Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-13
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gatheredfrom All Psrtl
of the World.


phia numbers 10000 ~F
Edward Tiffany was killed by an cleo
trio car at Columbus. o.
Rochester Hobbs was kicked to death by
mule near Brazil, Ind.
The Commercial Travellers association
is in session at Rochester.
A grand Columbian celebration was held
in Baltimore Wednesday by the Italians
William Fargo, of Cincinnati, was sand.
bagged in New Orleans and robbed OF
$780,
Omaha is flooded with bogus silver dol
lars dated 1891 and mint marked New Or
leans ,r
Near Bristol, Tenn, Mrs. James Pearce,
subject to epileptic fits, fell into the fire
and was fatally burned. a
Madrid appropriately celebrated the 40Otb
anniversary of the discovery of Americs
by Columbus Wednesday &C.
Pete and Pat Burns fatally beat John
Balm at Brazil, Ind, for taking the part Of
the boys old uncle in dispute.
Tramps made two efforts to wreck trains
on the Louisville, New Albany and Chi.
cago, at Salem, Ind, because not permit
ted to ride
Fire in George Chester's -four mill
spread to John Little's flour and feed
mill at Lockport, N. Y, and destroyed
both. Loss $150,OO0.
Fred Welland, married only two months,
while unfastening a rope at the top of o
fagpole at Marietta, Ind, fell and is per
haps fatally injured.
DR. Samuel l.. Barr dropped dead al
Washington. He came from South Da
kota, and was prominent Mason and
Grand Army member.
mmet Dalton, the surviving bandit. has
been taken to independence to the Jail by
the sheriff. Emmett is better, and it IL
now thought he will recover.
BY an explosion of gas in a coal mine al
Durango, Colo, E. J. McClosky, ex-member
of the legislature, was killed and three
Others probably fatally injured.
AT Circleville, O., an iron flagstaff
weighing 500 pounds, fell through three
stories of school building, and, al
though school was in session, no one wa,
| hurt.
About a hundred men employed IN the
Big Four yards at Columbus, O., have
struck for an advance. The yards are
blocked and only passenger trains art
moving.
Mrs. Daisy Shrider, of Thornville, o.
recently coughed up timothy head which
she sucked into her windpipe while playing
ten years ago She Is now in a fair way tt
regain her health
4 mad ddg In the vicinity of South
Charleston, O., bit horses and hogs which
in turn went mad, and the people are SC
excited that they have sent for the state
veterinary surgeon. Ell
! Near Sublett, Mo-. Josie Simmons wa,
stabbed to death by two men, who escaped
The house had been ransacked. 1t Il
thought the giHl was murdered to concea
the theft or worse crime
| Henry A. Burt, q we'll known lawyer OF
! Jeffersonville, Ind, has had W. j. Quin
Ian arrested on charge of having stolen 9
note for $1,000, which he left in the law
! yer's hands some time ago. H
All the Republican officeholders WHIT
can be spared from Washington are on,
! hustling in their respective districts. Their
is no difficulty experienced by clerks II
getting the necessary leave to go home t.
vote.
Mrs. Anna Hamlin, of Wabash, Ind
thinks her husband was victim of tn,
recent railroad disaster at Shreve, o. H,
left home on Sept. 20 to fulfill musica
engagement in the east ald she has not
heard from him.
At Brazil, Ind, John Balm, who de
Tended cripple in a saloon fight, was
beaten almost to death by Peter and Pat
rick Burns. Warrants are out for the ar
rest of the Burns boys. Balm had had M
words with his assaiants.
| oaI1;aior ooo,,rrall or A. oIox.uk =.
road, New York, an engine with five car,
attached jumping the track. Severa
trains in the rear collided with the derailet
train and nearly fifty passengers wer,
more or less seriously injured.
Eighteen cases of diphtheria are reported
from New California, Madison county, o
A child died in home near a school, tn,
family soon after moving out. The schoo
children used the house to play in, ant
thus contracted the disease. Several hav,
died.
Chattanooga elected seven Democrat.
out of eight aldermanic candidates, secur
ing control of the government for the firs
time in her history. The fact Is taken a,
significant of the result of the presidential
election. All east Tennessee had hitherto
been Republican.
A fellow who says he Is brother O
Budd Doble, is working the vicinity O
Doolittle Mills, Ind, selling rings ant
chains made of horse hair, which h,
claims is from the tails Of Nancy Hanks
and Abe Lincoln, her running mate. H,
sells the rings for S. and the chains for s25
In Marengo county, near Birmingham
Ala, Paul Horn had row with William
Rosenberg. Horn attacked Rosenberg'i
wife with buggy whip. When Rosen
berg interfered Horn shot and killed him
The woman, who was in delicate condi
ton, will probably die. Horn was cap
tured and Jailed at Faunsdale, but to pre-
vent lynching was taken to Linden.
The civil service commissioner investi
gated the action of the Republican stat,
committee of Michigan in applying to post
masters for voters names, and informs tn,
officials that the civil service law expressly
provides that no person in the public serv
ice is for that reason under any obligation
to render any political service, and that h,
will not be removed or otherwise prejudicet
for refusing TO render it; while general rul,
No Of the civil service rules provides fol
the dismissal of any public servant, 70
Eruving him or causing him to be removes
because Of such refusal