Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Earthquake shocks in California.
| Mexico's revolution has about petered
out.
The Georgia legislature refused to pass
the Osceola resolution, 81 to 63.
General Grosvenor Just home from Eu.
rope, will stump Ohio for Mckinley.
Simpson Bush, wife murderer, of Clay
City, KY, will pay the penalty on the scat
fold.
Governor Campbell and Major Mckinley
will have a Joint political debate at Ada,
O., Oct. 8,
Anson, the famous Chicago base ballist,
is to write base ball play in which he is
to play the hero's part.
Tornado insurance is more profitable to
the insurance companies than fire insur-
ance. There is no moral risk"
Riley Macklin, murdercrof George Weis-
brodt, of Cincinnati, at Blue Lick Springs,
KY, was captured at Vernon, Tex.
The real estate mortgage debt of Kansas
is 1895, ,4S5, 1Os, 1t is is per cent. of the true
valuation of all the property in the state
& The London Times Brussels correspond
ent denies that the governorship of the
Congo State has been offered to German.
At Akron, o., Ann Enfield jumped from
second story window to escape arrest,
and fractured the femur bone. She may
die.
/ Young Mitchell, champion middleweight
of the Pacific coast, knocked out Reddy
Gallagher, of Ohio, in thirteen rounds at
San Francisco.
In battle with tramps at Owosso, Mich,
Engineer Finch was wounded in the arm
His bullets seriously wounded three of his
assailants.
Harvey Watterson, the venerable father Of
Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal is lying at the point of death
at his sons residence
Mrs. Zerelda Wallace, mother of General
Lew Wallace, is seriously i'll at Shannon,
Ills. She was Frustrated in the midst of
lecture on woman suffrage.
At indianapolis, S. d. Pierson allowed a
nightmare to run away with him, jumped
from second story window-to save
himself, and is laid up for repairs.
Lee Bo, a Philadelphia Chinaman, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat. 1t
is said to be the first case in this country
of a Chinaman attempting to end his life.
An elaborate harvest festival was held
at Minneapolis. Arches of wheat sheaves,
-four barrels and sacks of wheat spanned
the streets. An industrial parade was the
feature.
The Hoosier state house is to be heated
by crude petroleum. 1t is claimed it will
cost only about half as much as the gas
company wants for natural gas-S8, 900
annually.
A tornado struck the northern part of
Duel county, S. D., and passed into Lac.
qui-Parle county, Mimi, unroofng build
ings, blowing down barns and scattering
grain stacks.
A universal council will probably be
held at the Vatican in 1893, the delibera-
tions to include the discussion of capital
and labor, with view of building up
Christian society
The Dugdale tin can factory, Iudianap-
oils, burned. Loss, $4,000 covered by In.
surance. Three hundred men are thrown
out of employment. The output last year
was 100000 cans.
At Clinton, o., on the Baltimore and
Ohio, construction train dashed into
car in which a party of Italian laborers
were eating supper. Seven or eight were
injured Misplaced switch.
The centenary of the birth of Poet
Koerner was appropriately celebrated
throughout, Germany Wednesday. At the
Berlin theater Herr Barnay delivered q
prologue in memory of the poet
The South Dakota worlds fair commits
sioner has devised plans whereby $4,000
will be raised and state building erected,
with South Dakota mounted after the fash.
ion of a Sioux council wigwam.
Michael Hoke, convict, was baptized in
the Ohio penitentiary Tuesday by Chap
lain Sutton, Hoke having experienced
change of heart. He is serving a life sen
tence for murder committed at Dayton.
1t is stated that Mr.. Mercer will retire
from the Quebec premiership. pending the
result of the inquiry into the scandal with
which his name is associated, on the un-
derstanding that Jolly De Leobiniere will
be acting premier.
Near Columbus, Ind, while taking
drink of water John Scott swallowed his
false teeth En- route to town for relief
the horse ran away, upset the buggy, and
dislodged the teeth from Scott's throat,
but dislocatel his right elbow.
German-American Catholics, in their
convention in Buffalo, N. Y, resolved In
to the pope. A letter from Archbishop
Elder was read, in which he commends re-
ligious instruction to children in their
native tongue.
The agricultural and mechanical college
at Auburn, Ala, has opened. Over 200
students matriculated which was the
largest number in the history of the insti-
tuition. Students are already there from a
number of northern states, including Kan
sas and Illinois.
Judge Green, of Trenton, rendered de- |
cison In the case of William A. levitt
against Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad company, Tuesday. |
Three million dollars are involved in this |
suit The decision refuses to set aside the |
summons served upon Mr.. Garrett and the
suit will continue.
At Chicago, William Lewis, colored, in |
a fit of jealousy shot John Moore aud |
Maggie Sells, both colore6 The woman |
died few minutes after the shooting, aud |
the man lies at the point Of death in the |
county hospital. The Sells woman was |
Iewis's mistress, but deserted him for |
Moore. Lewis effected an entrance to a |
room in which they were sleeping and be
gan TO shoot at them with the result
named