Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation OF Interesting Items oI
Various Subjects.
GuCv,c+nrr, in Wisconsin

A Condensation OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Snowstorm in Wisconsin.
Elwood, Pa, had a $50, 600 fire.
"Old Hutch" has located in New York.
Sebree City, Ky, had IS, 600 incendiar
fire
The marshes of Porter county, Ind, aro
burning.
Incendaries made an unsuccessfui at
tempt to burn Belpre, o,
Six horses were burned in George Kern's
barn near Frankfort Ind.
Natural gas has been struck at BusL.
nell, Ill. 1t is a strong flow.
At Buffalo Oscar Erich shot and ki.le
his mother-in-law while drunk.
John Granger, thirteen, of Coldwater,
o., was fatally kicked by a colt
At Chicago Vincent Staftney killed
himself while fooling with revolver
The striking printers in Berlin hav
mostly been replaced by non-union men.
1t is report ed the German government
contemplates increasing the secret service
fund by $4,000.
H. A. p. Carter, Hawaiian minister
died in New York Sunday. He had bee
III lOr some Time.
Stiles ship timber mill, Warren, O..
burned. Loss, $4,000 1t was the largesi
in the United States.
Sandrngham Hall, the residence of tn
Prince of Wales, was partially destroyed
by fire, Loss, 100000
Beverly, Mass. had big fire, whic}
destroyed several factories and number
of residences loss $500 900
Rain has fallen in an enormous quaint;
throughout Greece and severe snowstorn
have been experienced i'll the mountaA
country.
The steam whaler Grampus, whose
crew was reported massacred in Alaska
has arrived at San Francisco. There wa,
no truth in the story.
Minnesota farmers are being swindle.
by sharpers who believe they will sell the
goods so per cent. cheaper than they C.
buy the same at home.
At Bergedorf, a suburb of Hamburg
the hotel Schverein was burned Sunda
night and five lives were lost. Many in
mates had narrow escapes.
At Homer Neb., two men called the
bank cashier to his door, forced him to
go to the bank and open the safe. The
secured 81 ,6C0 and escaped.
Burglar Charles Schmidt, sentenced t.
fifteen years in San Quentin (Cal.) prison
committed suicide with morphine few
hours after h. was placed in his cell.
Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has
issued a proclamation Offering S25 reward
each for the capture of the convicts re-
leased at Briceyile by the free miners.
Workmen engaged in drilling through
the strata under the Missouri river at
Kansas City, discovered free gold in quaint
ties sufficient to make it worth working
The Roths~ ~hilds will renew the Spanish
loan of 10,0Jv, 900 and will advance $50
100000 more to the Bank of Spain. The
contract will be signed on Wednesday
next.
Seven thousand shoemakers of London
have been locked out, and unless the mat
ter at dispute is settled by Wednesday
next %, 600 persons will be affected by the
difficulty.
The British government is taking steps
to repair the British steamship Sultan
sunk in 1890. The vessel cost Gl20 00O,
and it has already cost G5O, 900 to raise aad
bring her to England
A Dublin dispatch says that the Parnell-
ties are wild with excitement over Timothy
Healy's indecent attack on Sunday not
only on Mrs. Parnell, but also, by innu-
endo, on Par ellis sister,
An attempt was made Saturday night
to wreck Chicago and Alton train, near
Alton, H., by throwing open switch
and derailing it. 1t is believed the pur
pose was to injure Governor Fifer, who
was aboard.
At Elizabeth, N. j., the body of Francse
Lombardo, an Italian, was found in the
street Sunday morning with a stiletto
wound in his breast Michael Servi and
wife, who lived in the house with Lom-
bardo, were arrested on suspicion.
The grea, strike of the coal miners
of the Pittsburg district will
soon be calleI of The men have been re-
turning to work in large numbers for Il
week, and the officials of the Miners asso-
citation have decided to call convention
to declare the strike off.
About 800 c1mpositors Of the Metropol-
itan job Printing company, which had the
contract to print, by Nov !, the Brooklyn
registry list. went on a strike Saturday.
Secretary Ferguson, Of Typographical!
Union No. 6, sent them back to their cases,
and $40, ,OCU bond was saved.