Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-28
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
NEWS IN sRlEE.
q Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

At Listowell, Ont, two men were killed
by scaffold giving way.
Eight people were killed and twenty -fiv,
injured by n railroad disaster in France
Charles French is on trial at Indian
apolis for the murder of Marshal Dillon.
AT Haverhill, Mass, William Edwards
a prominent white citizen, married a ne
! gress.
Four masked men blew open the safe Of
the Omaha Street Railway company and
secured $1,000
! Rev, Frederick II. A. Scrivener, LII. D.
/ d. c. L., the noted Biblical and Greek
scholar, is dead
Fire destroyed Harry Hills notorious
pavilion at Flushing, L. /. Loss, SOS, 900
small insurance.
Seventy-fve mules were cremated in q
fire at the street car stables at Evansville
Ind. Loss $4,000
Tillman Ratclitf, young merchant OF
hokomo, Ind, was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment for forgery,
Walter Caswell, prominent citizea OF
Knoxville, Tenn, was thrown from his
horse and crushed to death.
At Broad Ripple, Ind, Milton Likens
shot his four-year-old son while quail
. hunting, The boy will recover.
At New York Slosson defeated Sohaefer
i'll an 800-point balk-line billiard match for
81 900. Schaefer had but 392 when Slosson
ran out.
Nurses in the Presbyterian hospital,
New York, are accused of abusing the in
mates Two men were found dead bound
to their cots.
Philip Lancaster, of Elmwood, o., took
morphine for quinine, and is now alive
owing to the heroic work of doctor and
two of his friends.
Three boys have been arrested at Cory
don, England, for the recent attempt to
wreck the Eastbourne express. They have
confessed their guilt.
A student named Luber at Dantzic,
Prussia having spent fortune in dissi-
patton and high living killed himself and
his mistress at a hotel.
Near Frazeysburg, O., Fred Himkens
and William Fitzpatrick were struck at a
crossing. Himkens and the team were
killed and Fitzpatrick fatally injured.
The French colonial councils committee
on Algerian affairs, has decided upon the
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to the title of which Morocco lays claim.
Seven bridges on the Georgia Central
railroad, between Macon and Savannah
were destroyed by fire Monday night
undoubtedly the work of friends Of Jailed
train robbers.
While Cleveland firemen were praetic-
ing with the Pompier ladder, Lieutenant
Rettger fell from the fourth story of the
city hall and was so badly injured that ho
died in fifteen minutes.
w. H. Fursman, under Indictment on
twenty-nne charges of forgery, aggregat-
ing over 5000, 200, pleaded guilty in court
at Pontiac, Ills, and was sentenced to
seven years in Joliet penitentiary.
A convention has been signed by the
postmaster general for the establishment
of money orders between the United States
and the British colonies of Trinidad and
Tobago, w. l., which is to go into opera
ton on the 1st of January next
Near Erie, Pa, George Heidecker died
and was buried temporarily. pending the
purchase of lot by his family When the
remains wer9 exhumed to be removed it
was found that he had been buried alive
In his agony he had bitten off several OF
his fingers.
At Russellville, Ala, E. r. Richardson,
ex-clerk in the postoffice, shot and fatally
wounded exPostmaster K. S. Vinson, and
then jumped on a horse and fed. The
trouble arose over an alleged shortage in
Richardson's accounts while clerk under
Mr.. Vinson.
During a ball game at Sanbafe, o., y
bat slipped from the hands of Albert
Marsh and crushed William Wren's skull.
He will die While DIR. Turner was dress-
ing the wound the DOCTORS seven year-oid
son fatally shot his three-yeaF-old brother
with a target rifle.
The shock If an explosion, which par
TALLY wrecked the Office of The National
Press, Dublin, was felt two miles distant.
The watchman at the building had be
lured away by sham street fight. The
outrage is attributed to Parnellites, and is
very severely condemned.
The island of Crete is reported to be
more peaceful than for several years past
The Turkish government has enlisted tie
more active brigands in the police for. :,
and has broken up the bands, the new
police showing great eagerness in hunting
down their former comrades.
At Fostoria, o., Ralph Cunningham
son of a prominent business man, tried to
kill himself by crawling into the d-hot
furnace of the spoke factory, of which his
father is part owner. The engineer pulled
him out, but not until his body and head
had been almost roasted He will die.
Poor health.
President Samuel Gompers, of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, has issued call
20 h.
mems unions of America to meet in con
vention in Lightstone hall, st. Louis,
Nov. 21, for the purpose Of organizing an
international electrical wiremen's and
lincmen's union.
Frank Var Loon, the alleged Columbus
Grove (O.) u.,nk robber and murderer, h
receiving the attention Of the detectives OF
Columbus Prior to his arrest he was
lavish with money His sister, Mrs. Ayler,
of Columbus, claims she loaned him $500,
while another sister, living at Toledo, tells
a different story. Detectives promise
startling developments soon.
Archbishop Ireland has addressed let
ter to the clergy of the diocese of st. Paul,
calling attention TO the significance OF
Nov. / in the history of the Catholic
church in Minnesota. On that date the
first little chapel in the territory was
blessed by Rev. Lucian Gaultier. The
archbishop recommends that the fiftieth
of the establishment OF Catho-
licism in the state be celebrated in each
parish on the day named with all possible
splendor.
Suicide of a Reporter.
GRAFTON, w. Va, Oct. 2S.-P. j.
Tracy, one OF the best known newspaper
in West Virginia. walked into
Mugler's hardware store Monday, and.