Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-29
NEWS IN RRlEE
A Condensation of Interesting Items o
Various Subjects.


Columbus, Ind, has an epidemic of ty.
phoid fever.
Six fires in St. Louis, Sunday, burned
5000, 900 worth.
1t is said that Hawaii wants to annex
and become state.
st. Louis had six fires Sunday, the ag-
gregate loss being 100000.
Several petrifed corpses have been found
in Marion, (O) cemetery.
Minnesota and Kansas have had q gen.
eral and very welcome rain.
At Anderson, Ind, Bert Lowman was
fatally injured in a runaway.
Andrew Gage, clerk Of Madison county,
Ark, was shot dead by an unknown as.
sassin.
George Lewis, drunk, went to sleep on
railroad track near Evansville, Ind. Usual
result.
The scientific rainmakers' experiments
at Corpus Christi, Tex, were completely
successful
Grasshoppers are doing great damage to
the new wheat in some parts of Clarke
county, o.
At Columbus, Ind, train wreckers Will
! liam Dine and Frank Wallace got five
years each.
Mrs. Jack West, of Wheeling, w. Va,
suicided with laudanum while her drunken
husband slept
Washington c. H., B., is threatened
with water famine, owing to the long
continued drouth.
Striking miners at Massillon, O., have
compromised. The breakers nre to be re-
moved from the screens
William Payne was drowned while
cleaning out the water tank on top of the
Denison house, indianapolis.
Two men were killed and three injured
by a freight wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio, near Cumberland, Nd.
Harry Richardson was seriously injured
in row with Lee Meyers at Springfield,
o. They had been friends before.
The public schools at Lafayette, Ind,
will be closed on account Of the excessive
heat and prevalence of diphtheria.
William II. Kemble, ex-state treasurer
Of Pennsylvania, died suddenly at his
home, in Philadelphia, of heart disease.
At Salem. Mass, Mrs. Warren Helt
suicided by pouring coal oil on her clothes
and setting fire to it, Domestic troubles.
Allen S. Makepeace, of Anderson, Ind,
sold his farm fifteen years ago while drunk,
and now wants it back. The courts will
decide.
At Montgomery, Ala, Bradford Dun
ham shot and killed James Cunningham
on the street. Domestic affairs are said to
have been the cause.
At Cambridge City, Ind, Farmer Joseph
Black, his wife and daughter, were killed
at a crossing, and another daughter was
probably fatally injured.
At Mulberry Station, near Muncie, Ind,
the boiler in Camack's sawmill exploded,
demOlshing the building, but none of the
employees were seriously hurt
Mayor Henneman, of Spartanburg, S.
c., was killed by John Williams, colored
man, whom he arrested while whipping
his wife Lynching is looked for.
Edward Franks, brakeman on the
Lake Erie and Western, fell under the
cars at ST. Mary's, o., and was 80 seriously
mangled that his life is despaired Of.
Rodefer Brothers glass works at Bel
laire, o., which has been closed for some
months on account of a disagreement
among the stockholders, will resume
Oct l.
At Youngstown, o., James Kane was
dered for his money. Saloon Keeper Dur
kin, his wife and Frank Nary were ar
rested.
Miss Cora Calm, daughter of a million
aire importer of New York city, will give
up the Jewish faith, will become q Catho.
lie, and will wed Lieutenant Oscar Won
Calm, of Austria.
Governor Pattison has called an extra
session of the Pennsylvania senate to i'm
peach State Treasurer Henry X. Boyer
and State Auditor Thomas McCamant.
McCamant threatens suicide and Boyer
can't be found.
Some boys of Elizabeth, Richie county,
w Va, have confessed TO dropping lot
of old iron into an oil well being drilled
near that place "just to hear 1t rattle"
The well is 800 feet deep. The driilers
have abandoned it.
A hurricane swept through northern
Minnesota Saturday night, striking the
Red lake and Leach lake lumber re-
gions 1t is estimated that $4,000. 600
feet of timber were destroyed. 1t is not
yet known whether any casualties oc-
Cured.
John S. Sinclair of Lakota, Nelson
county, n. d., has been notified that he 10
the earl OF Caithness, with an annuity Of
10000 When Sinclair left England, four
years ago, George Philip Sinclair, fifteenth
earl Of Caithness, was twenty-seven years
old and married In 1889 he died, leaving
no heir and John s Sinclair was adjudged
next Of kin. with no hopes OF reaching
an earldom, ne was working on n small
farm in the west when he heard Of his