Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-12
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Waldron were married in New York.
The lottery men of New Orleans elected
their delegation to the state convention.
Colonel Daniel f. Mead, one of the old
est and wealthiest citizens of Dayton, o.,
ie dead.
Miss Matte Henderson, of Newcastle,
Ind, was blinded by an explosion of nat
ural gas.
During the month of October SO, ,796 i'm
migrants passed through the barge Office
at New York
At indianapolis arunaway horse dashed
into a saloon and completely demolished
the entire place
The Devils Backbone, between Madison
and Hanover, Ind, is on fire. 1t is covered
with valuable timber.
There is a general snowstorm raging
over North Dakota. At Bismarck biz
zard was blowing Tuesday night.
1t is charged that Deputy Anderson, OF
Indianapolis, let Prisoner Lyons escape
when being taken to the penitentiary
Over hundred people were injured,
twenty seriously, at Castellamare, Italy,
by the fall of grand stand at bullfght.
| The coinage executed at the mints dur
ing the fiscal year was the largest in the
history of the country, aggregating 119,
567 SIT pieces.
At Canton O., Thomas B. Kimball, a
| New York drummer, got drunk and was
arrested. The next morning he was found
dead in his cell.
While attempting to arrest two burglars
at Clinton, Miss, r. S. White, deputy
sheriff, was fatally wounded, dying two
hours afterward.
The Rankin manufacturing company,
wholesale clothing house, of Nashville,
has made an assignment. Assets $685.
600; liabilities $l33,0 200.
At Findlay, o., two masked men at
tackled Thomas Nowley, barkeeper in
Meeker's saloon, beat him senseless and
robbed the drawer of $293
Houston Kelley, colored, was hanged at
Rogersville, Tenn, for the murder Of
another negro named Dan Carmichael, at
that place, last Christmas.
The seventeenth member of the famous
suicide club of Bridgeport Conn, has
hung himself But two more remain and
they are expected to do their duty.
Near Hope Ind, two men, named Nor
man and Cotner, met in a lonely spot
quarreled and fought. Norman was seri-
ously cut about the neck and face.
Agents of the Canadian government
will visit Kansas, Nebraska Minnesota,
Wisconsin and Michigan to induce the
farmers to locate in Manitoba and the
northwest.
Wooster, O., claims to have woman
who has just awakened from q seventeen
year trance, during which she remembers
H. Il H.. l. Al
meantime
Frank Van Loon, the second man ar
rested for the Columbus Grove (O) bank
robbery and murder of Farmer Vande-
mark, has been indicted for murder in the
first degree
viii Moneypenny, of Columbus, O., won
nearly 1000 in the pool rooms at Coving
ton, KY, and started home, He arrived
there penniless, having been touched" en-
route, but where or by whom he has no
idea
The duties heretofore performed by the
wrecked United States steamer Despatch
as dispatch vessel" will hereafter be
allotted to the United States steamer
Dolphin, lately returned from the China
station.
Brakeman David Howe gets 5000 for
the loss of an arm, cut off while he went
to sleep tagging a train on the Newport
News and Mississippi Valley railroad He
proved that he had been shamefully over
worked.
At Dayton, o., r. f. Kramig, a drum
mer for Keck & Company, jewellers, of
Cincinnati, was robbed of valise con
tanning between $4,000 and 200 worth
of diamonds, while eating lunch in res
taurant. No clew.
In the argument in the case of the Cana
dian sealer Sayward, now in progress be
fore the United States supreme court,
Solicitor General Taft revealed the fact
that Blaine and Salisbury had agreed to
arbitrate the whole Behring sea difficulty.
At Portsmouth, Va, Henry Curtis, col
ored, was hanged for the brutal murder of
an old man named Tanner in September,
1899 He knocked the old man senseless,
wrapped him in blanket and, saturating
it with coal oil, set it ON fire. He came
very near being lynched at the time.
The hands at the Pennsylvania glass
works, at Anderson, Ind, went out on ac
count of reduction of their wages. The
proprietors claim that the market is glut
ted with their kind of goods, principally
Jars, and in order TO meet the cut in
prices they were forced to cut wages 20
per cent
An attempt was made at Martinsville,
Ind, to kill John Marsh, who was
whipped by Mollie Miller while going TO
the Big Four depot on Saturday night.
He was attacked by four men with revolv-
ers. A number of shots were fired, one Of
which struck him in the side, making a
slight wound
John Tridor, member of the Deadwood
city council, and wholesale liquor
dealer. who left there six weeks ago with
his family to visit old scenes in Europe,
has been arrested as deserter from tho
German army, and is now in prison at
Mainse. Mr. Tribor left Germany in 1874,
when about ten years old.
Mrs. Rebecca Coryell, of Seymour, Ind
was acquitted of the charge Of assault and
battery upon the person Of her daughter
in-law, Mrs. Cora Coryell, on March 4 last,
at Beech Grove school house, the night
Samuel Coryell killed Arthur Bedel, at
the close of the Dunkards meeting. 1t
was charged that she urged her son to kill
his wife.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, fears
he will need United States troops TO help
him suppress the outbreak which is likely
to occur over the leasing Of convicts to
mine operators. 1t is the opinion of the !
governor that the miners of Pennsylvania,
Ohio. Kentucky, Alabama and Virginia
would reinforce the East Tennessee
miners if the worst should come
Gold Brick swindle.
Troy, N. Y, Nov. 12.-It is reported
that gold brick swindle was perpe-
trated last week ON resident of Hamp-
ton corner. WashinRton county. The