Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items os
Various Subjects.

A Condensation of Interesting Items a..
Various Subjects.
The Ohio street railway magnates wi
meet at Canton.
Slater, Mo. had $4,000 fire in the
business portion.
A leper was recently discharged from
the Cincinnati hospital.
The st. Louis Belt line engineers won
their strike in six hours.
At Covington, Ind, William Mulligan
is under arrest for arson.
Mrs. Price was fatally burned at Wells.
ton, o., by falling on a stove.
Hartwell a suburb of Cincinnati, is un,
easy over the work of incendiaries
Jasper Sandford, aged seventeen, was
jailed at Waverly, O.s for ravishing two
little girls
A tramp was found stabbed to death
near Greencastle, Ind. A comrade is sus,
pected and missing,
Two confidence men on Wisconsin
train buncoed H. w. Sterns, of New York
out of 800 in a game of cards.
William Meyers, who inhaled fire in
Cincinnati few days ago, died from his
injuries after horrible sufferings,
A powder mill at Miller's Station Ind.
blew up, destroying several tons of pow.
der The shock was felt twenty miles,
Hiram Chase, full blooded Indian OF
the Omaha tribe, has been admitted ia
practice in the federal court at Omaha.
Miss Mamie Gashir of wealthy parent
age, residing at Browns Valley, Ind, =,
eloped with an ignorant Indianapolis
barber
Near Barrett, Neb., Farmer Hayes
killed book agent who assaulted him be.
cause he would not pay for a book his
brother-in- law had bought
Victor Lindholm, a drunken tailor,
committed suicide at Omaha, by hanging,
while friend was trying to secure his en-.
trance into the poor house.
Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Stetson, of OF.
tawa, Kan, have not spoken to each
other for twenty years on account of
quarrel. Still they live together and are
happy
Omaha has raised $1,000 as a guarantee
fund, to secure the Republican national
convention, and will send a committee To
lay the matter before the national com.
mitteG.
At Watertown, Wis, an unsuccessful
attempt was made to blow up the Good
Templars hall while the lodge was in ses-
sion. Dynamite was used. One man was
injured,
An attempt will be made to compel the
American straw board works of Mobiles.
Vile, Ind, to cease emptying their waste
matter into the White river as it pollutes
the water.
An engineer, two iremen and an ex
press messenger were killed and a mum.
Der of people injured by collision Of
passenger trains on the Illinois Central
near jackson, Tenn.
Some 500 tenants of cottages belonging
to the Union Iron Works company, Of
Buffalo, have been notified to vacate.
There is considerable distress occasioned
by this Wholesale eviction,
II is said that many thousands of lives
have been lost in Spain by the floods Of
the past month. The extent of the de-
vastation is just being learned. Great
suffering exists among the survivors.
Work on the men-of-war which are get
ting ready for sea at the Brooklyn navy
yard is progressing rapidly, and it is
thought that the Atlanta, Bennington and
Concord will be in readiness by Saturday
week
DIR. W. C. Parker, of Versailles, o., es-
caped death from an assassins dynamite
by having removed his bed from its former
position against an outer door A bomb
was exploded against the door and the
building almost destroyed. The doctors
injuries are light, but he would have been
killed if his bed been had been in its
former position.
The federal grand jury at San Antonio,
Tex, has returned four indictments
against President Paul Conrad Vice
President John a. Morris and thirteen
other members of the Louisiana Lotter.
company. They are charged with using
the mail to distribute lottery advertise
ments in violation of the law. Warrants
were issued for their arrests.
At a banquet of the Standard club,
Hebrew organization of Chicago, Maj,
Ben Butter-yorth made a speech durin,
which he is said to have remarked: "if /
owned Italy | would have a great auction
sale. to which would invite all America.
! would sell 900 'Madonnas' and iO,0yO
'Crucifxions. and with the money /
would build school houses all over the
land. " The Catholics Of Chicago have
taken great offense, and may ask for NJ
resignation from the
worlds fair secretaryship.