Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Condemnation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.
Indiana's population officially is ., ,l9e
4O1
Perry Bangs was gored to death by
bull near Mentor, o.
The 9th and 10th were the coldest days
ever known in Texas,
The rast week has been an exceedingly
rough one on the Atlantic.
Tommy Miller and Billy Swift will fight
Feb. Is near Chicago for $500.
Gen. Sherman's condition is serious. He
is constantly growing weaker.
Hon Stephen Harding, old-time Indiana
politician is dying at Milan, Ind
The wreck near Maynard, Iowa, resulted
in the injury of nineteen persons.
The fight at St. Paul between Denny
Kelliher and the Black Pearl was declared
a draw.
Two persons were killed in a collision
on the Wabash railroad at Inglesyde, near
St. Louis.
James Rose finally gets life sentence
for numbering Andy Bird at Lancaster,
Kentucky.
The Ormonde club, of London, have of
fered $4,000 for n fight between Slavin
and Sullivan.
Elder James Davis, of Lebanon, Ind,
eloped with Mrs Bramblett, a neighbor.
Each left large family.
A combine of gunpowder, small boy and
match is the cause of Fred Shinkles tenn
porary disability at Canton, o.
Miner Joseph Trebby stabbed Thomas
Davis fatally at Wellston, o., because
tlvy could not agree in an argument.
Senator Hearst has been sued by his
trainer, Matthew N. Allen, for $9,595 for
salary and commissions on winning
horses.
Standard Oil company pleads the stat
ute of limitation against the suit brought
for forfeiture of charter by Ohio's attorney
general.
Robert Bonner says he will never trot
Maud S against time again. Sunol will
be sent against the worlds record next
summer.
The Alabama legislature passed redis-
tricting bill that makes Democratic the
only Republican congressional district in
the state.
1t is said that the sympathy of foreign
ers for Jews in Russia results only In the
secret issuance of more rigorous laws
against them.
highwayman at Martinsville, Ind,
shot at Henry Poe and tis said the bullet
passed through two coats and lodged In
his pocket book.
Mrs Sarah O-Brfen, of Iiflin, o., gets
S7,250 from the Columbus and Toledo rail
road, for the killing of her husband at
Fostoria, in 1881
Capt, j. o. Greenwood, living near
Napa, Cal, was drugged and bound by
robbers, who afterward murdered his wife
and robbed the house
Jimmie Purtell of Saginaw, Mich, and
Will. Holman, Of Lou syille, fought at
Leadville, Col, for $500 and gate receipts.
Purtell knocFed Holman out in the TWEEN
ty-fourth round,
Senator John j. Ingalls,, whose term
will expire March 3 has offers to edit
newspapers, lecture, write for magazines
and to go into business. He will not de-
eide till after his tenn shall be out.
London printers threaten to strike unless
their wages is raised to $40 per week and
twelve cents an hour for overtime This
is about one-fourth what is paid union
men il the United States in the large
cities
Mrs Belle Mekley cook in house Of ill
fame at Marion, o., was found shot in the
head; her husband who was standing by
with a revolver claims that she commit
te' suicide. 1t is believed that he muir
dered her.
At Flemingsburg, KY, the teachers of
the high school are holding daily sessions,
but no pupils are present, because the
school has been ordered closed by the trus-
tees on account of lack of funds TO pay
rent and complete the new school build
ing.
Archbishop Kendrick, of the st. Louis
diocese, has issued dispensation for
Lent that permits the eating Of fresh
meats on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays,
and Thursdays and all saturdays except
that following the Sunday Of Lent and
Holy Saturday.
A wealthy citizen Of the Ohio capital
has engaged Sculptor Park Of Chicago, TO
make 10000 statue of Christopher
Columbus, thirty feet high, including
pedestal, and will spring the donation on
the city from which the great explorer de-
rived his name sometime next October.
Indianapolis is TO have foundlings
home modelled ON the London plan. A
large bay window opening easily, comes
down in convenient reach of the ground.
just inside is a cradle. The person wish
ing to dispose Of a child raises the window,
lays the babe in the cradle, rings an cleo
trio bell and goes away unmolested, and
even If seen, unquestioned This plan
saves much crime and many innocent
| lives.