Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Item' of
Various Subjects.

| gine at the Union depot, Cleveland
Michael Gormerly, of Shoals, Ind, ran
tine of a pitchfork through his heart.
Sever Serley, treasurer of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, is $4,000 short, and is in Jail,
Mai Joseph Reed, of Lake Charles, La,
lost heavily at gambling and killed him
self
AT Finday, o., robbers borrowed 500
of Ezra Keller, previously knocking him
down.
The legislature of New Hampshire has
elected Hiram A. Tuttle, Republican, gov
ernor.
The Portland, Ore, police seized 800
pounds of smuggled opium, valued at
5000.
Gable messages from Buenos Ayres an
nounce that revolution has broken ont
in Chill.
A New York sheriff's jury declares G.
M. Storrs, son of the late Emory Storrs, to
be a lunatic.
AT Millersburg O., Sarah E Smith has
sued Michael Strang, neighbor, for $2,-
600 for slander.
Mervin Kuhns, the Fcstoria murderer,
has been safely lodged in the Seneca
county, O., Jail
Losses by fires in the United States and
Canada during December are estimated at
nearly $13, 100000.
State board of health reports that Ohio
was pretty well last year, barring some
bad attacks Of influenza.
The United States commission on deep
! ening the channel of the Hudson river
! gave "A hearing at Albany
Herr Won Puttkamer once Germany's
minister of justice while hunting was
shot in the face by accident,
During a fight in the suburbs of Brm-
ingham, Ala, Hiram Hughes cut Tom
| Pettis' iuguar Both boys,
EX-Attorney General Charles Devens
died suddenly "Wednesday at Boston,
| Judge Deyens was Il years oil
A committee headed by Herr Joachim,
| the violinist, has been formed in London
to erect a monument to Mozart.
Marin McKilson was killed and two
others probably fatally hurt at Buffalo,
n. Y, by the falling of a scafIold
Indiana win probably eXpend s. 1000 on
her state display at the worlds fair be
sides vast amounts by private citizens,
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Charles Powers a
prominent farmer, gave his stepson
Charles Curtis his death blow with a
club.
Indianapolis Commercial club indorses
the proposed Cooper bill for manufac-
turers gas line in that city to cost ST.
000,0G0
Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, presided
at Marion, Ind, natural gas convention
banquet, and the affair was a brilliant
success.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
| hoa IL, Ii,tt
dend of 2i5 per cent, and has surplus of
1886, 52i.
Asaloon full of Italians engaged in ariot
until dark, in Chicago, in which twenty
were injured, one of them, Salvador de
Milo, fatally,
The Western Society of Engineers, at
their annual banquet in Chicago, re
elected as president for the coming year
l., f.. Cooley.
Raymond Lyon, of Corning o., commit
ted suicide at Portmouth, o, J. w. Lutz
of Portsmouth, o., committed suicide by
taking poison.
James Dayton, manager of the Airing
ton Heights Electric railway at Fort
Worth, Tex, was shot fatally by james
Brotherton, an engineer.
In Chicago a dummy train collided
with street car, which was reduced to
kindling wood, and James Maher, pas
senger, seriously injured.
Neglected heirs of Millionaire Phellis, of
London, O., believe that where there's a
will there's way to break it, and have re-
tanned lawyers for that purpose.
"Papa" Woodworth, husband of Mrs
Woodwork, the noted trance medium,
| says that she is fraud and the whole
business is only n money-making scheme.
Arthur w. Willmeau has signed papers
at Detroit with "A museum to fast for
thirty days He is pledged to abstain from
all food and liquids except croton water
At San Francisco Robert De Rose shot
and killed his wife, Elizabeth, in the room
of an actor named Mitchell. De Rose had
been a guard at San Quentine peniten-
tiary.
Jessie Dougherty, the 14-yearold daugh-
ter of William DougheTty, Of Danville,
Ill, was burned to a crisp her clothing
catching fire while she was passing the
CRATE.
Elwood, Ind, people are scared at
their own gas wells, and crawl out from
under the beds to telegraph earthquakes
when one of them finishes an unexpected
rumble.
William Dixon, living near Beavertown,
Pike county, O., was bound over to court
at Waverly upon complaint of Alfred
Irons, who charges him with cutting with
intent TO kill.
Frank Hixon, on one side, and John and
Dan Ross, brothers, on the other, engaged
in shooting affray at Monroeville, Ala.
John Ross was killed, and the other two
dangerously wounded.
A dispatch from Genoa says that four
! persons have died of the injuries they re
ceived by the explosion which occurred on
| board the new steel torpedo ram Nesuyio,
at that port, a few days ago.
Nine thousand workfnen and 1850 carts
! are engaged in the work of clearing the
! streets of Berlin of the immense mass Of
snow which fell during the recent storm, a
storm phenomenal in its severity,
II is stated that King Charles / OF
Hoffenzollern-Sigmar the present
/ ruler of Roumania, has decided to abdi-
cate in favor Of his nephew, Prince Fer
| dinand known as the Prince Of Ron.
| mania.
The women managers Of the worlds
4 fair are to be allowed three women repre-
1 sentatives to visit South America. The
| state department indorses Miss Clara DE
/ Mohun and Miss Virginia Dodge as two Of
the three.
! Gen Boulanger has sent a telegraph
message to LEcfaire, Of Paris, denying
that he has abdicated, and declaring that
( he remains, as he has always been, the
! chief of the National Republican party and
a servant of the democracy.
I Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Clark, coiored, of