Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

This time at Benton Mo
j. Pierpont Morgan has given $500, 600
to the New York trade school,
On Thursday there were eight cases OF
smallpox discovered in New York
The Hawaiian minister denies that
there is an uprising in his country.
In Buffalo John Fitzhum stabbed John
Roeltiral to death during quarrel
1t is estimated that Ohio's wheat crop
will be 60 per cent. of full average.
1t is said Chancellor Won Caprivi, OF
| Germany, is determined to retire at any
cost.
There will be no May Day parade in
Paris owing to the recent anarchist out
RACES.
AT Catasaugua, Pa, Mrs. McKeever
suicided by hanging. 1t was her third at
tempt
The president left Washington Thurs
day night for duck hunt in Accomack
| county, Va.
Our minister to Russia, Charles Emory
Smith, will shortly leave ST. Petersburg
for America
AT Paris, o., Herbert Stuckey drank
from the wrong jug and may die. Con
centrated lye.
Near Anderson, Ind, Amos Williams
mare gave birth to triplets, all of which
will doubtless live.
While boring an artesian we'll at Tren-
ton traces Of gold were found in the rock
penetrated by the drill
John Myers heirs are claiming all the
land upon which the town of Malvern,
Stark county, O., is built.
NaIl e.,
San Paulo Brazil toward the interior,
with daily increasing deaths.
The jury disagreed in the case of Hattie
Adams who sept the house visited by
Rev. DIR. Parhhurst in New York
Bishop Meesmer was duly installed at
Greenbay, WIS, in the presence of large
congregation of clergymen and laity.
At WilllesbarTe, Pa, Michael Curry, a
Pittsburg contractor, deliberately sui
cided with dynamite cartridge. Drink
AT Freetown, Mass. General f. W.
Pierce, seventy, the historian, and Mrs
Ida Gardiner, twentyseven, were mar
red,
AT Toledo George Lenhard, carpenter,
deliberately shot Samuel Clark, a stone
contractor, who will probably die. No
cause known.
Grover Cleveand's friends declare they
will have everything their way at the
Pennsylvania state convention at Harris
burg next Tuesday.
w. G. Miller, bridge foreman, was set
upon by unknowns at Vicksburg, and al |
most beaten to death. No cause is as
signed for the assault.
Thursday was Fast day in Massachu-
setts and New Hampshire, Banks and |
exchanges W ere closed, and no evening
editions of papers were printed
The New y Aork chamber of commerce
will tender Whileaw Reid banquet. |
They adopted II resolution approving of
his course as minister to France.
The shallow memory of a fagman |
caused collision on the Cleveland, |
Akron and Columbus road near Mount |
Vernon, in which six persons were seri-
osly injured.
The Green-Wise feus is ended Elk Con-
gresham John S, Wise wrote a letter to
Miss Green on Thursday, in which he as
serts with emphasis that his wife never
DETAINED her.
Generals Kirby, Smith, Longstreet and
Cabell, Mrs. Jefferson Davis and daughter
Winnie, were present at the Confederate
4
people took part.
Thursday night the Mississippi river at
st. Louis had risen to point twenty
seven feet above low-water mark. There
is but a small strip of the wharf along
the city front left dry
At Omaha Miss Annie Williams was
fatally beaten by Llewellyn Williams, her
uncle, because she would not turn over to
him the property which she recently in
herited in England He is in Jail.
The negroes of Clark county, Ark, are
secretly planning for an exodus to the far
parts of Africa They are tired of living
in a state that permits members of the
race to be burned at the stake.
All the attaches of the New York
bureau of contagious disease were vac
cinated when it was found that a man
with smallpox had been in the office.
Eight cases of the disease have been re-
ported
The steamer j. w. Gould, while return
ing to Pttsburg with a tow of empties
from Cincinnati, ran through herself" at
Welsburg, W. Va, causing the death of
one man, and damaging the boat to the
extent of about 800.
While prospecting at Creswell, Colo, in
the out-crop of the Minnie Moore mine,
three bodies, women and two men, the
latter being nude, were uncovered. There
is no accounting for the triple murder,
for such it appears to have been.
High water has swept away one span of
the new SIS, 900 bridge being built across
the Des MoiBes river at Ottumwa, Ia
Seven workmen went down with the
timbers, and were only rescued with
great difficulty, all being badly injured.
The differences between the Great Brit
ain and the United States, growing
out of the Bchring sea matter, have, with
the single exception of the question of
for the seal catch of this year
it is understood, been formally adjusted
AT Hanging Rock, o., Daniel Nc
Daniels, a widower of seventy, attempted
to kill Minnie Hayes, sixteen, with a
hatchet because she refused to marry
him, and then attempted suicide. Both
will probably recover. McDaniels is in
jail,
In Newport, Ky, an infant child was
found in an alley burned to a crisp. The
coroner. on investigation, has come to the
conclusion that it was but day old, and
that it was first choked to death and then
put either in a CRATE fire or a stove and
burned.
Cornell university announces an inno-
yation and n new departure. Following |
the example of some other universities
summer courses win be offered this year.
The university's libraries and museums
will be open during part of the summer |
vacation,
At Alvada, near Tifiin, o.. Miss Alice 1
Evans her brother Martin Evans and her