Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-30
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.


Senator Colquitt is improving.
Charles Marry, the author, is dead
A strike is probable ON the Chicago ele-
waited railroad
James G. Blaine, Jr,, says his father is
not seriously i'll.
Fall River (Mass.) spinners went TO work
at a Z per cent advance.
John d. Daugherty, of Tiffin, o., died
after hiccoughing seven days,
Several graves in the vicinity of Indian
apolis have been robbed of late.
The blind asylum at St. Louis is a veri-
table hotbed for typhoid fever,
The wheat market in England is weak
and prices are constantly declining.
Wholesale grocers of Columbus, o.,
have organized for mutual protection.
President-elect Cleveland is having
great sport hunting on his island refuge.
A number of indianapolis milxl dealers
have been arrested for selling impure
milk.
The rainy season has set in in southern
California, just as the agriculturalists
want it.
Kolb, the defeated Peoples candida
for governor of Alabama, will contest the
election.
A survey is being made for an electric
road from Cincinnati to Springfield, dis
tance of eighty miles.
Captain w. H. Beller, of Mason county,
w. Va, is believed to have been lost in the
mountains while huntin8
AT Foraker, O., on the Chicago and Erie
road Mrs. Andrews fsnd Miss Fry were
struck by a train. Both received injuries
from which they died.
Miss Ella Parker is missing from her
home in Danyille,' Ills, since her father
chastised her for keeping company with
the night depot agent
Near Admission, Ala, in an old deserted
iron mine, James Stone and William
Blankenship were caught counterfeiting
nickels by two detectives and arrested.
The receipts for internal revenue for the
first four months of the present fiscal yea1
show an increase over the corresponding
months Of the last fiscal year of "a ,332, 1872
Mrs John T. Stocks sister of Rev Sam
Jones, is dying at Atlanta Faster Stocks
son, awaiting a second trial for murder,
swooned at his mothers bedside Monday
John Mcmillan, of West Austintown,
o., suicided by shooting while seated at
the breakfast table with his family. A
son suicided in the same way several years
ago
Petroleum shipments from this country
to France have never been equalad, 1t is
due to the heavy import duty which
France threatens to impose after Jan. l.,
1898
The South German distillers are renew.
IN bni To ,1+
the increase of the spirit tax which, they
say, will ruin the distilling business in
South Germany.
Governor Brown, of Kentucky, says he
will not interfere and Murderers Nc
Carthy, Hite, Thomas and Lewis will be
hung together at Louisville, Dec. g. The
two last named are negroes.
Charles b. Vanneman, a farmer living
near Wilmington, O., is missing. He left
worthless papers and creditors to the eX.
tent of about $4,000 or $4,000. He was a
prominent Fnight Tempar
August Sauer and Joseph Wright boys,
were killed in Cincinnati by the truck on
which they were riding being struck by an
electric car, The horses attached to the
truck had become unmanageable.
Edwin Hinton, of Paris, KY, has re.
turned after a long and singular absence
and was married at Knoxville, Tenn, tG
Miss Gay Brent, the daughter of a judge
of the supreme court of Kentucky.
A congressional subcommittee of the
interstate and foreign commerce commit.
tee is investigating the methods of fixing
the prices Of anthracite coal by the Phiia
delphia and Reading and other railroads.
Bernard Schafer, German, living in
the southern part Of St Louis, committed
suicide Monday afternoon. The deed was
caused by dependency over the loss Of
So, which he had bet on Halrison's cleo.
ton.
There is much excitement over the dis.
covery of gold in great quantities along
Rainey creek, in the Comanche country In
the Indian Territory, and in the Indian
mines in the Arbuckle, Rainey and WITCH
ita ranges.
Whitesburg, Ala, is threatened with q
race war While drunk four negroes at
tackled two railroad conductors, killing
one named Woods. Several other white
men were injured. Four negroes are in
Jail at Huntsville.
A private cablegram from London states
that Mr. Dewitt Clinton Winaus, of Balti.
uAtN i'lSIt t2AlLttA VII. w lldDS WIS
a son of the late Ross Winans, the lannon's
inventor and Russian railroad contractor.
He was fifty-three years old.
Owing to a squabble over the Panama
canal investigation the French cabinet re.
signed Monday, 1t is stated that Presi-
dent Carnot will. should the cabinet crisis
be prolonged, send to the chamber mes
sage explaining the situation
The line of defense Of George l. Bagley,
who robbed the United States Express
company Of 100000, is to be insanity.
Judge Rotherock, of the Iowa supreme
court has set that movement on foot, and
the attorneys are collecting evidence