Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.


r. ID, Lampson will edit The Warren,
o., Tribune heneeforth.
Mahoning Valley iron men and the rail
roads are still at logger heads.
Tennessee's population officially is l,
767,5.S; West Yirginias, 7G2,7S4
Sherman memorial services were held
all over the Ohio valley Thursday
May l viii probably see general strike
among the miners Of Ohio and Indiana.
Huntingburg, Ind, will dig great big
boom from its coal and clay beds right
away, so it says,
Bills have been introduced in both
houses of congress to pension the widow
of Admiral Porter.
Safe in the Windfall, Ind, railroad office
was cracked and contents, amount un-
known, abstracted.
DR.. Henry w. Rogers has been installed
as president of the Northwestern univer,
sity at Evanston, Ill.
0. 7. Seers' ice yacht made twenty-five
miles in twenty-seven minutes outside
Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie
Private Paul Neupert mustered himself
out of the ranks of life by taking poison
al the Col INDUS barracks
The will of the late Mary A Nevins, of
Memorial Library, of Methune.
Parker Means, widower of Paris, ILL.,,
hanged himself because his only child, a
boy of $, was drowned while skating.
The Pacific bank, of Clarke Neb, of
which G b. COwles, accused Of strangling
his wife, was president has been sold.
Kate f. Marhart, of the Ohio State uni
versity, took first honors in the interstate
collegiate oratorical contest at Wooster.
Charles f. Emery, of Marion, H., has
given $500 bond for his appearance for
trial on the charge of embezzling money
At dance at Cowgirl, Mo-, John Kin
caid quarrtled with james Gates and cut
his throat, killing him instantly, Kincaid
escaped.
Ten car loads of iron dropped in at an
lronwood, Mich, mine Killed Joseph
Bercsnce; injured, John johnson and Jerry
O'Donnell.
The Laclede Gas company, of St Louis,
has bought out all its rivals, and now con
trolls the electric and gas-lighting business
of the city.
Argument in The lottery case before the
Louisiana supreme court was closed. 1t
will be three weeks or more before de-
cision is rendered.
Secretary Mohler, of the Kansas board
of agriculture, reports that winter wheat
looks much better now than it has at any
season for several years.
jealous Mra. Brownell did cowardly
act at Cleveland by dashing vitriol in the
face of Phoebe Coats, whom she accused of
winning away her husband
At the Philadelphia municipal elections
Edward S Stewart, Republican, was
elected mayor by about 5000 majority
over a II. Ladner, Democrat.
1t is believed that Henry Shade, shot
Sunday night at Terre Haute, Ind, was
murdered by one of his own family, who,
it is said, he treated brutally.
Over 1900 blanks have already been
made out at Ashland, Wis, for presenta-
tion at the land Office, when the railroad
lands are opened for settlement.
John and Ollie Leonard ard Alonzo
Bender, three young boys of respectable
parents, living at Mexico Ind, are under
arrest at Peru for stealing hides.
A special committee of the Nebraska
legislature visited Galveston to investi-
gate facilities for handling Nebraska's
commerce, in and out, and, it is said, will
report favorably.
Il. J. Post, salesman of the Toledo, o.,
Tobacco works proved that he was not a
Post which his employers could tie to by
squandering their remittances and suicid-
ing at Ft. Wayne, Ind.
A phenomenal storm of sleet Thursday
night almost paraly2ed all telegraphic
communication in the district between
the Alleghenies and Rockies and north of
Mason and Dixon's line.
Capt William A. Andrews has con
tracted with q Gloucester firm to build
another dory about fifteen feet in length
all over, in which he proposes to again at
tempt to cross the ocean.
William Harsh, a prominent stock
raiser of Tiskilwa, ILL.,, has been missing
since Saturday, and as he had large
amount of money on his person 1t is feared
that he has been murdered
S. Kramer, pretending to be Jewish
rabbi converted to Christianity, took in
the Springfield, o., preachers before they
found out that the only change he sought
was of the silver coin variety.
w NAV WAS ltIt Vi bllt iPpi pA a. lOes5tI
named George Collier was found on the
mountain side near Altoona, Pa. Animals
had eaten most of it, He wandered away
while mentally affected, and froze
A deputy sheriff levied on the furnish
ings of the Englewood, ILL.,, Presbyterian
church while prayer meeting was in ses-
sion. This is the church whose pastor,
Rev Williams was deposed lately.
Teachei Schomover, at Findlay, O.,
whipped Frank Reimund for profanity.
The uncle and her of the young tough
whipped Schomoyer The law will now
take a hand with the Reimund, Sr.
Col. Polk, president of the National
Farmers Alliance says Cleveland will not
receive the support of the industrial or
ganizations If he is renominated on ac-
count of his anti ifree-coinage letter
John Spelman, the son of Distiller Ed
ward SpelmaD, of PEORIA was N a ched TO
Jail by his father, where he is now await
ing the government officers from whom
he escaped from a train a few days ago.
Senator Woodnorth, of Wisconsin, has
n reduced in the state senate bill which
provides that foreign born men who served
In the late war shall be citizens of Wis
cansin without the formality of going 10
court.
Anderson Boswell, of Winchester Ind,
cut and killed Mrs. Boss, with whom he
was madly in love, although the feeling
was not reciprocated. The sheriff is in
hot pursuit Of Boswell. All the parties
are colored.
The stockholders OF the Illinois Steel
company have voted to increase the CAPT
tai stcck OF the company from t95,0OO,0JO
5000 O)O 1t is stated that proceeds from