Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Tennessee Democrats instructed for
Cleveland
Creede Colo, is threatened with extinc-
ton by flood
Boy burglars are getting in their work
in Muncie, Ind.
Most Rev. j. j. Marchal, archbishop of
Bourges, Is dead.
The New Orleans street car strike Is
settled. The men won.
A commercial treaty has been signed be.
tween France and Spain
Minister Burd Grabft and Gttnils slfs,s
started ON their return home
The Central American diet has signed
the treaty of union and dissolved.
Ohio Prohibitionists nominated a full
state ticket, with George l.. Case for secre-
tary of state.
The annual general assembly of the
United Presbyterian church is in session in
Allegheny, Pa.
The president has issued proclamation
establishing reciprocal trade relations with
Austria Hungary,
In Cincinnati Charles Kreidler, working
on a new building fell thirty-fv feet and
was fatally injured.
Indiana Prohibitionists nominated full
ticket with Rev Aaron Worth, of Jay
county, for governor.
Brazil has declined to enter upon ne
gotiations with view to a commercial
treaty with England.
AT Macon, Ga, VIII Bell, q negro boy,
shot and killed Bailiff Wilder, who had ar
rested him for stealing
Colonel John II. Fellows is lying seri-
ously i'll at n hotel in Helena, Ark A
physician is in attendance
An unfaithful wife caused Jacob Fritz
to suicide by stranglng himself with u
handkerchief at Wooster, O.
The western coal sale agents have ad-
vanced the prices of egg, stove and chest
nut coal twenty-five cents a ton.
A thirteen year-old boy named Wolfen-
barger shot off his own head at Four Mile
Creek, Ky, 1t was a case of suicide.
DIR. Parkhurst, of New York, says that
he favors beer gardens provided they
are conducted strictly on the German
plan.
The Mexican government Is awaiting
new propositions in regard to a reciprocity
arrangement from the United States au-
thorites.
Byron J. Price, of The Star and Times
of Hudson Wis, was elected president of
the National Editorial association IN San
Francisco.
Theodore l.. Wood, contractor OF Eng
fish, Ind, went to Louisville on business
and has mysteriously disappeared. Foul
play is feared.
Az DinrCnt,Nv IpI hf,r
dow, entered the residence of NJ. Chaplin.
and secured over $500 in cash, ans.notes,
stocks and certificates valued at from SO p
900 to $4,000 No clew.
In Marsberg, Westphalia, Thursday
forty-six houses twenty-four stables and
eighteen warehouses Were burned. About
sixty head of cattle persisted in the flames
More than $50 persons are homeless.
The Mayo Indians on the western coast
of Mexico are at war with the authorities
The mayor of one town and the chief of po-
lice of another were killed in fights Four
teen Indians were slain in one battle.
The largest freight steamship afoat was
launched Thursday at Belfast, Ireland
She is the White Star steamship Maropic
40 feet long, So feet broad and of 6,0OO
tons She will be used in the cattle trade
The Wergeland, Captain Weise, the first
steamship to make trip from Norway to
Chicago, arrived Thursday, and hundreds
of enthusiastic Scandinavians went out on
excursion boats to meet her, with brass
band.
At the Lincoln hotel, Lincoln, Neb.,
William III Irwin, a business man, shot
and killed Charles f. Montgomery, presi-
dent of the German National bauls whom
he charged with having seduced Mra Irwin
and her daughter
From Williamsburg county, s. c., come
reports OF series OF terrific tomatoes dur
ing the past few days. accompanied by
heavy rain and destructive hail Houses
were unruofed and blown down, trees up
rooted, and crops of oil kinds almost total
ly destroyed. A prominent planter of
Charleston says the earthquake did not
cause more complete destruction. Hail
drifted till 1t was three feet deep in places.
No loss Of life is reported, although a num-
Der of persons were more or less severely
injured.
Cholera continues its ravages In Serina-
CUR, Cashmere. The population of the
city is about 81 900, and If the disease con-
tinues as fatal as at present, it will de
populate the place. Deaths are occurring
at the rate of 500 daily.
AT Rising Sun, Ind, John Huey, col.
ored, was taken from the steamer Big
Sandy on the charge of having murdered
William Ewald week ago Sunday at Big
Bone, Ky. The murder is said to have