Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-18
NEWS in BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

2nOTb HtdNy TblLB III iowa.
A car famine is predicted in Iowa.
There is no danger of grain blockade
In North Dakota.
Twelve lives were lost by railroad col
lision in Switzerland.
Warren Costigan, printer, was killed by
cars near Fort Wayne, Ind.
Sunday Bennington, Vt, unveiled o
number of war monuments.
Wheat In New York Monday reached
el.l9 Trading was enormous.
Two men were killed in wreck on the
Union Pacific at Brighton, Colo.
CHILEAN rebels have issued manifesto
h which they threaten Balmaceda.
Stephen A. Ryan's creditors In Atlanta
have agreed to compromise with him.
Matsada Sorakichi, the wrestler, known
as the Jap, died in New York of consuMp-
ton.
1t is estimated that Kansas farmers will
receive $10O,0O0,0OO this year for their
crops
At Wabash, Ind, Lincoln Cochran Was
killed in a runaway. The horse scared at
dog.
Heavy transforms at Burlington, Ia. +,
and vicinity, Sunday, did considerable
damage.
At Kansas City heavy storm did great
damage. Similar reports come from other
sections.
Ernest Kane, of Redhaw, O., went to
sleep on the track while drunk and woke
in another world
Wilhelm Bahr, of Hamburg has been
killed by falling over precipice near Cor
tina in the Tyrol.
William Kimble, of Catawba, O., ACCT
dentally shot and killed himself while
handling revolver.
Esther Reno, 81, of Canton, O., suicided
with prussic acid because neighbours son
did not return her love.
The parents of Leonard Turner. the
two-year-old tobacco smoking baby OF
Chicago, are to be prosecuted.
Governor Hill and Mayor Manning have
both invited President Harrison to stop OF
at Albany on his way to Vermont.
Willie Hanswald, IS, of Corydon, Ind,
climbed a fence with both barrels of his
gun cooked. He was instantly killed.
George Jacobs, Z, of Celina, O., at
tempted to jump over a pile of burning
rubbish, but fell into it and was fatally
burned
DIR, U. Judah, of Bedford, Ind, perhaps
fatally shot his wife and then blew out his
own brains. He had often threatened her
life before
Rev. DR.. John Henry Hopkins, one of the
most distinguished clergymen of the Pro
testant Episcopal church, died at Troy, N
Y, aged II years
John Quinlan, aged 81 years, and Michael
Sullivan, aged 20 years, were drowned in
Welch's pond, at Methnen, Mass, by the
capsizing of their boat
At North Ottawa, Kan, E. B. Preston
and his wife quarreled over their daugh-
ter's lover. Preston sdot and killed his
wife and then fatally wounded himself.
Near Shelbyville, Ind, Carey Custer be
came involved in drunken quarrel with
Dick and Bunk Phares, and fatally
stabbed both. The affair began in joke,
The American Federation of Labor will
cooperate with the Amalgamated Associa
ton of Iron and Steel Workers in keeping
foreign tin plate workers out Of the coun-
try.
At Detroit two officers exchanged run.
ming fire with two highwaymen. One OF
the latter was fatally wounded. The
pill.
Fred Douglass has written ex-Mayor
w. r. Vaughan, of Omaha, favoring thu
bill introduced in congress by Congress
man W. j. Cornell, of Nebraska, for pen
sioning freedmen.
Human skeletons together with horn
of some large animal artistically covered
with strange hieroglyphics were dug up at
Waverly, o. They are undoubtedly the
relics of some prehistoric race.
Charles French and Charles Hubbard,
both colored, have been arrested for the
murder of City Marshal Dillon, of Haugh-
vile, Ind, over a year ago. French
whipped his wife and she peached out OF
revenge
At Petersburg, KY, George Thetge Ter
Tickey) brutally beat his wife and child
Marshal Ralph Tilley was compelled TO
shoot the brutal husband and father In
the arm before he could arrest him. He
was armed with an ak.
George l.. Titus, prominet contractor
of Attleboro, Mass, has disappeared, AMI
it is feared he has taken his life. 1t
thought that he had become temporarily
insane over business affairs which have
worried him considerably,
Three smugglers were arrested on the
Etruria. which arrived at New York.
They were Joseph Zeiter, of Syracuse, N.
Y, and n f. Yester and Jacob R0sen-
burg, of New York. A large quantity of
silks and jewelry was seized,
The secretary of the Knight Of Labor |
legislative committee of Pennsylvania, p. |
f. Caffrey, is not pleased with Chairmao
Buffers report to the order and is prepar
ing one of his own, which will be sub
mitted in few days. Mr. Caffrey thinks |
the Butler report was biased politically in
favor Of Republicans
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt, |
after investigation, reports that the non
service in the Baltimore post |
office, rs is the case with the non classified |
service in almost every patronage Office, |
was treated as bribery chest from which |
to reward influential ward workers, who !
were useful or likely TO he useful to the
faction in power. The appointments were,
secondarily, with view TO the well-bein1 |
of the public service.
con scious Charmer&.
IN contrast to the maneuvering, desig
On " Girl Let ia note the innuenca of one /