Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-06
NEWS m BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OIL
Various Subjects.

| DuTiCu. l1OSS EOO,VNOs lLSllGu.
The threatened strike at the Elgin
watch works is now thing of the past.
The Indiana delegate state board of
agriculture is in session at Indianapolis
In the closing lumber season in Maine
154 9S5 ,0S5 feet of lumber was surveyed-a
large increase,
George Snyder and Oril Fryman, self
confessed burglars, are under arrest at
Williamsburg, o.
In Washington, Frank Heyster shot and
probably fatally wounded John Harrigan
during drunken row.
Sir George Biddele Ayre at one time
the British astronomer royal, is dead. He
was born June 21, 1871.
An organized gang of negroes, led by a
white man, are burning property in the
vicinity OF Linwood, Ark
The Allison-O' Bear glass works, East
st, Louis, burned. Loss, $50,000 Will
probably be rebuilt at once.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad com
pany has let contracts for fifty new loco
motives of the heaviest pattern
Dispatcher received from the state of
Chiapas, Guatemala, state that revolu-
tion in that republic is inevitable.
At Bethlehem, Pa, George Herstine
compromised damage suit against the
Lehigh Valley railroad for $4,000
A protracted meeting at Beech Grove,
w. Va, was broken up by some one put
ting croton oil in the drinking water.
Committees of ladies have been formed
in Rome and Florence to present wedding
gifts to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.
Vincennzio Lorenzo, who has been
Showing" 800 per day of bad money, in
the Pennsylvania coal regions, is Gagged in
Philadelphia.
The United States supreme justices are
mad because somebody has been giving
out their decisions in advance of their an
nouncements.
George S. Mcconnell, well known real
estate dealer of Pittsburg is in Jail
charged with embezzling $1,000 from a
! building ass, cation.
Near Clay Center, Neb, Mrs. Frazier
| Troxell and her little child were burned
to death 10y an explosion of gasoline which
set fire to their clothing,
DR. Graves, who poisoned Mrs. Barnaby,
and who was convicted of the crime at
Denver, denies the alleged confession
which he was reported to have made.
Sunday night the house occupied by
Charles Olsen in Chicago, was burned.
| His body was afterward found in the
ruins, with several knife wounds in the
| back
Travellers from Russia state that the au
thorties in the famine districts are often
compelled to invoke the aid of the mill
tary to preserve order among the suf
| ferers.
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owing TO peihg money -coi1peu pJ mines
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euhshot wound IN ms head' was muir
de- IT, as Doth barrels OF Ills own gun
were Ioaueo'
Al CfesNeIb ta'' III H. u barrett ana
MS "le, aA 'Bed coupe, were peaIeh 10
ueaIh " "h'ioWhS WIN cou ping pm.
Noeie"' ~ ahhS ABOUT tAe mouse haa
been disturbed
AhtNIg isilN' d l'I'iil'Nl VI Oiit A1CA 'NisS ~
Tip Theatrical company, was burned to
death at HeNter's hotel, Cincinnati. She
spilled bottle OF perfume on her dress,
winch caught hfe IronI an open CRATE
There is fear that the color line in the
Grand Army organization may cause the
secession from the order OF nearly every
white member III the department OF
Louisiana, Arississippi and Alabama.
nv Is / I'll II
of the inspectors department of the Bos-
ton pOstoflCe. received most unexpectedly
a notice of his being dropped from the
force. The announcement made him sick
and Saturday he died suddenly, his friends
say of a broken heart
Hoke, the cashier of the Merchants Ma
tional bank, of Peoria, HIS, who en-
bezaled $4,000, is now free man. He
has served five years sentence on one in
dictmcnt for which he was extradited
from Canada, and the circuit court de
cides the other eighteen indictments will
not hold.
No news has been received from the
troop ship Tyne which sailed from Hall
fax for England Dec. A. She had on
board the Id crews of the warships
Champion and Pheasant of the Pacihc
squadron, VINO were brought here by
rail from Victoria, b. c., aud numbered
over 800 men besides her own crew of l,
The returns of the Fail River Mass.
cotton mills for the past year are, Oh the
whole, considered far from good They
show decrease in annual dividends Of
$4,000 as compared with those of ls9J
The average dividend was 5,53 per cent
Only two corporations paid 50 much as 2