Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-30
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
various Subjects,

! LlS ulOlu6T IN ldNs
Steamers ON Mussel Shoals canal will be
towed by locomotives on the towpath
| CO.. A. l.. Conger, congressman from
Ohio, makes plate glass at Kokomo, Ind
Bills have been introduced in the Hi
nois legislature to make voting compul
sorry.
DIR. William Gentry, of Chicago thinks
be has caught and recognized the grip mi
crobe,
Eighteen leading druggists of Lynn,
Mass, have been arrested for selling
liquor.
j. w. Carter shot mortally Marion Tom
Ian at Somervlle, Tenn, in quarrel over
Lille Cop.
Marvin Hendrickson, Brooklyn drum
mer, died from an overdose of belladonua
and aconite.
Garrard Baker ives assassinated in Clay
county, KY, it is supposed, by some of the
Wilson gang.
The letter-carriers of the country are to
be fitted out in suits of light blue instead
OF the gray now in use
Tom Duff was arrested at Llano, Tex,
on suspicion of killing Yves Mcclure
while returning from dance.
Three men, A. Cassidy, Pat. Lynch and
Frerchman were killed in the Calelo-
mia coal mine at Gullup, n. NJ
The house of Mrs. Caroline Tuck, at
Haynesville,. Me-, was burned and Mrs
Tuck was cremated in her bed
During quarrel in a poker game at 81.
Louis William johnson struck and killed
Frank Allison with a billiard cue.
A bother explosion at Williams brick
yard, near Hazlewood Pa, almost IN
stantly killed John Jones, foreman.
mob OF supposed temperance advo
Gates actacked the saloon of William Mil
Ter, Bloomville, o., and demolished it,
The Norwegian bark Dictator was
driven ashore on the beach below Cape
Henry and eight of the crew drowned.
At Spokane Falls WASH, Charles
Elliott at a variety theater, shot twoI
actresses, and then blew his brains out.
John Havel and son Joseph, while cross
ing railroad track in c cagr, were
struck by an engine and fatally injured
Nelson +. Kinds, of St. Francis, Wis, |
was found dead in his field, with a bullet
hole in his head and revolver lying by !
his side.
The murdered and outraged body Of |
Nellie Ryan, a woman 40 yems Old, vi
found in clump If trees in suburb ol
Camden, n. J.
Miss Zoe Clayton, who start from San
Francisco last August to walk to New
York before April 0, on wager, reached |
that city March 81.
DR., Sherman Follansbee, of Boston |
tharged with criminal malDractica on Ida |
guilty on one count,
Disston, the Philadelphia saw man.
expects to get $S0C0) government bounty |
this year. on sugar from OO acres in |
Okeechokec swamp, Fla,
Henry c. Berg, for many years monk
formally renowned the Catholic belief,
and was baptized into the Christian |
church, In annapolis, Ind.
While some children were playing "cir-
Gus" in Columbia, Pa, Anna Kiehl, & !
years old, was fatally burned y some of
the paraphernalia catching fire.
Mrs. Q. Erickson, of New York, stepped |
on IA parlor match, which ignited, setting
fire to her clothing, and she was so Sc
verely burned that she may die.
While timber-cutters were at work upon
a tree near Lebanon, Ind, gas oozed from
the saw-cut, and upon the application of a
match burned for twenty minutes.
John Brennan, who Killed Minnie Mar
tleson in Chicago last December, was
foan1 guilty and the penalty fixed at
twenty-five years in the penitentiary.
Stanley has been obliged to cancel all
his dates in Texas on account of the
severity of the criticisms against him for
his alleged desertion from the Con nfederate
army.
Secretary Proctor spent Thursday in
specting Forts Davis, Hancock and Bliss,
in Texas, His reported retirement from
the cabinet, July l, he said, was pure
gossip.
John Malone, fireman, and Edward
Gross, a butcher, of Kansas City, have
confessed to the murder of Patrick Horan
during quarrel over the payment OF
drinks.
Parnell's agents met with signal re
buke in Omaha, receiving notice that the
Irishmen of tnat city would not contribute
ANYTHING until assured Of change in
leadership
George Harris, of Newbern, Mo-, who
achived some notOriety by his Thirty
days fasting in January and February,
has been adjudged insane and placed in an
insane asylum.
At Nashville colored woman digged
up 81, lC0 in god and silver in her turnip
patch. The money is claimed by the heirs
of a woman who claim it was buried there
during the war,
In Clay county, KY, Garrard Baker was
shot from ambush and killed. feud
has existed for some time between the
Bakers and Wilson's, the latter being sus-
pected of the crime.
At Portland, Ore, Charles Elliott tried
to shoot Lulu Duran, an actress of whom
he was Jealous. His bullets struck and
killed Mabel Debabian, and wounded Car
rie Smith. He then shot himself
An effort is being made by syndicate
to get control of the brandy market in
California. There is now stored in the
vare houses over 10 O,000 gallons OF
mandv. one-half Of which is held bya
syndicate,
William Hudgins, who was captured at
Paris. Tex, recently, is tie leader of
gang of outlaws, and is hms If the mur-
derer OF several men. He is 20 years old,
but is one of the most hardened criminals
in the southwest
Two saloon keepers Of Barnnm, Iowa,
have invented scheme for evading the
LIQUOR law. They have constructed a
bnilding in sections, and when proceed
inps are instituted against them, they
take down the building and store it away.
The Reading Iron company has notified
ito 600 employees that slight reduction
in wages will be made on April 1 The
employes will accept the reduction, As
restoration of the scale of wages is prom
ised by the company with improved bust
ness.
Tie Indian r ghts association Of Phila
a1,,lia bss ,.f,itioned Attorney General