Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Mrs Samuel Williams, rich farmers
invalid wife, cut her throat near Court
land, N Y.
Judge B. X. Higginbotham, of Frank
fort, Ind, died from the effects of the
Kelley treatment for drunkenness.
Joe Manley says Maine will not present
Blaine's name, but that he will not decline
if it comes from some other state, and il
unanimous.
An artificial rain-producing company
has been incorporated at Topeka, Kan,
with capital of 100000 Melbourne will
press the button.
After being entombed in an abandoned
coal mine for twelve hours, Miss Mary Sim
mons, of Providence, Pa, was rescued
alive and uninjured.
A locomotive boiler exploded near St
Clair, Pa, killing Charles Warnicker,
brakeman; Harry Wagner, engineer
Mahlon Reese, fireman.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, of Kansas addressed
large audience in fremont temple, Bos
ton, Monday evening General b. f. But
Ter introduced the lecturer
The British sealers Otto and +. B. Mar
win, which were seized in Behring sea,
have been released by direction of the lord
commissioner of the admiralty.
Edward Hanlon and the Australian
oarsman Stephenson, have been matched
for race on Shawnigan lake, near Vic
toria, b. c., ueXt Saturday, for a purse OF
5000.
The statue of Admiral Farragut, by II.
II. Kitson for the city of Boston, has been
completed at a cost of $22, 800, and is said
by critics to be masterpiece in compost
tion and modelling.
In the will of the late Judge Edwin
Flint of Mason City, Ia, among other
liberal educational bequests, is one for
$50, 600 to the State University of Vermont,
from which he graduated
The American Public Health association
began its annual convention in Kansas
City Tuesday. The associations member
ship includes physicians and scientists in
all parts of the North American continent.
II. a. p, Carter, Hawaiian minister to
the United States, is lying i'll in New
York. lls has a complication of kidney,
lung and heart troubles, combined with
dropsy. There is little hope for his re-
covery.
George W. Wicks, capitalist and lumber
dealer, was found dead Monday in his
room at The Pacific Union club, San Fran
cisco. lie had shot himself through tie
head with revolver The suicide is at
tributed to i'll health.
After living for fourteen years with his
wife, DR.. Samuel Inglick, a well known
citizen of Columbus, O., deserted her le-
cause he said they did not love each other.
A handsome niece is said to have played n
part in the desertion.
The 1900 foreigners whom the coal
operators threatened to bring to Pittsbury
to take the places of the striking coal
miners, have not yet arrived The strikers
are in better spirits, but are still appre-
hensive that the operators will carry out
their threats
Mr. Gustav Stein, the musical critic of
the New York Staats Ieitung, who was re
Gently bitten by n spider, died Monday.
Death is said TO be the result of pneumonia
and heart failure, as the doctors say the
blood poisoning resulting from the spider =
bite had nothing to do with Mr.. STEMS
death
A. S. Capehart, the governors private
secretary and ii. T. Hegelson, commits
sioner of agriculture and labor, have re-
turned from investigating the loss from
recent prairie fires in Emmons county, ~
ID. Only about twenty families will have
to be helped The state will render all
needed assistance
1t is said tuat the sultan has signified to
Russia his disapproval Of the-proposed
passage of a ship-of-war carrying the Rus
sian Grand Duke George through the Oar
daneles, and that the porte is preparing
TO fortify the entrance to the Bosphorus
from the Black sea.
The noted telescope-makers, Alvah G.
and George B. Clarke, Of Cambridge
Mass, are to dissolve partnership. This
step is taken for the sole reason that Mr.
George b., the senior member, is physically
unable to continue in active business, and
desires TO be relieved Of all responsibility.
The United States revenue cutter Rich
ard Rush left San Francisco Monday for
Unalaska The vessel Is ordered back to
the sealing grounds, as it is reported a
number of sealers, who, not satisfied with
their small catch, are waiting TO make de
scent on the rookeries whou revenue yes-
sells shall have left Behring sea.
Colonel Elliott f. Shepard, proprietor OF
the New York Mail aud Express, an
nounces that John A. Sleicher has as
sumed the chief editorship OF that paper,
made vacant by the death of the late
Major J. NJ. pundy. Mr.. Sleicher, who re-
tires from the editorship Of Frank Leslie's
Weekly 20 accept his new place, still re-
tains mis- proprietary interest In the latter
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