Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
4 Condensation of Interesting Items a.
various Subjects.

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Two murderers were shot to death by a
mob in Jail at Sealand, Wash,
Charls Hartwig, Peoria letter carrier,
was arrested for mail robbing
The first consignment of Chinese to.
bac~o has been received in London.
A Demcceatic club will be formed in
every precinct in the United States.
President Polk, of the Farmers ALI
ance, says both old rtes are doomed.
AT Washin yton, Pc, three boys stoned
nitrc-gl c2tina can. All three are dead
Hiram w. Blanchard, the noted abolo-
ZIONIST aged 50 years died in Boston Mon
day,
Savannah gives $1,000 and large piecs
oil land to get tie Georgia state negro col
lege
The Burlington switchmen struck at
Denver, but their places were at once
filed
Emperor Francis Joseph dwelt upon the
desire for peace in his speech opening tie
reichsrath
Ex-Governor Waterman of California,
died at San Diego of pneumonia, after u
brief Illness
One fireman was killed and thrae in
jured by falling walls at the Paxton hotel
fire at Omaha.
Lockwood's bill prohibiting trusts and
pools passed the Minnesota house by a
vote OF 81 to !.
Geo, Uhl, farmer near NIiIlersburg, O..
died of grip after short illness of less
than half an hour.
While out shooting frogs Glenn Moder-
man, of Coyington, Ky, accidentally shot
and killed himself
Baron Gustaye Rothschild has retired
from business after losing 20 ,0}0 90
francs in speculation.
Nicksburg citizens ask the resig lat on
of its Postmaster Hill because of his ne
grophilist tendencies
At Pittsburg three boys built fire on
the river front, around a giant poWd Ar
can, and two are dead.
Chicago railroad men are awaiting the
defense of the Missouri Pacific for its sugar
tariff with impatience.
A comic opera company has cancelled its
dates in Minnesota on account of tn, anti
tights bill in the legislature.
Charlie Light, Chicago and Erie
switcbmln, was run down by train at
4Attl IOli os3 anu Instantly hllltu.
Joseph Hammer, an employe of the
Schlitz brewery, Milwaukee, fell into a vat
of boiling water. Death resulted.
Major NJ Kinley leaves Washington for
Cincinnati Friday and viii be present at
the Repu b lean League convention.
Said that Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr will
go to Dakota to get a divorce and later
will marry her physician, Dr. Bull.
Bulgaria is said to have convincing evi-
dence that Minister Battcheif's assassins
were hired by Russia to do the work.
Henry Hartzell, farmer near Alliance,
O., missed $40 of his savings and his hired
mans James Howard, the same night.
Rev Camille Loureatti has been ap-
pointed by the propaga da minutante for
American affairs of the Catholic church.
The Alton threatens to bring chang of
conspiracy against the eastern roads for
the boycott issued by the board of rulings
Ed. Strange, OF Oneonta, Ga. shot his
bride of month. He says he took his gun
to shoot a hawk, and it was accdently dis.
charged.
Detective James Paxton was killed at
Pinnacle Springs, Ark, by M, S Good,
whom he was endeavoring to arrest. Good
was fatally shot.
A fire at Elizabeth, N. j., destroyed
Clark's Arcade building. Loss 100000
The blCc,l contained bank, the post office
and several stores.
The Kentucky constitutional Convention
has finished it's work, after session Of lg9
days. The proposed changes will be vo.ed
upon next August
Master Mecnanic Stephen b. Tinker, of
the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan
railway, died at his residence, in Wabash,
Ind, of pneumonia.
Alex Foote, the negro who murdered j.
j, Meadows of Bluefeld, W. Va, WIS
taken by a mob and hanged IIecoarc sed
this and three other murders
At lumber camp near Reno, Ark,
Jack Cassidy crushed his wife's skull with
a club, and killed two men who nterfcled,
and was then shot ard killed
United States authorities say they have
evidence as to wlere George Gibson
bought the dynamite to dynamite the
Shufeldt distillery in Chicago.
There is distressing destitution in
Lewis county, Ky The epidemic Of grip
in the southern part of the county has
prostrated nearly every inhabitant.
At Lexington, KY, David b. Hardesty
was shot twice but not seriously won nded
by Robert T. Holloway. The trouble was
the result o. some pool-room rivalries.
Rev. Charles A. Briggs, DID,, professor
of biblical theology in Union Theological
seminary, New York city, will be tried for
heresy He denies verbal inspiration.
A request for change of venue in the
case of Gen. Clay King, who killed David
Poston, the lawyer, at Memphis was re-
fused and the trial will take ace in
Shelby county, Tenn.
The iron vault in the county clerks
Office at Benton, Saline county, Kan, was
broken into by masked man and n large
amount Of funds taken. No clew except
mask found near the court house.
The Scotch Irish AssC C alton of America
will hold its third annual congress in
Louisville, Ky, Kay "a, next. Governor
Buchanan, of Tennessee, has issued a
proclamation announcing the event.
A portion of the foundation wall OF the
new building on the northwest corner Of
Fifth and Race streets, Cincinnati, fell
Saturday afternoon, and Paul Glenn and
William Gibson were crushed to death.
Edwin l.. Shumway was found dead
near Springfield, Mass. He is believed TO
have been a train wrecker, and to have
taken poison, or to have been murdered
by his confe1erates, who feared exposure.
Clifton w. Tayleur, newspaper writer,
dramatist and theatrical manager, was
found dead in bed Sunday, at the home Of
his brother in Brooklyn, where he lived
for month. Mr.. Tayleur was IS years
old. Heart disease is supposed to have