Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-21
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items OF Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the world.

Atoms Oh interest Gathered frolm All P0rts
of the world.
Indianapolis is flooded with counterfeit
silver dollars.
Diphtheria has closed the schools at
Bonneville, Ind
Dennis f. Siblcy, Chicago grain man,
failed for $2s0,0O0.
A citizen of St Louis is negotiating for
the establishment of % racing circuit in
Mexico.
Vice President-elect Stevenson will be
entertained this week by the citizens of
Atlanta.
At Cedar Falls, o., William Lyan, while
coon hunting, fell over a cliff 100 feet
high. He was killed
George Wagner, of Lima, O., while
drunk attempted to kill his wife with Il
knife at For, Wayne, Ind.
AT Minneapolis low water caused a mail
car heater to explode, tearing the ear to
pieces No one was injured.
Fred Gilman, of Ciaysville, w. Va, was
thrown from a dogcart and fatally injured
by being dragged some distance
Nashville had the first snow of the
season Sunday. 1t was followed by a
rain and heavy snow Monday night
A locomotive boiler exploded in the
roundhouse, London, Ont, seriously in.
juring two men and doing $4,000 dam
ages.
Seven firemen were caught under falling
walls in Albany Three were taken out
dead. The Others We're seriously, if not IA
tally, injured.
The two-year-old child of George Valen-
G,f1 ~ R.Il 4
was rescued alive after being in the water
fifteen minutes.
A determined effort will be made this
winter to have the New York legislature
abolish capital punishment and substitute
life imprisor nent.
The navy department has closed con
tract with the Sterling Steel company of
Pittsburg, for S225,000 worth of the
Wheeler armor piercing projectiles.
During the fire at the Fort Orange IN
~ Milling companys building, Monday,
seven firemen were buried beneath fall
ing wall, three of whom were killed
District Master Workman Hugh Demp-
sey, of Pittsburg has been placed under
heavy bond. He is charged with com
plicity in the alleged Homestead poison
ing.
The grand jury has indicted Matthew
johnson, the West Indian negro, for
murder in the first degree johnson is
charged with killing Engineer Emil Kuck-
elhorn.
The application of Lawyer Peshal for
writ of error in the case of Edward Hal
linger, the negro murderer of Jersey City,
who is to be executed Thursday, has been
refused.
At Wabash, Ind, Brakeman AL Murphy
lowered his lantern into an empty oil
tank. His head, face and the upper part
Of his body was frightfully burned. His
condition is serious.
At Columbus, o., an unknown scoundrel
entered the sick room of Miss Mary
Donaldson while the family with whom
she boarded was at dinner and smothering
her cries with a pillow, assaulted her
No clew.
The bones of a skeleton found ut Canyon
Hill, Ida, are supposed to be those OF
young Jarvis, heir to considerable prop
erty and who met with foul play while be
ing taken from st. Joseph, Mo-, by his
uncle, one wilkins, In 1865.
Big fire in st. Louis The losses: Udell
Woodenware company, s125,000; Scarett
Furniture company, $4,000; Crane Furni-
ture company. $4,000; Tyler Desk com
pany, $4,000; loss on building, $4,000
The insurance is not known.
II. II. Buscher, cashier, and w. Il. Sny-
der, bookkeeper in the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton and Dayton freight office, Indian
apolis, have been indicted for embezzlng
over $1,000. Snyder has fled Buscher
was soon to have been married
Near Brazil, Ind, John Decker caught
Gus Black, a well-to-do neighbor, stealing
corn and made him carry two-bushel
sack to town where he turned him over to !
the authorities. Black confessed having
stolen from his neighbors from some time. |
The Atlanta has left the Portsmouth
navy yard to relieve the Kearsarge at La
Guayra, Venezuela Before sailing, Lieu
tenant Commander w. H. Webb, being
sick, Lieutenant Commander w. H. Bick- |
mel, of the Franklin, succeeds him on the
Atlanta.
Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont. |
ex-secretary of war, is one of the defend |
ants in a suit instituted by Edmund NJ /
against the Vermont Marble
company. A receiver is asked for, charging
Proctor with fraud in applying the earn
ing of the company.