Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OIL
Various Subjects.


Slavin has challenged Corbett.
Syracuse, N. Y, went Republican.
Another epidemic Of diphtheria at
Franklin, Ind
The National Educational association is
in session in Brooklyn.
II has not yet been decided whether or
not Italy will be represented at the worlds
fair.
Fully 800 of the children of Jefferson
vile, Ind, are more or less afflicted with
grip,
Johann Sverdrup, the noted states
man, formerly the prime minister of Nor
way, is dead.
A rumor is in circulation that Russia is
about to rescind the prohibition on the ex-
port of grain.
William Mcdaniel, local preacher at
Charlottesville, Ind, has skipped, leaving
his family destitute.
At Coal Bluff, Ind, a five-year-o' d
daughter of ID. Y. Davis was fatally
burned. Open CRATE.
AT Piqua, o., Pat Murphy, rag
picker, was murderously assaulted by un-
knowns who secured S13.
The president has transmitted to con-
gress special message on the subject of
better protection for miners
AT the Baldwin locomotive works, Phil
adelphia, two men were killed and third
seriously injured by benzine explosion.
The state department hasnot been ad-
vised of the intention of the Prince of
Wales to visit this country in May neyt.
AT Arcadia, Fla, Deputy Sheriff Hard
was shot and killed by Walter Austin, n
negro gambler, whom he was attempting
to arrest.
A son of l.. A. b. Johnson, at Lenoir
City, Tenn. Half keg of powder in an
clubhouse Boy ignited match. An
angel now.
Gus Smell, Louisville barber, was
married to his niece, Miss Annie Smell, of
Cincinnati, in Brooklyn. He is forty-fve
and she fourteen.
AT Gallatin, Tenn, Captain Edward
Turpin shot and killed William M.
Carter. Old feud. Both prominent
Talk of lynching.
Charles Amory Smith, the United States
minister at St. Petersburg, says the dis
tress from famine is increasing in Russia
hoohSi uAdu ulHllulSnlIlB.
At Scottdale, Pa, Daisy Kaine, fifteen,
was bound gagged and robbed of her
hair by tramp who could find nothing
of value about the house.
Bloodshed may result from fight which
is now on in Hamilton county, Ind, the
trouble originating in dispute as to the
kind of wood that should be used for the
flag pole of the school house, the Repub-
licans demanding ash and the Democrats
hickory
A dispatch from Warsaw Russia, says
that typhus fever and blackpox are
spreading westward, and that political
agitators are doing their utmost to inhame
the passions of the peasantry with the re-
suit that the spirit of discomfort is spread
ing in an alarming manner.
AT Madison Square Garden, New York,
James Corbett, the pugilist knocked out
William Spillings, of Rochester, in less
than two minutes, Bob Chaffee in fifty
seconds and then tackled Joe Lannan.
The latter was so near out at the end of
three rounds that he could hardly mo >,
Tuesday afternoon Sarah Bernhardt
who is playing an engagement at the
Lyceum, Memphis, secured admission
to the county Jail In order to see Miss
Alice Mitchell, The great Sarah only
saw the murderess at distance, as Miss
Mitchell refused to receive her In her
cell. Sarah is intensely interested in the
tragedy
At Nashville Andrew McCoHoch shot
and probably fatally wounded James
Farrell, his son-in-law, well known
groceryman. Farrell was attempting to
steal his child from his wife from whom
he had separated. He fired three shots vt
McColloch who retaliated with a shot
gun Farrell attempted to cut his wifcs
throat week ago.
The people of Naples and vicinity are
somewhat alarmed by threatened erup-
ton of Mount Vezuvius Lava is issuing
from the base of the volcano ahd flowing
into the Atrio del Cavallo. This is con
sidered rs indicating that a new crater
will be formed in situation that i'm
perils district heretofore comparatively
secure from disturbance.
Rev. Thomas Bartholomew Frost, who
has been married three times, has created
a sensation in religious circles in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. He conducted for somo
weeks the most successful revival in years,
profoundly impressing the people and
making many converts. Last Sunday
night he eloped with Kate Huffsteller
woman of easy virtue.
All sorts of schemes are being resorted
to along the Detroit river for smuggling
across from the Canadian
shore. Last Sunday night pine box
was shipped across the river at Detroit,
the legend: Handle carefully.
This box must be stood on end" Tn
the cover of the pine box there
was discovered grinning Chinaman who
yelled out: "Me velly hungly."
Elijah Hoffman, sixty-flye years of age,
living near Red Oak, Ia, was returning
home late Tuesday night, when he was at
tackled by eight wolves. The old man
drew his knife and a terrible encounter
took place, in which one animal was
fatally wounded and ran away. The 9th
ers, attracted by the smell of blood, fol
lowed their wounded companion, leaving
the nearly dead old man TO make his way
home
This weeks Farmers Review, Of Chi
cago, saws; "Winter wheat has not yet
passed beyond the critical state, and the
next few weeks may make considerable
in the situation. In Illinois the
outlook is 81 present encouraging. From
n per cent of the correspondents come re-
ports that the crop is in first-class condi-
lion. In an additional 80 per cent of the
state the condition is very fair. In In
diana and Michigan the condition is
better than in Illinois, and In
Kansas, Iowa, Ohio and Kentucky not so
good. Missouri reports AZ per cent. as
poor, 80 fair and 20 good.