Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-27
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ports ST., ,000, 600 worth.
Weeping heavens in southern Indiana
delay the wheat harvest
Rose bugs are destroying fruit in the
neighbOrhood of Paris, o.
Mechanicstown, o.. has rabbit that
does up all the village dogs.
Brown county, o., is the banner tobacco
growing county in the state.
State Senator Gaumer, of GAINESVILLE, O.,
was renominated at Newark, o.
Professor C. G. Miller, Ohios new school
commissioner, is in charge of the Office.
Philadelphia experts will disprove state
ments in ex-Treasurer Bardsley's confes-
sion
Allan Hollis, of Marengo, Ind, boasts
of two weeks old calf with but three
legs.
Xenia (O.) police captured six pick
pockets, who were following Robinson's
circus.
A Toledo (O) girl was called down on
the witness-stand by the judge for gum
chewing.
Little 6-year-old Bessie Kirkpatrick, OF
Batavia, o., fell out of tree and broke
both arms.
Thomas Webb, of Alliance, goes to the
Ohio peBitentiary for ten years for crimi-
nal assault.
Mrs Alex Conley, of near Lawrence
burg, Ind, was killed on Wednesday by a
bolt of lightning.
Twenty cases of measles were removed
from one of the ships arriving from abroad
with immigrants.
Madison county, Ind, has wheat crop
this season that will be worth round
million of dollars.
The race between the crews of Pennsylva-
mia, Cornell and Columbia universities
was won by Cornell.
There are 5O0,OOO negroes in the Meth
odist church. They gave last year for
church work $S25,947.
1t is alleged that G. E. Cowie, the miss
ing Wheeling insurance agent, is $500
short in his accounts.
The tax valuation of Cleveland, o., has
been increased 40 per cent. by the state
board of equalization
West Virginia officials are ON two
waAke' t"iP essesai..e Ol.sS..l,ussAo ana
Ohio railroad property.
A survey for new railroad line be-
ingtoa, Pa, is being made
Policeman Hooker, of Cincinnati, at
tempted to stop mad bull and was badly
gored in the breast and arms
According to the last census Alabama
has taken Pennsylvania's place as leader
in the annual output of iron ore.
John Holland, a policeman of Toledo
o., is hunting for his runaway wife, who
went away with n handsomer man.
The Wheeling steel works is running
again at Brentwood The plant has only
been run thirty five days this year.
A valuable stallion belonging to Charles
Gavin, of Orange county Ind, was bitten
by dog two weeks ago and it died Thurs
day.
Professor Virgins, the weather prog
nosticator, says that Ohio and Indiana
will have big dry spell in July and Au-
gust.
Fostoria, O., has two married couples
who have agreed to divorce each, and
afterward change all around by mar
riage.
Hon. Allen lowering has been appointed
director of the Mount Gilead (O.) Short
Line railroad, vice DR.. L. B. Voorhees,, de-
ceased.
Senator Brice, as chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee, favors Cleve-
land, o., as the place for the national con
vention.
The increase In the price of sugar is
owing to the increased summer demand
and not to any malicious purpose on the
part of the trust.
The gas company of Cincinnati has con
structed the second largest gas holder in
the United States. 1t has n capacity of
100000 cubic feet.
1t is likely that the g., 900, 900 will be CON
tinued after July 1, at which date the law
leaves the matter to the direction of the
secretary Of the treasury.
For the first time Alabama takes her
place as the first state in the Union in the
production of iron ore Pennsylvania
steps down into second place.
Chauncey F. Black, of Pennsylvania,
president of the National league of Dem
ocratic clubs, will conduct the leagues
literary bureau at Washington
The Varsity boat race at New London,
Conn, between the crews of Yale and
Harvard college, was won by Harvard.
Yale was fifteen lengths behind at the
finish.
James Ferguson, steeple climber, was
killed by fall while painting the tower
at the Albany penitentiary. He recently
said he would be killed before the end of
the year.
Thomas Tisdale, who left his family in
Canada thirty one years ago, returned the
other day to find his wife married to a
third husband. They will resume former
relations
On account of the disorganization Of
labor in Brazil, it is said that the coffee
crop has been 80 seriously affected as to
cause reduction OF several million bags
in the yield.
In Little Bucktown," Cincinnati, John
Anderson, 16, shot and fatally wounded
Dan Bludsoe, negro tough, who was his
mothers man" Bludsoe had beaten the
boys mother.
Near Massillon, o.. Huston Greenhoe
fell against circular saw that passed
through his head and severed one leg.
Respiration continued for forty seven min
utes afterward.
A successful raid has been made on IL
licit distilleries in the mountains of Nir-
ginia and West Virginia. Several notori-
Gus violators of the revenue laws have
been brought in.
The Grand hotel property, Cincinnati,
was sold to ]. T. Thoms, who purchased
on behalf of the second mortgage bond
holders at S26s, 900. There Is ground rent
of 8, 900 per annum.
At Vincennes, Ind, Patrick Ryan en-
tered his fatherin-law's house and alb
Quoted girl 10 whom he had been clan
destinely married, but who had returned