Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

The Brazilian congress reassembled
Saturday.
Carrie S Bell a missionary of Indian
apolis died Of cholera in India.
Habbemans tin factory at Laura Hill
l.. L., was damaged $4,000 by fire.
Congressman Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
wants to succeed Quay as senator.
Chilian newspapers say their govern.
ment court an investigation of the Balti-
more affair.
By the explosion of gas in a mine at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, one man was killed and
two fatally injured
Porter, Donaldson & Company's whole
sale millinery establishment, Pittsburg,
burned Loss, Sl50,000
At Chattanooga Professor r. H. Ram
sey suicided by jumping one hundred feet
into the Tennessee river
Secretary Butterworth, of the Column
bian exposition, says the fair has already
outgrown his widest dreams.
Near Davidson, Pa, the body of an un-
known man was found murdered. He is
believed to have been a tramp.
Congress is to be invited to make fly
ing visit to Chicago to see what has been
done on the work of the worlds fair.
At ST. Lou. four masked men entered
the Office of the Central distillery, as
saulted Mr. Blank, and secured about
500.
At Pittsburg thieves blocked the door If
Wilson's jewelry store, broke a window
and stole Il tray containing 1000 worth of
diamonds
At Felt's paper mills, Jefferson county,
N, Y, five men were probably fatally
scalded by escaping steam. The safety
valve burst.
AT Portsmouth, o., Mrs Albert Haley
put her baby % bed and went to a funeral
Upon returning she found the child
burned to a crisp.
In a Cincinnati saloon quarrel
"Greenie' Horn shot and killed Dix
Ryan. Scott Parmerton and Paddy
Moore are held as accessories.
Gertrude Enkle, seventeen, of Pitts
burg, was burned to death by the eXplo-
sion of lamn by which she was working
Her father wos also seriously burned
At last accounts the Honduras rebels
were gaining ground, Owing to the
strict censorship the United Press CORE
spondent was ordered to quit the country,
1t is probable that Senator Colquitt, Of
Georgia, Will retire and give Speaker
Crisp n chance to become senator Wash
ington weather does not agree with Col
quit.
Shoemaker Vanderaners, of Namur,
Belgium, is being tried for the murder of
his three brothers and one sister by ad-
ministering arsenic. Cupidity is the cause
assigned.
The arch that spans the Wheeling creek
in West Virginia is 100 feet in length, and
it is pronounced the most marvellous piece
of stone work in the country, at a cost of
about 100000
A boiler exploded in Perkins feed mill
at Holland, o., killing John Adams, en-
gineer, and Floyd Perkins, and seriously
injured Milan Perkins, the proprietor, and
Elliott, another son,
AT Wartrace, Tenn, the bank safe was
cracked by burglars and between $4,000
and Sc, 900 worth of diamonds taken. They
failed to effect an entrance to the inner
safe containing the cash.
The citizens of Harrisburg, Pa, thought
they had been shaken by an earthquake
Friday. Investigation showed that $50
pounds Of dynamite had exploded at Steel
ton, No one was injured,
E. Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee,
was placed on trial in the Omaha police
court Friday on a charge of criminal libel,
preferred by g. NJ Hitchcock, editor of
the Omaha World-Herald.
Near Edwardsville Ala, Lafayette Gle
burne was shot and killed by an unkno, i
assassin, presumably by one of a gang of
mOOnshiners against whom he turned
states evidence year ago.
Near Massillon, O., Harmon Shiver.
wealthy farmer, sold his farm to sharpers
for 5000. lie took a $4,000 check, and
gave $1,000 III cash. The check was worth
less The confidence men got away.
AT -Four Mile, KY a village twelve
miles from Newport, James Kelar while
drunk, shot and killed his three-year-old
daughter, and then slept in the bed with
the corpse His son informed the officers
at Newport.
A freight wreck on the Louisville and
Nashville twenty miles from Louisville
resulted in the death of Conductor A. L.
Jones and the serious injury of Fireman
Nuttall and Head Brakeman Dood
Spreading rails.
Adyices received at the City of Mex o
report that Montufart, a candidate for the
presidency Of Guatemala, has gathered
forces and is preparing a coup d'ctJo
against Barrillas, and that the latter is
fearful for his life
The real name of Fitzgerald hanged at
Columbus, O., Friday morning for the
murder of Policeman Freed, of Youngs
town, O., was Edward Hanlon He was "A
native Of Little Falls, n, Y, and had
been a crimiLal all his life.
The remains of II. L. Norcross. the dy-
namiter who tried to blow up Russell
Sage, are now in the receiving tomb at
Woodlawn { metery, Boston Mrs. Nor
cross entertaius a fear that the remains
will be stolen from the cemetery.
Mrs Cornclia Redfeld Chandler relict
of the late Rear Admiral Ralph Chandler,
United States navy, and daughter of tie
late II. J. Redfeld, at one time collector
of the port Of New York, died in Wash
ington Thursday morning Of pneumonia.
George w Childs has presented almost
his entire collection Of rare prints, manu-
scripts, autographs, etc, valued at $780,
600, to the library of the Drexel institute.
This is probably the finest private collec-
fion in existence, and represents the work
of a lifetime.
The insurance rates on wholesale mer-
camille establishments are to be increased
all over the country The companies de
clare that the losses from fires in iobbing
houses have more than absorbed all the
premiums paid during the year on all
classes Of risks
Mrs Ogden Doremus a friend accom-
panying Mrs. James q, Blaine, Jr., at the
New York lawyers office, where her di-
rnrcn case is in nrnnress mnknnNvin N mlv