Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Parnell's widow is improving.
Ex-Governor Bigelow, of Connecticut, Ia
dead.
The Pennsylvania legislature is in extra
session.
A glass fruit jar factory will start soon
at Muncie, I'D.
Russia is pushing with vigor the in
crease of her navy.
In September we exported $4,000, 900
worth of breadstuffs.
Oil war on at Findlay, O., between the
Peerless and Standard companies
Mrs. Betsy Schultz, of Nashville, Ind,
celebrated her 1O3d birthday Monday.
st. Paul will help Minneapolis in her
efforts to get the national Republican con-
vention.
From Constantinople comes the account
of more outrages on the Christian Ar
menians
Levenworth, Kan, willrun street cars by
compressed air, and possibly mills and
factories.
NJ. De Giers, the Russian minister of for
eign affairs, is paying visit to King
Humbert.
Mrs. President Harrison received Mon
day the delegates to the All-the- Methodism
conference.
The Dalton gang of robbers is said to be
surrounded by officers in a corner of In
dian Territory.
Martin Peterson, of Woodville, Ind,
sucided W tn a pocketknife He was
drunk at the time.
John Duffy, prominent New Orleans
sporting man, blew out his brains. He
had been drinking
The town tf Felace- Nadar, in Transyl-
vania, has been burned. The inhabitants
are destitute and suffering.
At Clarksville, Tenn, Charles Hamp-
ton crushed Charles Givens' skull with q
heavy iron bar and escaped.
1t is reported that the English hackers
will throw another million into the Mid
dlesboro (Ky.) town scheme.
At Nelsonville, o.. George Mcknight
suicided by shooting, because his sweet
heart refused to marry him.
At Plymouth, Ia, Frank Haunches
went out to shoot chickens and shot him
Self-accidentally but fatally.
Lizzie Massie, thirty five, living near
McConnellsville, o., suicided with a shot
gun. She had once been in an asylum.
Mrs. John ID. Martin, of Pleasantville
Ind, was burned to death by her clothes
catching fire in some unknown manner.
F. G. Ebling was killed and half dozen
workmen injured by a boiler explosion at
the Black Diamond steel works, Pitts
burg
May Crawford, of Cincinnati, suicided
with morphine in bordello at Knoxville,
Tenn. Her lover took up with another
woman.
Rev. William Greer, an aged preacher
living in Wilkes county, N. c., was killed
by his son, Sherman Greer. The latter
was intoxicated
The Baltimore grand jury resurrected the
old blue laws and closed everything last
Sunday Only milk, ice and the local
papers were allowed to be sold.
Mr. Parnell's parliamentary colleagues
have issued a manifesto to the Parnellitcs
to keep together and carry on the contest
on the lines that Parnell laid down.
A letter received frcm Ounalaska SAYS
the steamer Hattie Gage is reported as
having raided the seal rookeries in Priby-
loft islands and escaped unmolested
A mastodon's tooth weighing nine and
three-fourth pounds was found twenty I've
feet under ground near Muncie, Ind.
Other portions of the remains were also
found.
At GAINESVILLE, o., Mrs. Charles Harris
horsewhippod William Owings, because
he spoke disrespectfully to her. He retail
ated by having her arrested for assault
and battery.
James Turpin crushed Lewis Martins
skull with stone at Clarksville, Tenn.
The row resulted from a quarrel over
game Of marbles between the children OF
the two men.
Prentiss Lilley, aged eighteen, of Brazil,
Ind, who was charged with attempted
outrage by Mrs Jenkins, aged sixty
proved that it was case of blackmail and
was dismissed.
The three San Francisco morning papers,
The Call, Chronicle and Examiner, united
in protesting against the site selected by
Secretary Foster for the postoffice build
ing in that city.
The Austrian police believe that they
have captured in the man Steinart, Of
Craeow, Austrian Poland, n dynamite
field, who works destruction merely for
the pleasure of 1t.
The convention of the Mississippi Valley
Medical association, which is booked to
meet at St. Louis Oct. IA to 16 will not be
a success owing to a war between the
local practitioners.
A Berlin dispatch says that the kaiser
has expressed himself as deeply offended
by the anti-Jewish agitation which the be-
stowal of an order ON Jew living in
Bielefeld has aroused.
A boy, Campbell by name, shot and
killed Wash Hammond in the Chickasaw
Nation, thirty miles west of Gainesville,
Tex The killing was the result of a quar-
rel about the boys wages
The receipts from customs at New York
during the first ten days Of October were
g.. 800, a decrease of "a, ,5Ss, 1885 as COM
pared with the receipts during the CORE
spending period of last year.
The dead body Of a girl about ten years
old was washed up on the beach at Bed
loe's Island. New York. The throat was
cut nearly from ear to ear. The child was