Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OH
Various Subjects.

A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.
Damaging rains in Manitoba.
Editor Jones, of the New York Times, is
better.
All the miners at New Straitsville, O.,
are idle.
Emperor William may visit the worlds
fair in 1893.
James Russell Lowells condition is re-
garded as serious.
| John McManus, the PHILADELPHIA muir
derer, gets respite to Oct. 20.
W. E. Schm ritz, the largest shoe manu-
| facturer of Pittsburg, has failed.
Allie Bowman, aged IA, had his head cut
off by the cars at Greenfield, Ind
Little Homer Tell fell out of a cherry
tree at CantcH, O., and was killed
Restless young Indian bucks are being
enlisted in the United States regular
army.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr., is suing her
husband for divorce on the ground of de
sertion.
Clay county Qnd) farmers will have a
political picnic" at Ashboro, Thursday.
Aug. 20.
Hugh Beaver of Rushville, Ind while
hunting had his left arm shot off near the
shoulder.
The two factions of the Democracy of
Chicago have united and expect to carry
Cook county.
Near Lebanon, Ind, 6-year-old child of
John Murray had hand torn off in a
hayfork pulley.
,e
ernor's guard are under arrest charged
with mutinous conduct.
The warehouse of the indianapolis Chair
Manufacturing company was DESTROYED by
fire. Loss about Sll5,0O0.
Norman Campbell, New York stock
broker, discouraged by loss of money, shot
himself i'll the playground of Central park.
The son of John Williamson, aged 8, of
indianapolis, was terribly mangled by a
dog supposed to have hydrophobia. The
father was also bitten.
Stillwell Butman, H. of Fremont. O.,
accidentally discharged shotgun while
entering boat. The load entered his
breast causing instant death
Rev DIR. Sherwood, colored evangelist
of Omaha, is charged with practicing pa
dronism with a band of colored boys,
whom he has virtually enslaved.
At tee Fifth Street beer garden, Cincin-
natl. Joe LevJ shot and killed Ida Kipp.
his sweetheart, because he found her set
ting at a table with another young man.
The United States revenue cutter Rush
seized and delivered TO the English ship
Nymph the Canadian sealer, E. b. Marion.
The Marion had been warned off by the
United States cutter Thetis, but lad not
needed. aud were caught in Behring waters
with two fresh sealskins on board.
A new fake is being successfully worked
in eastern Ohio. An agent calls and asks
to see sewing machine. If it is a Singer,
he takes out the shuttle puts il in his
pocket and refuses TO give it up unless the
owner pays 3! 81 So or IS foran alleged in
fringement Of their property. Many fami.
lies have been duped.
The Pennsy lvania Railroad company has
settled the suit of the Kings Mills Powder
company, against IL, for 100000 The suit
was for damages done by the great powder
explosion caused one year ago by the care
lessness of a Panhandle brakeman, who
allowed n switched car to run into a car
load of powder on the side track.
Acting Secretary Nettleton recently re-
ceived letter from L. r. Hunt, of Spring
field. No., detailing complaints he had
heard of alleged delays in the conduct of
pension business at Washington. He re-
ferred the letter TO General Raum, com
missioner Of PENSIONS and has been rein
formed in reply that there is no ground
whatever for such complaints