Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
The entire Portuguese cabinet has re
signed
Valera won the Tennessee Derby at
Memphis.
Henry NJ, Stanley and party sailed for
England Wednesday.
Page Mcpherson, o. st. Louis, ard $685.
COO are wanted there.
Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Indians
have alrivel at Antwerp.
President Harrison has extended the
/ civil service rules to the Indian bureau.
Mayor Mosby, of Cine nnati, will en-
force the law prohiliting Sunday base
| ball
The A-year-old boy of Reuben Hebrey, at
/ Kelso lni,, was fatally bitten and torn by
a dog.
Secretary Foster has gone to New York
to try and adjust the custom-house
troubles.
Page Mcpherson, n ST. Louis broker,
has disappeared, leaving debts aggregat-
ing 5000
Burglars robbed the postolIice at Deep
Creek, WASH, on Monday night and
burned the building
Fifteen ousand tons of sugar have
teen shipped from Hawaii to the United
States since March Is.
A deal whereby the five strongest ack
and nail concerns in the country are com
bned has been copsummated.
During March the French imports in
creased 1854 00l francs, and tie exports
increased 1l45,00) francs as compared
with March, 1890.
Miss Emma Peterson, 20, and Miss Cora
Murray, L., We're killed by IA runaway at
Muncie, Ind The horse became fright
ened at an umbrella.
President Ethelbert y. Warfeld, of Mi
ami university, has accepted the call to
the presidency of Lafayette college ten
dered him last month.
Ben. Clarke, u colored man. has been
sentenced TO hang May %, at Houston,
Tex. He murder, d peddler named Will
Jams in the suburbs last fail.
The seventh annual reunion of the sur
vivors of the Sultana disaster, OF g of the
great war Calamities, will be held at Ere
mont O., on Tuesday, April 2S
Allen Owens suicided at the home of
relatives few miles west of Crawfords
vile, Ind, by taking poison. He was tired
of life because he was cripple,
William 7. Baker, president of the Chi
cago board Of trade was elected president
of the board of directors of the worlds
fair, vice Lyman j. Gage, resigned
Charles w. White, proprietor of the Ho-
tel Duncal, formerly manager of the
Plankinton house, Milwaukee, suicided at
Burlington, Iowa, by taking morphine.
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through fourteen wards, out of total of
thirty four. Hampstead Washburne, the
Republican candidate, is ahead thus far.
Wallace Dalton shot and killed Shade
Hall in front of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Nashville, while n church sup
per was in progress. Parties are colored.
Advices have been received at Calcutta
that the rebellious Manipuris are fortlfy-
ing their position. The delay in forwar /
ing British troops is regarded as serious
error.
William Walls, Grant Smith and Eu-
gene Smith are under arrest at Van Vert,
o., for burglary committed over year
ago. A pal named Roberts gave them
away.
At Erie, Pa, Martin Jones aud J mes
Mcdonald qlarreled over d z Eght.
Jones shot Mcdonald down and was ir
turn teaten insensible by his victims
friends.
Christopher kuntzen, boss kiln-sattcr
at the Hill Sewer Pipe works, at Akron,
o., was killei on a switch AT the old forge.
His feet caught in "A frog while trying to
get out OF a switch engines way
Miss Julia Reagan of Waukcsha, Wis,
al Iy L net Mi hui ha,.
6-year-old niece, who had secured her
fathers gun and was playing with it.
Miss Reagan's head was nearly blown off.
Chicago vessel owners have thrown
down the guantlet to the Seamcn's union,
and will establish an Independent ship
ping Office, where sailors will be engaged
regardlesI of the rules laid down by the
Lake Seamen's Benevolent association.
An order has just been received by the
Tappan company, OF Nyech, n y, TO
make four gun boats for the Venezuela
government, one to he seventy-fve feet
long and fourteen feet beam and the other
sixty-fve feet long and twelve feet beam.
ID. NJ. Hall, of Butler. Ca, YVES killed by
being run over by a train on the Colum-
bus and Western road at lrondale, Ala.
Pat Thompson met the same fate at
Blount Springs, Ala, on the Louisville
and Nashville road. Both were brake
men.
President Harrison and party were
given an enthusiastic reception during
their stay in Knoxville. At Chattanooga
it was the same, the city being crowded
with visitors. At Knoxville the horses at
tached to Secretary Rusk's carriage ran
away No one wss hurt.
A former conductor Of the st Louis and
San Francisco railroad has brought suit
against D. II. Nichols, * superintendent
of the road, to recover money. He claims
that Nichols extorted large sums of money
from the conductor as "A consideration fer
retaining him in his position.
At Elkton, Md, Detective Otley, OF the
Pennsylvania railroad, arrested II
George A. Bran upon the charge of being
the burglar who murdered MIS-, Granville
Richards and seriously wounled her hns-
band. DIR. Bran is "a years old, and has
wealthy and respectable reintives.