Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
London has had death from supposed
cholera.
Storms in Great Britain have done great
damage.
The report of Balmaceda's suicide is dis.
credited in London.
S. V. White g. Company, bankers and
brokers, New York. have failed.
The reported assassination of President
Bogran, of Honduras, Ia denied.
Wife murderer Ed Mcmillan, of Sturm.
ersyille, Pa, will die on the scaffold.
John Amos, of Carrollton. o., suicided
with rifle, because of the sickness of his
wife and child.
The biennial convention of the Inter
national Cigar Makers union is in session
in Indianapolis.
A field of wheat near Huron, S. d.
yielded fifty-three bushels and twenty
pounds to the acre.
At Springfield, o., Peter Slack, ex-coun.
Gilman, was killed by being thrown from
his buggy In runaway.
Theodore Crawford, Vincennes stove
nOulueE, WAS hllltu Ny ChES III lJullkFhu,
Ind, while stealing ride.
Thomas Perry, of State Cut, Ind, was
fatally injured by being struck by link
from breaking trace chain.
High tides in Nova Scotia have done
much damage. Thousands of acres are
covered with water five feet deep.
Work on the New York Grant monu-
ment is to be commenced at once. The
amount of money on hand is over $50, 600
Rev. w. H. Camp, of California, Pa,
got on jag at Akron, o., wanted to whip
hotel porter and was fined as a common
drunkard.
Perkins Lingerfelt, of Somerset, KY,
fell from freight train and was killed
under the wheels. A brother met death in
the same manner.
Near Littleton, Col, John @. Jennings
and Henry Knobloch drank, quarrsled,
drew revolvers and shot Kobloch Is dead
and Jennings In jail
At Boston the house Of Philip Cullen
caught fire during the absence of himself
and wife at early mass. Two Of their chill
dren were suffocated.
Last Saturday $500 in Atchison rail
road bonds were stolen from the Office Of
Asiel e. Company, So Exchange place,
New York. No clew.
Miss May Lincot, of St. Louis, was
fatally shot by an unknown person. A
farmer suitor is suspected, as he threat
ened to kill the young lady.
Mrs. Isaac Wimette, of Salisbury, VT,
and her twelve-year boy were carried
into the river on Saturday night by a
frightened horse attached to their carriage
and drowned.
During magic lantern exhibition In
the Masonic cathedral, Columbus, O., one
of the gas bags exploded seriously injur
ing Thomas McNaughton. A panic was
fortunately averted.
At Henryville, Ind, Thomas and Harry
Reynolds collided in ball game. Two Of
Thomas teeth penetrated Harry's temple
and broke off. Thomas' skull was also
fractured. Both may die.
William H. G. Ambron, bookkeeper for
Klemhause g. Simonson, retail clothiers,
OF Louisville, has been found to be an en-
bezzler, and put under $500 bonds. His
shortage is known to amount to q, 900.
At Port Angeles, Wash, August w.
Shultz shot and killed his wife and then
blew his own brains out. The couple had
lived very unhappily together for two
years past and Mrs. Shultz recently ap-
piled for divorce.
The extra session of the Tennessee legis-
lature is considered failure, as the con-
vict lease system and the question Of ar
ranging for the building of new peniten-
.;a-y were left In statu quo, owing to the
stubbornness Of both houses.
Anarchist Lewis York, Of Logansport,
Ind, attempted to blow up his house with
several people In 1t with jug OF dynamite
in the cellar. Holes in the foundation al
lowed much of the force TO escape, thus
preventing n Wholesale murder. The house
was badly shattered. York In insane and
has not been arrested.
At st. Johns, N. b., n lad named Taylor
bought q prize package of pop corn, In
closed in which was q small whistle. In
using the whistle he sucked IL into his
traehea, aad an operation has failed to re-
move il. The whistle has lodged In one Of
the bronchial tubes, and the lad cannot
possibly survive. nor can anything be done
10 relieve his sufferings-