Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items oI
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
Quanah, Tex, had 100000 fire.
Senator Washburne says Blaine will be
the nominee in '92
Seneca (Mo.) "blind tigers" were visited
by the women and closed up.
The Sioux Indians have made claim
of $l0000,O00 for game killed by the
whites.
Parachute Dropper Shebar, fell into a
lake near Peoria, Ills, and nearly
drowned.
thousands of bushels of wheat and grow
ing crops.
Mrs. Julia Harris a sister of President
Fillmore, died Sunday in San Francisco,
aged eighty.
Sheldon Laury, of Cincinnati read in
bed, went to sleep, upset the lamp and was
fatally burned.
The government of Ecuador has signi-
fed desire to abrogate the old treaty and
make a new one.
Sunday President Harrison arrived at
Cape May on his return from Vermont,
and resumed his official lt,!,3.
S. G. Stone, an ex-milist1r of Memphis,
has confessed having set fire to his ware
house, burned about a month ago
A new disease in England is described
as being a combination of pneumonia,
meningitis, tonsilitis and sore throat.
The Missouri Alliance convention
adopted the Ocala platform, leaving out
the sub-treasury and land-loan features.
John w. Turner, of st. Paul, has sued
Miss Eta Terwilliger for 5000 ON the
grounds that she flirted with other men.
In New York, David Burns, forty-five, is
under arrest for criminally assaulting his
two daughters, aged eighteen and thirteen.
Six of the famous Sims gang of moon
sinners and murderers were captured near
DeSoto, Miss, Sunday, but the leader es-
capped.
The Park place building which collapsed,
killing over sixty persons, was a death
trap, according to witnesses in the inquiry
at New York.
A Kansas man threshed crop of wheat
in Kingman county belonging to another
man, pocketed the proceeds and fed leav-
ing the threshers unpaid
At Chicago Professor Hart, parachute
jumper, fell about thirty feet and was fa-
tally injured. The balloon caught in tree
as the ascension was being made.
At Orange, N. j., David Brownlee shot
and killed Cyrus Leeming while the latter
was asleep, because he had spoken dsre-
spectfully of his Brownlee's) daughter
Dillon Clarke, while intoxicated at
Martinsville, Ind, fatally stebbed Officer
William Cox, and almost shared the fate
20 fha GholIu1ri1la mn 1pdap A II 81 nroin
quiet,
At Grand Rapids, Mich, George Hey
dorm and his horse were killed by accident
ally touching a wire which crossed an
electric street car wire, within an hour
after the current was turned on.
Chicago newspaper prints a story to
the effect that Jay Gould has practically
control of the Union Pacific to
the Vanderbilts, who will make this the
first step to get an independent transcon
tinental route
Aeronaut Hogan fell 600 feet from his
balloon, while practising on trapeze, at
Detroit. Every bone was broken. He is a
brother of the aeronaut who assembled in
New York four years ago, and has never
been heard from since.
Burglar Anderson, who recently escaped
from the Jail in Cincinnati by leaving
dummy in his bed and sealing the eyes of
the guards with money, was captured in
Cleveland. Detectives followed his wife
from Cincinnati and thus run him down.
Sundays meeting of the New York Cen
tral Labor union was largely attended.
Strong resolutions were adopted declaring
Tammany officials to blame for the Park
Place horror, because, so rotten is the city
government, that building inspection is a
farce.
There is an organized gang of river pi-
rates along the Ohio river, They live in
with their families and move
up or down the river as suits their
pleasure Two-John and Jesse Graham
were recently captured at Jeffersonville,
Indiana
The indianapolis Journal publishes over
four columns of dispatches from various
parts of the Hoosier gas belt on the pros
poets of natural gas giving out. There has
been no diminution in the flow anywhere
except where they have been overworked
Or ruined at the start by careless drilling.
The only place any fear is expressed is In
eastern jay county