Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condemnation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


The Earl of Portsmouth Is dead.
Diphtheria epidemic at Lafayette, Ind.
Jericho, Mich, was completely wiped out
by fire.
Frank Woenling was killed by cars at
Columbus, o.
There was double wedding at the Wa
bash Qnd.) fair.
Congressman Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,
Is dangerously ILL.,
The money in the United States Oct.
was $29. rs per head
David Helman, of Goshen, Ind, was
killed in runaway.
George Alton, of Chillicothe, O., was
drowned while bathing.
A receiver will be placed in charge Of the
First National bank of Clearield, Pa.
Mrs. William Trimbly, living near Co
lumbus, Ind, suicided with poison. Jeal-
ousy.
1t is said that American Masons will
petition Queen Victoria to pardon Mrs.
Maybrick.
Mrs. J. Hannah, OF Steubenville, O., ac-
cidentally poisoned her baby with an over
dose of laudalum.
knocked down and robbed at his own door
way by two thugs.
A decision declaring option gambling
contracts void was rendered by the Mime
sofa supreme court
Twenty-Five million bushels of wheat
have been damaged in the northwest by
the recent heavy rains.
Mrs. Frank Leslie was married Sunday
night, in New York, to William c. Kings
bury Wilde, of London.
At Lafayette, Ind, Miss Ida Withrow
killed her bIby by throwing 1t into a
vault. She was arrested.
News from the Mexican state Of Hidalgo
state that Indians have massacrsd 200
men, women and children.
Mrs. Julia Seavey, of Chicago, suicided
by shooting Disappointment In love is
said to have been the cause.
The Farmers Voice, of Chicago, will
soon issue an article advising faxmers TO
hold their corn for higher prices.
Melbourne. the rain king, has not had
very good success In Kansas, but the
farmers out there haven't lost faith in him
yet.
The remains of General Boulanger were
inferred alongside those of his devoted
Marguerite, in Ixelleas cemetery, Brus-
sells.
DIR. Hekton, of Chicago, says there was
no poison in the liquor drank by X. b.
Gates, of Marietta, O., who waA found
dead there.
The whipping post Is In vogue In Ken
lucky. Two negroes were lashed on their
bare backs in Crittenden county for steal
ing Turkeys.
At Morrisville, Mo-, Robert Hargrave
shot and killed Jarred Bashford, who as
saulted his eight-year-old daughter. Bash
ford is seventy-flve.
Forest fires in FL Dorado county, Cal,
have burned over forty square miles Of ter
ritory Many dwellings, barRs, fences,
etc, were destroyed.
At GAINESVILLE, O., Thomas f. Roberts
whipped and shot at his mother-in-lRw
and narrowly escaped being lynched sn
route to the city prison.
AT Baltimore elevator A, OF the Balti.
more and Ohio system, was burned with
1850 bushels of wheat and the ma.
chinery Loss, 100000.
Low water in the boiler of the Gre en-
castle Qnd.) Brick company caused an ex.
plosion. James Howlet was killed and
James Able badly injured.
Farmer Amos Meyers, living near Up
per Sandusky, found the decomposed re.
mains of two infants in a box buried in
field. An investigation will be made.
General w. H. f. Lee, second son oi
General Robert f. Lee, the famous Con
federate general, died at his home In Fair
70 crrpfy Wa Gup1av aOad AFT
In New York John Osmonde shot and
killed his wife and fatally wounded John
p. Burchell, a boarder while drunk. They
had not been living together for some
time.
Mrs. Butcher of Brooklyn, slept for Eve
days and nights, being as rigid as marble,
and on awakening appeared to be in the
best of health. The peculiar affection is
due to an attack Of the grip.
Near Napanee, Ind, at a dance, William
Heckelman was stabbed to death WI
Joseph Sentup. Twenty-seven wounds
were found on the body Sentup will prob
ably be strung up If caught.
Fritz Zorn, an old soldier and musician
of the First cavalry, near Walla Walla,
Wash, shot and killed his wife, mortally
wounded his mother-in-law and then shot
himself in the mouth. Domestic troubles.
The Ohio penitentiary has a freak con.
vict in the person of John Davis, of Cuya-
hoga county, who sleeps all the time, only
awakening to take food by the liberal ap.
plicatlon Of water I'D the paddle to the
feet.
In few days Rev. William Pickles.
heimer will be released from the West Vir-
ginia penitentiary, where he has been
serving q four-year sentence for murder.
He will be taken TO Logan county to be
tried on another similar charge.
Van Camps packing house, Indiansp-
oils, burned Sunday. Loss, $3.50, 900; in
surance, $4,000. 1t will throw 500 people |
out of employment. Three fremen were
caught by falling walls and seriously in
jured A policeman was overcome by
smoke and may die.
Thomas A. Edison has another surprise |
in store IL is new system Of applying |
electricity to street railroads, which will |
the present methods He
will not 20 into details, but says that II
beats all cable and trolly systems aud
is better than the best of storage bot |
teries. Mr.. Edison says that electricity |
will soon be applied " locomotives He
thinks it Is the most wonderful Of his In |
ventions.