Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items or
Various Subjects.

A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
At Appleton, Wis, Mrs. Charles Voight
was killed by cars.
Newbury, Ind, had $20,0 900 fire. Four
teen buildings burned
David i. Okes, of English, Ind, has a
"winged frog" eighteen inches long.
Near Upton, Ind, Daniel Bradshaw
was shot by an unknown while returning
home from dance.
The Westinghouse Air Brake company,
Pittsburg has discharged $50 of its 1900
men. Dull business.
Near Cano7er, O., a three-year-old child
of George Dill fell into a brush heap and
was burned to death
Rumor says the actress, Lolita, was
married recently in New York to Mr..
Douglas Shirley, of Louisville.
The effort to have the Indiana state uni
versity removed from Bloomington to
indianapolis ill likely be renewed.
At Marietta, o., Mrs. Elizabeth r. Rep
pert asked for $20,0 900 and got $10,e5O from
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern for a
leg.
At Kenton, Schindwolf & Sons furni-
ture establishment and the Kenton Car
riage company were damaged $50, 900 by
fire.
Mrs. Lee Dunn, of Indianapolis, burned
up 5000 in paper which her husband had
hidden in a small oven on top of the cook
stove.
An attempt to sell ticket to scalper
led to the arrest of G. B. Manchell station
agent at Leroy, Kan, for stealing forty
railroad tickets
Thomas Wallace, of Cadiz, Ky, com
mitted suicide by taking morphine. His
wife died few days before and he became
Respondent ard gloomy.
1t is reported that the whisky trust has
purchased the Peacock distillery at Paris,
Ky, from M. Burner & Company, of Gin
cinnati The price alleged to have beeA
paid is $4,000.
Seven men who held fourteen year-old
girl prisoner on an island in the Wabash
river near Logansport Ind, and repeat
eddy outraged her, have been captured
after a hard struggle.
At Beach City, while William Burris
was cleaning out a well for his daughter
Mrs Veimer, he dropped dead from heart
disease, He was born in 1909, and was a
Stark county (O.) pioneer.
Governor Francis, of Missouri, and party
arrived in III Paso, Tex. by way of the
Santa Fe, and were received by General
Sampson, American consul at Juarez, and
other distinguished citizens
Three convcts escaped from the state
prison at Jackson, Mich, Thursday after
noon by means of a tunnel thirty feet
long, upon which they had been industri-
ously working for six weeks
Mrs. James Quinn of Middletown, O.,
died on the operating table at the Cincin-
natl city hospital while undergoing an
operation for tumor The doctors pro
uouuce tho operation "highly successful"
United States District Attorney George
ID. Reynolds, of St. Louis, says no action
has been taken to take Joseph l.. Herwig
and NJ f. Arnolt, of the Louisiana Lot.
terry company, as stated in a dispatch from
New Orleans.
At the Birmingham (Ala) fair grounds
Thursday young couple who were mar
ried on the spot, started on their bridal
tour in balloon. Nothing has been heard
from them, and great fears are enter
tanned fer their safety.
C. $. Irwin, special agent of the United
states treasury, boarded the Santa Fe
Train luSJ utlpIS II was dbOuG W lCttNS IA
Paso. Tex, for the north and took three
Cinnamon therefrom Mr.. Irwin said that
these Cinnamon had come across from
Mexico. They were put in the county Jail
pending examination.
Dr. d. W. J. Hammond and wife, of
Johnstown, Pa, have entered suit against
the Southern Pacific railway, asking $685.
900 damage for injuries received in the
terrible disaster ON the line Nov. 12, 1890.
The couple were caught in the wreck while
on their wedding trip, and have never fully
recovered from their injuries