Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
The Louisiana legislature convened Mon
day.
Another destructive rainstorm in Okla
homa.
Now it is wall paper trust with $50
200 to back it,
Preston Miller, Of Ashville, o., was
struck and killed by cars.
William Ward, a miller, was killed ut
crossing near Perrysville, o.
Mrs. Espy Smith, one of Abraham Lin
coins servants, died in Chicago
John Figley, % brakeman, on his first
trip, was killed ut Salineville, q.
At PEBBLES, o., Miss Hattie Crawford
may die from having her ears pierced.
Navigation has been resumed in the
Baltic, that sea now being free from ice.
Scott's famous Haymarket restaurant,
London, burned. Four walters persisted.
Bogus bombs are being exploded and
found in various cities and towns in Eu-
rope.
The Missouri river Is very high Great
damage has been done to crops by the back
wateE
Snow had fallen at Bushviile, Neb, by
Sunday evening 20 a depth Of sixteen
inches
A number of men who came to this coun-
try under contract are detained at Ellis
Island
At Arkansas City, Kan. Herbert Oar
rough confessed having stolen 5000 ex-
press package,
AT Evansville, Ind, Mrs, Ed T. Heberer
Il Co hn afpao ~ N
spider bite or sting.
Alvina Hennekes, fifteen, of Cincinnati,
was fatally burned by her clothing catch
ing fire from hot stove.
During tenement house fight at Altoona,
Pa, Joe Pale, an Italian, had his neck
broken with a brick. 1t is not known who
threw It.
AT Van Vert, o., David johnson, seven
teen, was arrested for the attempted muir
der Of Thomas Armstrong at Broadway,
o., April 80
Henry r. Weimer, of Massiilon, O., &C
cused of poisoning his stepdaughter, Ada
Ebersole was discharged There was no
evidence of guilt
Unknowns placed tie on the track near
Delphi, Ind. The front trucks of q local
passenger train were derailed. Little dam
age was done. II was close call.
At Erianger, Ky, Mayor Hendrix,
negro, killed his fouryear-old child and
severely wounded Mrs. Gilmore, a negro
woman, who interfered. He escaped
Spiritualism has driven John Chapman
and his wife Of Liberty, Ind, insane
Saturday night they were about to kill
their children when the neighbors came to
the rescue.
Ex-senator John J. Ingalls, win make
his European tour directly after the Mime
apolis convention. He says he will return
in time TO participate in the presidential
campaign
On his dcathbed, Louis G. Garfield de
clared he had unjustly served five years in
the penitentiary for shooting a man at
Bryan O. He said a woman was bribed to
swear falsely.
The mill and salt works Of the Buffers &
Peters Salt and lumber company, at Lud.
ington, Mich, burned Sunday noon. They
cost about &500,0O0. Five hundred men are
thrown out of employment
Twenty.four of the immigrants who ar
rived at New York In the smallpox infected
vessel, Westmoreland. May 4, and who be
came scattered throughout the country,
came to Ohio. They were bound variously
for Cincinnati, Cleveland, Fremont, Orr
vile. Toledo Wooster, Akron. Canton,
nandusky, Dayton and Palestine. The
local boards of health will be directed TO
make Investigations and take the proper
precautions
A dispatch from St Petersburg says that
decree permitting the export of oats and
cora will he published on Friday next, or
another decree permitting the export Of
wheat VII be published three or four days
later
John Gilmartin, Twenty-Five years old,
was stabbed 10 death by oOlored man,
who escaped, dnring quarrel at 10 Pell
street. New York, Sunday evening where
Gilmartin lived There is no ciew to the
murderer.
During the past sixty-eight years the
American Sunday School union has or
gained 9,40O Sunday schools and gath
cred In 4,215,5O0 scholars and teachers 1t
has also circulated $500, 600 worth of re
ligious literature,
Pres Mallens, notorious outlaw and
mocnshiner of West Virginia is at last
safely locked In Mcdowell county jail
For years the Mullens gang have terror
tied the mountain regions Of Mcdowell
and Buchanan counties
Farmers in the vicinity of Winchester,
o., bought 500 worth Of mammoth" onion
seed at seventy-five cents an ounce from
slick -tongucd individual who claimed to be
from Cincinnati "Jimpson" weed grew
when the seed was pianted