Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
q CONDENSATION of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Pooles bank at Irwin, Pa, has failed
again.
Horses are now having the grip at Mari
eta, Ind
Hawaii is preparing her exhibit for the
worlds fair
France will be fittingly represented at
the worlds fair
Influenza is spreading all over Great
Britain and Europe.
A band of boy burglars have been run
down at Cumberland, O.
At Muncie, Ind, George Howell is eat
ing dog for consumption.
Abram Clymer was killed by falling
slate in mine at Vincennes, Ind.
c. f. Mayer has been reelected presi-
dent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company,
Two hundred glass blowers are out at
| Muncie, Ind, owing to the discharge Of
three men.
Near Evansville, Ind, Louis Schmidt
shot himself in the leg while hunting and
bled to death.
| A coal steamer was wrecked off Brest
France, and only one of crew of nine
| teen were saved.
| Young girls are brought from China to
Victoria B. c., and sold to Cinnamon for
immoral purposes.
At Richmond, William G. Giddings, one
of the most prominent Republicansin in Vir-
ginia, died of heart disease.
AT Lancaster, Pa, Mrs, Amelie Spiess
suicided because her mother threatened
to eject her husband from the house.
Railroads in the vicinity of Ration, N.
M, are blockaded with snow, which is
from two to three feet deep on the.tracks.
Duff Brookins, of Princeton, Ind, was
prevented from suiciding by his mother.
He is but fourteen This is his third at
tempt.
Congressman Culberson, of Texas will
not accept the position of interstate COM
merce commissioner He intends to try
for the senate.
At Franklin, Pa, w H. Winans, a
wealthy farmer, prominent in church, so
cial and political circles, was arrested on
a charge of burglary,
At Little Rock two thieves got away
with a tray of diamonds worth $1,000, at
Zimmerman's jewelry store. They threw
pepper in the clerks eyes.
At Bloomington, Ind, Mrs. Mary Gillie
sues the fair society for 5000 for injuries
received by being run over by an unman-
ageable horse during one of the races.
Joseph Kidd, Sr, of Clermont county,
o., is dead at the age of eighty, He was
married four times, and was the father of
twenty-seven children, sixteen of whom
are now living.
BY the upsetting of lamp at Columbia,
S. c., J, e. Ford his wife and two chill
dren had their clothing set on fire. Mrs.
Ford and one of the children are dead and
the Others will probably die.
M. p. B. Voltaire, of Harlem, N. Y, is
searching for his missing wife and one of
his children, who while under the mes
meric influences of their servant girl, dis
appeared from home with her.
1t is thought that Jack Overstreet,
night watchman at the Bristol CTenn.)
electric car stables, which were burned,
was murdered before the fire. His charred
remains were found in barrel
The inquest on the body of Paul Gres-
sor, who was murdered in Mueller's saloon
at Ottawa, Ills, by Joe Hensel, developed
the fact that Gressor was the son of u
French family closely allied to the no
bility
During a scuffle between Abe Watkins
and Louis Thomas, at indianapolis,
Thomas drew revolver and shot Wat
kins four times, inHicting fatal wounds.
Thomas is in custody He says it was an
accident.
Near Morgantown, Tenn, Joseph
Harris and John Aiken fought with
knives until Harris fell dead with his ad
versary's weapon sticking in him. The
murderer escaped. Harris suspected
Aiken of being too intimate with his
wife.
Trumpeter Dixon, of the Sixth cavalry,
who killed Corporal Carter at Fort Mo
brara, Sept. 80, in an alteration over a
negro strumpet, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree in the United
States court at Omaha, and sentenced to
hang Feb. "A, 1892.
Hodges Drayton, of Fall River, Mass, |
who is charged with indecently assaulting |
Sadie Manchester, aged nine years, has
had a remarkable career. He was born in
the aims house at Taunton, Feb. l, 1858. |
His mother at that time was but ten years
and eight months old, while his father
was lad of fifteen years His mother |
also was born in the same aims house.
A commercial reciprocity agreement be-
tween the United States and all the Brit
ish West Indies and British Guiana is an
nounced In return for the continued |
free entry in reduction of sugar and coffee
into the United States, it has been agreed |
by the colonies named not only to greatly |
enlarge the free list of their tariffs, but |
also to make very considerable reduc-
tions in the duty on the leading agricul-
tural and other products of the United |
States
A man hunting in the woods near Brier
Creek, Lee county, Tenn, saw the foot OF
a man sticking out from pile of brush.
He was Mortified to find the dead bodies
of two men, William l.. Spreggns and
George Holiday The whole affair is
shrouded in mystery. Both men hHd
their brains blown out, and half Of tie
top of Holidays head was blown OF. X.
S. Morgan had a difficulty with the two
men, who are brothers-in-law, and they
disputed over some real estate. Morgan
is under arrest
At Fredericksburg, Ind, Saturday
night, young man named Devanish
started home from singing school with
q young lady At the door he was as
saulted with a slungshot by rival
named Ratciffe and seriously wounded
on the head. Devanish shot Ratcliffe,
inflicting a wound from which he died
Monday He then started home with the
young lady, but was overtaken by Rad
cliffe's brother and two friends, who were
on the point of killing him when he was
rescued by friends. The sympathy is all
in favor of Devanish, who is out on bail.
The Death Roll.
F. d. Norton, prominent iron manu-
facturer at Ironton, o.
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