Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

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A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
| Marlboro, O., is troubled with horse
| thieves
Southern Indiana peaches are being
marketed.
Squirrel shooting is now legal in Ohio
anti Indiana.
The army worm is marching through
| Howard county, Ind.
St. Joseph, Ind, in one night shipped
| 10000 crates of berries
West Virginia will erect a $40, 900 build
ing at the worlds fair
Joe Sidmore, u hack driver, was killed
by train at Rochester, Ind
Out of 2,16G inhabitants of Martinsville,
Ind, 1872 belong to a church.
The Indiana state Prohibs will meet in
convention at Indianapolis July %.
At North Vernon, Ind, Dick Malone
was drowned while bathing in the river.
Decatur Qnd) citizens ask their coun-
Gil to reduce liquor licenses from $3.50 to
$780,
The centennial of St Clair's defeat will
be celebrated at Fort Recovery, O., Oct.
14-16
The building trades of Pittsburg have
decided to abandon their strike for eight
hours
The Montgomery county Gnd farmers
will harvest 81 500, 900 worth of wheat this
season.
William G. Ballentine has been in.
stalled as president of the Oberlin (O.)
college.
To.o.L w. A1A - rls. -,
born in 1918, claims to be the oldest native
Indianian.
The indianapolis street car wrangle in
regard to the stablemen's lockout remains
unchanged.
A Marion Qnd) hardware store, stand
ing for the time being on jack screws, fell
and collapsed.
Seven glass factories at Muncie, Ind,
have shut down until September, and 80
men will rest.
l. G. +. Marvin, of Ohio, has been reap
pointed meteorologist in the reorganized
weather bureau.
The Dayton, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad will be standard guaged between
Dayton and Delphos, o.
The Wapakoneta (O.) Racing assoca-
tion will light its track with natural gas
and have night races.
Evansville, Ind, is now furnishing work
for all its laborers, and the man who
laboreth not, wisheth not labor.
A nineteen-months-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Thomas, of indianapolis, fell
into tub of water, and was drowned
George Won Skaik, young blacksmith
of Norristown, Ind, was injured so badly
nxrt tbn L. Htrk- ,Nf. h.A. hat h...
An impure well at Mount Union college
at Alliance, o., has developed fever among
students. One has died and four are i'll.
Adolph Koch, aged 10 years, was run
over by loaded car on the Tile works in
cline, at GAINESVILLE, o., and was fatally
injured.
The Russian legation have officially no
titled Director General Davis that Russia
accepts the invitation to participate in the
worlds fair.
Luther Glenn and Joe Locket Jr., way
laid and murdered James Hawkins for his
money, at Buffalo, w. Va. They are
under arrest
A colored boy, Norville Radcliffe fired
twenty shocks of wheat at Mount Vernon,
Ind, to have some fun. He is now having
some fun in Jail.
N f. Whitaker, of Whitaker mill, |
Wheeling, w. Va, signed the amalga
mated scale on behalf of his company-the
first signature in that vicinity.
A farm hand at Mechanicsburg, o., |
killed ~blacksnake, of the racer species,
that measured nine feet in length and
twelve inches in circumference.
Agricultural report for Ohio: Grain |
crops are promising corn weedy in places. |
Apples dropping. Wheat harvest com
menced in middle section, large yield
George Champman, of Madison, Ind
while on his way to Jail for stealing
watch, broke away from an Office, and
was shot in the knee before stopping his |
fight.
The county assessors of the Indiana gas
field at conference at Marion decided 10
assess eight-inch pipe lines at fifty cents
per lineai foot and smaller lines in pro
portion.
The cause of the recent trouble at Shang I
hal, China, is said TO have been the result |
of the brutal treatment Of native by a
French policemen, and the latter's escape
from punishment
George w. Ritchie, who pleaded guilty |
to the larceny of ", ,3l9 from the Common
wealth National bank, Philadelphia,
while receiving teller, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment.
At Shelbyville, Ind, James o. DUNCAN,
colored youth, was sentenced to five
years in the penitentiary for firing pistol
into a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indian
apolis passenger train week ago.
About three hundred Springfield (0)
people on a street corner bought small
box of corn salve at twenty-five cents, that
turned out to be middlings bought at
feed store, and still the city folks think
only grangers can be gulled
The president has appointed A. i.
snowden, of Pennsylvania, as minister to
Greece, RoumAnia and Servia; Roumaldo
Pacheco. of California, minister to Guate
rnala and Honduras; Honey l.. Arnold, cf
New York, United States consul at Cff-
ton, Ont, and Richard Lambert, Of Cali
fornia, United States consul # Mazataan,
Mex.