Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Columbus Grove, o., had $10,0 )O fire
Sunday
Geo. w. Peck was inaugurated governor
of Wisconsin Monday.
The smallpox quarantine has been
raised ut Houston, Tex.
The trades council at Birmingham, Ala,
decided to assist the striking miners
Common Pleas Judge Buckingham, of
Newark, o., is sued for 900 back taxes.
The trades council of Birmingham, Ala,
has decided to assist the striking miners.
Tie creditors of Archbishop Purcell are
willing to accept 25 per cent for their
clai ms.
Indiana commercial travellers ask tho
legislature to pass the two-cent railroad
| fare bill.
1here is an instruction in the Caroline
! Islands, caused by the oppression of the
| Spaniards.
a number of persons were drowned at
Pesth while skating on the Danube by the
breaking of the ice.
The supreme court of Nebraska has de-
cided that II father who murders his
daughter cannot inherit her estate.
Hal. c, Ross of Pittsburg, was married
to Miss Limie COrdon, of Uhricsville, O.,
after only three days acquaintance.
Legislator Terrell shot and killed G. w.
Embree at Guthrie, o. r., because the lat
ter testified against the former in court.
Alvin Stafford, agei 81, was arrested at
Aenia, for burning little colored boy in
a frightfu! manner with a red hot poker.
Two women at New Martinsville, w. Va,
fought duel with butcher knives. One
of the women, Mrs. Wilson, is fatally
hurt.
Doctors disagree as to whether William
Bop, of Huntington, Ind, is dead or in Il
trance, and the obsequies are indefinitely
postponed.
A blast furnace in the foundry of Far
mum & Richardson, Chicago, exploded,
and three worlmen were injured by the
molten metal.
An iron fence at Columbus, Ind, OBJ
jected to being walked over by small boy
Frank Schwartzkoff, tripped him up and
badly mutilated his face.
Governor Campbell has sent an invita-
tion 10 Meryin Kuhns the alleged MUIR
derer of Campau at Fostoria, to visit Ohio
at his earlist convenience.
John Lacy, a drunken Colum bus, Ind,
tough, cut Edward Ditz almost to death
before he discovered that Ditz was not
the man he was laying for
The authorities of Anderson, Ind, have
offered to the Central Glass company, of
Wheeling, w. Va, the use of the glass
plant recently closed in that city.
The signal service weather crop bulletin
of Dec 81, is not favorable to the winter
ban a.
too much rain and not enough snow.
The United Mine Workers have issued
an appeal to the Federation of Labor on
behalf of the miners OF Alabama who,
they say, are treated worse than convicts.
Emblem Risk, of Delphos, o., claims
that he paid Cal. Brice $1,000 to satisfy u
mortgage in 1878 and Brice refuses to re-
turn the papers Therefore he appeals to
law.
Mrs. Anna T. Gherardi, wife of Admiral
Gherardi, L. S, ~, commanding the
North Atlantic squadron, died in Brooklyn |
Sunday night OF pneumonia. She was 10
years old.
Two brothers and sister, named Bell, |
were caught in n blizzard Wednesday |
night near Medicine Lodge Kan. The
toys were frozen to death, but the sister |
will recover.
Mrs. Shaw, dressmaker of Los An
gees, Cal, was shot at by discarded |
lover, who afterwards committed suicide. |
Mrs. Shaws life was saved by two of the
bullets striking corset steels.
Selah Chamberlain, the Cleveland |
illionaire left small bequest to
Lane seminary, Cincinnati, and nothing |
to his niece, the beauty, Mrs. Jennie
Chamberlain Naylor-Leylan.
The statistics show that the product Of
coal for 1892 was 40,C000 600 tons,
valued at the mines at $65,C00,G00 and
consumers at cost of $3.50, co.,
COO. The average number of days worked
by miners during the year was 1874; that is,
they weps idle over one-third of the time.