Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is i'll from
a severe cold
Fanny Davenport, the actress, is i'll at
Kansas City.
Dan Enright was cremated in the lookup
at Richmond, 0.
An unknown man was found hanging
in a sawmill near Tiffin, o.
At Buffalo Charles b. Heir was shot hy
his wife and may die, Jealousy.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at the Catho-
lie Orphanage, near Louisville, o.
At Carrolton, o., Ed Smith shot him
self because his girl "shook him"
Destructive prairie fires in Lyon county,
Kan, have just been extinguished.
The antagonism between the state ard
the church in Brazil is becoming acute.
At Cumberland Md, Charles Hoffman's
child was burned to death by an explod-
ing lamp
There are threats of lynching Jesse
Jacobs, who killed his brother at Boyles-
town, Ind.
AT Black Lick, Pa, William Clark, a
negro, shot and killed a man named Pal
mer, Old quarrel
w. C. Davis New York travelling
man, was found dead in his bed at
GAINESVILLE (O.) hotel.
Ex-Speaker Reed expresses himself as
firmly convinced that Mr. Mills will be
chosen speak er of the house.
Emin Pasha has been heard from. lie
has an army of 1900 well armed men ard
is marching toward Khartoum,
Lima crude oil has advanced two and
half cents per barrel or to thirty-two and
half cents and producers are jubilant.
The steamer Edward S. Pease burned at
the dock at Cleveland. Loss $15, 600. The
fireman was burned to death and the en-
gineer drowned.
Cyrus w Bell, living near Utica, O., at
tempted to eXterminate his family, but
failing shot himself, producing a fatal
wound. Temporary insanity.
Elmwood, Ind, had sac, 900 fire, due to
increased pressure of natural gas during
the night. The Dehority block, contain
ing Crouse's clothing store, was burned.
Professor Edward Orton, the noted
scientist and geologist of Ohio, was
stricken with paralysis at Xenia, o., and
is now in a precarious condition at Colum
bus.
At Fremont, O., Charles Bruner
charged with obtaining goods und Ter false
pretenses at Norwalk, attempted suicide
by shooting in the police station. He
will die.
Frederick Driscoll, Jr., for some years
secretary of the Pioneer Press company,
of st. Paul, has gone to New York to as
sumo the duties of publisher of the New
York World
Chauncey M. Depew is credited with
saying in an interview that nothing on
earth can prevent Blaine securing the
nomination for the presidency if the sec
retary desires it.
At Chestnut Mound, Tenn, John
Weatherman split his wife's head with an
AK. He was drunk and jealous She he'd
been forced to marry him to pay u debt
her father owed his.
At Haverstraw, n. Y, the dynamite
factory exploded killing five men. The
shock was felt for twenty miles, A num-
Der of other buildings near by containing
the dangerous explosive, escaped. Cause
of the catastrophe not known.
Secretary John T. Dickinson, of the ma
tional worlds fair commission, says that
the report that he had resigned that posi-
tion to accept the general managership of
a railroad in Texas and Arkansas is
wholly without foundation in fact
Louis n. Meyers, of st. Louis, solici-
tor for the Midland mercantile agency, is
dead of lockiaw caused by fracture of
the skull received Thanksgiving evening.
Mr.. Meyers was intoxicated at the time
he received the fatal injury, and was un-
able before he died to tell how it was re-
ceived, whether in a fall or at the hands
of some assailant.
w. S. Cappeller, president, of Mansfield,
O., and j. NJ. Page, of Jerseyville, Ills,
president and secretary of the National
Editorial association, met at Cincinnati
and fixed Jan. 20, at the Burnett House,
Cincinnati, for the meeting Of the execu-
tive committee of the association, which is
to fix the time and place for the annual
meeting next year. In addition to the
executive committee, comprising about
sixty editors, there will be in attendance
at the meeting delegations from Cali
fornia, Ashevill, n. c.: Norfolk, Va; Seat
tie, Wash. Atlantic City, New Orleans,
and other points, that are anxious to Sc
cure the editors annual convention.
The Death Roll.
Rev. c. r. Gregory, of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Louis Boerlin, Swiss consul at Chicago
William Harry Hay, eighteenth earl Of
Frrol. He was seventy-eight, and sue