Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| Monday.
Sitting Bulls cabin will be ON exhibit
| tion at the worlds fair.
Lorillard's tobacco factory, Jersey City,
| was damaged $50, 900 by fire.
The president has recognized Paul Thai
! as Russian consul at Chicago.
| The Whitley county (Ky.) Herald has be-
gun publication at williamsburg
! Philip Kreigbaum, of Huntington, Ind,
was fatally injured in runaway.
! At Milwaukee Thomas Flynn swallowed
his false teeth and choked to death.
HeZelliah Funk's residence, at Bowling
Green, KY, burned from a defective fue.
Not less than 1000 people have starved
to death in the province of Samara, Rus
sia.
Brown county, Ky, objects to being as
socated with Kenton in judicial dis.
trict.
Mrs. Amelia Taylor, a widow, was
burned to death in her home at Kansas
City.
AT Leadville Colo, Jack Nelson was
shot dead by his mistress Cause un-
known.
Incendiaries have made several attempts
L
kentucky.
p Gas and electric companies are engaged
in heated rivalry forilluminating Mount
Sterling, Ky.
The forest fires continue to rage near
Enterprise, KY, and great loss has already
been sustained.
The majority Of the 80 per cent. increase
in population of Fulton county, Ky, has
been upon farms.
Carter H. Harrison has purchased the
Chicago Times, and will give the paper his
personal attention.
The Peoples party is preparing to put
congressional candidate in the field in the
First (Ky) district.
Hon. II. f. Finley received twenty-one
mail sacks of congressional matter at
Whitney, KY, in one day
George Rudner while log rolling near
Grayson, KY, had his foot crushed 80 that
amputation was necessary.
The English fox drives are being imi.
tated by the sports of Mount Sterling, KY,
who hunt coons on horseback.
John Imboden, who killed Jordon
Hughes at Caseyville, KY, last December,
has been arrested at Equality, Ills.
John j. Morton, the Evansville Qnd.)
defaulting building association secretary,
was arrested Monday for embezzIing.
The handsome residence of w. B. Wad.
dington, wealthy citizen of Trigg,
county, Ky, burned with loss of s., 600
Near Lima, o., Mrs. Keifer and Mrs.
johnson were thrown down an embank.
ment by runaway horse and both killed.
Officer w. F. Partin has been acquitted
of the killing of John Parton, at Middles.
boro, Ky, while the latter was resisting
arrest.
Near Knoxville two freights on the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
collided, killing Brakeman Hatley and
tramp,
The French government will confer dec
orations upon the officers of the Russian
war ships, Dimitri Donskoi and Minin
Zaliaka.
At Xenia, o., Lew Kline, an old soldier,
was shot and fatally wounded by j. c.
Meyers, an ex-convict. They quarreled
over politics.
Wreckers attempted to wreck train on
the Chicego and Northwestern railroad
near Oconton, Wis, by removing spikes
and fishplates.
Rev. Nightingale, colored, was fined $50
and sentenced to sixty daysin the Memphis
work house for assault and battery com
mitted in the church.
The executive committee of the National
Educational association has decided TO
hold the next annual convention at
Saratoga, July IL to 10, 1892.
There is a demand for a special term of
the Knott county KY, circuit court todis
nf,f ha I.
two of which are for murder.
At Oshko sh, Wis, Ernest Hauer acci
dentally shot and killed Arthur Anderson
while duck hunting Both about sixteen.
Anderson's mother became insane.
Rev. J, J. Dickey, a member of the
kentucky state board of education, wants
law to close all schools where certain
per cent. of the pupils in the district fail to
attend.
At Broad Ripple, Ind, Aleck Scott,
colored beat his wife with a club. She
escaped, secured musket and fatally shot
him. Authorities refuse to prosecute; self
defense.
Marie LeBoeuf, a governess, has com
mitted suicide in Paris after having shot
and fatally wounded her lover, a govern
ment official at Nogent-Sur- Marne named
Valentine Beras.
Several trainmen were injured in COLI
sion on the Richmond and Danville rail-
road on bridge over the Dan river. Part
Of the bridge an engine and several cars
went into the river, forty feet below
Dr. Graham. who presented Lyon and
Marshall counties in the Kentucky CON
stitutional convention, wants to run for
congress on the policy of leaving the ariff
alone and giving MS plenty Of money
A boat attached to the battle ship Howe,
which contained crew Of ten men, cap
sized at Portland, England Four of tho
sailors were rescued, but the other six
were drowned before assistance could
reach them.
Captain Uzelac, who commanded q
Croatian regiment in the Austrian service,
has been severely reprimanded for using
language calculated to provoke the Hun
garians, whep laying wreath at the foot
Of the statute OF General Jeiiaiioh.
The rector Of the University Of Paris has
telegraphed TO the rector Of the University
Of Berlin the expression OF his great re-
spect for the eminent Germans, Helm
holtz and Virchow, to whom, the rector
says, science owes 80 much of its great
urogress in the study Of man and nature,