Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-22
NEWS IN eRIEF.
A CONDENSATION OF interesting Itoms ON
Various Subjects.

nial conclave.
Miss Helen Tiefenbrun shot burglar at
Atchison, Kan.
The sky bombardment at Ell Paso, Tex,
did not bring rain.
The Lyons paper MILL Lyons, Ia, burned
sunday. Loss, $4,000
Large numbers of Italians are emigrat-
ing to the United States,
Henry Gleich was found dead by the
railroad at Huntington, Ind.
Slight earthquake shocks in the states of
Washington and South Carolina.
Bavaria resents interference with her
autonomy on the part of Prussia.
John Duffy, of Goshen, Ind, robbed the
mails and is in the tolls. He confessed.
Sheffield, Ala, had $4,000 flre-the
Cleveland hotel and ten business blocks.
George w. johnson and son, of Emmons
county, S. d., perished while fighting
prairie fires.
Considerable damage has been done to
crops in Minnesota and the Dakotas by
prairie fires,
William Amlung, u Cincinnati hosiery
manufacturer, suicided by shooting. No
cause known.
AT Cincinnati John O'Brien was killed
and John Roach slightly injured by the
.all of an elevator
At Louisville Stephen Hite, cousin of
Jesse James, stabbed Albert Baurmann
20 death in a saloon quarrel.
Fitzgerald, the Youngstown murderer
awaiting death in the Ohio penitentiary, is
anxious for the date-Nov. 10.
At Waltersburg, Ills, a mother and
,hild were killed in runaway The
jeam scared at a traction engine.
Ex- Congressman William l.. Scott, of
Pennsylvania, died at Newport, X. l.,
Saturday night. He left fortune of $l5,
100000.
Conrad Bower, of Bradford, Ind, sui
sided with razor because the doctor
Sould not cure him of drunkenness in a day
Or two. He was seventy-seven.
Sir James Ferguson, baronet, political
secretary of the British foreign Office, has
0een appointed postmaster general to fill
the vacancy created by the death of Henry
Cecil Raikes.
George w. Wilson, bookkeeper for Arm
strong Brothers, boiler makers, Spring
field, O., is under arrest for having sold
ulGAhJ VI llO NdlueDlO pOOl6 uScu ia JIlb
shop.
AT Saylersville, KY, Logan Murphy and
his father quarrelled. The son killed his
father and attempted to escape, but was
soon captured. He says his father threat
9ned him.
An oasis in New Mexican desert was
the scene of romantic tragedy, a man
named Dean having been murdered by his
young wife, whom he attempted to whip
into subsection.
Near London, KY, Ed Hale and Tom
Bickner, brothers-in-law, got into a
friendly scuffie, got mad and shot each
other. Bickner is dead and Hale has
bullet in his thigh.
Rev. Zacharah Il. Bell and Miss Kate
Mashburn, who eloped from Lexington,
N. c., nine months ago, have been cap
tured at Dahlonega, Ga, where they
passed as man and wife.
At "The Abbey" q notorious road house
near Dayton, O., Jacob Harvey, n rail
roader, shot and killed Mrs. Maggie Leh-
man. He was insanely jealous. He had a
close call from lynching.
At St. Johns, O., Postmaster Hewing
went to investigate noise in his chicken
coop. A shot followed and he was found |
with a bullet through his heart and his re-
volver by his side. Undoubtedly murder.
In South Dakota Mrs. Ncprosich, wife |
of a contractor, became insane over her |
business reverses and threw her |
two children from railroad bridge plung |
ng after them One of the children was |
rescued.
Sidney Bell, of Columbus, o., convicted |
Of numbering S. NJ jacobson, of San |
in August, 1890, has been |
proven innocent by viii NJ Clements, |
reporter. Harry Kennedy, an
Objectionable lover of Jacobson's sister,
was the murderer.
In Colorado cask filed with water is
,he executioner. When the condemned
nan steps on the scaffold he trips valve,
which lets the water run. When the water
las run out in about five minutes, the |
ightened cask trips weight, which
erks the man up by the neck and hangs
lin.
Mrs Charles Edmonds, a disreputable
woman of Georgetown, o., attempted to
md her life by jumping from second
story window, but only succeeded in max
ng herself a helpless cripple for life. Her
ather was responsible for her downfall,
md was thrown down stairs by her hus
,and, receiving wounds from which he died
At Torrington, Conn, next Wednesday,
he people of that town will celebrate the
eventieth birthday of Matthew, Daniel
md William Grant, who were born trip
cts on Sept. 80, 1921. There will be ban
luet and speeches and music by the band
The brothers themselves will sing some
ld-fashioned songs. They are hale and
hearty.
The statement is positively made by cit
zens of Coal Creek and Brceville, Tenn,
hat the convicts in that region will be re-
eased so surely as the legislature adjourns
Without taking some step looking to a
inal removal of the convicts. No one
'entures an opinion as to when it will be
lone. They will be set free this time II
hey are disturbed at all.
In Spain the greatest misery has been
aused by the floods Mt Camunas and
Villa Franco. The crops have been lost,
nd it ia feared riots will result If relief is
elayed. At Conseugra there is a demand
or more disinfectants. Many marauders
AVE been imprisoned there. AT Almeria
he bodies of 1881 victims of the floods
ave been buried. Many houses under
mined by the floods continue TO fall
Since the death Of Nine. Blayatsky,
heosophy has taken n sudden and rapid
dyance in all parts Of the world. There
re more now than sixty branches of the
ociety of the United States, and about
60 different branches in the world. Will
am Q. Judge, the general secretary Of the
american section, is now lecturing on the
Pacific coast. On his return east he will
ave visited nearly all the branches If the
ountry
Otto Kramer sat on tack while travel