Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-07
NEWS In RRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
The salt herring catch is one-half short.
Toledo's exposition is being largely at
tended.
An immense cave has been found in
Scott county, Ind.
Frank Bradley's little child choked to
death on bean at Canton, o.
President Harrison shot fourteen rail
birds in Jersey swamps Friday.
Rumored that Stephen b. Elkins will
succeed Proctor as secrettry of war.
The date for the unveilng of the Grady
monument has been changed to take place
Oct. 81.
John S. Durham, a negro, of Kentucky,
has been appointed United States minister
to Hayti.
Jacob Hartwig of Brooklyn, cut his
throat-while dreaming, he says He will
probably die
A reward of s., 900 each is offered for the
capture of the Modesto Gal. } train robbers.
Detective Harris recovery is doubtful.
John Colman, superintendent of the
Ruby mine, near Forest City, Cal, was
shot and killed by John st. Pierre, night
watchman at the mine.
At Dayton, o., Louis Motzel, an ex-con-
vict, broke into Morgan Gray's house and
stole Gravs eighteen-year-old daughter
and $40. They eloped to Kentucky.
Solomon Henson, of Warren county, O.,
was tarred and feathered by White Caps for
alleged misconduct. He recognized three
of his assailants, and prosecutions will
probably follow
Professor George S. Bryant, of the Ala
bama Polytechnic institute, has been ap-
pointed director of workshops and assist
ant professor of mechanical engineering
in the Leland Stanford, Jr., university.
A ten-round pugilistic contest between
Cal Mccarthy, of Jersey City, and Bobby
Burns, of Providence, took place under
the auspices of the Rhode Island Athletic
club, in Olneyville, Il. l., and resulted in
draw.
Sidney Old, alias Sam Owens, who is ac-
cused of embezzling $4,000 from Fisher
Renwyck 81 Company, of Newcastle-on-
Tyne, England, in June last, has been ar
rested at the Hotel Normandie, Detroit,
Michigan.
Charles Large and William Dial were
hanged Friday in the jailyard at Lake
Charles, La, for murder. Each displayej
remarkable self-pcssession, and on the
scaffold entreated the spectators to ever
live within the law.
At Charlottesville, Ind, Elmer Shu-
macher, of Darlington, newly married,
blew out the gas and, but for the timely
assistance of the hotel clerk, he and his
bride would have finished their honeymoon
in brighter sphere.
An unknown fruit vender entered the
apartments of Ellen Barry, on First ave
nue., New York, and, finding the young
woman alone, assaulted her. The police
were notified, and the young woman
placed under medical treatment.
Nearly 500 men employed at the Beally
glassworks, at Tifin, o., are in enforced
idleness in consequence OF 800 men EN-
ployed in "sticking-up and gatheringin."
The men demand an increase in wages,
which the managers refuse to give
Enough peaches have arrived in Balti-
more during the past five weeks to supply
almost four peaches to every inhabitant
of the United States The number Of
packages received has been about 1900, 900,
averaging 200 peaches to the box.
At Shenandoah, Pa, John Robbins
was instantly killed by premature blast
in the William Penn colliery, and at the
Ellnn Gowan colliery Fire Boss Michael
Flanagan and William Davis, miner,
were so badly burned by an explosion of
gas that fatal results are feared.
President Gompers, Of the American
Federation Of Labor, has extended an in
vitati0n. in behalf Of the trade unions Of
North America, to the trade union con
gress, now in session at Newcastle-on-
Tyne, Eng, to hold an international trade
union congress in Chicago during the sum
mer Of 1893