Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-19
Fnreign Notes.

| pOlntlnent IN order TO insure SpOnCanlety
in its observance.
Foreign Notes.
The tenants defense fund has been
closed The amount received is 100000.
Tomsk, city of western Siberia, has
been almost completely destroyed by food
and fire.
Mr.. Harrison, Parnellite, has been
elected TO the house of commons for the
middle division of Tipperary.
Emperor William has positively refused
20 give his sanction to the reelection OF
| Herr Fcrckenbeek as mayor of Berlin.
An order has been issued, due to recent
disorders, suspending admission of stu
dents to the Moscow agricultural academy
until 1898.
The trial of Maj. Panitza opened at
Sofia. 1t is shown that Russian officials
instigated the plot, among them Prince
Dolgoroskoff
In the commons Mr.. Caine's motion to
reject the local taxation bill, dealing with
publicans' licenses, was defeated-339 to
266, The bill then passed the second read
ing.
No greater demonstration of popular
admiration for British subject than that
which characterized Mr.. Gladstone's tri-
umphal entry into Norwich has ever been
witnessed.
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith, the new
American minister TO Russia presented
his credentials to the czar The czarina
subsequently gave an audience to Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith.
The Russian government has given the
ammunition factory at Etienne an order for
quantity of cartridges, charged with
smokeless powder, sufficient to supply
100000 rifles
Herr Puttkamer's brother challenges
Herr Rickert, the Freissinnige leader, to a
duel for slandering the German Liberals.
Rickert has refused the challenge on the
ground that'he was acting in public ca
pacity.
The Vossische Zeitung asserts that the
plan of Gen. Verdy Du Vernois, the Prus-
sian minister of war, will raise the peace
footing of the army TO $40, 900 men, which
Is $4,000 above the number provided for in
the army bill.
A dispatch to The London Times from
Buenos Ayres says: THE Argentine Re-
public and Chill are firmly determined to
respect Mr.. Blaine's pretention, under
cover of delusive commercial convention,
to dictate their internal and external pol.
ICY"
The London Standards Berlin cores
pondent says that France and Germany,
in order to avoid frontier disputes, have
agreed to strip wide space of ground on
either side of the frontier, and to place
large boundary stones in conspicuous po-
sitiOns.
A dispatch to The London Standard
from Rome says that the French govern
ment is intensely annoyed at the recent
negotiations between England and the
Vatican, and that the papal nuncio at
Paris has been instructed to use his ut
most efforts to smooth matters over
The strike at Bilboa, Spain, is extending
to the wharfmen and to the builders and
other trades. The troops patrol the
streets, dispensing all crowds. A military
proclamation advises peaceable persons to
remain in doors. The strikers threaten to
use dynamite on factories resuming work.
The late fatal explosion of balistile at
Avigliano, Italy, in the government arms
factory, has been supplemented by an
other horror. The cartridge factory took
fire and was entirely destroyed. In efforts
to escape the men trampled on each other
and sixteen were taken out dead; others
badly injured.
The offer made by the agent of the Clon-
CAREY estate to settle with the tenants on
the basis of the payment of one instead of
three years rent, as previously exacted,
has been accepted, on condition that the
estate shall reinstate all of the tenants
who have been evicted, and place them
upon the same footing in the future MS
those remaining, and that the house de-
stroyed shall be rebuilt and put into the
possession of the evictees without expense
to them This may be granted.