Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items Of
Various Subjects.

| ing 10 America.
A Democratic congressman was elected
in Rhode Island
Cherokee boomers made another inva-
sion of the strip.
Savings banks in Prussia had SIZE, ,000,-
900 deposits Jan l.
Credit is given the German emperor for
undermining Europe.
Highwaymen took 81, 800 from Joseph
Irousdale, near Birmingham, Ala.
Seven lives were lost in New York
tenement house fire Saturday night,
Joseph Trousdale was waylaid and robbed
OF l5OO by negroes at Birmingham, Ala.
Nelson Pyle died of hydrophobia at
New Albany, Ind, after terrible suffer
ing,
In Indian territory officers stumbled
upon prisoner held by bandits for ran
! som.
Frank Holland, of Philadelphia, shot and
killed his sister, mistsking her for a bur
glar
Mr.. and Mrs Elihu Stout, pioneers, died
at Auburn, ILL.,, within few hours of each
other
Indiana legislators are talking about in
creasing the state liquor license from 500
to $500
The unloaded shotgun took the life of
wealthy Farmer Benjamin Phillips at
Mount Gilead, o.
Darrtown, o., had six kegs of beer and
two 1aizer" knife aad club fights for
each keg of the craytur.
| Men stood in line at Ashland Wis, in a
driving snow storm so as to get an early
choice of government land.
| Walter Howard the Wells Fargo Ex-
press company's agent, was convicted of
the robbery Of 1900 in 1859
Emile Zola says he does not believe
American publishers are sincere in advo-
eating international copyright
William Hambright, night watchmAn
at the Evans factory, Springfield, o., was
killed while on duty and robbed.
James Campbell, Louisville and Nash
vile station agent at Brownsboro, KY, |
was assassnated Saturday night.
A mother ia L'Orent France, attempted
| to Kill her daughter on learning of her be-
trayal and then committed suicide
The Kentucky constitutional convention
defeated the proposition TO make adultery
the only cause fer absolute divorce
A quarry Of alGbi ser of great thickness,
and extending for miles in the foothills |
near Cancn City, Las been discovered
AT McDonald's station, near Pittsburg,
Willie Heron, 9, fell into the mouth of a
coke oven while at play and was oremated |
Louis Golltzki, an ex-private policeman
OF Newport, KY, committed suicide by
| shooting himself through the right tenn
PIE
Indiana "borrows of Peter to pay Paul"
and has raised $500 900 in New York to |
settle interest due in March on other
| loans.
Edward Dsny was found frozen to death |
in field near indianapolis, he having un-
dressed and gone to sleep while intoxi |
Gated.
The United States government will ex-
perrin ent with Japanese lacquer as q non
| corrosive coating for the hulls of war
vessels.
A coroner's investigation showed that |
the death OF William Pretzman at Des |
Mcines, Iowa, was due to Christian |
Scientists
Ex- Pr, sident Cleveland denies that he |
ever said he would not accept the can
didacy for president on the Democratic |
ticket If offered him.
Elias Lyons pioneer, died near Murcie, |
Ind He possessed n marked popularity, |
in the fact that he never had any hair on |
his head. Children the same way
Miss ella johnson, crippled and disfig |
ured in the Findlay Hotel Marvin gas ex-
plosion, brings suit against the proprietor |
and the man who lit the match for $14, $50 |
William Hervey killed Samuel Nc
Closky with scantling in a dispute over
the ownership of some timber, but the
Logansport Ind, jury find him not |
guilty.
Mrs Sheriff Ashworth held the escaping
prisoners level with a revolver until help |
arrived and her husband was released |
from the cell, where they had locked him,
ut Troy, o.
The bishop Of Cloyne has issued pas
toral letter warning Catholics against |
Parnell as having designs to induce the
people to Ignore their religion aud defy |
the chul ch.
A row at the Pittsburg synagogue was
occasioned by Rabbi Zeinich denouncing
Vice President Miller for renting his hall |
to atheists In the melee several persons
were beaten.
Mrs Herman Berry comes from Cleve-
land, o., to accuse William Berry with
leng very black Berry morally, as he
has been living with another woman
lWNlllJ ~DilS JStAio'
George Elmer burned a bogus stock of
boots and shoes at Van Vert, O., to get
the insurance, and was escorted TO the
penitentiary for a two years soiourn by
sheriff Shoemaker
The Good along the Ohio river has
thrown at least IS 00) men out of employ
ment. Monday the flood at headquarters
began falling Trains were shut out of the
Union depot at Cincinnati.
BY a collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio Southwestern road at Remington,
fourteen miles from Cincinnati, Ave per
sons were injured. A careless engineer is
said to have been the cause.
The ship Elizabeth was wrecked Oh the
rocks in trying to make harbor against a
furious gale at North Head on the Pacific
coast. Fourteen of the crew and four Of
the rescuing party perished.
James Blackstock, who has been living
with Mrs Edward Thomas in pittsburg
since the death Of her husband, shot her,
infiicling a fatal wound. Mrs. Blackstock
claims to have seen the murder in
dream.
C. c. Yannice, agent for Baldwin e.
Company, at Springfield, created some
financial discord with false notes executed
by himself, but squares up and promises
to improve on his commercial technique
hereafter.
In Cincinnati Mrs. Barbara Busching,
wife of a furniture manufacturer. com
mitted suicide in a passion Of insanity, in
duced by bodily suffering. She imagined
H., ,..,pa hefaex Transformed into I