Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Various Subjects.
A big fire occurred in Liverpool on the
cotton quay.
Three miners were killed in mine at
Aspen, Colo.
Mrs. Mary Niebaum, Of Aurora, 10 in
sane from grip.
The New York Russian famine fund has
reached $2T, ,14S
At Mahoney Plane, Pa, 800 miners have
struck for back pay.
Near Fort Wayne Charles Ludwig was
fatally gored by bull
a general strike is expected on tho Pan
handle at Indianapolis
The steamer Eugene struck snag in
the Mississippi and sank.
Gold-bearing sand has been found in
paying quantities near Lathrop, Mo.
Two children of Wayne Sincox were
drowned while skating at Sunbury, Pa.
1t is said Vice President Morton is not
candidate for denomination. lie favors
Tracy.
d. d. Kingsley, q Grant county Qnd.)
pauper, has just received SOS, 900 legacy
from Ireland
AT Birmingham, Ala, Webb James
killed his sweetheart Maria Austin, be-
cause she had grown cold.
The National League American Wheel
men met at Columbus, O., and elected
Charles l.. Burdett, of Hartford, presi-
dent.
Near Middlesboro, KY, Frank Martin,
of the Turner faction, was shot and killed
by William Brooks, one Of the, Parton
gang
: Mrs. Smell, widow of the murdered Cki-
cago millionaire, has received q letter
threatening her life unless she pays
$1,000
At Louisville Miss Amanda McCauley
and Mrs. John Ulrich are settling IL
court as to which is the mother Of child.
Both claim to be-
Rumor comes from Fa Paso, Tex, that
the body of the missing lawyer, t. N.
Ronzuillo, has been found in trunk at
Las Vegas, N M.
In the suburbs Of st. Paul the mercury
went down to rs degrees below zero on
Monday morning. This cold was intensi-
fled by brisk breeze
Robert Childs died almost in want a
Blackleyville, O. Five years ago he was
worth 100000, and owned 1000 acres Of
land. He speculated in grain.
The attorneys for the murdsrcss, Alice
Mitchell, of Memphis, have applied 10 the
court for evidence from the prosecution
to prove the present insanity of the
prisoner.
Near Morristown, Tenn, Bob Livisay
and Marion Wilmeth quarreled and
fought about small debt. Lvisay AZ
tackled Wilmeth with club and was ia
tally shot.
1t is said that neither Governor Patti
son nor Attorney General Hensel, cf
Pennsylvania, will take any action 30 w.
terfere in any way with the Reading rail-
road deal.
One of the large buildings of the mill
plant of the Dobsons near Philsdalphia
was burned together with all its contents.
Loss $150,000. Two hundred and ffsy
hands escaped.
An uprising of the Indians Is threatened
in Alaska. The whites, not satisfied with
seizing their lands, have established sal
mon canneries, which threatens To destroy
the staple food Of the Indians.
The general report of the farmers
near Nashville is that wheat was consid-
erably injured by the late freeze by being
"spewed up" by the roots out OF the
ground. Whole fields will be plowed up
and potatoes planted.
An attempt is being made in the Untsd
States circuit court at Chicago 10 have
the Mckinley administration act relating
to collection of customs declared void. II
Is said to be TOO complicated affair and
on importers.
The old and trusted McNab bank at
Eufaula, Ala, broke year ago under
sensational circumstances, the money be-
Ing all gone, President Reeves, who was
also a Baptist preacher, was indicted.
His trial concluded on Monday, and he
was sentenced to five years
A committee of the various branches of
the Catholic Knights of America recon-
mends that Grand Secretary George W.
Barr send in his resignation for the reason
hat they are satisfied he withheld Inc
that O'Brien was in default
md therefore was subject to censurs.
Eighteen-year-old Miss Hull, janftrix Of
he Baptist church, at North Plain,
Conn, had narrow escape from death
Sunday night. The bell-rope broke, and
he went up in the belfry to repair IL.
While there she was attacked by rats in
arge numbers, the rodents rushing az her
md lacerating her flesh. She fought
hem off and escaped, but is now seriously
II.
Mark Bivens and Henry Stevens have
,een uncaught moonshiners in Monroe
ounty, Tenn, for years. 81 Perkins was
Ilso partner. Bessie Bevins and Sallie
Perkins were both In love with 81, who
avored Bessie Sallie, in revenge, led tho
United States marshal and three on1cera
rmed to the teeth, at dead Of night,
welve miles across the country, to the
amp of the moonshiners, who were all
rrested.