Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
q Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

At Tampa, Fla, twenty-five business
houses were burned. Loss, 800 600
! The cordage manufacturers of the
United States have formed a trust.
General Fullerton was badly hurt in a
runaway accident near Chattanooga
At Republic, O.. n highwayman held up
and robbed Theodore Measle, cripple.
Squire Bracken, of English, Ind, raised
6l5 bushels of corn on five acres of land.
At Portsmouth, o., Philip Wise was at
/ tackled and terribly mangled by vicious
dog.
BY tenement fire in London over
I hundred families were rendered home
! less.
At Dayton, o., Edward Schwind crushed
! William Cadwallader's skull with
shovel
/ Henry Dollmeyer, Pittsburg somnam-
bulist, fell from third-story window and
was killed.
During the month of October SO, 79S i'm
migrants passed through the barge office
at New York
A boiler exploded at Vendora, O., kill
ing two lumbermen named William and
Henry Thomas.
At indianapolis August Rahke, a
butcher, was held up and robbed by two
unknown men.
The indianapolis saloon keepers organ
ization is in danger of dissolution owing
to internal troubles.
1t is probable that the Ohio legislature
will be asked to increase the 100000
worlds fair appropriation.
w. y, Eli, It, whose wife was burned
to %>ath in Martin county, Ind, few days
since, died Thursday of grief
If a settlement of the miners troubles
at Brazil, Ind, is not soon reached none
is expected until after the holidays
At Greensburg, Pa, Train-wrecker Ellis
worth Luce was sentenced to eight years
and four months in the penitentiary.
Washington reports severe storms in
the western part of the state. A cloud
burst near Weston did much damage.
The Chinese lepers at Victoria, b. c.,
have been released, and are said to be en-
deayoring to cross the American line.
The steamship Alliance, from Brazil
brought Il case of what is supposed to be
yellow fever into New York Thursday.
In Pennsylvania the Republican candi-
dates for auditor general and state treas
urer had 5S,l52 and 54,357 pluralities
respectively.
New Orleans complains that letters 70
business firms in that city are constantly
being opened while in the hands of the
postal authorities
1t is said that Rear Admiral Gherardi
will soon be ordered to go in the flagship
Philadelphia and take command of our
vessels in Gillian waters.
At Atlanta Rev Sam Small was as
saulted by Tom Minor, saloonist whom
he had charged with deserting his family
and leaving them to starve
Ida Witt, aged twelve, of Portsmouth,
o., was shorn of her magnificent tresses
while asleep Wednesday night. A well
known character is suspected.
The lighthouse board has directed that
the light buoys and other aids to naviga-
tion on the lakes be continued in opera
tion until the close of navigation.
Owing to the enfeebled condition of
Hon. Allen G. Thurman, his seventy
eighth birthday friday was not elabo-
rately celebrated as was intended.
Two hundred anarchists were arrested
Thursday night at Chicago for holding
meeting in violation of an order from the
police. Some show of resistance was
made.
At Akron, o., William Long attempted
to kill George Webb with club because
he was his rival for the love of pretty
Mary Lidyard. Webb was not seriously
injured.
The Lewiston (Me) Journal says that
rumors of large shortage in the boo.s
of one of Portland's prominent men are
in the air, and that sensational develop
ments may be expected.
Mrs j. H. Whistler, wife of the pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Camden
O., had hands and arms badly burned by
gasoline while she was cleaning a pair of
kid gloves on her hands.
Mrs. Mary Ann Pitcher, the wife of
Phillip Pitcher, of Baltimore, has ju-t
come into a fortune of $4,000 through
the death of her father, Nathan Pun
phrey, a well known truck farmer Of
Anne Arundel county Nd.
The funerals of the eleven victims of
Sundays mine disaster took place Mt Nan
ticoke, Pa, Thursday. The whole town
was in mourning the mines and mills
having shut down, and business of all
kinds being generally suspended
The Chicago and Alton station at indie
pendence, Mo, was robbed by two men.
The contents of the cash drawer, S35.70, So
of which belonged to }. c. Marshall, the
agent, and a watch, the property of John
A. Campbell, farmer, was all they got
for their trouble.
1t is said that Governor Jackson, Of
Maryland, will appoint a United States
senator to serve until successor of t e
late Senator Wilson is elected by the leg
islature Mr.. Robert Bratton presid, It
of the last state senate, will, it is under
stood, receive the appointment.
Messrs. r. p. Hammond, J. c. Quinn
and j. ID. Redding, commissioners az
pointed to secure the national Re
publican and Democratic conventions
for San Francisco, have left for Washing
ton So far about 49, 600 has been sub
scribed in San Francisco for the purpose.
Daniel Hawkins, champion bantam
weight pugilist of the Pacific coast,
knocked out Billy Donegan, also Of san
Francisco. in eight rounds, Wednesdy y
night. at the Occidental club. The fight
was a clever one, and the Knockout bloT
was a clean left-hander on the point of the
chin.
Orris C. Palmatier, chief clerk of the
St. Louis Transfer company's warehouse,
is under arrest on charge of forgery.
Palmatier was deputy county clerk Of
Richmond county, Ills, for years and left
the position about eight years ago. The
accounts Of Palmatier were found to be
Si4 G00 short
oh, Not
WASHINGTON, Nov. A.-It was stated
At the department of state that there
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