Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Walt Whitman is still extremely weak
Edward M. Fields still persists in starv
ing himself.
A mad dog bit five persons Sunday al
| Texarkana, Ark
Four well known young men of Carson
New, it is believed perished in storm in
the mountains.
Thomas Carter, Pittsburg boollkeeper
cut his finger with a metal ruler. BlooC
! poisoning killed him
M. A. Mittenthal, dealer in men''
furnishings at Bessemer, Mich, has failed
Liabilities, S22, goo; assets will probably
reach $4,000
Colonel William H. Churchill, of Louis
vile, died suddenly of grip; also, Jacob T
Wright, one of the best known men Of
indianapolis.
Mrs Anna Kelly, forty-fve, widow
was burned to death at Albany, in heI
grocery which was destroyed by an over
turning lamp.
Isaac p. Sawtelle, awaiting the death
sentence in the New Hampshire peni
tentiary for numbering his brother, died
of apoplexy Saturday.
John c. Dorsey, assistant engineer on
Ghe Louisville and Nashville railroad
committed suicide at the Waverly hotel
in Louisville. Mysterious case.
M. Paul peschaud, French labor inver' l.
gator, arrived in New York Sunday. J'is
mission is to find out the social condition
of workingmen in this country.
Willie Wright was shot through a win
dow and killed an hour after his marriage
to Miss Anna Phillips, near Meridian
Miss, A rejected rival is suspected.
For over 800 days Mrs. Ellen Muchter
of Lehigh county, Pa, has lived by ab-
sorption, strange affection of the throat
preventing her swallowing anything.
Thomas Edwards, a Kansas City hos
pital nurse, became crazy, and arming
himself, rushed through the streets max
ing everybody get down and pray. Now
in Jail
Charles Bradley, dry goods and clothing
at Fairbury, Ill, has failed. Liabilities
will probably amount to $4,000. Creditors
have already filed claims amounting to
$4,000.
Advices from Guatemala are to the ef-
feet that Senor Montuiar, candidate for
the presidency, has declared false the
report that he was plotting revolution
against Barrillas
Judge George w. McClain fell from a
stairway in the St, Joseph (Mo.) court
house to the marble floor below and was
instantly killed He was personal friend
of John c. Fremont.
The rear cars of the Santa Fe express
were derailed and thrown down an EN-
bankment at Newcombe, Mo, east Of
Kansas City, number of passengers be
ing injured, one Conductor Woodworth)
receiving fatal injuries.
Robert Moore, twenty-four, son of q
wealthy contractor at Cincinnati, sui
cided in Bodies hardware store in that
city Saturday morning with revolver
he was negotiating for. A love affair
was the supposed cause
The killing man of wheels was on the
rampage Saturday. George w. Childs
gore was sought by crank in Philadel-
phia. who was subsequently arrested, and
sn investigating crank in New York
wanted Cornelius Vanderbilt's brains for
analysis, to find out why Mr. Vanderbilt
was rich and the crank poor.
In the big fire in Chattanooga Saturday
the losses were: ID. b. Loveman, dry
goods, S225 900; Erwin a. Company, Sl05,
600; Banks, $4,000; II. Schwartz, shoes,
$50, 900; J. II. Yandeman, $4,000; Silva e.
Abbott, crockery, 10000; Christie, dry
goods. s2j, 900; J. Gottschalk, furniture,
5000; W d Kelly. 10000, Eighth Street
stocks, so. 900; Adams block, 81 900; Times,
e. 900; Cobweb club, 5000; Chamber Of
commerce, $500 A number Of other
firms suffered smaller losses.