Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation Of Interesting Items of
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects
Religious excitement set Smith Coil, of
Jacksonville, O.. crazy.
British yachtsmen are eager to try
again for the American cup.
William Mel, on was badly injured in a
runaway near Georgetown, o.
Emin Pasha has won two battles fought
in Central Africa with the natives
Elmer Haas was crushed to death by a
tree be was telling, near Newark, O.
Bateman & Company, New York bank
ers, have quit, Liabilities, $l,O00,0O0.
H. NJ. Huston, alias Davis, was bound
over for counterfeiting, at Pittsburg
Richard X. Fox wants to match Nc
Aulifle against any man except Sullivan
or Slavin
Indiana school teachers want the legis-
letme to regulate the expenditures of
school funds.
Corbett and Jackson will fight 10 fin
ish before the California athletic Club in
May for $4,000 purse
Annie Oakley, champion female rifle
shot of the world, died at Buenos Ayres,
says London cablegram
The president of Mexico has signed the
Dlll lof lils AuIillSSlOL Oh corn from Llb
United States free of duty,
-Four Newark, o., young men were ar
rested at the depot with dealer Keller's
burgled jewelry in their pockets.
Tommy Warren, the lightweight,
knocked out Tommy Miller, of Indianap-
oils, in three rounds in that city Tuesday
night.
Charles Labelle is jailed at Tacoma,
WASH, and was brought to Jeffersonville,
Ind, where he is indicted for smuggling
opium.
President Harrison and Postmaster Gen
eral Wauamaker are investigating the
killing of Postmaster Matthews at Carroll
ton, Miss
Henry lutz, aged 81, was arrested near
Bethlehem Pa, on the charge of murder
Ing whole family i'll Germany thirty
years gg).
Alliance, o., lumber dealers pine for
Contractor Henry Kellar, who has con-
tracted into invisibility with the Sc, coo he
owes them.
The Floyd county, Ind, defalcation has
been settled so that the state gets $1,000.
The states claim was S32 000 of which it
was justly entitled TO $4,000
Burglars blew open the safe Of the
Church of the Immaculate, Cincinnati,
early Wednesday morning, but fled, leav-
ing its contents, $l00, behinu.
Engineer Cooley, lately in charge of the
Chicago ship canal project advocates in
stead OF the plan heretofore opposed q
channel twenty feet deep and 60 wide.
Sergius Stepniak, the distinguished
Russian writer, who comes to this country
tn nd I,,o
tionary movement, arrived by the steamer
Umbra
The arrest has been made of the leader
of gang OF thieves operating in the largo
cities of Europe, His name is Simon, and
he has been living in great style in villa
in Silesia
Robert Williams was arrested in Gin.
cinnati for q forgery committed in Mil
waukee, his victim there being the super
intendent of the Young Mems Christian
association.
Three men went through a passenger
coach as it stood in the Columbus, Ind,
depot and robbed the passengers Of sew.
eral hundred dollars at the point of re.
volver. Of course they escaped
At Falmouth, Ky, The special grand
jury has indicted JEFF Bray, Archie Down.
ard, Scott Whalen, and William Smith for
willlul murder, and has the case against
Bill Moore for Ku-Kluxing yet to inves.
tigate.
lames A. Garfield Jr., second son of tho
late president, was married to Miss Helen
Newell daughter of John Newell tn
president of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad, in Chicago Tuesday
evening. Young Garfield is a lawyer
According to The Dublin Express, indie.
Conservative, il is Mr. William
O'Brien's intention to surrender himself
to the police early in January, in order to
serve two terms of six months imprison.
ment to which he was sentenced on
Nov. 10.