Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-07
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

A Condemnation OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Maine needs rain.
Democrats were victorious in Hartford
Journeymen tailors of Toledo are on 0
strike.
The Phillipsburg Pa) bank has closed
its DOORS
Italy has decided to take no part in the
worlds fair.
Costa Rica will spend 100000 at the
worlds fair.
Near Ottawa, eight children ate wild
parsnips and may die.
Trainmen's national convention Ia sit.
ting in Galesburg, Ills.
The King of Siam seriously contemplatea
asking British protection.
Charles H. Ritter, defaulting bank teller
Of Evansville, Ind, got six years
Austria will undoubtedly appropriate
10000 forms for the WORLDS fair.
Fire destroyed the Jacques House at
Owensville, Ind. Loss, $1,000; no insur.
ance.
Near Ironton o., William Hall. an old
veteran, was caught on bridge by cars
and killed.
1t is said that Ex-Governor Parsons h.
Cheney, of New Hampshire, will be next
secretary of war;
Robert Kinks six-year-old boy was at.
tackled by hogs at Purcell, Ind, and prob.
ably fatally injured.
DIR. s. NJ. Letcher, one of the best known
physicians in central Kentucky, died Mon.
day at Richmond, Ky.
At Milldale, KY, Jockey Moore caught
a cold while trying to reduce weight by
severe sweating, and died.
Tools have been drawn from the Greenlee
& Forst oil well near Mcdonald, Pa, and
1t now flows 900 barrels per hour.
Luther b. Marsh, the New York city
lawyer of Dis De Bar notoriety, will give
up law to lecture on spiritualism.
A hurricane in the northern Michigan
pineries blew down thousands of trees. Ia
Is feared some lives have been lost
1t is proposed to raise fund for the re.
lief of "Land Bill" Allen, now an inmate
of the Franklin county (o.) infrmsry
A Royal Blue" train on the Baltimore
and Ohio, between Philadelphia and Bal.
timore, made seventy-two miles in ono
hour.
Gertrude Kelly was killed and John
Sherry fatally injured while attempting
TO drive over the tracks ahead of train in
Boston.
Rain fell at Goodland, Kan, after Mel.
bourne worked his dingus for eighteen
hours. OF course he claims TO have
caused 1t.
United Mine Workers in session at Co
lumbus, o., decided to work but eight
hours. No date will be fixed for Its en-
forcement.
A Panhandle passenger train ran down
a hand car near .Steubenville, O., killing
Michael Whalen. Eight others jumped
and escaped
John Hostetter, of Lexington, Va,
stumbled and fell on his child who was
sleeping on the floor. The child was in
stantly killed.
A Mrs. Irwin, of Philadelphia, has been
arrested charged with burning her new
born babe. She confessed, but said the
child was stillborn.
A boiler exploded in the Tudor iron
works, East st. Louis. fatally scalding
John Ihouse and George Webster. Two
or three others were seriously injured.
The announcement of the death Of Cen
eral w. II. f. Lee in Fairfax county, Va,
was premature. The general is very slck
and his death is momentariiy expected.
At Pittsburg, Edward and Richard
Scott, brothers, quarreled In q billiard
ball. Edward drew dirk and fatally
stabbed his brother in the neck and lung.
Mrs. Emma Grimes, OF vincennes, Ind,
is In Jail on charge of numbering her
little adopted son by crushing his skull
With stick. She had repeatedly NAL
sreated the boy.