Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


| Ind, was burned.
their resignations
Miss Clara Paxon, of Anderson, Ind, is
insane from religion
! Two cases of smallpox at Mill Creek,
near Wilkesharre Pa,
The gold fever has been suddenly re-
viyed in the Potomac (Md) fields.
Hon John Robson, premier of British
Columbia, died in London Wednesday.
Professor Theodore W. Dwight, of Co
lumbia college, is dead. Heart disease.
Clarkson has accepted a place on the
national Republican executive committee.
professors" Maxwell and Johnson, of
st. Louis spiritualist frauds, Were hooted
out of Brazil, Ind.
Columbus is to be canonized on the
ground that the discovery of America was
divine inspiration.
Full returns from all parts of Mexico Of
Sundays election make the reelection of
President Diaz certain.
Farmers in southern Indiana are indig
nant at the scarcity of binding Irvine. |
They blame the Irvine trust.
Mrs Lille Stroud, of Leavenworth, |
a
of chicken she was preparing for dinner. |
James Dobson, under sentence of death
for murder, and viii Hudson, charged
witt rape, broke Jail at Des Arc Ark, and
are still at large.
lie Guar, the director of dynamite
company of Paris, who disappeared n few
days ago after embezzling 100000 francs,
has been arrested.
Further search of Grenier's apartments
has brought to light many important doc
uments, including a complete plan OF
new French ironclad.
The Dominion reapportionment bill has
passed the Canadian house of commons 1t
will go into effect upon the dissolution of
the present parliament.
j. K Kelloch of Fort Wayne, Ind, took
the Hyde prize of 500 for senior oratory at
Amherst college The prize was doubled
by friend of the college.
The government exploring party to meas
ure the movement of Muir's glacier and
examine the surrounding country, left Ia I
coma Wednesday for Alaska.
Captain Cremieux Foa, the Jewish Off
Ger who is about to fight duel at Paris
with the Marquis de Mores, has been or
dered on special mission to Tunis
Frank Rutherford, wife murderer of
Cincinnati, lifer at the Ohio penitentiary,
was pardoned by Governor Mckinley, only
to die from apoplexy in few hours
At indianapolis Daniel Kirtley started
to get marriage license to wed Mrs. Mary
Briggs, and never returned. Whether he
changed his mind or was foully dealt with |
remains to be seen.
In a published interview Ben Butler is
reported to have said that if Gresham &C
cepts the third party nomination he will
make a respectable run, and the situation
would be interesting.
Near Lumberton, N c., Frank G. Mears,
a white man, tried to kill his wife with
club, but failing, brutally beat his three
children, one of whom may die. He is I'M
doubtedly insane, and has been arrested.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Susan Sewall,
twenty-five years of age, of Boston, threw
her ninemonth-old babe out of fourth
story window and then jumped from the
window herself both dying in a short
time.
Rev. James Wilson, over seventy, OF
Visalia, Cal, took undue liberties with
some of the young girls of his flock and
was given twenty four hours to leave town
by members of his congregation He left
leaving family
Tuesday night Florence Dunbar at
tempted suicide in the usual way at Mag
ara Falls She was a servant in the Hotel
Atlantique, and became enamored of one
Frank Boyer, of Cincinnati. Separation
from him caused the attempt.
Captain Charles Hay, superintendent Of
the commissary department, q. S. A, died
at Denver Tuesday of pneumonia. He was
forty-eight years of age, and during the
war served in ex-President Hayes Ohio
regiment His remains will be inferred at
Fort Leavenworth.
The Jury in the trial of DR.. Irwin,
charged with having, with others, per
formed an illegal autopsy on Mind Reader
Bishops remains, was discharged by
Judge Fitzgerald in the court of general
sessions, New York city, being unable to
agree upon verdict
Internal revenue agents found in an I'M
foreground cellar in the Chinese quarters in
San Francisco an opium factory large
enough to supply half of the Chinese popu-
lation of the. city with prepared opium.
The factory was hidden in an almost mac
cessible cave under a joss house
Hon. Thomas H. Carter commissioner
of the general land office, has found that
his official duties and private interests will
not permit him to serve as secretary of the
Republican national committee, and he
will accordingly resign the position at the
first meeting of the executive committee.
The action of the German government in
abandoning its attitude of reserve toward
Prince Bismarck, as evidenced by the
threats made in the official North German
Gazette, has caused a most decided sensa-
ton throughout the empire, and further
DEVELOPMENTS are awaited with great inter
est.
Judge White of the criminal court of
Kansas City, Tuesday, sentenced Amanda
Umble and Thomas Smith, both colored.
10 be hanged Aug. 10. Amanda Umble's
execution will be the first execution of
woman in Missouri. She murdered Eva
jackson for alternating the affections of her
lover.
A negro calling himself Tip-o-T Tip and
claiming to he the son of a Zulu king, with
two confederates who have been reaping |
harvest through the country, have come td |
grief in Toiedo. Tip gave lectures, he
said, for the benefit of the heather IN
Africa, and was received with open arms
by the church people After Tip had To-
Gated The houses his pals got in their work. |
In one week they secured over 1000 worth |
of diamonds, jewelry, etc But now |
they've struck a snag