Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.


James Wilmuth murdered Noah Grooms.
Thomas Kelley was crushed to death by
a fall of slate in the Southern mine, Saline
vile, o.
Antonio Navarro and wife MARY Ander-
SOM arrived in New York from England
Monday
George Gould, they say, win be the next
president of the Union Pacific Railway
company.
Detective John Foley was killed Sunday
during fight in an Italian butcher shop
in New York.
Lizzie Shay hanged herself at Chilli
cothe, o., through grief over her hus-
lands death.
Perry Keller, a carpenter, fell down an
elevator shaft at Washington Q. H., o.,
and killed himself
There is such divergence of views on
the senate caucus financial bill that its
adoption is imperiled.
A canal break in the Argentine de-
stroyed hundreds of houses. One hundred
lives are reported lost
Two men were killed and ten were in
| Jured by an explosion of dynamite in
Wayne county, w. Va.
The woman killed in the Bolivar rail
road wreck has been identified as Betsey
! Lindsey, of Fremont, o.
The roadbed of the Evansville and Rich
mond railroad is insecure in that it is
| founded on a 81 100000 mortgage
| At Akron, o., Charles Brown kicked
! piece of dynamite, and the dynamite kicked
back. Brown died in few hours.
Masked men robbed the conductor of
| freight train ON the Peoria, Decatur and
Evansville railroad near Olney, III.
An examination of the assets of the
failed Kean bank at Chicago shows the
failure to be worse than first reported.
Mrs w. A. Atkinson, of Fremont, o.,
was so badly burned by her clothes ignit-
ing from gasoline stove that she died =. 50
The new bridge over the Ohio connect
ing Cincinnati and Newport is to be
opened for public travel about March,
1891
Pat. Lyons had his neck broken at
Peoria, H., hy James Hannon who was
showing a party of friends how TO kill
chicken.
Editor Dickersog, of The Shelby, o.,
Free Press, owns u warclub which Sitting
Bull used to rap his paleface enemies dur
ing forty years.
shot Baggagemaster Bates at the I.aporte,
Ind, Lake Shore depot and sneaked away
in the darkness.
An electric motor car jumped the track
Mt Omaha and turned bottom up. Several
passengers were injured and burned by
Goals from the stove
Madison, Ind, is out with rope TO
teach the tramp who insulted daughter
nf coll
when they catch him.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, seven for convic-
tion and five for acquittal, caused the jury
in the murder trial of Harry Trogden to
be excused from duty.
Kinney, who tried to murder Ella Le-
wick at Washington G. H., o., says now
the shooting was accidental. This to save
his own worthless neck
In drunken frenzy William Lord,
United States deputy marshal, in Texas,
shot his wife through the heart and then
attempted to kill himself
Mrs Elma G., Whitehead suspected of
being accessory to the murder of Mrs.
Frederick Petit, at Shawnee Mound, Ind,
will be re-indicted by the next grand jury.
Andrew Larson, a Cleveland saloon
keeper, violated the Sunday law His be- !
trothed broke their engagement on that |
account, and Larson blew his brains out.
The common pleas court has ordered the |
removal of the body of Jennie Henry
from the Catholic consecrated ground at |
Greenville, o., because didn't die in the |
faith
Michael Eyraud and Gabrielle Bompard. |
the stranglels of Paris, were convicted and |
sentenced, the former to death by the gull !
lotine and the latter to twenty years i'm
prisonment.
Bert Cadwalader shot and killed j. N. |
Lazure in n quarrel over cards at Blan-
chester, o., Saturday night. A crowd fol-
lowed Cadwalader, who drew pistol and |
blew his bIains out
B. c. Faurot, of Lima, o., has sold to
John w Young eldest son of Brigham
Young, 300 0C0 acres of land in northern
Mexico Ten thousand Mormons, of
Utah, win colonize on these lands
Sixty ladies of Cork have signed an adj
dress for presentation to Mr. nell. CON
demning his conrse, and asking, in the
name of Ireland's reputation for purity.
that he retire from active public life
Nettie Jeames, colored shot and killed
James Ridgely, colored miner, Mt Leav.
enworth Kan. The woman was accom-
panied by a colored male companion at the
time of the shooting and both escaped
Frank johnson, cook on the steamer Big
Sandy, shot four roustabouts, killing two
of them, who had made an attack on him
and robbed he larder Of the boat. The
tragedy occurred near Owensboro, Ky.
The long expected strike of the railway
employees of Scotland, which was finally
upon at Sundays meeting
has been vigorously inaugurated The
traffic of the Glasgow district is almost
completely paralyzed.
A circular has been is ned which in
forms the branches Of the Irish National
league in Great Britain. that owing to
the financial position in which the league
finds itself, the services Of most of the
paid officials of the organization viii be
dispensed with
Fairfield, Tex. Is a scene of intense ex-
citement over the scouTge of spotted fever
or perhaps meningitis Nearly all the
stores are closed and business is almost en-
tirely suspended. The disease Is so fatal
and dreaded that the people are closing
their dwellings and leaving
Fred Lawson and John Paine. of
Uniontown, Pa, were taking hand in
poker game The two got into n dispute
and Paine drew revolver and fired three
times One ball pierced Iawson's brain,
another his heirt and the third entered
his stomach Paine escaped
The correspondents at Berlin of both
The London Chronicle and Standard say
they do not believe the recall Of Emin
from the interior Of Africa IS definite.
They consider that II is due 10 Baron
wissmann alone, and is probably not