Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
Marion, Ind, has a crusade against
saloons.
Blaine's physician says the secretary is
greatly improved.
Spain and Portugal are negotiating a
treaty of commerce.
Many lives were lost at Brest France,
by storms on the sea.
Ex-Mayor A. f. Bole, or Cory, Pa,
committed suicide there.
Heavy rains are making it very un-
pleasant for the boomers of Oklahoma.
The steamer Chickasaw struck a snag
near Memphis and sunk. Cargo badly
damaged.
Indianapolis ex-soldiers are considering
plan to erect monument to the memory
of Oliver p. Morton in the state house
grounds.
The Mexican consul at San Antonio,
Tex, says there is no truth in the story
that 200 whites were masSa cred in Mexico
by Indians.
The rescuers at work in the Richardson
colliery at Gilcarbon, Pa, have given up
all hope of reaching the six entombed
miners alive.
Off Newburg, Scotland. vessel was
seen to be on fire An explosion resulted,
and vessel and crew were blown to atoms,
it is believed.
Joseph Cullen, the ninth victim of the
Chicago tugboat explosion, died Tuesday.
He was the fireman Of the boat and was
terribly burned.
The sultan seems unable to suppress
brigandage. Train wrecking and levying
of ransom are making Athanasios, chief of
the brigands, rich.
The dead bodies of Deputy Sheriff Caster
and bartender were found in a saloon In
Arthur City, Tex. No Clew. Both men
were shot in the back.
Ralph Lockwood, Sr., an old veteran
of Norwalk, o., suicided In cistern. He
was insane from sores on his limbs con-
tracted during the war.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has given orders
that the first prosecutions be begun
against socialist workmen for attacking
him at a public meeting.
1t is reported that when the French
chamber of deputies assemblies the negc-
tiations for formal treaty of alliance
with Russia will be presented.
Rev. Samuel Benedict the aged rector
of the st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
church of Cincinnati, was caught in an
evevator and crushed to death.
A man named Slusser has been ar
rested at Alliance on charge of attempt
ing to wreck the Pennsylvania limited
near Louisville, o., last February.
1t is reported at Boston that Secretary
Blaine will make speeches In Boston,
Worcester and Springfield during the
present campaign in Massachusetts,.
The st. Louis Yelled Prophets annual
celebration Tuesday was grander than
ever before. AT least $4,000 strangers were
in the city to witness the ceremonies and
parade.
At Salem, o., Dell Baum attempted to
shoot his father with a shotgun. Letter
Carrier Reed attempted to capture him
and received full charge of shot in his
thigh INJECTING a serious wound. Later
Officer Bosten shot Baum in the leg and
jailed him.
At New Lisbon, o., William Garfield
confessed having turned the switch which
wrecked the limited train on the Pennsyl-
vania at New Palestine, a few weeks ago,
in which three men were killed. He says
that he attempted to wreck the train to
plunder it. He is in Jail.
Peter Herman Won Mumm and Max Won
Guata, of Frankfort, Prussia, and Alex
ander De Bury, of Reims. France, have be
gun suit in the United Statesscircuit court
against Morris Loeb, of New York, for in
fringement on their trademark on their
"extra dry" champagne wine.
Falling walls at the scene OF the Van
Camp fire, indianapolis buried Walter
Kerr, William Smith, w. NJ Mitchell, |
David Bo1iter and Richard Poland. /
Mitchell and Poland may die. Kerr man
aged 70 crawl to the railroad track only to |
be struck by passing train and receive
fatal injuries.
A Paris paper says: owing to the re.
cent exhibition Of popular feeling aroused
in Rome by the offensive act of a
French pilgrim who recently visited the
tomb Of the late King Victor Emanuel in
the Pantheon the questions OF the pope
leaving Rome and holding the next papal
eonclave abroad have been reopened."