Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
| Congressman Holman is i'll with severe
cold
Twenty-three horses We're burned in the
Dexter stables at Pueblo, Colo.
Bailey Jolliffe disputed an auctioneer's
word at Columbus, Ind, and fell dead
1t is said that little but tariff will be
heard in the national house for the next
two months
At Brazil, Ind, Mrs. Amy Biggs gave
birth to a double-headed baby that lived
but an hour.
Sullivan has wired his manager to cover
Corbett's forfeit for fight to take place
in August or September.
At Yonkers, N. Y, Rev e. Conway, m
Objectionable colo.ed divine was forcibly
bounced by his congregation
AT Darlington. Wis, $50 men have been
examined, but as yet no jury has been
selected to try the Siebolt lynching case.
"Feet-washers" are holding revival at
Flat Rock, Ind. and the crowds are SC
large that the church will not contain
them.
The president has signed the bill for the
relief of Acquilla Jones, late postmater at
a
$2,63S by robbery.
The disagreement between the New Or
leans 'longshoremen and the stevedores
has been amieably adjusted and the strik-
ers have resumed work.
The members of the Presbyterian
church of Hiawatha, Kan, held a prayer
meeting to pray that the worlds fair
gates would not be opened on Sunday.
Near Findlay, O., a nitro-glycerine mag
azine exploded, damaging several farm
houses in the vicinity and breaking thou
sands of panes of glass. No one was
hurt.
j. ID. White, railway mail clerk ut
Detroit, has confessed to having stolen
over fifty letters and packages in the
last three months. Decoy letters were
used.
A bill was introduced in the New Jer-
sey legislature the purpose of which is to
legalize the deal whereby the Reading
railroad recently absorbed several com
peting lines.
Bishop Horstman has arrived at Cleve.
land to take charge of the Roman Catho-
lie diocese, succeeding Bishop Gilmour.
He brings with him twenty-six Philadel-
phia priests.
Quarterly returns from the cotton
manufacturing corporations of Fall River,
Mass. show an increase in dividends Of
about S30,950 over those of the correspond
ing quarter in 1891.
At North Fairmount, Cincinnati, John
w, Greer, a retired merchant, was as
saulted with hatchet by John Kay his
brother-in-law. They had quarreled about
some kind of document.
Judge Thayer, of Philadelphia, has de-
cided that when vessel is lost no claim
for freight charges is allowable to its own
ers, but brokers who chartered the ship
are entitled to their commissions
Jack the Hugger," who for some time
past has been terrorizing the women Of
Baltimore, has at last been captured. He
turned out to be one George Philpot n
well known lawyer and ex-commissioner
of deeds for Maryland.
At Pittsburg Ernst Wakefield secret'J
married DIR. H. H. Clark's daughter and
then asked forgiveness. The doctor was
told them to ''git." They "got" and are
now in Chicago ON their honeymoon.
Robert f. Knapp and William II. Gay
lor, police commissioners of Saratoga are
accused of having illegally harvested
several thousand dollars by guarantee
ing to gamblers and women of the
town protection" and immunity from
arrest.
Denver boasts of very sensational
legal action. The heirs of the late mil
lionaire, Simon Black, have brought suit
in the United States court charging his
wife with destroying a will disposing of
over 81 ,000, 900, and by which they would
have been greatly benefited.
There seems to be this winter an cpl
demic of grip among leading men and
officials at Washington. Blaine, Springer
and Mills are in bay way, and some
thirty senators and congressman are on
the sick list. The number of absentees
from sickness was never so large.
The Pratt mines at Birmingham, Ala,
were the scene Tuesday of tragedy. In
one Of the rooms Frank Griffin and Will
bur Eckridge, two convicts, were working
together. They had quarrel, and n
desperate struggle ensued, ending in
Eckridge smashing Griffin's brains out
with pick
William Starkey, of Chicago, who, sew
cia years hSu, ucu w Cdhhih W tSCitpt
prosecution for jury fixing in connection
with suits against the South Side Street
Railway company, returned to the Windy
City Tuesday. The famous specials"
sent from Canada during the Cronin
trial are said to have been sent by
Starkey.
William A. Losey, of Brooklyn, who,
for eleven years, was the confidential
bookkeeper of Madison Brothers a. Com
pany, was arrested Tuesday, charged with
embezzlement. He has been robbing the
firm for about two years, his peculations
in that time amounting to s31 900, all Of
which he lost in playing policy, his losings
In a single day being as high as high rs
$500 He played regularly S75 day.
The most unique church row in years
is now in full blast among the colored
members of the Central Baptist church at
Memphis. 1t is a fight between the male
and female members, the former sup
porting what is known as the Cooper
crowd,r and the latter upholding Rev
Taylor Nightingale. the pastor for the
past two years. Some 300 colored anna
IONS armed with clubs are now watch
ing the church to prevent the Cooper
ties" from gaining possession Of the edi-
fee.
Death Roll.
Sir Edwards Hudson Kinahad, the well
known Irish whisky distiller.
Colonel Louis Duestrow, the multi
millionaire of St. Louis. He was a largo