Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-20
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

IN Va ON
Various Subjects.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is ill.
Ovcrwork.
Cotton worms are doing great damage
to the cotton crop in Texas.
Foster Thomas of Louisville, acci-
dentally shot and killed himself
Mrs. j. j. Ford was burned to death in
her home at Oklahoma City, l. T.
Harry Guenther, of Dayton, o., is again
on trial for the murder of his wife,
About $4,000 Odd Fellows are expected
at the encampment at Toledo, Wednes-
day.
Springfield has finally come up with the
money and she has the Ohio Masonic home
solid
Two thousand acres Of wheat was de-
stroyed by hail-stones, near Deer Greek,
MINI.
Ten persons were killed and many in
iured by railroad collision in Prusslan
Poland.
Traffic on the Lake Erie and Western Ia
at standstill owing to q strike of the
brakemen.
At Shelbyville, Ind, Mrs William
Hacker was severely burned by natural
gas explosion.
Some one has figured that 1t cost the
Ohio farmer forty cents bushel to raise
wheat this season
The village of HOLMAN, Austria, was
partially destroyed by cloudburst. Forty
persons were drowned.
The body of Dennis McCue, prominent
citizen of Rockford, Ills, was found in tae
river near Racine, Wis, badly mutilated.
Undoubtedly murder
At Portsmouth, O., Philip Hans and
Captain George Ingalls, quarreled. Hans
fatally stabbed Ingalls,, who is prominent
coal dealer, and escaped.
Thirty-three young novices were In
vested with the black veil in the order of
the Sisters of Notre Dame at the convent
of Notre Dame in Baltimore
Ex-Assstant Cashier Lawson, of the
defunct keystone National bank, Phila-
delphia was given eight years imprison-
ment, and fine of 500 and costs.
d. j. Clemens, charged with chloroform-
ing and robbing Colonel Frayser, the Mem
phis banker, has been released from GUS
tody, Mr.. Frayser failing to identify him as
the thief
At Chicago Mrs. Edward Mcmahon
horsewhipped Peter Smith, a millionaire,
and his lawyer, p. McIIugh, In a crowded
court room, because of reflections us to her
character.
Rich deposits of lead and silver ores have
been found in Paradise canon, about
twenty-five miles northeast of Ogden, u.
4. Experts claim it will be second
Leadville.
Anton Hoersch, a farmer living at Har
rison, Wis, killed Frank Koehn, a neigh
Dor, because Koehn interferred to prevent
him from beating his children. Koehn was
shot through the heart.
Waco, Tex, had $3OO,OOO fire. Gold
stein g. Migull's dry goods establishment
and several buildings adjoining were de-
stroyed. Electric wires are supposed to
have started the conhagration.
There seems to be q hitch in regard to
the sale Of the Stickney tract TO the Chicago
packers syndicate. p. d. Armour, Of the
"Big Three" says that A. b. Stickney
made the contract of sale without the con-
sent of the stockholders.
Three hundred and fifty nailers and
packers at the Minneapolis -four mills
went on strike, and were out for two
hours. They demanded twenty-five cents
more per day. IL is the busiest time of the
year, and there was nothing for the millers
to do but to submit
Professor S. Cooper made balloon as
cension at Jeffersonville, Ind, and alighted
on the top Of tho residence of Mrs. Lelie
Gould, tearing off the shingles and break
ing numerous windows. Professor Cooper
refused to pay damages and tried TO escape
into Kentucky, but his apparatus was kid
naped by constable.
Secretary Dillon, of the American Flint
glass Workers union, says that all scales
have been signed. The only difficulties
were in the shade and cutting departments,
but these have been settled. There are
eleven scales in the association and all
have been fixed, and the factories will all
be in operation the first week next month.
Fire destroyed the machinery In the
mine Of the new Pittsburg Coal company,
at Alum Cave, Ind, and the loss Is placed
at 100000 with two-thirds insurance.
The mine was worked by machinery Of
the eostliest kind, and was complete in
appliances for handling coal and burning
coke The miners are on strike and the
fire is credited 10 incendiarism.