Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various. Subjects.


Various. Subjects.
Governor Warren of Wyoming, is dan
gerodsly i'll.
Prairie fires are devastating the western
part of Kansas. Food and Edwards coun-
ties suffer the greatest.
Prairie fires are devastating the western
part Of Kansas, Ford and Edwards coun-
ties suffering the greatest
Forty thousand persons took part in the
Sunday Socialist demonstration, in behalf
Jf universal suffrage, in Brussels.
French Park.-a $4,000 horse recently
purchased by Charlas Reed, died Sunday
Of lung fever, at Fairview farm, Tennes-
see.
Of The Boston Pilot, died Sunday, it is
supposed from an overdose of choral TAX
ing for insomnia.
A collision occurred en- the Louisville and
Nashville at Sparta, Ky, Sunday night by
which two postal clerks were seriously if
not fatally injured.
Freeman Cooper will realize that his
name is IA hollow mockery after he has
answered to Kokomo, Ind. citizens for
nearly s., 900 worth of forgerics and TWEEN
ty-four indictments.
Allen j. Stevens, of Reading, O., de-
spondent on account OF i'll health and suf-
lcring, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head. He leaves n
wife III destitute circumstances.
At etford, Ind, Mrs. Martha Geisler,
81, left home, taking with her Mr. Gels
ler's money, all her own clothing, her -
year-old lover, Julius Saidell, and leaving
the four children to her husband.
The bakers unions of New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and
Connecticut have resolved to boycott
"Fleischmans yeast" until the firm has
settled with the New York bakers.
Presley Brewer of Green county, Ind,
buried $l05, and Il wandering COW made
raid on the bank and swallowed the entire
assets. Mrs. Brewer hid $3.50 in the cook
stove, forgot it and built a fire over the
cash.
Charles Cosgrove, an aeronaut, who
made an ascension at Portland, Ore, lost
his hold of the parachute in his descent
when about POO feet from the ground and
was mangled to death upon one of the
paved streets of the city.
Ten acres of land were torn to pieces
Monday morning by II spontaneous
natural gas explosion, near Waldron,
Shelby county, Ind. Stones and broken
rock is said to have been thrown two
miles. Great excitement prevails.
Eddie Wright, r. told some children Mt
Sout Bend, Ind, that he was going to
drown himself because his parents abused
him. He then swan to the middle of the
st. Joe, put his hand above his head and
sank. The mother is dying of grief
Gin Lee, Columbus o., celestial, is re-
fused passport to visit China and return
as he is not a citizen Mr.. Lee evidently
thinks that the Mclean party which a.
vocates the admission of free whisky
ought not to draw the line on imported
Gin.
A feature of the International Electrical
exhibition in Frankfort will be the trans
mi ssion of electri, power A firm in
LaufTen, on the Neskar, will furnish cur
rents of 500-horse power over copper wires
from a station 40 miles from the exhibi-
ton.
Members of the National Bar associa-
tiOn will be pensive later to pay for their
expensive recommendation that congress
raise the salaries of district judges to
5000 The Farmers Alliance has prom
i,.'d to politically scalp all who advocate
these epicurian ideas.
John Fess, of Medaryville, Ind, was
struck by lightning few days ago, every
bone in his body being broken. Downey
Knots, seated on the wagon-seat beside
him, escaped unhurt, and so did the
horses Fess was driving, but a dog trot-
ting under the wagon was killed.