Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Fire destroyed the Fostoria (O.) calcine
factory. Loss, $4,000
Fire destroyed the new school building
at Union City, Ind. Loss, $4,000
The Brotherhood of Telegraphers and the
Order of Railway Telegraphers have ANAL
gamated.
Billy Smith, of Australia defeated Tom
Mccarthy of Boston, in eight rounds in
San Francisco.
The United States steamer Albatross is
about to begin surveys for II cable from
San Francisco to Honolulu.
The first session of the irrigation con
gress was held in Salt Lake City Tues
day, with about $50 delegates in attend
ance
Miss Susie Mcpherson, living at Stan
ford, Ky, attempted to cut her throat be-
cause her father-a minister-objected to
her lover.
At Port Huron, Mich, Arthur Melon
aid demonstrated with Thelo Kyne for
beating Mrs. Kyne, and was shot dead
Kyne escaped to the woods.
The reunion of General George w. Nor
gan's command at Middlesboro, KY, is a
great success. Ten thousand veterans,
blue and gray, will be in line Thursday.
j. w, Handley, river engineer, hus-
band of Jennie st. John, formerly of
Bellevue, KY, was shot and killed at
Clio, La, by Sim Kemp, who was jealous
of him
In st. Louis Maggie Dolan had her
lover, Eugene Shire, arrested for assault
to kill. He got out on bail, sought her,
and cut her throat and his own. Both
will die
A jealous young man named Nevin mar
ried girl of seventeen at Bay City, Mich,
two months ago Tuesday he shot her
and then fired a bullet into his own body.
She is dead and he is dying
Prairie fires are laying waste all the
prairie beginning at Bray's Bayou, Tex,
and extending as far as the eye can see
Fences have been destroyed and farmers
have lost immense quantities of hay.
Elias Synder, white tramp, claiming
Cincinnati as his home, is under arrest at
OcOnee Ga. He is believed to know some
thing about tue recent Slatesville On. CO
wreck, in which twenty-three lives were
lost
A large rubber vulcanizer, weighing ten
TONS exploded in the company of the
Globe Rubber company, at Trenton N. j.
Considerable damage was done to the in
terror and machinery, and Cobb Bennett,
a workman, was fatally hurt.
Lieutenant Haines was acquitted Of the
murder of his young comrade, Hannegan
at Fort Monroe. 1t will be remembered
that the two young men were out in an
open boat near the fort and in quarrel
Haines shot and killed Hannegan.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
hold up an Ohio Southern passenger train
near Locust Grove, o. A danger signal
was put up but was not seen by the en-
gineer, who was behind time. Several
shots were fired, the fireman and conductor
having narrow escapes.
The Kentucky constitutional convention
has changed the section regarding railroad
commissioners, so that they will be elected
by popular vote instead of appointed by
the governor They have also put the to-
bacco warehouses under inspectors, TO be
elected by the Legislature.
The slope of the Morrel coal mine near
Dunbar, Pa, caved in Tuesday. A large
force of miners were at work at the time,
but fortunately were further down in the
pit. The men started at once for the shaft
and all got out safely. The excitement in
the vicinity Of the mine was intense.
Harry Kennedy, bell boy at the Neal
House, Columbus, o., aged fifteen years,
was killed on the elevator. While ascend
ing he thrust his head out 10 look upward.
It struck against the door sill aud was
squeezed between the elevator and walls,
breaking his neck. Death was instantan-
eous
Ignatius Donnelly, president of the Min
nesota Alliance, says II should be dis
tinctly understood that the Farmers Al
lance of Minnesota has had nothing what
ever 10 do with the various circulars that
have been issued from st. Paul advising
the farmers TO hold their wheat for higher
nrines "