Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-02
NEWS IN aRlEE.
A Condensation Of interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation Of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Hog cholera is South Dakota.
Chicago had a $lOO, 900 lumber fire.
Muncie, Ind, gets $1,000 pulp mill
Michael Davitt has left the United States
for Ireland.
Hoosier saloon keepers are in session in
indianapolis.
Waterspout near Elizabeth, Ark. Great
damage done.
The southern exposition at Raleigh, N.
c., has opened.
Third Assistant Secretary of State
Moore, has resigned.
The John Van Range company, Cincin-
natl, had $4,000 fire.
New York coal barons advanced the price
IS per cent Wednesday.
A soldiers monument was unveiled at
Pottsville, Pa., Thursday.
All the river miners in the Pittsburg
district have decided to strike.
Strike on the Pittsburg and Western
railroad. Men want back pay.
The Cherokees are now anxious to renew
The Chilian junta wants England to
return Balmaceda's silver--9135,00O.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in parts of
Chicago. The water is blamed for 1t.
The shortage Of Ex-Treasurer Woodruff,
of Arkansas, is now said to be $257, 900.
Near Roxboro, N. c., William Dixon and
wife were murdered and cremated in their
house.
Major William Mckee Dunn, United
States Army, died at Cushing's Island.
Maine.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
rob the Dixon County bank at Ponca,
Nebraska
Ranking Melbourne's promised rain at
Goodland Kan, Wednesday, failed to
materialize.
At Alliance. o., burglars entered John
Senter's residence, sand-bagged him and
secured $6OO
The president has recognized Enrique
Torcello as consul general of Guatemala at
San Francisco.
The Canadian river has washed away
900 feet Of the Santa Fe track near Purcell,
Indian Territory
Louis Green, of Memphis, Ind, was
fatally crushed under cider mill he was
assisting in moving
Army officers at Spokane Falls attribute
little Importance to the Indian scare in tho
Pend d'Oreille country.
The Knights of Labor have raised the
boycott against the Anheuser- Busch Brew.
ing association, of St. Louis
Conductor L. NJ Stiles, of the Lake
Shore, at Ashtabula, O., stepped in front
of pony engine and was killed.
One thousand journeymen job printers
in Pittsburg and Allegheny are on astrike
for shorter hours and better wages.
Within the past few weeks Duluth has
shipped 1000, 600 bushels of wheat and Is.
0OO barrels of -four to Great Britain.
Near Genoa, Italy, twenty one workmen
were buried by the collapse of an unfin-
ished tunnel. Seventeen were rescued.
Reports of Assnnaboine, N. w. t., are
that snow fell there Wednesday morning,
being the first of the season in the north
west.
Pension Commissioner Raum demands
the dismissal of malcontents who have
been disturbing the harmony of the pen
sion bureau.
The Democratic state congressional con-
vention of South Dakota nominated J. NJ.
Wood, wealthy cattleman of Rapid City, |
for governor.
McCartney's Exchange bank, Fort
Howard, Wis, was robbed of 10000 in |
money and $4,000 in bonds by burglars
who used dynamite. No clew.
1t is now believed that George Bamford,
supposed to have been killed by a train at
Knightsville, Ind, Sunday, was murdered.
The matter will be investigated.
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco has been ordered from Payta, Peru,
to Valparaiso, for the purpose of giving
moral support to the policy Of Minister
Egan.
William Nice has been arrested at Louis
vile, o., charged with wholesale robbery. |
His home was found to be filled with sill |
verware and valuables stolen from resi- |
dents of the town.
William Walters is in Jail at Shoals, |
Ind, charged with being implicated in the
murder of Stanford Freeman in October. |
1885. Mel Andrews, his former mistress, |
"gave him away"
Secretary Foster is satisfied with the re-
suit of his bond extension scheme. Only |
81. 500, 900 are now outstanding. This was
accomplished with but a sligh: reduction |
of the gold balance.
The president has commuted to one
years imprisonment the sentence of
Arthur Campbell, Of Utah, convicted of
adultery. The original sentence was
eighteen months imprisonment.
Judge Nelson, of the federal court, sit
ting at Boston, has decided that sailing |
vessels which carry foghorns cannot sue
for damages If run into by steamers, but |
are themselves liable for injuries to the
steamer.
Mr.. Powderly. speaking of the coming
presidential election, said the Knights of |
Labor from all America and the Farmers |
Alliance will hold congress In Washing |
ton, Feb. /, and at this gathering third |
candidate will be chosen.
Theodore Schwartz, the Louisville |
banker who has been on trial at Shelby |
vile, KY, for grand larceny by obtaining |
money from a depositor when his bank |
was insolvent, was acquitted Of the charge. |
Trial on the charge Of embezzling "a, 800 |
from the German orphan asylum was post /
poned till Jan Is. psxt