Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-28
NEWS IN eRIEE.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.


Heavy snow in Mississippi
Silver, they say, in Clark county, Ind
Chicago is talking three cent street car
fare
Il is claimed that there are twenty-five
cases OF leprosy In New Orleans.
H. N Meeker and wife were seriously
hurt by runaway Eorse at Franklin, o.
Gump, the Fort Wayne, Ind, faster, is
sick and may not be able to finish his
thirty days starve.
Heidelbaoh, Icllelheimer & Company, of
shipment 10 Europe.
Walter Die, aged IA, of Vandalia, Mo-.
was killed by lightning while standing in
his fathers barnyard.
Martinsville, Ind, claims that the recent
rains washed solid chunks of gold from
her surrounding hills.
Father Smith, of Delavan, Wis, was
find So and cost for selling chances on
harness at church fair.
Capt. A. w He'll is bridegroom for the
third time at 81 and Miss Maggie Brown
is bride at Martins Ferry o.
A great Confederate reunion, in connec-
tion with the G. A. r. dedicatory exercises
of the worlds fair is proposed.
Richmond, Va, is excited over an out
rage committed ON the s-year-old daughter
of G. A. Pulling by colored man.
Judge John W. Champlin, of Michigan,
has been nominated by his brother Demo
Gratis for supreme judge of that state,
The first single tax conference in the
state met at jefferson City, No., for the
purpose of effecting a state organization.
In Nashville insane asylum DR.. j. j.
Bugham, an inmate, opened an artery
with his suspender buckle, and bled to
death.
Mrs Jennie White is arrested at Middle
town on the charge that her treatment OF
her 12-yearold twin daughters is not half
white.
Eliza j. Saylor, who was badly injure
at the bridge catastrophe in Springfield,
o., last April, has sued the city for $500
damages
Miss Carrie Deming fell prostrate with
heart disease in the excitement of q re
ligious revival at Catawba, O., and may
not recover.
Seven hundred southwestern railway
men in session at Arkansas City resolved
unanimously in favor of federation Of
railway men.
Rev. Mate Fair, of the Greensburg, Ind,
Church of God, fell into gas trench and
entrenched upon the eitys treasury for
1916 damages.
SchoolbOys Harry Morris and Kyle
Brooks have surreptitiously taken the
trail of the doomed red man, from Con-
Hersville, Ind,
At Portland, Ind, a special grand jury
has been called in the case of Joseph
Shearer for the murder of George Miller on
the 23d of January.
Jasper Williams was shot and killed at
Leon Junction, Tex, by unknown persons
This makes the third assassination in that
village in six weeks.
1t is said that United States treasurer
j. n. Huston has resigned, and that the
office has been rendered ex-State Treas
urer of Indiana Lemcke.
An old silver mine has been reopened in
West Virginia. 1t was once used by
gang of counterfeiters, who got from it
the metal for their coinage.
While asleep MEs. Ollie Sowles, of
Shoals, Ind, had her nose broken and face
badly lacerated by large quantity of
plastering falling from the ceiling.
The pope has informed the propaganda
that he is not satisfied with the recent
nominations COR bishops in the United
States sent to his holiness for approval,
The coroner of Franklin county, o.,
finds In his inquest ON the recent shooting
in Columbus that Hughes was shot by
w. j. Elliott, and Osborn by Pat Elliott
There is great food in the Mohawk
valley N. Y, which valley itself is an old
waterway from the great lakes to the At
lantic otean, before the st. Lawrence out
let was opened.
John Mccarthy was arrested at Tifin,
o., Thursday, and taken before the United
States commissioner at Toledo to answer
a charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails.
The jury in the murder case of Abe Neal
at Madison, Ind, after remaining out all
night and until noon, were unable to
to agIee, and were discharged, Neal gave
bail and was released.
The Eeolween club, organized for card
playing and dancing, at Marion, O., gave
$50 to the new Methodist church, and won
public and fervent "God bless chat
club y from the pastor.
At Poplar Bluff, Mo-, Joseph Cruise, an
engineer on the Iron Mountain, shot and
probably fatally wounded Conductor
James Lannan, They had had some diff
Guilty about running their train.
The Arkansas senate has reconsidered
the vote by which the bill requiring tele.
graph companies to reduce their rates on
messages was passed The bill was re.
ferred to the finance committee.
Mitchell Jordan, of Henderson, Kv., as
saulted his wife with an ak, infiicting al
frightful wound in the head and ON the
arm. He gave himself up. The woman
will die. Mitchell had been on a spree.
Wednesday Louis E. Pfeiffer, president
of the defunct Bank Of America, at Phila
delphia, pleaded guilty to the charge OF
rehypothecating and converting to his
own use securities deposited as collateral
Detective Greer is following couple
whom he believes to be a New York kid.
naper and his victim. They were arrested
at Birmingham, Ala, but Immediately re
leased, and have gone TO Arkansas The
victim is supposed TO be Kate Vanoochi
a man named Wilson was frightfully
slashed with razor while returning from
a protracted meeting at Tracy Church, w
Va, by man named Gsinor, whom he
had reprimanded for misconduct during
service. Wilson will die. Gainor escaped
A trial is in progress az Greensburg, Ind,
to test the will of John Scofeld. whe, after
being divorced from his wife, died, having
bequeathed all his property to his Oldest
daughter, cutting off his two sons, whom
he accused OF causing the trouble between
their parents.
A committee of the house Of representa-
tives OF Washington state reported that
Representative Clarke offered to bribe
Metcalfe during the sena.