Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
The linen trade in Ireland is booming.
Cleveland has been declared a city of
the first grade, first class
English emigrants returned from Brazil
tell narrowing tales of suffering.
The president has been urged to visit
Savannah during the coming winter.
The Wallis-Lispenard cotton picker, it
is claimed, is wonderfully successful.
Tom Gilman, reel driver, was killed in a
collision while rushing to fire at Nash
vile.
The government has declared in favor
of compulsory military service for Hol-
land.
AT Toxic, O., a sawmill boiler exploded
killing Richard Miller and Robert
Thomas.
United States Minister Porter will soon
leave Rome for short visit to his home
in Indiana.
The cope-stone Of the new Chicago Ma
sonic temble was laid Friday, 27S feet from
the ground.
At st. Paul Andrew Kohler killed his
sweetheart, Winnie Dree, because she re
fused to marry him.
A colored woman at Meridian, Miss,
gave birth to black and white child, tho
latter having no head.
A. b. Weyman, colored, was hanged at
Trenton, Ga, for the murder of prison
guards at Cole City, Ga, last July.
Thomas Webb a negro convicted O,
criminal assault on girl eighteen years
old, at Sandersyille, was hanged there
By the premature explosion of a BIAS
in the Busk tunnel, near Leadville, Colo.
one man was killed and five seriously iu-
jured.
Senor Pedro Montt, the Chilian minister
to this country, met his family at New
Orleans Friday and later departed for
Washington.
The Occidental club, of San Francisco,
has matched Alexander Greggains and
George lie Blanche to fight on Dec. 12, for
purse of 5000.
Sarah Ellis and other Cherokee Indians
have filed n petition for the allotment of
100000 acres equally among the fivo
tribes of the nation
At Paulding, o., ex-Sheriff Ferguson
shot and fatally wounded Elias Shaffer
while examining revolver. Didn't
know it was loaded.
One man was killed and several injured,
some fatally, near Hastings, Pa, by an ex-
plosion which hung fire. They were work
ing on a railroad cut.
The body of beautiful young girl
found in Chicago railroad yard was thai
of the actress Fannie Cartwright. Ii
was found she had been killed by an en-
gine
Marshall Little, of Chicago, was re-
ported killed by a railway accident in
Tennessee. Thursday night he startled
his parents by appearing at his home in
flesh and blood.
The Cochran-Fulton Distilling company
of Louisville assigned Friday. Assets,
OOOOO; liabilities, 100000 The recent
failure of tho Golfer Lumber company
forced the assignment.
Richard Foote, of Peasetown, N. Y,
was murdered by John Furman, his wife's
paramour The body was burned in The
barn. Furman and Mrs. Foote are under
arrest at Binghamton for the crime.
Two men, supposed to be William
Morrell, of Cincinnati, and p. Hart resi-
dence unknown, were struck by train
near Schenck's o., on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton, and instantly
killed.
The Motz brothers were found not
guilty of the murder of Sam Motz. The
case, from its pathetic character, has ex-
cited the greatest interest. The verdict
was applauded by the whole population of
Shelby, n. G.
President Harper, of the University of
Chicago, the institution so generously en-
dowed by Rockefeller, the oil magnatc,
was given a reception by the Chicago
Baptist Social union, at the Auditorium,
Thursday night.
Attorney General Miller takes little
stock in the Ohio-Indiana boundary line
error story. Professor Mendenhall, who
has charge of the survey relating to the
dispute, says he has not yet determined
whether or not the line was incorrectly
run.
Charles Lincke, aged fifteen, living at
Marlboro, was thrown from fractions
horse while driving a COW home His head
struck stone and he received fatal in
iuries. George Lang, of near Maxine,
was also fatally injured while driving
home from a visit to lady friend His
horse became frightened and ran away,
throwing him from his buggy.
A Louisville, Evansville and st. Louis
engine attached to a cattle train became
unmanageabls at Edwardsville Hill, six
miles from New Albany, Ind, and dashed
into the city. After throwing yard en-
gine from the track it dashed into a p,
C., c. & St. L. train. Both engines were
demolished. Engineer Harley and Fire
man Maloney were seriously injured. The
accident was caused by the bursting Of a 1
compressed air cylinder of the air brakes
and brakemen were unable to stop the
train nv means of hand brakes