Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


All the street car men in indianapolis
struck Sunday.
The Democratic convention at Albany
resulted in split.
Washington's birthday was generally
observed throughout the United States.
Two men were probably fatally injured
in fight at a dance near Vandalia, Ills.
The Parker ice gorge in the Allepheny
river broke without doing any serious
damage.
Ex-President Cleveland and party were
given royal reception at Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
Della Griffin, a Cincinnati girl, was
arrested at indianapolis for stealing a
diamond pin.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Assonacher, an
aged couple, were suffocated with coal
gas at Joliet, III.
Bernard Cressler, of Preston county
w. Va, thinks he has solved the problem
of aerial navigation.
Lack of guards along the Rio Grande
enables Cinnamon to flock into this coun-
try from New Mexico.
AT Duluth Edmund Welsh, theatrical
manager, was stabbed in the back by his
wife. Particulars are withheld.
Frank Wright, colored, aged eighteen,
was shot dead by an octoroon named
Mary Stevens, in Palestine, Tex.
-Four train-loadg of congressman ar
rived in Chicago and are being lavishly
entertained by worlds fair officials.
At Covington, Kyo Richard Gray, who
shot and killed Stephen Grogan, his
daughters betrayer was acquitted.
At Ironwood, Mich, a coal oil explosion
caused fire in which three small chill
dren named Camp were burned alive.
Prince Alexander of Battenberg needs
money, and Bulgaria's pension of $1,000
francs will be highly acceptable to him.
Mrs. Mary Pillow was defeated in the
Arkansas supreme court in her attempt
to get possession Of II. Clay Kings estate
Ex-senator Henry w. Blair, of New
Hampshire, announces his candidacy fer
the Republican nomination for the presi-
dency.
The national laborites are in session in
St Louis. They will probably arrange
for convention to nominate national
ticket.
An unknown man, while drunk, vert
at Cumberland, Nd. He was badly
mangled.
Two members of the Russian famine
relief committee are accused of assisting
in adulterating -four contributed for the
starving peasants.
An open switch caused wreck on the
Big -Four at indianapolis, in which John
Hobley and and his wife, who were beat
ing their way, were killed.
AT Trenton, Peter Smith died after
fast of fifty-three days, during which
time he existed on little diluted milk.
Grip caused an aversion for food.
During q terrific downpour of rain
"Aunt" Emily Graves was carried aw "
with a bridge in Palestine, Tex, and
drowned. She was eighty-four years old.
In Crawford and Bourbon counties,
Kan, over 5000 men, women and ch'l-
dren engaged in monster wolf hurt.
About 300 wolves and 1900 jack rabbi5s
were killed. Another hunt will be held.
Q. A. Jasper, Rochester CN. W horti-
culturist, was probably fatally Injured
while visiting in the vicinity of Louis
vile. In sliding down the side of a
strawstack he was impaled on the prongs
of a pitchfcrk, both entering his body,
one penetrating the bowels.
An unknown man attempted to board
train on the Carthage and Adirondack
railroad, nea" Harrisville, Saturday. In
some uuaccountable way he became
fastened to a car, and was dragged
through the snow about seven miles. He
was dead whom found, his body being hor-
ribly mangled.
Robert Lee Doyle was shot Saturday
night at Memphis and died of his wounds
next morning. He was standing at the
bar of saloon drinking with several men
when a load of duck shot was fired
through the window from the outside,
and took effect in his hip and stomach. 1t
is thought that the shot was intended for
one of his companions.
Near Alton, Ills, on Sunday, fisher
man noticed u boat drifting down the
river, and on approaching the corpse of
middle-aged man was found lying in the
bottom. The clothing indicated that the
wearer had been a professional or bust
ness man out Cor hunt He had evidently
been robbed, bound to the boat and mur-
dered. There is no clew to his identity
Judge Claiburne, of St Louis, is wrest-
ling with a novel and knotty legal point.
1t is, whether or not electricity can be
stolen. One Gustave Temple is crimin-
ally charged by the Municipal Electric
Light and Power company with having
stolen their electricity by bridging wires
entering his store before the wires entered
the meter, thus losing % per cent. of the
current to the company.
j. w. Thompson, wealthy and highly
respected farmer living near Clarksville,
Ark, attempted suicide Sunday by cut
ting his throat, and at last accounts he
was dying The cause of the rash act
was dependency resulting from the dis
grace brought upon his name by the con
duct of his twenty -year-old daughter,
Georgia, who, for some time past, has
been living a life of shame in Memphis.
J. c. Bragen rector of st. Mary's Epis-
copal church at Beaver Falls, Pa, created
a good sized sensation Sunday night by
advocating temperance as against total
abstinence. He claimed that total abst-
nence is not a divine command. Immedi-
ately after the benediction was pro-
nounced the congregation gathered in
groups and excitedly discussed thepreach-
ers views. One noted Prohibitionist,
pale with anger, severely assaulted the
minister. There is nothing in the church
now but dissention.
The Wheeling express, on the Wheeling
division of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, with one hundred passengers on
board had a narrow escape from an awful
accident near White Hall Saturday night.
Just around a sharp curve is temporary
trestle 300 feet long and forty feet high.
When near the curve the engine broke
from the tender, left the curve and rushed
down the embankment. The balance Of
the train swept by in safety, and was