Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-13
NEWS IN RRlEE.
A Condensation of interesting Item. o

The working girls of Toledo are organ
izing.
Norton has resigned the presidency Of
! the Louisville and Nashville railroad
A boycott has been placed on Clark's
thread by the American Federation of
Labor,
! Charles Wittenmeyer, of Muncie, Ind,
has gone insane from excessive cigarette
smoking.
julius Woldman, aged 70, deserted by
his wife and children, committed suicide
at Cincinnati.
Tie work of grading Jackson Park, in
preparation for the worlds fair, was be-
| gun at Chicago.
Meakly, who murdered his wife, Belle,
at Marion, o.. says he had no reason what
ever for doing so.
Gen. Goff predicts that the next secre-
cary Of the treasury will be an Ohio man,
but not Mckinley.
DR.. Ferd. w. Beard, one of the best
known physicians of Indiana, died at Vim
cennes Wednesday.
Mrs. Silas Conalt, wife of Muncie, Ind,
lay laborer is notified that she is an heir
70 the Anneke JAMS estate.
Edward jackson, ex-legislator of Indi-
ana, hanged himself near Bright, Ind. He
was thought t. have been insane
The charges of highway robbery against
Carl Dowden and Oscar Watson were dis
missed, at Muncie, Ind, Tuesday.
The old Chicago exposition building has
been ordered by the city council torn down
TO make way for the great worlds fair.
Jacob Freundlich was drowned in the
Ohio river at Evansville, Ind, while try
ing to save his horses from going under
William Hendricks, of Columbus, Ind. !
found cave under his farm filed with
ancient grinning skeletons and flint tools. !
Grover Cleveland has written letter, in |
which he speaks of the free coinage of sill !
yer as dangerous and reckless expert |
ment."
Capt. Bruce of the indianapolis police. |
was reduced to the ranks for performing
the very same tricks for which he arrested |
other people.
Nathaniel Greene, bookkeeper for Farms
worth & Ruggles, of San Francisco, has
been arrested, charged with the embezzle- |
ment of $4,000
With clubs and pistols drawn Newark. |
N. j., police dispersed 2,00O jeering strikers |
about Clark's thread mills. Many sore
heads, but no deaths.
The rumored amalgamaton of the |
Scottdale Union Insurance company and |
the Liverpool and London and Globe are
without foundation in fact.
The Illinois house exonerated Repre- |
sentative Taubeneck from the charges |
made against him that lie had once been |
an inmate of the Ohio penitentiary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mckinley, relic of
L inl Nf ho
supreme court, died at Louisville on the
ninety-first anniversary of her birth.
1t is reported that sale of the Monon
railroad to the Brice syndicate has been
agreed on, to be consummated at the
meeting of the stockholders, March IL.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad is
made by Youngstown, O., jury to pay
Daniel Roberts $1,000 for the fun of jam
ming his corporosity into cooked hat.
Col. Bresler of Portsmouth, o., super
intendent OF the Ohio Military academy,
has received a medal as military distinc-
tion from the Venezuelan government.
Rufe Kitrell a noted moonshiner and
outlaw from Tennessee, was arrested at
Florence, Ala, and will be taken back by
Deputy United States Marshal John Kol-
leforth.
The board of trade of Columbus, Ga,
has adopted resolution heartily indors-
ing the policy of reciprocity" "se-
cured by the efforts of Hon. James e.
Blaine"
Two safes at the carpet sweeper novelty
factory, of Bostwick & Burgess, Norwalk,
o., were blown open Tuesday night but
the robbers secured only a small amount
of money.
Miss Clarinda Riley, of Ontario, Canada,
after meeting with financial losses in
Victoria, B. c., jumped overheard from
vessel between the latter place an San
Francisco.
Since King Humbert's acceptance of
Signor Crispi's resignation of the premier
ship and his retirement from public life
the latter has decided to resume the prac-
tice of law.
Mrs Sarah Epner, of Columbia, Pa,
was burned almost to crisp by her cloth
ing catching fire from stove Her dangh-
ter was also badly burned in trying to ex-
tinguish the flames.
1t is said all efforts to adjust the differ
ences between the factions of the Irish
Home Rule party have failed, ard that
O'Brien and Dillon will abandon further
work in that direction.
The British steamer Thanemore. which
left Baltimore on Nov rs for London, is
given up for lost She carried crew of
thirt1fou persons. There were also
twelve cattlemen on board
Mrs. Charles Pierson, wife of a prom-
nent farmer of Hendricks county, Ind.
while mentally derauged left home Mon.
day night, and was not found until next
day, almost frozen. Her recovery is doubt
full.
The celebrated suit of the heirs of
Lucretia Anderson against w. l.. Ander-
son for $l0,500 was argued before Judge
Morrow, at Lancaster, KY, Wednesday,
and will be decided at Danville, next
week.
John Corcoran, conductor, got into a
fight with his brakeman, John Mahony
at Dubuque. Iowa, a few days ago, and had
his nose bitten off. Blood poisoning set
in, and it is feared he will die. Mahony
has fed
j. f. Smith, who singlehanded bound
Express Messenger Scudder and robbed
the safe on Cincinnati, Sandusky and
Cleveland train, between Urbana and
Bellefon.aine, o., last fall, pleaded guilty
at Urhana.
At Tuesdays session of the National AS
sociation of Builders, in Boston, the re
port of committee was adopted recog
nizing the right Of workmen to organize,
and recommending the arbitration of all
labor disputes.
A case has been agreed on between the
city and the North and West Chicago
Railroad companies, to test the validity OF
a city ordinance recently passed, requiring
that street cars be heated in winter. The
point is a new one.