Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| "A CONDENSATION OF interesting items on
| Various Subjects.
Pine Bluff, Ark, had a $45, 900 fire.
More trouble is probable in Samoa.
The Parnellites are about out of funds
There are 35,21S Odd Fellows in Indi-
ana.
Indianapolis grand jury is after the
lottery agents.
San Diego has just shipped hundred
tons of honey east.
An effort will be made in Cincinnati to
suppress gambling
The date o. the next cOnSistory has been
fixed by the popes as Dec. /.
w H. Ropes, ex-United States consul
at St. Petersburg, died in Wales.
South Dakota railroads cannot handle
the grain brought to them for shipment.
Canada desires fast steamship service
to England, and will increase subsidies
Five Malta suspects were arrested at
Jackson, Tenn, They were heavily
armed.
Unknowns attempted to assassinate
Merchant A. H. Chapman of Ceredo West
Virginia.
Mrs. Kalzman, living near Osgood, Ind
was found dead near her home, by her
son. Heart disease.
David Shafer fell to the bottom of a
sixty-foot well at Medway, O., but was
only slightly injured
John Orr, young glass-worker, was ia
tally beaten by italian workmen in West
moreland county, Pa.
At ts4efersonville, Ind, Jesse Crook was
Nnl oh ,I0I ISvyf Ig 10 "a
in precarious condition.
Lorenzo Percy the Mexican, sentenced
TO be hanged at Midland, Tex, Friday, has
been granted / respite of one week.
The New York World announces that
Roswell p. Flower will be candidate for
the presidential nomination next year.
A combination has been formed by the
manufacturers and dealers in straw paper
on the Pacific coast to control the market.
Ohio has II ,129 saloons, which paid a
Dow law tax of s., ,625, 1921 Two coun-
ties-Logan and Grange-have no saloons.
Wolves killed three children of Andrew
Gulick, at the iron rolling mills, near
New Brighton, ten miles north of St.
Paul
The Methodist general missionary com
mittee decided to increase the general ap-
preparation for domestic purposes to an
even $500,000
Charles j. Wagatha, receiving teller
of the New Orleans Traders State banl
has run away with over 5000 of the
banks funds.
David Morrison, defaulting county
court clerk, of Scott county, Tenn, has
been caught. He got away with $500, 900
before he skipped
Near Greensburg, Pa, James Walsh,
William Calvin and boy named Nc
Cain, were killed at crossing. Another
Mccain boy was fatally injured.
The Cumberland River improvement
association fayors damming the river
from the mouth of Smiths shoals, and
giving free navigation to the world.
Cyprian Clamorgan has laid before
Secretary Blaine the claim of the heirs cf
jacques Clamorgan, for tract of land in
the heart of st. Louis, now valued at
about 500, 600
Preferring death to a life Of shame
which her parents were compelling her to
lead, twelve-year-old Maud Weaver, of
Memphis, attempted to commit suicide by
drinking carbolic acid The prompt ar
rival of physician saved her life.
Arthur Sloan, who killed his mother
and stepfather near Omaha, Oct. l, has
been captured in the Iowa coal mining
district. He confesses the crime, and says
that bad temper and quarrel was the
cause. There are fierce threats of lynch
ing.
A WITCH doctress has suit in the courts
of Kat .as c. Y, to recover fee for curing
Maggie Kelly, colored girl, whom the
regular physicians failed TO benefit.
The witch .hibited in evidence three
toads, two lizards, one snake and a scor-
ninp