Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-06
NEWS IN BRIEF,
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Altoona, Pa, is flooded with counterfeit
IS bills.
North Carolina Republicans will nomi-
nate no state ticket.
An English syndicate has gobbled all
the New Orleans rice mills
The SASH door and blind men of the
northwest failed to agree on combine.
A colt was born at Randolph, Stark
county, O., with feet like those of a goose
John Station and John Richie were
killed by the fall of a scatfold at Birming-
ham, Ala.
Roebling's wire works, Trenton, burned
Loss, Sl50000. Four hundred people are
out of work.
Brice says he will take no part in the
Ohio conventions that select delegates to
go to Chicago.
Governor Flower, of New York, signe
the law allowing reporters to be present
at electrocutions.
A hurricane at Madrid, Spain, did
great damage. A number of persons were
injured by flying fragments.
AT Des Moi mes the wife of Druggist c.
f. Duke gave him hot I've instead of soup
by mistake. He will probably die.
The anti-Pinkerton bill has passed the
New York assembly. 1t prohibits the
hiring of any private detective by corpo
ratiOns
Divers have examined the bottom of the
steamer Elder, ashore on Atherfield
rocks, Ise of Wight, and declare she can
never be foated
The will of the late Cardinal Manning
shows that he had only 9100 at the time of
his death. He had disposed Of all his in
come in charity.
While hunting near Lagrange, Ind,
Alex Vealy shot and hilled Simon Guth-
rie. Vealy says it was an accident. Both
prominent farmers.
Henry Rosenfeld, Of Chicago, has just
returned from Monte Carlo, where he won
$4,000. He has vowed never again to put
dollar on the green cloth.
Yellow fever is raging in several Bra
lillian states. In some places all the Gem
teries are full, and the Heighboring field
are being utilized as burial places.
Fear Breslau, Prussia, thirty barges in
the River Oder were carried down
stream owing to floods and drifting ice,
and not less than forty persons drowned
away for public circulation will be prose
cuted, according to proviso in the vol
ume. A test case will will come up
shortly.
Near DeSoto, Mo-, Joseph Hamel shot
and instantly killed his tenant, William
Beatt, because the latter refused to re-
turn some farming implements that
Hamel had loaned him.
The Conemaugh Valley memorial hos
pital at Johnstown, Pa, the scene of the
flood few years ago, was dedicated We'd
nesday. 1t cost 5000, and was erected
and furnished by the state flood commits
sion.
At the Baker quarries at Campbell's
Station, Pa, workmen put three large
dynamite cartridges near the boiler to
thaw. The building and machinery were
blown to pieces and two men seriously |
injured.
1t is claimed that Fitzsimmons, the
murderer of Detective Gilkinson, of
Pittsburg who sucided by cutting his |
throat while under arrest in New Orleans,
is VasCott, the murderer of Millionaire
Smell, in Chicago, several years ago.
The gubernatorial imbroglio is still on
in Nebraska. 1t will probably be March |
before Mr. Boyd will be restored to his |
Office. Mr.. Thayer sets up the claim that |
he received the office from the state SUI |
prone court, and will hold on to it until |
further notified by that court. His course |
is technically legal, but is generally de-
nounced by men of all parties.
SO far as can be learned the anti-lottery
party in New Orleans is hardly inclined to
accept the letter of Mr., Morris as a bona |
fde withdrawal of the lottery proposition.
The idea is entertained by some that a
further effort for continuance of the lot
terry may be made by using its influence
to have a constitutional convention called
and to have a lottery charter inserted in
the new constitution.