Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| N OA AtoAnb on
Various Subjects.
Pittsburg had $4,000 fire
Forest fires in Connecticut.
The Itata case has been dismissed
A silk mill was burned at Paterson, N
j. Loss 5000.
The Randall club, of Pittsburg, propose
Campbell for president.
Thomas Cunningham, of Cincinnati l.
was fatally assaulted by unknowns.
The government has opened 81, 900 acre
in Montana, under the homestead law
The Parnelites and their opponents are
having hand-t )-hand combats in Ireland.
Francis Slocum, twenty, of Duluth,
suicided by shooting. No cause known
Moore desk factory, at Indianapolis,
burned. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50, ,0O0
Mrs. Bridget Haley, of Cincinnati wRs
fatally burned by the explosion of lamp.
Secretary Tracy has ordered every vessel
in the Brooklyn navy yard to be gotten
ready for sea-
eighty feet, killing Henry Williams AID
Robert Jones, laborers.
Woodburn r. Avis, Yale medical stu
dent, shot James H. Lee, gunmaker, at
New Haven, Conn, Tuesday.
John Cudahy, of Chicago, will, it is re-
ported, establish an immense beef and
pork packing establishment at East St.
Louis.
The trial Of George A. Ellwood, alias
James Martin, the escaped Ohio convict,
is in progress at Providence He is held
there for buI 1lary.
The strike Of the San Francisco iron
fnoulders has been declared off after eleven
months. 1t has cost tho miners three
lives aad over 100000,
The Hsnkow correspondent of the Hong
Kong Press says those wlo imagine that
China is going to back down before mere
display of force are mistaken.
Acme railway signal works, Galesburg
Ills, destroyed by fire. Loss $25, 1000 Av-
rilla DegerolG perished in the flames and
Dora Titus was severely burned.
Seventy five White Caps, supposed to be
negroes, rode into Fayetteville, Tenn, in
search Of a negro preacher, but the man
had fed and the White Caps finally went
away.
Sigfried Gosch, German in South San
Francisco, hacked his wife and infant son
to death with hatchet and then hanged
himself. No cause is yet known for the
tragedy.
TIE responsible officials of Chicago will
be prosecuted by the government for
failure to remove distractions from the
Chicago river as directed by the war de
partment
The Farmers Mortgage and Savings
bank of Summerville, Or, was entered by
two masked men, who, ut the muzze Of
the pistol, compelled the cashier to give up
about 81, 800 in cash
The Philadelphia, flagship of the North
Atlantic squadron, sailed from tho Brook
lyn navy yard Tuesday, on her way to
Barbadoes, her first stopping place In tie
West Indies. There she will be thousand
miles or so nearer Chilli than she was
The New York presbytery, after a
whole days discussion, dismissed the
charge of heresy against DIR. Charles
Briggs, on trial for words used in his in
augural address at Union Theological
seminary. The case will come before the
synod
Director j. G. French, of the wrecked
Maverick bank, of Boston. has thus far
been unable to obtain a bond of $751; 900
Ben Butler offered himself, but was re-
jected 1t is now known that the direct
ors Of the balk had been speculating In
its funds for long time, and it is a sur
prise the collapse did not come sooner
Director General Davis has ordered the
worlds fair agents out Of Chill. The
order to leave the country was inspired not
so much by fear for the physical safety
of the agents as by fear that 1t would be
impolitic to press the subject Of worlds
fair appropriation while public sentiment
against Americans was running so high.
Bill Howard, who, together with Abe
Jones, was charged with robbiug the stage
between Lakeview and Redding, Cal, Oct.
Z, and who was also suspected Of being
concerned in the stage robDeries Of Oct 10
and 22, was shot and killed at his fathers
house, three miles from Reddlng, Wednes,
day night, by officers who had been watch
log for him