Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting items Of
Various Subjects.

Kentucky's population officiallyis l, $685.
634.
Hon. Alex H. H. Stuart died at staun-
ton, Va,
Frank Smith, the Urbana, o., train rob
Der, gets sever years.
Judge w. r. Mccormick committed
suicide at Clifton, Ariz.
Six cases of smallpox have created stir
in Prairie du Chen, Wis.
Measles and whooping cough are pre-
vailing to an alarming extent at Coshoc'
ton, o.
The dead man found in pond at Shiloh,
o., is identified as William Genill, of
Cleveland.
Joseph Rearick, of Trio, blew out the
gas in a Mansfield o., hotel. He will
never know il.
Brown Brothers, dealers in croekery in
Duluth, have failed. Assets, $57, 900; liza
bilities $4,000
In the Winchester, KY, court William
Effort, brakeman, was awarded 81 200
damages for the loss of an arm.
Charley Foster rolled up his sleeves at
the Toledo banquet and boldly nominated
Mckinley for Ohio's next governor.
William Devine is sued at Greensburg,
Ind, for leading school girl Emma Wright
all wrong and then marrying another.
Elkhart, Ind, straw board works ex-
ploded, killing Schuyler Newander and
George Hicksman and iniuring others.
A 1-year-old child of Mr.. John Herring,
of Upper Sandusky o., was perhaps fa-
tally scalded by the overturning of cup
of coffee.
A lot of rifled letters found along the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Fostoria,
o., is case that at present is enveloped in
mystery.
Jesse Streitt, 13, Of Seymour, Ind, who
slept through all Lass June, went to sleep
again last Wednesday and is still slumber-
ing peacefully.
David Fox, the only survivor of the Not
tingham, Pa, mine explosion of year
ago, was killed Thursday night by blast
in pit at Wilkesbarre
Hon. j. N. Huston, United States treas
urer, has bought the College Corner, O.,
Medicinal Springs and will set up opposi-
ton to the German Spa.
At Brunswick, Ga. Candus Gardner,
colored, was sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, March 10, for the murder of Isaiah
Munnsfeld, also colored.
A boiler explosion in Ousler's -four mill
occurred at Windsor, Mo. Hugh L.
Smith and Thomas Tilberv, boiler-makers
from Sedalia, were killed.
DR.. Sullivan Whitney, the first Ameri-
can physician to manufacture homeo-
pathic remedies, died at Newtonville,
Mass, at the age of So years.
John Hosadt and f. Kalde, Chicago
carpenters, engaged in a rough-and-tum-
bic fight Hosadt plunging a knife into
Ralde's abdomen Kalle will die.
Seven sal)onkeepers were arrested at
Lebanon, Mo-, for selling liquor in viola
ton OF the local option law. 1t is the com
men0ement of an exciting contest.
Gay Jewett son of Representative Jew
EFT, of Worth county, Iowa, who had been
a museum wonder, is dead. He was 30
years of age and weighed 740 pounds.
Burglars blew open the vault and safe of
the Port Washington, Wis, bank, and Sc
cured $1,000. They were traced to Mil
waukee, but there all trace of them was
lost.
1t is believed that Mrs. Mile Gaffner,
wife of DR.. I. Gaffner, prominent ply
sician Of Trenton, H., who disappeared
last Sunday from st. John hospital, has
suicided.
Burglar Jim Anderson will have the
entire Smith family after him now, as he
is said to have sailed under that name,
stolen for the purpose, at one time in Co
lumbus, o.
At Little Rock, Ark, Farmers Alliance
and Farmers Industrial delegates from
nearly every county in the state, are as
sembled to form a consolidation of the
two orders.
Joe Patton, in the Addyston o., pipe
works, cut his finger, the sight of the
blood made him faint, and falling he
struck his head on the iron floor. He may
die from the fall
The wife of Carl Hourlitz, a lawyer re-
Gently from the east, met him on the
street, in Chicago, in company with two
women, and proceeded to cowhide him.
He had deserted her.
In the Omaha Jail physicians pumped a
quart of milk down the throat of H. M.
Rodgers, who tried to commit suicide last
week after confessing to completely in a
Pennsylvania murder.
City Attorney Warder, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, who killed his daughters husband
Jan Is, was admitted to bail in the sum of
$4,000 He has been declared hopelessly
insane by attending physicians.
War is raging between the junior and
senior classes of the Wesleyan university,
Mount Pleasant, Iowa. The row was
started by boycott the juniors worked on
the annual exhibition of the seniors.
T. j. Davis, who claims to be the illegiti-
mate son of the late millionaire Davis, of
Helena Mont, denies the report published
that he has compromised his claim to
share in his fathers estate for 100000.
A lightning rod shark was stunned
temporarily out of his seventeen senses by
the daughter OF his victim, who snatched
the fraudulent contract from his hands
and tore it into atoms at Circleville o.
Chesaning, Mich, has a man who goes
into frances and converses with the angels
While in this state he can be lanced to the
bone without bleeding, the wound healing
in few hours. His name is Kaizer Hoh-
man.
When the linemen of the Postal Tee-
graph company went to repair the lines
west of Brazil, Ind, they were arrested
for trespassing and placed under bond to
appear before Posey county justice Sat
uTday.
Mrs. Jobs Stahl, aged 20, committed
suicide by hanging herself in a tobacco
shed on farm eight miles northof Green
vile, o. She had been deraged somewhat
since her sister did the same act three
weeks ago.
Petitions are in circulation in Warren
county, o. for the release of AL. Graham
and Charles Coleman. AS their combined
sentence is $50 years the governor might
compromise by commutation to life inn
prisonment.
Secretarv Noble has informed Goyernor