Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Snow in Colorado--frst of the season
Tacoma, Wash, wants the Democratic
national convention.
Schools at Syracuse, N. Y, closed on &C.
count of excessive heat.
William B. Stout. of Asbury Park, N.
j., is dying Of hydrophobia.
A paying vein of gold has vein found
in Susquehanna county, Pa
The color line In the schools at Charles
town, Ind, is causing trouble.
Several prominent New York flnanciers
ridicule the idea of silver crisis in this
country.
AT Coal Creek, Tenn, NJ. Holland, a
painter, fell from q church steeple and
was killed.
Two men and two boys were White
Capped near English, Ind, Prosecutions
will follow.
Near violina, Mich, Loren Corner is
under arrest, charged with numbering his
half-brother, William Biggs.
At Jeffsrsonville, Ind, while Philip
Specht was chasing a burglar, his lamp
set fire to a curtain. The house and con-
tenCS WerS destroyed.
Near Evansville, Ind, Charley Wimple-
berg, ten, snapped revolver at his five
year-old cousin, Lizzie Knore. II was
loaded and she ID dead.
Sir Henry Langevin has been exculpated
from all connection with the Canadian
Doodle scandals by a vote of 10l to SO in
the house Of commons.
Several drums of carbonic acid exploded
on a Detroit wharf badly wrecking q
warehouse. One man was fatally injured.
No cause known for the explosion.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Conduct
ors, at its meeting In Louisville, discussed
union with the Order Of Railway Conduct
ors, and appointed a committee to confer
with the committee from the order on that
subject
In Zaleski (O) saloon John Wolfe shot
and fatally wounded John Dudley, who
threatened to kill 1t is claimed Dud
ley was the cause of Wolfe and his wife
separating.
At Minneapolis, Jacob Brown confessed
numbering man in Illinois for which a
man named Gray has served eight years
in the Chester Qlls.) penitentiary. Gray
will be released.
Major Eckles, ex-ofIlcer OF the United
States army, and a sonin-law Of General
Mason, was mortally shot by J. G. Saggs,
q neighboring ranchman, on Balconies
creek, near Balcone, Tex.
Near English, Ind, Willie Wilson, ten,
fell sixty feet from hickory tree and still
lived. The branches broke the force Of
the fall He broke an arm and leg, be-
sides being otherwise injured. sas .
At Topeka, Kan, three masked men en-
tered the livery stable Of A. j. Huntoon, q
large property-owner bound and gagged
the watchman, cracked the safe and took
tl0O In money and s., 900 In valuable papers.
J. r. Lamar committed suicide at Little
Rock, Ark, by taking an overdose Of NOR
phine. He was the son Of the late l.. NJ.
Lamar, prominent politician OF Georgia,
and the nephew Of Associate Justice l.. Q.
c. Lamar.
Brown, recently elected governor of Ken
lucky cannot serve, as he is ineligible un-
der the provisions Of the new constitution
which disfranchises ali Office holders un-
der the old constitution. He is the only
one disfranchised.
At q meeting OF ministers at Grand
Rapids, Mich, Rev. Dr. Charles fletcher
advocated Jne opening OF tne WOrlu Thlr
and museums on Sunday on the ground
that they were refining and educational.
His address caused q sensation.
Peter johnson, of Dassel, MINI, thinks
he has discovered the long-lost art OF tenn
pering copper. He and Nils Nilsson, a ma
chinist, want TO organize a company to
build afactory in Minneapolis. The new
process will make copper as hard as steel.
Advices from st. Johns, Newfoundland,
report the loss at Greenspond OF the Lab
rador schooner Paislee, Capt. John Kane,
with all hands, and the Amazon, Capt.
James Noble, with three Of her crew. Both
vessels were owned by J. and J. w. Stew
art, OF st. johns
A sixty-ton fywbeel in q Cincinnati
electric street railroad power house burst
and did SIS, 900 damages 10 the building
and machinery. OF six men in the build
ing, only Que was hurt--arm broken.
Large pieces OF the wheel were throws
over eng hundred yardG