cereal mills
Gilbert Parker, of the firm of Blair,
Parker & Company, Nashville, has sui
cided. Financial troubles are supposed to
be cause of the deed
The California's world IS fair commission
ers have endorsed j. De Barth Short for
the position of head of the horticultural de
partment of the worlds fair.
There is talk that Colonel A. L. Conger,
of Akron, o., may succeed Colonel w. w.
Dudley, of Indiana, as treasurer of tho
Republican national committee.
After bitter fight Nelson, Morris a.
Company, the Chicago meat dealers, have
abandoned Evansville, Ind, being driven
out by the local Butchers association
The general grand chapter Royal Arch
Masons at Minneapolis elected Joseph H.
Horner, of New Orleans general high
priest for the ensuing triennial period.
Samuel Alexander, aged 80, while recov-
ering from a drunk, ran through the
streets of Springfield, Mass, firing re-
volver, with which he killed James Mes
bett and mortally wounded Michael Mark
ley.
In two years the net growth of the
Royal Arch Masons has been IA, ,O42 The
total membership now is l4l SOL Since
1889 1886, 70G has been collected and sl6S,-
chapters.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, speaking at Br
mingham, Ala, declared that John Sher
man, the father OF our financial system
is the arch enemy of the human race, and
that the Alliance has determined to defeat
him in Ohio.
At Olmsted Ills, during his wife's alb
sence George w Higgins was shot and
mortally wounded by his paramour, Min
ME Riddle, who didn't know the revolver
was loaded" Before dying he corrobo-
rated the woman's story.
A GAINESVILLE, o., drunken teamster
found Charles u. Underwood's pocket
book containing 5000. The teamster's life
found it and another woman's picture in
her husbands pocket, and in q fit of
jealousy threw both into the fire.
The st. Paul Athletic club paid Hall and
Fitzsimmons 81 500 and threw up the
sponge as far as the fight is concerned un-
der the clubs auspices. New Orleans and
San Francisco clubs both offer purses for
the fight between the men, but the proba-
bilities are that the men will not fight at
all.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding has issued
a circular to customs officers in which he
says that lottery tickets and the printed
advertisements etc, which usually accom-
pany them are liable 10 seizure and for
feiture as prohibited importations They
should be held and treated as forfeited
goods.
News of the assassination OF Rev. X. 7.
Williams, Methodist clergyman near
Heber, Ark, has been received at Little
Rock. He was shot from ambush while
riding along along a country road. man
named johnson. known TO have been Will
Jams bitter enemy, was arrested and h
held for the crime,