Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-02
NEWS in BRIEF.
A CONDENSATION of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects,


A CONDENSATION of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Another eruption of Vesuvius is feared.
The Philadelphia Russian relief fund
now amounts to Sl16267.
Over 1900 negro laborers on the levee ut
st. Louis are on strike
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, is cam
paigning in Rhode Island
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserva-
lions will be opened on April Is.
John Mullins, white, was hanged by an
Alabama mob for murder and arson.
Near Dayton, o., Henry Long farmer,
suicided by shooting. Family troubles
At Brazil, Ind, William Landlord got
four years for burning a railroad depot
The City Of Mexico is fairly flooded with
counterfeit silver dollars and half dollars.
The safe of the City bank, of Elroy,
Wis, was opened by burglars, who se-
cured SO, 800.
AT Ashland, Pa, a little child Of Louis
Bubble was burned 10 death while play
ing with fire.
The Kentucky senate has adopted the
separate coach bill for colored people by q
vote of IS to TO-
The railroad bridge over Pecos canon,
in Texas, has been completed. 1t is 1913
feet high and 2, 1870 feet long.
During performance at the Bijou thea
ter, Rochester N. ", the balcony gave
way. Several people were injured
Samuel Bishop, of Berrien Springs,
Mich, forged the name of his father-in-
law, Jacob Krall, to 81 900 worth of paper.
Prairie fires are raging in Norton
county, Kan, and near McCook, Neb. A
number of residences were saved by back
firing
The Bardsley investigating committee
has made its report, and it is found that
Philadelphia loses II, 1868 by Bardsley q
defalcaton.
Near Connorsville Ind, Stephen BurI,
farmer, while insane, attacked his wife
with stick of wood and probably fatally
injured her
While attempting to secure some valu-
able papers from his burning residence,
Judge Il. Y. Bush was fatally burned at
Evansville, Ind.
Secretary Noble has telegraphed to
Governor Seay, at Guthrie, O. T., that
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation
will be opened May Is.
The Trappist monastery at Oksi has
been raised to the position of an abbey,
which is the first institution of the kind
ever established in Canada
In the Laurel Hill mountains, Pa.
Jonathan Hochstelter, an old man. was
shot dead by moonshiners, against whom
he testified at recent trial
AT Altoona, Pa, Miss Emma Fox shot
and killed herselfwith revolver, because
Miss Bird Boate, with whom she had fall
len in love, refused to return the affection.
The stockholders of the Standard Oil
company have decided to increase the
capital stock from 100000 to $4,000
to consist of 10000 shares of the par value
Of 800 each.
Claus Spreckes has left Philadelphia
with his family, having made 100000 by
selling out to the sugar trust. He is on
his way to San Francisco in gorgeously
fitted-up special car.
Charles A. Wright, convicted at Eliza
BEETHOVEN, N Y. of murder in the first de-
gree in killing Mrs. Fidela Taylor, has
been sentenced to be electrocuted in the
week commencing May 3.
At Waverly, Ind, Mrs Dora Grim suf-
fered two years from supposed lung
trouble, but the mystery was solved n
few days ago by a common sewing needle
working its way out of her breast.
The mixing house of the works of the
National Dynamite and Powder company
at Ferndale, Pa, blew up Thursday.
John Long, who had charge of the ma
chinery was blown to atoms
Mayor Graves, of Fitchburg, Mass, has
been found guilty of fraudulently obtain
ing from the county of Worcester $15. He
has been prohibited from practicing rs
IN attorney and counsellor at-law for
one year.
The first consignment of flour from
Minneapolis, consisting of fourteen cars
for the cargo of the Conemaugh TO be sent
10 Russia for the relief of the famine
stricken peasants, arrived at Philadel.
phia Thursday
William Hamilton, c. A. Barnley and
c. A. Frazer, who pleaded guilty in Bos.
ton ON Thursday to the charge of receiv-
ing $4,000 stolen from the Order OF the
Rising Sun, were sentenced to five years
in the state prison.
A Mexican woman named Carmen
Rodriguez died at Phoenix, A. T.,
wednesday, HlSuUi dh IhS ttssS Al Que nun
dred and fifty years. She was once a
maid of honor at the Mexican vice-regal
court under Spanish rule
During March siXty-nine steamships
and eleven sailing vessels arrived in Bal
timore from foreign ports Eighty-fve
steamships and eleven sailing vessels
cleared. The custom house receipts from
duties were S2l5 069,ll and from miscel-
laneous sources $l0425,S4, making total
of $s25, 494.95.
The companies in the rubber trust are;
Colchester Rubber company, Brookhaven
Rubber Shoe company, now organized as
the Brookhaven Rubber company, Ly.
comien Rubber company, New Bruins
wick Rubber company, New Jersey Rub
Der Shoe company, Meyer Rubber com
pany, Nolmal Iudia Rubber company,
Goodyear's Metallic Rubber Shoe com
pany, Boston Rubber company, Candee
Rubber company and American Rubber
company. The companies not in the
trust are. Woonsocket Rubber company,
Boston Rubber Shoe company and Good
year India Rubber Glove company. The
total capital stock is S50.000.ooo.
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