Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items Ol
Various Subjects.

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General John Pope, U. S. A., is ill at
Toledo.
The United States is flooded with En-
glish tin.
Rain, wind and lightning damaged the
Ohio valley.
North American Turner Bund meets in
Indianapolis.
A European zollverein has been formed
including all central Europe.
Available cash in the United States
treasury, June 30, 50, ABS, ,934.
A Presbyterian female college is to be
established at Winchester, Ky.
Twelve persons were made deathly sick
at Peru, Ind, by eating dried beef.
Hon. Thomas Byrnes, Indiana Demo
cratic politician, died at Evansville.
Peter Hallen, convicted of murder,
hanged himself in Jail at Lacon, Ills
Nine prisoners were sentenced to the
penitentiary from Fayette county, Ky.
William Davis is lightning rod swind-
Ter who has been doing Butler county, o.
The Cleveland ore handlers strike is set
tied by the men accepting eleven cents per
ton.
The price of nails has fallen forty-five
cents per hundred pounds since August
last.
The public accounts of Prince Edward
Island for the last year exhibit deficit of
$1,000
Ed and Joe Shumard, in their teens,
were drowned while bathing near Frank
lin, o.
The wife of Rev. Claude Kelley, of Leav-
enworth Kan, was almost killed by a
burglar.
Cyrus Black and P. C. Gregory fought
at short range at Slater, Mo. Gregory was
shot in the leg.
Mrs. Governor Campbell gave lunch
con Saturday in honor of Mrs. ex-Gov-
ernor Foraker.
James McCardle was fatally injured by
the explosion of gasoline smoothing iron
at Muncie, Ind.
John Carter, of Louisville took rough
on rats by mistake, and was only saved by
a stomach pump.
Louisville's city council and board of al
dermen are at war over certain vitrifed
brick ordinances.
Testimony tending to prove the sanity of
Colonel King was heard in his murder
trial at Memphis.
Fred Burgess, of Hartford, KY, goes to
prison fifteen years for killing George Har-
ris two years ago.
Washington has assumed all its mid
summer dullness, owing to the departure
of official leaders.
One hundred and fifty young men grad
uated from the Kentucky school of medi-
cine at Louisville.
John Humphreys a Knoxville mechanic,
was killed by lightning while attempting
to close a window.
Pat Meehan, a Cincinnati bootblack,
disfgured for life .----.
Michael Shine, Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern conductor, was killed by
cars at Greenfield, o.
DIR. James Thompson, one of the best
known physicians of Wisconsin, fell dead
Sunday at Milwaukee.
His holiness, the pope, is disappointed at
the Indifference Italians have shown to his
recently published encyclical
United States marshals are destroying
illicit distilleries by the wholesale in the
mountain counties of Kentucky.
Committee ON the contemplated Ohio
Masonic home recommends Sugar grove,
near Springfield, rs the best site.
Warden Frank Gregory, of the Memphis
county infirmary, was killed with shovel
in the hands of colored lunatic.
One boy was killed, another fatally in
jured and six badly injured beneath
sand bank that eaved in near Erie, Pa.
Lille Mcdonald, of Louisville, has sued
the Adams Express company for $4,000
for being struck by one of its wagons.
Great interest is taken in the tenth an
nual Christian endeavor convention, which
takes place at Minneapolis July o to 12.
Arthur Edwards 20, was fatally stabbed
at Bells camp, near Red Cliff, Colo, by
half-demented man named Tom Baldwin.
1t is denied that the famous Anaconda
copper mine, near Butte, Mon, has been
sold to an English syndicate for $25, 900, COO
Minister Egan's efforts to reconcile the
Chilan belligerents have met with failure,
owing to an unfortunate bomb-throwing.
The Indians in the district of Papantla,
state of Vera Cruze, have revolted and
the government has sent troops to subdue
them.
Mrs D. C. Reece, of Rockport, Mo-, died
of heart disease resulting from the shock
of her husbands disappearance the day
before.
Gladys Evelyn has lost her appeal from
the decision of the court in her suit against
William Henry Hurlburt for breach of
promise.
Mrs. Margaret Keehoe, of EvePson, Pa,
did not believe1sa bs4sl1s. and kept her
hoardings- 70, 900 in an old satchel.
1t is gone.
The Alton boycott is apparently an ut
ter failure, and Chairman Blanchard has
been called to New York for consultation
regardingit.
In Pittsburg saloon Leonard Hilton
was shot through the head by Richard
Sholer in quarrel over game of craps.
Both colored.
Saturdays rain storm did heavy damage
in southern Indiana. Sunday q tornado
struck Cairo, Ills, causing considerable
loss of property.
By boiler explosion at the Drake Coal
companys mine, near Massillon, o., the
ENGINEER, Henry Vogt, was killed. Vogt
was alone. Low water.
Seven negroes were drowned Saturday
night near Baltimore, by drunken man
stepping upon the side of a rowboat and
capsizing it. Two were women.
Six million, four hundred and seventy
nine thousand bushels of coal has left
Pittsburg, 2,l22,0O0 being for Cincinnati
and 4,557,0O0 for Louisville and the south.
The United States savings bank, at To-
peka, Kan, which failed during the recent
strlnRency in the money markets, will re-
open July 10. All depositors will be paid
in full
At McKeesport, Pa, William Myers