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

g., Ind.
Speaker Crisp's condition is considered
Rrious.
Horses at Hanover, Ind, have the grip.
Many are dying.
Sardou, the distinguished dramatist, is
suffering severely from influenza.
St. Louis has withdrawn from the race
for the Democratic national convention
An unknown man about sixty-fve, was
killed by the Big Four at Shelbyville,
Indiana.
The Right Rev. DIR. O'Deilly, Roman
Catholic bishop of Liverpool, is danger
ously i'll
At indianapolis Daniel Shaw, a brake
man, was killed by being caught between
the bumpers
At indianapolis Harry Hart was given
eight years for criminally assaulting
Daisy Williams, aged thirteen.
A Doodle scandal is developed in con
nection with the purchase of land by the
Indiana state board of agriculture.
At Morristown Tenn, an unknown man
grabbed a sachel containing 81 $40 from
the hands of Tol Jones and escaped
Near Lima, o., a seven-year-old son of
old sister while playing with rifle
lie Matin says that it is rumored that
the French Mediterranean fleet has
already been dispatched to Tangier
Two Berlin physicians claim to have
discovered the grip microbe. 1t is not
known whether either has a cure or not
1t is alleged that Confederate flag is
flying over e postoflice at Baird, Tex,
and the postoiiice department will investi-
gate.
Harry Lawrence, a noted burglar, got
a twenty-eigIt year sentence at Memphis
His pal, Charles johnson, got fifteen
years.
The armor plate mill of Carnegie,
Phipps q Company, at Homestead, has
been shut down, owing to difficulty with
the men.
Lord Salisbury denies having sent an
agent to the Vatican in order to treat
with the pope in regard to the Egyptian
hierarchy.
Near Perryyille, o., a carriage contain.
ing Clark Miller and his wife was struck
by train. Miller was killed and his wife
rendered insane by the shock
The majority of the Welsh miners are
now at work. The employers decline to
engage any members of the Federation
who repudiate the sliding scale arrange,
ment.
A dispatch from Adelaide, South Aus.
tralia, says that the ministry have re.
signed. The governor has requested tho
expremier, the Hon. T. Playford, M. p,
to form a new cabinet.
BY well laid scheme, Tuesday, the pool
rooms at Omaha lost several thousand dol
lars. A Denver room lost $1,000 and one
III San Francisco $4,000. Where the-wires
Were tapped is not known.
AT Washington, Ind, Samuel Harbin
and Joseph Ledgerwood, the self-con.
fesscd tircbugs, who attempted to burn
the court house last October, were given
seventeen years at hard labor and fined
500 each.
Mayor Barney Higgins, of Somerset,
Ky, while drunk, attempted to criminally
assault Miss Fina Woods respectable
young lady He was arrested and placed
in jail just in time to escape being lynched
by mob.
At uahnyille, La, Matthew Marr a
New Orleans whisky drummer, was shot
and killed by Charles Bauquie, an octo-
room lawyer and politician, in a quarrel
BduQuie was also fatally wounded They
were iurmerly friends.
Charles Jones, mysteriously missing
from Muncic, Ind, was found by his
bro.har in a private boarding house in
D,.,ou where he was being treated for
temporary insanity. He refused to return
home, and left for parts unknown.
President Harrison is now engaged in
the preparation of proclamation of re.
taliatiOu against the countries which have
refused to enter into reciprocity trade re
laJiuus with this country, and will prob
ably have it ready for issue before the end
of the present week
The county seat war has broken out be
tween Springfield and Arkalon, Kan
Tuesday deputy sheriff was shot dead
from an ambush. This is the third man
killed since the beginning of the contest
last June The governor has ordered
troops to Seward county.
Tuesday the president sent special
me se to congress ES ching the efforts
to relieve the famine-stricktn Rnssidns
He recommended that rs the secretary OF
the navy had no steam vessel at his dis
pOsal that he be authorized to charter one
to convey the contributions of flour from
our people to Russia.
Miss Ada RUSSELL beautiful St. Louis
girl, was buried Tuesday day set for
her wedding with Joseph Shepard. Her
parents had objected to the marriage and
Informed her that she must choose be.
tween the man she loved and her home
with them She left their house. and
while wandering the streets New Years
Ia, ytrhf ho
1t has been proposed that Ireland's
wedding present to the Duke of Clarence
and his bride shall take the form of a res
idence in Ireland. One of the estates that
have been mentioned is Ciifden castle,
situated on Clifden bay, in the western
highlands. The town of Clifden is forty.
three miles northwest of Galway on an
inlet of Ardbear harbor. Another place
that has been suggested is the former res
idence of the earls of Glare, on the Shan
non, near Limerick.
Death Roll.
Benjamin S Wright, the noted horse.
man, at Medford, Mass.
Frederick Leyland, the well known
shipowner of Liverpool.
The Duke of Durcal, a member of the
royal family of Spain. lie was twenty.
nine.
Surgeon General W II. Long, of the
United States Marine hospital service, at
Cincinnati He was a native of Ken
lucky.
Blaino's Indigestion.
WAsH1NGToE, Jan. - Secretary
Blaine had a slight attack of indigestion
at the state department about / o'clock
Wednesday and went home. The de
partment mail is being sent to his resi-
dence for his nignAinre. His illness is