Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-06-15
NEWS IN RRIEE.
4 Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects

From now ON legal interest in Illinois is
5per cent.
Rev Sam. Small is no longer Method
ist minister.
Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, has re-
! turned from Europe.
Women of Illinois have been granted
| suffrage in school elections.
| The women have asked to be represented
on immigration commission.
An Ohio lady has made application for a
position as railway postal clerk
Ed. Webb, II, is arrested for sending OBJ
scene letters to ladies at indianapolis.
Arthur Bennett, son of Evansville, Ind,
postmaster, was drowned while skiff rid
ing.
1t is denied that John ID. Rockefeller is
seriously ill at his summer home in Cleve-
land.
Alex. Lee, aged 20, fell from a cherry
tree, near Brookville, Ky, and broke his
neck.
An attempt was made to wreck an Erie
train near Urbana, O., by barricading the
track
A war between Honduras, Salvador and
Guatemala is predicted about the 18th of
September.
One of the directors of the whisky trust
says prices will not be advanced, but prob
ably reduced.
The Weekly Trust says it will lower
prices when it gets the new Lakamire pro-
cess in operation.
Unstamped opium valued at $l3, coo was
found in the Chinese quarters in San Fran
cisco Friday night.
Bernard Wittmer, New York type
writer, has fallen heir to an estate of S2,
100000 in Germany
The two-ton class stone of the juniors at
Heidelberg university was blown into
fragments by dynamite.
Ladies' auxiliary to the Order of Rail
way Conductors, elected Mrs. Ragon, Of
Columbus, O., president
The case against Drs. Blackburn and
Grant, accused of grave robbing at Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, is dismissed.
Billy Myer, the Streator "cyclone, wants
to fight Jimmy Carroll. Myer is said to
be in the very best of shape.
The New York university has elected
DR.. Henry M. MacCracken chancellor, to
succeed DIR. John Hall, resigned.
George Little, a farmer living near Gil
livan o., who started for West jefferson
May 30, has not yet returned home.
Elias Shaw and John Sanders settled a
quarrel with knives, at Columbus, Ind.
Sanders will die, and Shaw Is in Jail.
Ed. Hennigan, of Washington, Va, was
killed at Fort Monroe, Va, by Thornton
Hains, friend, during a quarrel in row
boat.
Ten arrests were made during a raid on
Howe and Trowne's gambling resorts at
indianapolis. The other houses closed in
alarm.
The total value of the exports of domes-
tic breadstutfs from the United States
during the month of May, 1891, was $12,
30,23l
Oscar Turnstrom, aged IA, and Peter
Wintune, aged 23, were drowned in Paul's
lake, near Cambridge, Mimi, while
bathing.
Near Little Falls, Mimi, lightning struck
house that contained six persons. Ola
Nysuen was instantly killed, and two 9th
ers injured.
Hon. Warner Miller, of New York, adj
dressed a San Francisco audience in the
Metropolis hall on the subject of the Mica
ragua canal.
The trial of the case of "King" Kelly in
the police court, Cincinnati, for playing
base ball on Sunday, resulted in verdict
of not guilty.
John Evans, fire boss at the Cunningham
shaft operated by the Delaware and Hud-
son Coal company, was instantly killed by
a fall of rock.
The Central New York diocese has
unanimously adopted the committees re-
nj 70 ba Of
Brooks as bishop.
Fear of business reverses led Valentine
Burkell, Columbus, o., barber, to com
NIT suicide by drowning himself in
Goodale park lake.
j. b. Clark. of Chicago, and j. ID. Ware,
of St Louis, guests at the Albion hotel, at
Hot Springs, Ark, were robbed of $1,000
and $400 respectively.
The basis of representation for the the
Peoples party convention of Ohio makes
l ,140 delegates. Women are entitled to
the same rights as men,
Julio Merzhacher general agent of the
New York Life Insurance company for the
West Indies and Spanish America, is de-
faulter for over $150,000.
At Gallipolis, O., Henry Neil had
his clothing caught in a revolving
wheel in his fathers Touring mill, and
narrowly escaped death
At Indianapolis, Music Teacher Gunter-
man tried suicide with belladonna and,
failing at that eat the sulphur from box
of matches and yet may live,
The Colorado conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church has admitted women
as lay delegates and dropped Rev. Sam
Small from the membership
Jake Sheehan, a Massillon, o., saloon
keeper, vented an old spite by almost kill
ing Mart. Bast by pounding him over the
head with blunt instrument.
Fifteen hundred people attended the
twenty y-siXth annual commencement eXer-
cises of the Wooster. o., high school
There were forty-five graduates
Vardeman Bard, aged 20 years, of Brown
county, Ind, was dragged under a low
shed. where he attempted to drive his
team, and was crushed to death.
The increase in the value of shipments
of raw cotton for nine months ended May
81, 1891, was $34, ,S92, ,154 over the value for
the corresponding months of 1890.
An organization is being formed at
Montreal Canada to perpetuate the mem
ory of the late Sir John Macdonald. 1t
will be known as the Maple Leaf league
Gen. George c. Tichenor, formerly the
assistant secretary of the treasury, and
now one of the general appraisers, had
his toes mashed by an elevator in Chicago.
Hon, ]. N. Gilchrist member of the
last Alabama assembly, suicided at Mont
gomery, Ala, by the use of morphine,
He had been drinking heavily for over
week.