Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-17
NEWS IN eRlEE.
a Condensation of Interesting Items OI
Various Subjects.

Alliance is threatened with a split.
Isaac Weller, of Missillon, O., was killed
by cars while walking on the track.
The Dubuque street railroad has de
clared storage electric cars a failure.
The grip is making great headway in
New England, especially in Connecticut.
William j. Florence, the well known
comedian, is seriously i'll at Philadelphia
Calvin Beasley, colored, of Jamestown
o., was fatally injured by the explosion OF
a gun.
Near Church Hill, KY, Samuel Stewart
was suffocated by gas while cleaning out
we'll
Benjamin f. Leavitt committed suicide
near Lancaster Ky, by shooting, Ill
health.
At Paoli Ind, John H. Webb, farmer,
was shot and fatally wounded by an un-
| known.
Frank Taylor, nineteen, of Canton, O.,
was killed by the bursting OF gun while
| hunting.
An effort is to be made to have the sec
ond trial of Woodruff, at Little Rock
take place at once.
About score of burglars, safeblowers
and all-aronnd crooks were arrested in
Chicago Sunday in two raids
| Thaddeus Stevens, member of the
great Pennsylvania family, got three
years for burglary at indianapolis.
The Cordage Trust hopes to secure a
complete monopoly by buying the patents
upon all rope-making machinery.
Rumors are ahoat that the triple ALI
ance may take the aggressive in the belli-
cose game now in progress in Europe.
Musicians in London are almost a unit
in expressing the hope that uniform
pitch be selected and adhered to the world
over.
The consensus of opinion in Berlin is
that there will be conflict between Bis
marck and the kaiser after the reichstag
meets
About thirty suits for claims, aggre-
eating 1925, 600, have been filed against
Louis Adler, a bankrupt Chicago cloak
dealer.
The Lexington (Ky.) city council has
been individually indicted for malfeas-
ance in Office for allowing pool rooms
licenses.
Smallpox is epidemic at Harris Neck,
Liberty county Ga. Steps have been taken
by the United States government to stamp
out the disease.
Colonel II. Ropes, of Corpus Christi,
Tex, has sued The Boston Traveller for
100000 damages for an article attacking
him and his enterprises.
AT Minister, o., masked men ransacked
the Catholic parsonage, threatening to kill
the priest if he interfered. They secured
about s75 and some jewelry.
At Dallas B. L. Rich was arrested on
the charge of murder, a young lady hav-
ing been killed at Vernon, Tex, by a run
away while driving with him.
Lycurgus Lindsay and j. w. Smith, Of
Kansas City, were arrested for unlawfully
securing a stock of dry goods by giving
for it land with clouded title,
AT Lima, o., Engineer Sam Craig and
Fireman Disman were seriously injured
in wreck on the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton. Misplaced switch
Near Walton, Ky, Newton Ober shot
and fatally wounded his brother Marion,
Old quarrel. Marion was soon to be mar
ried. There is great excitement
At st, Mary's, O., Peter Tabler, Thomas
Doty, Hiram Baker and Mike Botkin,
well-to-do farmers, have been arrested
Michael Davitt is out in letter con
demning virulent language used by Irish
wranglers, especially when it is directed
toward a sick and defenseless woman.
1t is believed the shortage of Willis II.
Berry, cashier of the Cincinnati Coffin
company, will reach $4,000 He has been
stealing for several years. He is in Jail
Parnell memorial services We're held in
New York Sunday night, with Chauncey
M Depew as eulogist. Governor-elect
Mckinley and wife, of Ohio were pres
ent.
While in the morgue at St Louis Til
Julian, of Washington, Ind, identified
the remains Of his brother William whom
he had not seen for several years, and
who had suicided by poison in a hotel,
At Dayton, O., N. NJ Hurley, an old
soldier, and his seventeen-ye -year-old daugh-
ter were arrested for incest. The woman
is married, but her father persuaded her
to leave her husband and live with him.
The rumored discovery of coal in Ripley
county, Ind, proves to be no fake" The
vein is over four feet thick and lies about
twenty five feet below the surface. The
indications are that the surrounding
For the year ending June 80, 1891, the
total internal revenue collections for the
year was S146, 035, 415 Spirits grave SS3
1856 1868 fermented liquors SIS, ,565, ,129, to-
bacco $32, ,796 270, oleomargine 81 or ,92+,
miscellaneous $780, 1871 The cost Of collect
ing was 81 ,210,604.
The banking house Of Bonner e. Bon
ner, Of Tyler, Tex, has been forced to the
wall. The depostors will lose heavily.
The International and Great Northern
railway is their heaviest creditor. The
liabilities are about 100000, and the Ms
sets are reported to nearly equal this sum
At Omaha Cadet Clara Beadle shot and
fatally wounded Captain Hattie Smith, Of
Clinton. Ia, and then blew out her own
brains Miss Beadle was undoubtedly in
sane on religion The incident did not
stop the meeting which went right along
after the police had removed the dead and
dying
Cleveland had a $250,OO0 fire Sunday
evening. Short e. Forman, printers and
lithographers, were the heaviest losers,
their loss being about Sl25, 600 partially
insured Two ive-story buildings were
destroyed. Adjoining property was con
riderably damaged. Fire Captain John
Grady was burned to death and Firemen
Ward and Howley seriously injured
Professor c. w Van Week, president
the Medical University Of ohio, q
-us medical college in Cincinnati, and
has been furnishing diplomas to Or
n the shortest possible notice at
500 or so per diploma, now Ian
hes in the Hamilton county bastile TO
lit the decision Of the courts. The