Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-19
NEWS IN eRlEE.

| a Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Measles epidemic at South Charleston
Ohio.
Severe storms are raging on the great
lakes.
General B. F, Butler is seriously i'll OF
abscess.
At Stockton, Cal, Palo Alto trotted a
mile in 2OS94
A pocket Of natural gas was struck near
Freelandsville, Ind.
A horse fatally kicked Tommy Granger,
aged eight, at Toledo.
Charles Thorne, brakeman, killed by
cars at Evansville Ind.
John Kent suicided at Green Village,
o. Disappointment in love.
May Lloyd, seventeen, of Martinsville,
Ind, is mysteriously missing.
Harry Mithcau, twelve, of North Bend,
o., choked to death on bone.
Mabel Hayes three, burned to death at
Terre Haute, Ind. Open CRATE
The next annual session of the Knights
Of Labor will be at Hot Springs, Ark.
At indianapolis, Mrs Josie Hartman,
car.
The people of Alaska want territorial
form of government, and trouble may re-
suit.
1t is now believed the recent oil fires at
Mcdonald, Pa, were the work of incendi
aries
Sam Kestman, life convict escaped
from the Jetfersonville Qnd) peniten-
tiary.
Perry Knowlton accidentally shot and
killed himself while hunting near Peru,
Indiana.
Near Gallatin, Tenn, peddler named
Cruze was fatally beaten by two tramps
who escaped.
X. II. NJ. Davidson had his certificate
as senator from Florida countersigned by
the secretary of state.
At South Charleston, o., Druggist
Reese was seriously injured by the burst
ing of a jug of nitric acid.
There is no truth in the story of the loss
of several lives in the tenement house fire
in Brooklyn Tuesday morning.
A medal, which is alleged to have been
owned by George Washington, has been
dug up near Point Pleasant, w. Va.
Revolts due to the famine and attended
with considerable bloodshed are reported
in CharkofT and Ekaterinostov, Russia.
Rear Admiral George II. Cooper, U. S.
NJ retired died of heart failure at his
home in Brooklyn, Tuesday, aged seventy
one.
George Hockler, ST., one of Whecling's
wealthiest and most prominent business
men, blew his brains out while laboring
under fit of dependency.
Rain experiments at Croton Landing,
N. Y, were successful, and the downpour
will allay the fears of a water famine in
New York for some time to come.
The Italian government has dropped the
subject of the New Orleans lynching with
the hope that time will bring about
satisfactory solution of the affair.
Several business men of Portland, Ind,
had counterfeit money passed on them by
man who seemed to have superabund-
ance Of the queer" He escaped.
At Pittsburg, exPriest Joseph Slattery
was arrested for selling obscene books
which purported to expose the secrets Of
the confessional" and serious charges
against the priesthood.
d. w. Holt, of Pittsburg, a prominent
lumber man, has been sued by insurance
companies to recover $4,000, former
employe declaring he fired the lumber at
the instigation of his employer
party of six men started for the Rainy |
Lake county to spend the winter hunting, |
but before reaching there quarreled over
the disposition of quantity of liquor and |
took sides Two were killed and another |
had his arm broken.
The Ohio supreme court will allow the !
filing OF petition in error in the case Of |
w. J. Elliott, late editor Of the defunct /
Columbus Sunday Capitol, now serving |
life sentence in the penitentiary for the
murder of A. C. Osborn.
In the United States circuit court at /
Trenton ex-President Hoey, of the Adams
Express company, appeared Tuesday 70
restrain the express company from inter
ing with his transfer of 100000 mort
gage in the Hollywood property. l.. c.
Weir, of Cincinnati, denied that he (Wesr)
was in any way connected with the trans
fer.
The question of piping natural gas 10
Chicago from the Indiana fields has ap- q,
parently been settled forever by the de-
cision of Judge Mcconnell at Logansport,
Ind He has perpetually enjoined the
Chicago Pipe Line company from cross. !
the bed Of the old Wabash and Erie canal.
Indiana gas for Indiana" Is the cry all
over the state