Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
| Frosts in Iowa and Wisconsin.
National brewers are in session at St.
Louis.
Kansas railroads are unable to handle
the wheat crop,
The catch of mackerel off the Irish coast
will be but about half that of last year.
Two would-be train wreckers are in Jail
at Holly Springs, Tenn. They have con
| fessed.
Howard Earle, of Buffalo, forced his wife
to take a dose of poison, but she was
saved.
Professor Dyrenfurth thinks his rain.
making experiments at Midland, Tex. are
a success.
A revolt in Nicaragua has been nipped
in the bud Six men were killed and many
wounded,
At Fremont, o., Joseph Hobe, of Toledo
attempted to kill his wife who had left him
for another man.
Milo Spencer, of Napanee, Ind, was
probably fatally shot while leaning on the
muzzle of his shotgun.
At Dunkirk O., George Decker, H. shot
and killed his sister Rosa, IA, with q gun
Edward Cook, 13, of Tiffin, O., was
dragged a considerable distance by a run
away team and fatally injured.
Ida Smith, 10, living near Trowbridge
and Pearl Schooley, of Lansing, were
drowned in Pine lake, near Lansing, Mich.
At Cincinnati Jerry Maher "kidded"
Chris Fastnaught, who retaliated by frac-
turing Maher's skull with pair of tongs.
Lucius Andrews, colored, was hanged
by mob at Magnolia, Miss He was &C
cused of horse-stealing, and had bad
character generally,
A cavern about 35G feet long occurred
on the right bank of the Mississippi river
just below Plaquemine La. A new levee
will have to be built
The safe and store of Marcus Pickering
at Cadiz, Ind, was looted by burglars.
The safe was demolished and the store
room and building wrecked.
At Mount Carmel, Pa. Felix WasnislSi
was struck over the head with base ball
bat by Otto Schultz, during quarrel, and
fatally injured. Schultz is in Jail
Veterans Elijah Forbes lost his right
arm and Adam Shellstall thumb by the
premature discharge of a cannon during a
grange, Ind, during a soldiers reunion.
w. T. De Child, a prominent real estate
agent of Richmond, was arrested, charged
with forging the name of L. j. Ludwig, Of
Pittsburg, to two negotiable notes for the
sum of 81, 700.
The schooner Ellen and Mary went
ashore near English bay, Gulf of st. Law
renee, and for time it was feared the
crew and sixty passengers were lost. They
were all landed safely, however.
The Chinese papers publish rumor to
the effect that the son of the present Chi
nese minister to England, France and
Italy has been arrested on a charge of be-
ing a member of secret society.
Two freights collided near Palmer,
small station on the Northern Pacific thirty
miles east of Tacoma, Wash. Engineer
David Young and Fireman Frank Cooper,
of the westbound train, were killed.
Near Nicholasville, KY, Mrs. Mary Rich
ardson and three children were caught on
a railroad bridge sixty feet high. One of
the children escaped, being crouched down
at the outer edge of the bridge, The others
were killed.
Colonel w. S. Payne, of Fostoria, O.,
will demand reinstatement in the order of
Sons of Veterans. Colonel Payne was
commander-in-c chief in 1886, but was dis
honorably discharged for misuse of the
orders funds.
At Quincy, Ala, A. X. Allison, a son of
Ex-Governor Allison, was fatally shot in an
alteration with G. A. Gee. Allison had
been drinking for two days and behaving
like a hoodlum. Gee first horsewhfpped
Allison and then shot him.
Charles Cupps, notorious criminal,
was killed by cars near Alliance, o., near
spot where he once waylaid and robbed
rich farmer, placing the unconscious
man on the track to hide his crime. but
nassing stranger saved him.