Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Judge Silas Clark died at Indiana, Pa
Prospects of reciprocity with Mexico are
bright
Lewis Dearth insane was killed by cars
near Zalesld, o.
Keen London investors arc heavily buy
ing American railway securitief.
An Italian woman was burned TO death
in tenement house fire in New York
An alleged case Of smallpox near Gin
sinnati turned out to be chickenpox only.
At Terre Haute, Ind, Kate Hines sui
cided by poison, leaving a large family,
Drink
William Brown, n German waiter from
Chicago, suicided with arsenic at Terre
Haute.
A syndicate of Cincinnatiaus has leased
10000 acres of land near English, Ind, for
oil purposes.
The department of state has been in
formed that expectation of wheat from
Russia is prohibited.
Two sons of ID. d. Batten, owner of q
sawmill at Menlo, Ga, were killed by the
explosion of boiler
Ex-Governor Ioadly has been seriously
Ill in New York OF pneumonia but is now
considered out Of danger
Jerry Donovan, a glass blower of Bowl
ing Green, O., was killed while attempt
ing to board freight train
Rev. Thomas Hill, ex-president of Har-
ward college, who has been i'll for some
time, died at Waltham, Mass
The pastor of the Church of st. Mar
N at vii Tn Iop 10
cree dividing the sexes in the church
Mrs Hattie Moore, formerly of Bath,
Me, got $4,000 in a breach Of promise
SUIT from Moses Hopkins, the California
millionaire.
Near Newark, o., n young man namod
Miller, while hunting, shot and probably
fatally wounded n companion, Alvah
Smith, young farmer
At the miners congress in Denver, Fri
day, vote on indorsng the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver resulted; 48l
votes yes, and s votes no.
Major Wiscmann commissioner of Ger
man East Africa is i'll at Cairo. He saws
If he ever reaches Germany again he will
resign, as he has had enough of Africa
The marriage of Archduchess Marie
Louise of Tuscany to Prince Frederick
Augustus of Saxony took place Saturday
IN the chapel of the imperial palace in
Vienna.
1t Is reported ut Pittsburg that John d,
Rockefeller has virtually retired from the
presidency Of the Standard OH com
pany. Daniel O'Day, it is said, will sue
coed him.
The trial of Barney Mulvey a Cincin-
natl crook who accidentally killed hispal.
Billy Withrow, of Columbus O., has beer
postponed until Tuesday, owing oabsenC
of witnesses.
Charles Sullivan, of Pittsburg, was
killed by electricity. A hammer he was
using missed the object aimed at and
came in contact with a trolly wire of Il
street railway,
Some Kansas Republicans who object
to Senator PETER have a scheme to create
n state agent at Washington, at a 5000
salary, to represent their state and to act
as Plumb's colleague,
In the absence Of her divorced husband,
Mrs. A. T. La Duke, of Connersville, Ind,
abducted her son, and win take him to
California. La Dukes second wife was u
party in the abduction.
The New York sporting fraternity was
somewhat shocked Friday night by the
report that John 10 Sullivan had been
shot in San Francisco. Investigation
proved the report TO be false
The people of Orange county, Ind,
would like to lay hands on Iaom Detson a
married man, who is charged with having
repeatedly outraged two little girls He
will likely be lynched if caught
Asberry Blakely, an old soldier, died
in the Holmes county (OD poor house, but
left n will bequeathing $1,000 to the wife
of the superintendent Of the aims house
Now Blakely's relatives will contest
A report is current that Lord Stanley
will resign the governor generalship Of
Canada next month. 1t is understood
that.he and Lady Stanley find their position
very irksome and would be glad to leave
Near Greenville O., Charles HelTclGn-
gers wife, while insane, threw concen-
trated I've into her husbands eyes and
and then assaulted him with a hatChet
She then cut her own throat. Both will
die.
The excitement Of her husbands arrest
for robbing mail-hoNcs and his subsc
ouent escape led Mrs Boalen TO resort to
morphine and whisky, and she is now
in pitiable condition in the Louisville
Jail.
Mrs Harriet Lucas, of Philadelphia,
president of the women's Pennsylvania
committee of the worlds fair is seriously
I'll as result of ovcrwork. She will be
compelled to retire from the committee
for several months
The subtreasury at New York is over
weighed with pennies One hundred and
four thousand dollars worth Of pennies
are gathered there, or over sixty tons,
The peuny-in-the slot machines are re
sponsible for the influx.
The national Changers at Springfield
O., adopted resolutions demanding free
and unlimited coinage of silver so as to
make, with legal tender, $50 per capita,
favoring prohibition of the liquor traffic,
the existence Of trusts, dealing in futures,
etc. The silver resolution had but eight
negative votes.
President Hickman, of the southern
Manufacturer association, said that i'm
addition to reciprocity the south needed
more steamship lines to the West Indies