Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OIL
Various Subjects.

CONDENSATION OF Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
w. E. Kay was killed by a premature
blast at Coal Bluff, Ind.
Benjamin Huston was found hanging to
tree near Logansport, Ind.
The schools at Clifton, O., are closed
because of an epidemic of scarlet fever.
Ex-President Cleveland and party were
in New Orleans Monday and Tuesday.
An alleged Messiah has been arrested in
Mexico. He worked among the Indians.
Little Lewis Brochat was cut to pieces
while stealing a ride on a train at
Uhrichsville, o.
Near Ironton, O., Abraham Clutts be-
came insane at his mothers funeral
Grip.
John S. Orr, of Youngstown, O., had a
close call, being poisoned by eating
canned beef
AT Red Hook, N. Y, jeremiah Moore,
seventy-two, and Matte Shaeffer, sixteen,
were married
A shower of worms of an unknown kind,
covering an area of five miles, is reported
from Clifton, Ind.
Deputy Collector Johns, of Fayette
county, Pa, was wounded in battle
with moonshiners.
Northern Ohio is flooded with bogus
quarters and dollars. They show excel
lent workmanship.
John M. Thurston, of Chicago, is will
ing to take second place on the Repub-
lican national ticket.
One hundred and twenty-six Russian
refugees arrived in New Orleans Sunday
and were taken in by friends
Cameron, Tex, has organized a David
b. Hill club, the first in Texas, to boom
the New Yorker for president.
Near Oaktown, Ind, James Little was
killed by trying to catch his gun as it was
falling. 1t was leaning against tree
While telling a tree near Celina, o.,
Joseph Hammond had his back broken
by being struck by large limb. He will
die.
John Ogenstein and John Burcher, re-
siding near Marietta, o., were arrested
charged with robbing George Smith few
days ago.
The Kentucky Legislature is talking
about a suitable monument for the neg
lected resting place of Joel Hart the Ken
lucky sculptor.
Russell Ruscee, eighty, and his sister
Maria, eighty-five, were frozen to death
near Norwalk, Conn. They had lived on
charity for years.
John Wise, a miser, died ten years ago
in Sumner county, Kan. Saturday his
grandson dug up in the garden a keg con
tanning $4,000 in gold.
A riot at Shutdown, Pa, Sunday, be-
tween Italian and negro miners, resulted
in the killing of one Dago and wounding
of several of the blacks.
James W. Scott, of the Chicago Herald
and Chicago Evening Post, has refused an
offer of 800, 900 year for five years. SER
vice on the New York World
The colored men in Louisiana who were
wounded while following their masters
during the late war will also be pensioned
under a recent act created to pension Con-
federate soldiers.
Joseph Senior, private Waterman of
Newark, N. j., found his wife's body in
front of the kitchen stove, with the throat
cut and eleven stabs on the corpse. She
was seventy three. The house had been
robbed.
Embezzler Hyer, who was being re-
turned to New Jersey, escaped from the
sleeping car while en- route from San
Francisco upon a requisition after pro-
tracted legal fight. His custodian was
asleep in the berth above him.
A colored teamster named Boyd is I'M
der arrest for wrecking a Richmond and
Danville train on Sept. by pulling
couple of spikes from the rails. Boyd
confessed he wrecked the train to rob the
passengers. Twenty were killed.
A riot occurred between Italian and
colored coal miners at Smithton, a small
mining town in Pennsylvania, Saturday
night, in which two men were fatally
wounded and another was so badly hurt
were slightly injured.
John Hoey, ex-president of the Adams
Expresses company, will start a rival com
pany He has secured contracts with the
entire Pennsylvania system-over 1890
miles-and will begin operations May |.
Offices will be established in all the prin-
cipal cities of the country.
At Doolittle's Mills Perry county, Ind,
Martin Taylor and Dinwiddie Ziegler met
at saloon, drank, played cards and
quarreled. Ziegler fatally stabbed Taylor
near the heart, who retaliated by crush
ing his adversary's skull with chair
Both will die. The nefghborhood is APP
propriately known as "Sodom," and is
one of the worst in Hoosierdom.
A London syndicate, represented in
York by John H. Bryant, has secured OPP
lions on sixteen Of the twenty seven cot
ton presses in New Orleans and it is said
will combine them and be ready to COM
mence operations in September next. The
purchase money will amount to 100000
or 100000 and by combining it is
thought that the syndicate can reduce
running expenses some 25 per cent or
more The land on which the presses
stand will be leased in most instances for
ninety-nine years at 8 per cent. interest.
Death Roll.
Rev. Charles H. Sturgeon, the great
English divine, aged fifty-seven.
Joseph Libby and his wife Hannah,
founders and at one time leaders of the
Lbbyites, at Granger, N. Y.
Bank Closed.
BOWLING GREEN, KY, Feb. 1.-The
Deposit bank of Glasgow, Ky, closed
its doors Friday, the result of run for
want of confidence in the management.
1t is said they will pay dollar for dollar.