Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Pennsylvania.
Work on the Tehuantepec railroad will
be begun Immediately.
The decrease of the public debt during
February was $2,497, ,l49.
A total of 81, 4,315, 1926 in gold has left New
York for Europe since Feb. 10.
The state of affairs in the Indianapolis
street car strike is unchanged.
At New Orleans Jack Burke, of Texas,
was knocked out in ten rounds by Need
ham.
Secret service detectives have broken up
a gang of counterfeiters in jefferson
county, Ind.
Huntingdon, Pa, had two feet four
inches of snow Tuesday-the heaviest fall
in ten years.
At Marion, Ind, Miss Jennie Jackson,
respectable white girl, created sensa-
tion by marrying Gus Cameron, negro.
Through the death of an uncle in New
Mexico, j. M. Dillingsby, porter running
on the 500 line out of st. Paul, will re-
ceive 100000.
On the day she was to be married Jessie
Lowe, of Bellaire, O., received word that
the groom had accidentally been killed at
Grand Island, Neb.
1t is reported that orders have been
issued by the officers of the American Ex-
press company to reopen the fight on the
brotherhood of messengers.
The friends of three families who were
recently White Capped for Incidence near
Paducah, KY, will stand by the victims
and resort to the rifle and torch
The Prohibitionists are squabbling
among themselves about holding their
national convention in st. Louis, and the
chances are Cincinnati will get it.
Rev. DR.. Purves, of the First Presby-
terian church of Pittsburg, has accepted a
call to Princeton Theological seminary to
fill the chair of New Testament litera-
ture.
For laughing at Zeb Nolen, a Memphis
gambler, who was knocking off the hats
of colored men, Henry Moore, a colored
porter, received two bullets in his body
Serious.
A hurricane passed over Reading, Pa,
that blew down trees and unroofed
houses, to the great alarm of the sleeping
people. One man perished five miles
from the city.
1t is said that last Saturday about 200
fishermen were swept out to sea by astorm
on the Newfoundland coast. A few have
been rescued and some others found
frozenin their boats.
At Middletown, o., Midget" Kelly,
tough, attempted to kill Police
man Pierson. Pierson got the drop on
him and shot first, infiicting dangerous
and probably fatal wound.
1t is said the Bennett family living near
Ind, have traded their farm for
worth about 5000, because it was
haunted by the ghost of dead neighbor
who took the form of black cat.
Ralph H. Chandler, formerly cashier OF
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
Railway company at West Detroit, has
been arrested in Cindad Juarez, Mexico,
on the charge of embezzling $1,000.
The New Jersey senate has passed tho
bill appropriating 1000 towards the ma
tional monument to be erected at the
worlds fair in commemoration Of the
of the colored slaves
At Milwaukee an open switch resulted
in working train and passenger collid-
ing. OF the 175 or 200 men on the work
IIlE bTdln, SbHeu were kllictl, tuU, 6bldlkt
TO say, only one injured and he slightly.
Ann French, of Belfast, formerly of
Bangor, widow aged ninety, and worth
b100, 000 has created quite sensation by
Herbert c. Peavey, of Amherst,
Me-, aged thrty-six, an itinerant peddler.
At Williamsburg, o., Nathan Anderson,
,olored, was shot and killed in saloon |
)y Oscar Murphy, a gambler of Mount |
0reb. They had quarreled over a game
If cards Both were considered bad men |
md worthless.
Mrs Sadie Nebbethe, young widow of |
Cairo, Ills, committed suicide by taking |
/ large dose of morphine. She also admin |
stored the drug to her daughter, aged |
,welve, but the latter's life was saved. No |
'eason is known.
An election row at Fayette Corner, |
Tenn. resulted in the assassination OF |
Tom Rogers and his father, who were
lbout to vote Sam Hunter, a bystander
became enra ged and deliberately drew a
pistol and fired at the two men. appar
,ntly without cause.
The Indiana female reformatory at In
Annapolis was almost totally destroyed
)y an incenliary fire started by three
roung culprits in the laundry. The loss
s about 100000. The 200 inmates escaped |
Without injury and number Of female
ncorrigibles are now at large.
A colored man who is suspected of
,eing the brute who committed the Tay-
or outrage at Sedalia, Mo-, last week,
vas arrested at the Union depot, st.
.ouis, and taken to police headquarters,
where he will be held till word can be OBJ
aimed from Sedalia as TO his identity.
At Viola, Chickasaw nation, an un-
tnown person called Collin Cuberry out
o his gate, and pointing a gun at
Juberry, who is full-blooded Indian,
old him to talk English, and shot him
lead at the same time Another unknown
,erson went to Billy Alexander's house,
,oked his gun in and killed him dead.
At Chicago Judge Blodgett consumed
lalf minute in giving legal black eye
o the importers who attacked the consti-
of the Mckinley administra-
i've act of $780, The court listened for
our hours to weighty legal arguments
f the attorneys for the importers, and
hen peremptorily overruled their mo-
ion.
AT Slater, Mo-, Josiah Baker, Jr., one
f the wealthiest:: stock men of central
and his wife were nearly smoth-
red to death at his home by the closing
Ip of a large folding bed, weighing about
90 pounds The groans of Mrs. Baker
,rought the children to the rescue, and
heir utmost efforts were needed to save
be lives of their parents. Mrs. Baker is in
precarious condition Mr.. Baker will
.rinfy emit noainst the manufactures Of
he bed
Sold Bogus Bonds.
RrRMINGHAM. Ala. March 3.--Citizens