Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A COnd ensatiOn of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Fire in the Standard oil works at Cleve-
land caused a loss of $4,000.
| Two more bodies were found in the
wrecked Park place building New York
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is unable
to leave his room.
| Mrs. Jacob Haverfeld, of Canton, O.,
died from the effects of running a nail into
her foot.
Governor Brown was inaugurated at
Frankfort, KY, Tuesday. The city was
crowded
Claus Spreckels, the California sugar
king, says he has not and will not Join the
sugar trust.
The skeleton of an unknown murdered
man was found in the woods near Lofty,
Pennsylvania.
Charles Shea, New York butcher, fell
from ladder onto meat hook, which
pierced his heart.
The American bank at Nordara, Kan,
was robbed of nearly $1,000 by two bold
daylight robbers
Brakeman Ed l. Garrigas, of Kokomo,
Ind, had both legs cut off at Windfall, and
will probably die.
At Clearfeld, Pa, gang of tramps
probably fatally injured.
Manufacturers in Ohio are being warned
against employing children in violation of
the compulsory education law.
John Hobrock, Oldest employe in the
big Panhandle shops at Fort Wayne, Ind,
fell off a scaffold and was killed
At Johnstown, Pa, Harry Roberts, ten,
died from the result of being "ducked" by
his companions while in swimming.
Governor Page, of Vermont, has received
from the treasury department Vermont's
portion of the direct taxes, amounting to
$119,407
Treasurer Jacob Dorst, of Zaleski, O.,
is short 81 $780, and his bondsmen say that
they cannot raise that amount to save
their lives.
A freight train ran into an open draw
over the canal at Hamilton Beach, Ont,
and Brakeman Crouch and Fireman Shaw
were injured.
o. H. Wisely, a farmer, living near Find
lay o., suicded by shooting He had the
night before married a girl with whom he
had had trouble.
The corQner's jury in the North Carolina
railroad disaster attributes the accident to
as the bridge was defective
John huffman and his seven-year-old
daughter were killed at Dearborn Mich,
Sunday, while walking across the railroad
track. Both were fearfully mangled.
Mason B. Thomas, of Cornell university,
has accepted the chair of biology in Wa
bash college, the place left vacant by the
departure of Professor John M. Coulter
At Newago Mrs. Cavendcr was tarred
and feathered by indignant women whose
husbands had been too intimate with her.
The women were recognized and damage
suit will follow.
Eight survivors of the Seagull, wrecked
on the African coast, were picked up at
sea by the steamer Arizona. The re-
mainder of the crew of the Inflated vessel
-eighteen-perished.
A hurricane which passed over the San
Mauro, Catiglione and Gassino districts of
Italy caused great distress. A number of
persons were injured, crops in the path of
the storm destroyed and houses damaged.
Near Bloomfield, Conn, Henry F. Bush
enhagen and his wife, an aged couple,
were beaten to death by a tramp they had
befriended and their bodies thrown into a
we'll No motive known as nothingwas miss
ing from the house.
Ex-United states Senator Reagan, of
Texas, has been recommended for the of
flee of interstate commissioner by the COM
mittee appointed for the purpose by the
several commercial organizations which
met at Denver recently.
A man claiming to be the original Frank
Melbourne, has appeared at Cleveland and
SO ,pi1 tn thnnconHc a.
dollars that he can bring rain Meanwhile
the genuine Frank is at Cheyenne waiting
for the weather to clear up.
The Latin-Amsrcan department of the
worlds Columbian exposition has re-
ceived information that the government of
Uruguay will take part in the worlds
Columbian exposition, and will name COM
missioners ut the earliest possible date
Boomers have secretly organized in
southern Kansas for an invasion of the
Cherokee strip early in October. Over 5000
members have been sworn in. They will
burn grass, kill cattle and make deter
mined stand to hold the strip for homes.
While the British man-of-war Garnet
was leaving San Diego, Cal, Sunday for
Behring sea, two sailors plunged over
board and swan to the wharf. A cutter
pursued them, but they succeeded in es-
Gaping in the crowd The Garnet sailed
without them.
Near Monroe, Mich, John Wilkinson
and wife were murdered by two tramps,
who first tortured them brutally in an at
tempt to make them disclose the hiding
place of their money. A son gave the
alarm and tie murderers were pursued by
infuriated citizens, who shot them TO death
on sight.
All of the window glass factories of
Findlay, O., should have started their an
nual fires Sunday night, but the differ
ences between the manufacturers and
workmen not having been settled, no fires
will be started until an understanding is
reached. Six hundred men will be idle
during the shutdown.
The superintendent of immigration has
directed the return of four Canadians ar
rested at Pefnbina, n. D., for alleged
violation of the alien labor contract law
They are William Plank, Henry Orr, John
Tattersall ana K Mcleod. They said they
were "farm hands," and had come to work
for Mr.. DAVID Myers, of Pittsburg, N. ID.
The exhibition trial of the 6,64s-ton
armored cruiser Maine was given on the
Fast river, Brooklyn. Secretary Tracy
and Chief Engineers Melville, Baker and
Kaifer. of the navy department, were pres
ent, The engines of the Maine are the
largest of their kind ever built in this
country. The trial was eminently sue
cessful
Hon Thomas r. McGreevy, who fled
from Canada to the United States to avoid
telling what he knew of the public works
"boodling - has been located at Portland,
Me. He stated TO friend that he would