Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-18
NEWS I'M BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects. .rU

Various Subjects. +-N
! Slight earthquakes on the Pacific coast
James Wick, the Rochester seedman, il
! financially embarrassed.
! Howard Neal was painfully injured in 8
runaway at Gallipolis, o. t.f
The Memphis theater, Memphis, burned
Loss, $50, ,0O0 insurance about half.
! AT South Charleston, o.. Willie Sweeney
! sixteen, fell under train and was killed
Calvin Cook was thrown from horse
near Noblesville, Ind, fracturing his
skull.
Attorney George Winpenny, of Indian
apolis, is charged with attempting to bribe
jurors.
Frank Johnson, boy of Tidball, o., is
dying as result of being kicked by
Farmer John Hammer.
Kansan Temperance union met at To
peka and resolved for firmer and more
faithful enforcement of the prohibitory
law.
A German syndicate will build hog
abbatoir in Chicago to control the trade in
hogs between the United States and Ger
many. ....... ....
Dude" Stottlemire, of Circleville, o.,
ing II probably fatal wound. Both were
drunk. ..
Miss Anna Cohore, of Hartford who
was to be married in n few days, was
found drowned Wednesday. Suicide sus-
pected.
Kentucky's governor will be allowed to
appoint the railroad commissioners, but
they will be elected by popular vote after
his term.
Charles A. Woodbury. died at the Salem
(Mass) hospital of hydrophobia. He was
siXty-two years old and was California
''forty miner"
Mrs. Fair, who died in California a few
days ago left 81, 100000, of which nothing
goes to charity and nothing to church and
public purposes
Train robbers held up a Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas express train in Indian Ter
ritory and secured $3.50. The passengers
were not molested.
Little Jesse Streitt, the strange sleeping
boy, of Seymour, Ind, is sound asleep
again. No amount of talk or shaking has
the least effect on him.
John Nelson, of Martins Ferry, o., was
struck by passenger train on the Cleve-
x
and was fatally injured.
Virginia Republicans will reject Ma
homes advice to put up no ticket, but to
vote the Alliance ticket as the best means
of breaking the Democracy.
Jacob Oligy, fourteen, of Cincinnati,
caught his gun by the barrel to pull it
through some grass and received the con-
tents near his heart, dying instantly. ..
1t was acknowledged at Topeka, Kan,
Wednesday by the State Temperance
union that prohibition was failure in all
the cities of the state excepting Topeka.
1t is said that Austin Bidwell, the
American forger, who, with his brother,
looted the Bank of England of $l,000,000,
is to be released from prison next Feb
ruary -
Frank Hufnagel, who was shot at Pike
vile, o., Tuesday by Mrs Jennie Neus-
baum, died Wednesday, and the charge of
murder in the second degree has been
placed against her
BY the collision Of two freight trains on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road
at Montmorency, Ill, Engineer Ruddy, of
Galesburg, was killed and Brakeman
Wood fatally injured.
Harvey Barklcy, of Kinkead, KY, met
death in peculiar manner While drunk
he attempted to mount his horse, fell
across the feuce, and, being unable to re-
cover his position, died.
George Miller, of Celina, o., was knocked
off of the Lake Erie and Western railway
track by IA freight train. His horses were
killed and the wagon was demolished
Miller escaped by jumping.
Crazed by whisky, Henry Altmeyer
shot Henry Olleg at st. Louis and then
killed himself with the same revolver
The murder and suicide followed quarrel
of brief duration between the men.
A number of men were at work in a
gravel pit adjacent to Muncie, Ind. \
large piece of overhanging soil let loose
and completely buried John Thompson and
Ben Morris. The other employees rescued
the men,
Roswell p. Flower, the nominee of the
New York Democrats is n millionaire He
has 5000, 600 invested in iron mines north
of Lake Superior aud that is but one of
his many investments. He has resigned
his seat in congress.
Judge Botkin has begun the trial at
Hugoton, Kan, of James Brennan for
terested in the trial. The murder grew
out of the county seat war between Hugo
ton and Woodsdale.
The Missouri Pacific railroad will, it is
said, make million dollars display at the
worlds fair, covering all the territory
through which the road runs. The state
ment is made that Jay Gould has author
ized the expenditure of this sum.
Francis Patlick Slavin, of Australia, ex-
presses his willingness to meet champion
John L. sullivan for s., 600 side and the
Of the world. Slavin says
ne will toss for choice Of battle ground,
which will lie either America or England
In a fight near Lee Greek, ". Va, Wed
nesday evening, Lewis Bowers was struck
by a rock and fatally injured by Lorenzo
Wigal. Both are prominent young men
and members OF good families. The fight
was the result Of an old feud growing out
of a rivalry in love.
r. g. Creighton, San Francisco agent
fer the New Zealand government, has re-
ceived cablegram from the postmaster
general 5f Lew Zealand notifying him
that the New Zealand parliament has au-
thoriLed a rehewal Of the Australian mail
service via SEn Francisco and New York
fas a further fsrm ~ three vears