Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| condemnation OF interesting Items on
Various Subjects
Amberg, Mich, was destroyed by forest
fires.
The trans-Mississipp conference is ses-
sion at Denver.
Loss by fire at Jacksonville, Fla, is now
placed at $50O,00O.
Kentucky Prohibitionists have a full
ticket in the field.
An ice plant and cold-storage house is
being erected at Paris Ky.
Texas farmers claim the damage to crops
in that state will reach $500,000.
A boy was found murdered in Liver
pool, presumably by Jack the Ripper
The pneumatic dynamite guns of the
Vesuvius, our war ship, were successful.
Seven firemen of New York city were
hurt by the explosion of barrel of gaso
line.
The small village of Sylvania, O., was
almost entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
night.
The cave-in of a sewer at Providence, r.
| l., buried eleven Italians, four of whom
are dead.
In street car riot in Grand Rapids,
Mich, seven men were hurt by strikers;
one mortally.
Ex-Governor Alexander Ramsey, of Min
nesota has been blackmailed by his coach
man out of $4,000
The Northwestern Ohio Volunteer Fire
mems association meets at St. Mary's
Wednesday, May 20.
The fish in Elk river are dying in large
numbers and filing up the streams, stop
ping water wheels, etc.
Mrs. David Lemon, of Amboy Ind, was
suddenly stricken with blindness and soon
afterward became raving maniac.
Marion Elliott, aged IS, hanged himself
near Paducah Ky, through grief for his
twin brother who died two weeks ago.
Noar Portsmouth, o., Findlay Stewards
and John Cooper quarreled over Jug of
whisky, and Sowards has broken skull
Mrs. Michael Welch, deserted wife,
| trying to reach Vanceburg, Ky, on foot
from Pittsburg, gave birth to babe at
the roadside.
The Harrison administration already has
filled thirty scrap books with newspaper
clippings. They are filed away at the
White House.
BY an explosion of powder at Rhine
hearts coal mines, near New Philadelphia,
O., two brothers, John and Edward Croft,
were roasted to death.
Isaac Foluz, farmer of Montgomery
county, o., who is charged with forgeries
to the amount of $12, 600, has been arrested
and is in Jail at Dayton.
Since the establishment of the sea postal
service between the United States and
Germany, 81, 600 letters have been carried
on the incoming steamers.
The first issue of The Decatur Democrat,
Democratic organ published by Thomas
Hendricks Greenfield, has made its APP
pearance at Greensburg, Ind.
At Youngstown, O., Tuesday, Mack Nc
Carthy, telegraph OPERATOR attempted to
kill Mary Maloney, the keeper of dive
by stabbing her. He escaped
Andy Bowen, the Louisiana Tornado"
and Billy Myer, "the Streator Cyclone"
fought at New Orleans. Bowen Won in
the twenty-fourth round on foul.
Daisy Reynolds a young white girl who
became infatuated with negro near Will
shire, o., was found dead in deserted hut
in a lonely forest near New Corydon.
The deserted wife of Michael Welch, of
Pittsburg, started on foot to reach friends
in Vanoeburg, Ky. Near Portsmouth, O.,
she gave birth to child in ditch by the
roadside.
A collision between two locomotives on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, ut
Newark o., seriously damaged both en-
gines. The trainmen escaped injury by
jumping.
John Bullard, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, while
driving home from church with his bride,
was fatally wounded by Frank Thompson,
who was trying to disperse crowd of
boisterous serenaders.
At Coffeyville, Kan, the postoffce was
burglarized Monday night. About 500 in
stamps and the same amount in money,
all the registered letters and the money or
der books were stolen.
Secretary of Agriculture Rusk has or
dered a quarantine against sheep and
swine coming from Canada. He finds this
necessary in order to properly protect the
stock of the United States from contagion.
At Philadelphia, the supreme officers of
the Eastern Workers were arraigned,
charged with conspiracy TO defraud. The
president, Edward Harris, was not in at
tendance, aud his bail, 5000, was fer
feited. The Others were put under bail.