Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-20
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.

Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.
The West Virginia legislature convenes
Jan. IL.
The State bank at Cuba, Kan, has sus-
pended.
Diphtheria is epidemic at Palmyra and
Newark, O.
Carlisle is spoken of as the future secre
tary of the treasury.
DIR. McGlynn favors Mgr Satolli in the
Catholic school question.
The short cotton crop is causing numer-
GUS failures in the south,
The war department has decided again
to garrison Key West, Fla.
Murderer Fred Mcclure was electrocut.
ed at Sing Sing, N. Y, Monday
At Parkersburg, w. Va, Forger Coul,
son has been indicted on fifty counts.
Sir Richard Owen, of London, famous
specialist in comparative anatomy, is
dead
The first instalment of worlds fair
souvenir half-dollars has been received at
Chicago.
Harry Houser, chief letter carrier at
Wheeling, is charged with wholesale rob.
berry of letters.
Daisy Scott, fourteen, of Columbus, o.,
shot herself while playing with a double
action revolver
Mine No. of the Cahaba Coal company
Blocton, Ala, is on fire with several men
imprisoned, it is said.
Robert Beatty, charged with completely
in the Homestead poison plot, was held to
court in the sum OF 81, 600.
George c. Brown a well known Cincin.
natl journalist was found dead in his bed
Sunday. Congestion of the brain.
An unknown young man, supposed to be
from Perryville, o.. was killed by ears be
tween Jersey City and Newark, N. j.
At Maysville, Ky, Peter Brown, n Grip
pied old man, was severely burned in the
burning residence of Samuel Presley.
1t is said in Chicago that the Rock Isl.
and will supplant the telegraph with the
telephone in order to outwit the strikers.
At Urbana, o., John Freyhoff, gar
dener, probably fatally kicked his wife
and then suicided by shooting. Jealousy.
At Urbana, o., the body of male child,
we'll dressed, and bearing the marks OF
violence, was found on an oil tank neal
here.
Farmer Edward Bangs failed to get out
of the way for Il tree he had just felled
near Raysville, Ind, and was crushed to
death
Company II, West Virginia national
guard, at Parkersburg, want to disband
and refuse to pay fines levied for absentee
ism, etc.
Principal Varhise, of the Williamsburg
(Colo) school, has been driven out of
town for furnishing children by pulling
their teeth.
At Evansville, Ind, Bert Tole, an ex-
convict, shot and killed James Short, a
merchant. They had quarreled over some
trivial matter.
BY the giving way of scaffold in the
Cincinnati custom house six decorators
fell about twenty feet. Four were serious
ly injured, one perhaps fatally.
The Thompson Presbyterian church con
gregation nj Detroit locked out the new
preacher who was to have taken the place
of Rev. Welton, recently dcposed,
At Washington G. H., O., Hettie Whited
shot herself with 22-caliber pistol the
wound being of very dangerous charac.
ter. The girl says it was an accident
Bagley the robber of the United States
Express company, it seems, was leading
double life. lie Kept woman III Chicago,
his wife and family residing in Davenport,
Iowa.
At Quincy, Ills, the remains of white
man chopped to pieces were found in
soap box in the railroad baggage room
1t was probably shipped by medical stu
dents.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the English pre-
mier, owns property on the Canadian side
of Niagara Falls, but has never exercised
the right to vote for mayor and school
trustees.
A big Newfoundland dog fell over
Niagara Falls Friday and was rescued
and restored by the aid of doctor He is
now theatrical dog in Marie Lawton's
company.
Archbishop Elder, Of Cincinnati, says he
is of the opinion that Mgr. Satolli's mis-
sion to America is to represent the pope at
the worlds fair and not to adjust the
school question.
Frank Reed and Elsie Dunn, clippers,
were married at East Liverpool, o., hav-
ing evaded an angry father, who like Lord
Ullin was III fast pursuit after my
daughter, oh. my daughter"