Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects

have consolidated.
A hailstorm did much damage in the
District of Columbia.
Millersburg, o., had a severe storm doing
considerable damage.
Anarchists from all over Europe are
swarming to England
The Peoples party of Nebraska will
nominate a state ticket
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS is in sesS on in Atlanta
Ernest Mscller baker of Shelbyville,
Ind, suicided by shooting. Dependency.
Grip, his wife's death and SANDER drove
James A. Farlow, of Liberty, Ind, in
sane,
Chicago anarchists have sued the police
for the recovery of their red flags captured
May T.
Thomas Wilson was seriously injured at
Mauds, o., while attempting to board a
moving engine
A painted face of all coIors was what
Henry DAILY got for getting his young son
drunk at st. louis
David Heath, ninety-one, and Mary L.
Hetrioh, sixty-fve, of Mount Sterling, O.,
were married at Covington Ky.
An English syndicate has secured an op
ton on several of the largest cigar manu-
factories in the state Of Vera Cruz.
After five apparent deaths, Mrs. Alice
Gray, of Springfield, O., has at last sue
cumbcd, and will be buried at Cincinnati
General Gresser, project of police of st.
Petersburg, died from the effects of poison
supposed to have been administered by an
archists.
The Democratic state convention of Mis-
souri, passed resolutions fayoring the 10
nomination of Cleveland, but no instruc-
tions were given.
Mrs Henry Weaver, deputy sheriff at
Goodland, Kan, arrested Jake Wilson, a
bad man, whom officers feared to modest.
Jake thinks it's funny
The latest count shows that there were
forty-oight miners lost their lives in the ex-
plosion near Rosyn, Wash Fourteen
bodies have been recovered
Miss Alice Palmer, of Franklin, Ind,
state organizer Of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, will go to South Africa
to work in behalf of the cause.
Speaker Crisp is of the opinion that the
house will complete all the work before it
aud get HON by the middle of July. Other
members Of the house say Aug. !.
On the Ohio river between Dover, KY,
and LeYanna, O., Robert and Thomas Stan
berry were drowned by having their skif
swamped by the rollers from passing
steamer.
The Roman Catholics have decided to
copy DIR. Nincent's famous Chautauqua
institution. The site selected for the as
sembly is the Island of Carleton, in the ST.
Lawrence river.
One hundred and twenty-five boiler
makers, employed by the Standard Oil
company, at Whiting, Ind, are on a strike
for shorter hours and the same pay. New
men viii be put to work.
William j. JosSlyn, of Kansas City,
eloped with Mrs, Emma Wadhigh, of
Leavenworth, Kan. They went TO an amt
of the wayWard woman. There they found
out that they We're brother and sister
The sum of $3.50 was realized by Mrs
Slaughter Of Little Rock, who charged an
admission fee of ten cents for view of her
son, who had been hanged. All the while
an effort was being made to bring him to
life.
A deep water convention is in session at
Memphis. The object of the convention Is
to secure deep water as far as Memphis In
order that ocean steamers may arrive and
depart from this wharf at any season of the
year.
Near Brody in Galicia- Austria, raft
with about u hundred men, women
and children on board, went to pieces
Sixty persisted The raft was effectively
constructed, and the owners will be prose
cuted.
The Jacksonville board of trade has en-
dorsed the plan of the Florida worlds fair
commission to raise 100000 by popular
subscription. so that Florida may be prop
erly represented at the worlds Columbia
exposition.
1t transpires that Jay Gould's protracted
visit to Albuquerque, n, M, is not solely
for the benefit of his health 1t is said that
he intends to gohble the Pecos Valley road,
now in operation from pecos, Tex, to
Eddy, n. NJ
At Dalton's store, Ftlllet's Station, KY,
William Hewlett and Jake Scarberry, old
enemies, met Hewlett drew knife and
Scarberry razor. They stopped when too
weak to strike another blow. Both will
probably die
Henry c. Eayne member of the Repub-
lean national committee, has stated that
!. Sloat Fassett, of New York, will succeed
!. :. Clarkson as chairman of the national
committee, providing Mr., Fassett would
accept the Office
Mir. and Mrs, John Williams, of St
Louis, determined to suicide, but were so
poor they could not purchase poison and
had to seek the river After the wife had
made three unsuccessful attempts she went
to the morgue and there lay her husbands
body on u slab She then told her story
and disappeared 1t is believed she has
succeeded in taking her own life,
Nothing Is now supposed to be left Of the
Standard oil trust The last visible sign
of il was removed Wednesday, when the
trustees met in New York and declared a
dividend on the sos COO of outstanding
certificates, payable June Is The dividen.
disposed of the assets, which consisted
wholly of cash, with the exception Of some
bonds, amounting 30 only d few thousand
dollars.
Three electmcutions are set in the state
prisons of New York during the week com.
mencing May IL The condemned are
Joseph = Ticp, at Auburn prison; Charles
Wright, nj Dannenpr9- and Henry c.,
Tanning. ut Sing Sing.
Last Tuesday night a well-dressed,
heavily-veiied young woman entered che
residence Of W. II. Thomas, ut Knoxville,
Tenn, and deposited on a bed bundle,
saying at the time; "Take care of this foI
ms" The bundle was a newly-born male
child.
In Happy Hollow, near Avondale, Gin
ennati, John Marshall colored, stabbed
his wife in the neck, inficting a serious il
not fatal wound. They had separated
nhnnl a renr nrn RacentlY be has heen