Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-15
NEWS In BRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
The indianapolis street car strike will
be arbitrated.
Our minister to Great Britain, Robert
T. Lincoln, has the grip.
Fremont Randall was crushed to death
by log at Noblesville, Ind
John G. Whittier, the poet, has the
grip. Not considered serious
Seven new typographical unions were
organized in Indiana last year.
Sherman was formally reelected United
States senator by the Ohio legislature
Wednesday.
The Indiana Democratic state central
committee are getting ready for the ma.
tional campaign
The second annual meeting Of the Asso,
citation of Inventors and Manufacturers
will be held in Washington, Jan. 49,
Twenty-eight thousand one hundred
and siXty-thlee alien immigrants arrived
at Philadelphia during the year 1891,
The failure is announced of w. ii. Chat
fee & Company, cotton factors, New Or
leans Assess 500, 600; liabilities $500 900.
Secretary Foster had rough trip to
Fortress Monroe, and suffered somewhat
in consequence He was much improved
Wednesday.
At Ottawa, Ills, Miss Margaret Whit
ney was arrested for throwing her new
born baby into the street, where it was
deyoured by dogs.
Advices from Hong Kong give an ac-
count of the loss of steamer in Chinese
waters by which Ala lives were lost. The
officers and crew were Europeans.
The cold weather seriously interferes
with the flow of natural gas through long
pipe lines, Some towns in Indiana are
almost without fires in consequence.
Editor George William Curtis, of Har.
per's Weekly, states that in the event OF
the nominations of Blaine and Hill, the
Independents will nominate third can.
didate
AT Denver, Gus Merford, in a fit OF
rage, caused by the disappearance of ! IS
pet dog, attacked his wife with hatchet
and pounded her into insensibility. she
will die Morford is locked up
At Grand Rivers, Ky, one of the largest
charcoal iron making plants in the world
began Wednesday. The capacity is l50 to
200 tons a day The plant cost 81, 100000,
and starts with 100000 worth of raw
material on hand, a years supply.
James L. Bowen, of Springfield, grand
chief templar for Massachusetts, has
issued u circular letter addressed to his
forty-four brother grand templars in
other states recommending a united pro
test against ,he sales of intoxicants at ne
worlds fait grounds during the exposi-
tion of 1898
James A. Bailey, proprietor of the Bar
mum & Bailey shows, has purchased from
Catherine A. Cooper, widow of the late
James f.. c Joper the Adam Forepaugh
shows. Mr.. Bailey Immediately trans
ferred n one-h half interest in the purchase
to Joseph T. McCaddon, who has been the
manager of the shows since Mr. Cooper
purchased them from the Adam Fore
paugh estate two years ago
Miss Clara Barton, president of the Red
Cross society, has issued a statement ad
dressed to the people of America, in which
she says since the house refused to concur
in the senate bill appropriating 100000
the people of the east should provide
transportation for the gifts of the people
of the west in order that the contributions
for the relief OF starving Russians may be
forwarded in time to do good.
1t is said b ewers generally in Ohio
favor raising .he Dow law tax from 500
to $500 or COO. Their reasons, it is al
legged, are tAat at present they are con
stautly inpC~tuned by men who want to
20 into the saloon business TO pay their
Dow tax and furnish thenI with fixtures,
They are often compelled to do this in
order to get their products on the market,
rather than .et the patronage go to some
other brewery, and are often swindled.