Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF


Various Subjects.
General Alger has announced that he is
presidential candidate
Four new cases of typhus were discov-
cred in New York Monday.
Farmers are sowing wheat in Canada's
bleak northwest possessions.
Henry A. Francisco, well known Chi
cago real estate dealer, suicided by shoot
ing.
According to census just completed
New York city has population of 1,S00,-
SOL.
Near Vienna, O., George Runyan died
from blood-poisoning caused by ferret
bite.
Two men were badly burned by an ex-
plosion of gas in mine at Mount Carmel,
Pennsylvania.
The Chicago water works tunnel, ex-
tending under Lake Michigan four miles,
is pronounced a failure.
At Walla Walla, Wash, Theodore
Hirtz laborer, shot and killed his wife
and then killed himself.
1t is said the settlement of the Behring
sea dispute is now no nearer settlement
than it was in June, 1890.
Amos Doyle, son of wealthy iron man
ufacturer, was arrested for the many
burglares at Hubbard, o.
Judge Pugh, of the Franklin county (O)
common pleas court, decides the Ohio
eight-hour law constitutional.
The trial of DR. Baker, at Abingdon,
Va, for the murder of his wife by poison,
ended in verdict of not guilty.
The Canadian government will take the
duty off binding twine as concession to
the Manitoba farmers demands.
Fourteen carloads of French Canadians
went to Montreal from the New England
states to vote for the home government,
A broken fange caused a railway
wreck near Ell Paso Tex, on Sunday,
by which Engineer W. w. Nichols was
killed
The Louisiana lottery officials have
been indicted for violating the anti-lot-
terry law. This is the fourteenth indict-
ment
Dick Carter and John Rice, colored,
who fired William Dockery's store, ut
Boyle Station, Tenn, were shot by a
posse.
Henry Nottingham, at one time superin-
dead in his room at Cleveland. He was a
hard drinker.
Congressman Kendall of Kentucky,
died in Washington Monday night from
the effects of two strokes of apoplexy
Monday morning.
Rough characters of Barytown, Pa, at
tempted to wreck the Chicago train by
placing large stones Oh the track. The
engine plowed right through.
James Matherly, a wealthy farmer of
Washington county, KY, will hang fol-
poisoning an old man named Holiday
with whom he had had trouble.
William j. Davis, of Sydney, N. S. w.
has started for America with the inten
tion of swimming the Niagara rapids
wearing nothing but ordinary swimming
trunks.
The bones of young German rancher
named Bauman have been found neal
Cortez, New. The rancher had beer
frozen to death and the body eaten by
coyotes.
At tax sale in Summit, Miss, the Hi
nois Central railroad freight and passen
ger depots were bought by the town O.
| Summit for S12S, the amount of unpait
| GdAtS uub bDc tOWH
| The steamer Invertrossachg, from Phil
adelphia to Calcutta with u cargo of oil
was abandoned in mid-ocean by her crew
ten of whom lost their lives. The vesse
was steel one and insured for $3.50, 900.
General o. o. Howard, who has been il
| Mexico and Texas investigating charges
against the United States troops which
seemed unable to find Cara. has learned
simply that the revolution has subsidized
II has been learned that the baby which
was abandoned by Mrs. Craft at Brazil
Ind, is the offspring of Miss Jennie Kim
ball, Of Duquoin, Ills, who accuses he
cousin, William Douglass, as being thu
| father.
The first entry of goods destined for tn
worlds fair exhibition was made at New
York Monday at the custom house
There were ten cases of antiques, whici
arrived on the steamship Claribel from
Port Limon.
An analysis of the wine sent to p. d
Armour, of Chicago, by some person on
day last week shows that 1T containe'
laudanum, but not in sufficient quantit.
to endanger life. Mr.. Armour thinks !
was a plan to extort money from him.
George S. Moore, the Louisville irol
merchant, who disappeared two week
ago heavily involved, has returned 3
that city. His chief business difficult
has been settled to the satisfaction OF hi
creditors, and 1t is believed he may b
able to resume business. His mind ap
pears to be restored