Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-17
NEWS I'M BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects

1
| Enterprise, KY, has mad dog scare.
George Davis is mysteriously missing
from Salem, o.
Jim Carr, the notorious Michigan des-
perado, is dead.
Matthias Orndorf was killed by cars
near Lindsay, o.
Kittaning, Pa. had $125, 900 fire in the
business portion.
Abraham Cooper was killed by falling
tree near Cadiz, Ind.
Rev. Hartwell j. Chandler died at New
ark Tuesday, aged seventy-seven.
Charles Powell, Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman, fell from train and lost both
feet.
Jugde Clifford has ordered the indict-
ment of all Chicago bucket shop proprie-
tors.
At Jeffersonville, Ind, Mrs. Carrie
Graves suicided with poison. No cause
known.
The steamer Missouri, with -four for
starving Russians, sailed from New York
Tuesday.
At Sylvania, o., Pete Schroeder, So.
loonist died from neglect by officers who
locked him up in an old house.
At Bolivar o., Selet Schultz, twenty,
cut his throat because Mrs. Snyder, an
elderly widow, declined to love him.
At Bedford, Ind, Eli Elgin was ar
rested for stoning a passenger train One
of the missiles nearly killed an unknown
man.
In Paris M. Isaac, the sub-prefect of
Fourmies, and the Marquis de Mores
fought duel with swords. Isaac was Sc
riously If not fatally wounded.
Thomas Mullen, Thomas Mulligan and
John Nickaboy, were arrested at Bridge
port, o., charged with counterfeiting.
Molds were found in their possession.
At Logansport Ind, Margaret New
braugh wanted 5000 from Farmer Ed
Maroney because he promised to wed her
and would not The jury gave her $25.
At Olympia, KY, Henry Scott and
Samuel Schwartz fought with pistols.
Schwartz was shot dead and Scott
wounded in the arm. Family troubles.
Asa Potter, the Maverick banks former
president, and Colonel Jonas H. French
and Thomas Dana directors, have been in
dicted by the federal grand jury at Bos-
ton
The Ohio society, of New York, has de-
cided to tender a complimentary dinnert to
the Hon. Whitelaw Reid, United States
minister at Paris, on his return from
France
At Indianapolis, Josiah Mcdaniel is
suing Charles Haines for 5000 damages
because the utter obliterated the graves
of McDaniel's wife and children 30 he can
not l)cate them.
AT Martinsburg, W. Va, Mrs. James
Gletner, a boarding house keeper, publicly
cowhided David We'll, clothier, who had
spoken disrespectfully of her. She WIS
fned but the citizens took up collection
and paid it.
Governor Brown of Kentucky. has
signed the lottery bill, which makes deal
ing in lottery tickets felony. One of the
leading agencies in Louisville closed Tues
day in anticipation and the others will
probably follow.
For some months the continued alb
sence Of her husband has so worried Mrs.
Carrie Grace, Of Jefferson, Mich, as to
render her mentally unbalanced. Early
Tuesday morning she committed suicide
by taking strychnine.
Corbett and Brady met Tuesday and
Corbett covered Sullvans $500 deposit,
anu drLlCItS were SlBUeu LOT DulllNdU anu
Corbett to fight for $4,000 a side and
purse of $4,000 at the Olympic club in
New Orleans, on Sept. T.
In quarrel about some trivial matter,
at Gadsden, Ala, between Armstrong
Stewart and Calvin Daughdrill, the latter
shot and killed Stewart. The shooting
occurred in the passenger depot and was
witnessed by many people.
The first Delaware consignment Of ex-
hbits for the worlds fair was shipped
from Washington Tuesday, comprising
six cars loaded with native woods, three
cars going from Sussex, two from Kent
and one from Newcastle counties.
Private dispatches from Mrs J. s.
Clarksen, at Des Moines, state Mr.. Clark
son is improving. He has been suffering
from an acute attack of infiainmatory
rheumatism for some time He will be
taken to Hot Springs, Ark, next week.
Hong Kong advices are to the effect
that when the last steamer left Wenchow,
q renewal of the anti-Christian outbreaks
was threatened. The chapel Of the Rev.
Mr. Scothill had been attacked by a mob,
and the indications were that rioting
would become general.
The Yaqui Luis Indians are again on
the warpath in Mexico They attacked
party of Mexican wood-choppers near
Ortiz and two were killed. They made an
attack on the inhabitants OF Banelto, kill
ing several men, women and children
and burning to the ground all the build
ings.
The ship Frederick Billings, which has
arrived at San Francisco, from New
York, had a disastrous voyage. A sudden
squall dismantled the vessel, the fore and
main topmasts breaking off at the eyes
and throwing overheard five sailors who
were furling sails. The men were never
seen again.
Governor Flower has commuted the
sentence of James +. Minnaugh TO Inn
prisonment for life. Minnaugh was con-
victed in the city of New York In June,
1891, of the crime of murder In the first
degree The sentence Of death was TO
have Keen carried out at Sing Sing
prison during the week commencing
March ri