Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-10
NEWS I'M BRlEF.
u COMPENSATION OF Interesting Items on
Various Subject.

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day.
GAINESVILLE, O., fears nother diphtheria
epidemic.
Mckinley will now be Doomed for gov
ernor Of Ohio.
Peru has a new tariff law. and Mexicois
preparing one
Theodore Thomas Will leave New York
and 80 to Chicago
The post6iiice at Delhi, o., was robbed
of 500 Thursday night
Black diphtheria is prevailing in an epi-
demic form at Findlay 0.
John II. Buchtel, founder of Bachtel
college, at Akron, o., is dead.
Al sandusky, O., John H. Fritz. prom-
nent contractor, dropped dead
Senator German says it was Republican
apathy which did the business.
West Union, O., has secured telegraphic
connection with the outside world
Another victim Of tGe LeIand hotel fire
has been found Tins makes eleven in
all.
Claimed that Indiana farmer Repub-
leans We're too busy husking corn TO
vote.
Every house in WinsIow, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire. -Four hundred people are
homeless.
Charles Ross, Of Oxford, O., has been
awarded $1,000 damages for being called a
horse thief
In two days Dillon and O'Brieu have
collected $4,000 in Philadelphia for the
Irish cause
The latest returns make the Democratic
majority in the house Of the Fifty-second
congress l45
Shawhan's opera house block, at Tifiin
o., has been sold for $4,000 to the Hon
W. II, Rouse.
Covers have been ordered for 1000 for
the birthday banquet in homer Of ex-Sen.
ator Thurman.
j. K. Humphrey, business man Of Fire.
mont, O.. has skipped, leaving his credit
ors in the lurch.
Safe blowers, Of Osborn, O.. got lot Of
valuable icweiiry and some money, all
amounting to $1,000
James Lynch, more than SO years old,
was again sent to prison at San Antonio,
Tex. for counterfeiting.
The lnman and White Star Steams hip
companies have. agreed not to do any
ocean racing after Jan l.
The president Saturday issued pro-
clamation setting apart Thursday, Nov.
~ as Thank giving Day.
Joseph Shrock and five children, Of Can
ton, O., We're poisoned by eating tainted
cheese Condition serious
The Produce Exchange, Of New York,
!.
reciprocity with Newfoundland,
William Manhamher, of Anderson,
Ind. was accidentally shot in the face by
Ed. Gustin, who was hunting quail
Five men were terribly scalded by the
premature removal of the bottom of d
dye tank in works at Brooklyn, Y. Y.
Farley hartman, young Student at Tiff
fin, o., is under arrest charged with
criminally hbeling Judge J. g. Roger.
Frank Keelty the young operator who
caused the Pleasant Valley, o., railway
wreck, was seen Friday at GAINESVILLE, O.
Mrs. san. Mills, Of Springfield. o.,
wanted to die, and threw herself in front
of train. A police officer rescued her in
time,
The Ohio state board of agriculture pre-
dict an Increase in the next wheat harve est
while prospects for corn, potatoes and
hogs are poor,
Nathaniel Chapman was Instantly killed
by the explosion Of cartridge at Fort
WadSworth. S -Four others were ser
ously injured,
william waldorf Astor has filed plans
for Si,0OJ, 900 hotel Oh the northwest
corner OF FIFTH avenue and chirty.third
street, New York city.
Hon Barclay Martin, the oldest living
ex-congressinan In Tennessee, Ties very i'll
az his residence near Columbia There Is
no hope Of his recovery
In the Petit case at Crawfordsville
Ind, the defense are trying to prove that
Mrs Petit died Of locked jaw and not OF
poisoning by strychnne.
Orren Munger, Of Anderson, lad, es.
caped prosecution for abduction and Sc
duction, by marrying the young lady in
the case, Miss Mollie Moore
h Gilgen's place OF business at New
Philadelphia, O., was robbed while his
wife was beng buried and while him self
and child lay i'll with typhoid fever
Abbey Cox, an aged colored woman, of
Hopkinsyills, Ky, was burned to death
from her clothing catching fire in some
way while she was alone in her room.
Mrs. Lily Hildburgh, OF New York
city, while delirious escaped from her
nurses and jumped through window
into an area. where she was found dead.
At Irvine. Ky. On election duy, in a
fight growing out OF dispute over a
neggo's vote John Wilson. Demucrat, sud
Grant and l.. A Lilly, Republicans, were
killed.
An oil tank at thc electric light plant,
Nliddletown, o., exploded Joseph West
who was at work near by, was hurled a
distance OF twenty-five feet and instantly
killed..
Patrick Kelley, a copper wire thief pre-
ferred the Ohio penitentiary to the
Youngstown, o.. work house, and was, at
lis request, given year at the former IN
stead Of six months at the latter
Henry Breen, Fort Wayne, Ind,
brakeman, is suffering with the ouly
Known case Of aneurism Of the eye. ne
has 10 wear an iron collar about MS ng X
To regulate the flow Of blood to his eyes.
Congressman BreclSinridge. Of Ken-
tucky. says ne will not be candidate for
speaker until he sees whether the elee-
tions next gear ~ the Republicaa states
that went Democratic this year demon
strate that this revolution is 20 be per
maHenf
The Carnegie company, Of Pittsburg,
has purchased tbs plant Of the Allegheny
Bcssenaer Steel xonpauy. and will begin
90 operate IA ~ anee The acquisition Of
This miil VII enormously Increase the in
iiueuce Of the Earnegies. As Il virtually
gives them n monopoly Of the steel rail IN
dustrv in the United States