Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Isems on
Various Subjects.

Yellow fever continues to spread at
Santos, Brazil.
Chicago breweries formed pool with
$20,000,000 capital.
The strike of 100000 English coal miners
has gone into effect,
Horrible scenes described at the Spanish
anarchist garroting.
Two matadores were killed in bu, fights
at Guanajuato, Mex
United States Minister Phelps returned
to Berlin from Egypt
Holman, of Indiana, says he is not a
presidential candidate.
A man is arrested at Boston charged
with poisoning his parents.
Chicago labor organizations are prepar-
ing for another strike May l.
A rich Yale graduate was arrested at
New York for grand larceny.
A Memphis grand jury is called to in
vestigate the recent lynching.
Ex-Governor Gray, of Indiana, says he
is still in the presidential race.
1t is now believed that $4,000 coal
miners are idle in Great Britain.
Senator Hill and party left Washington
Sunday night for the southern trip.
II. J Palmer, formerly Senator Fairs
ranch manager, killed his ex-partner.
The steamship Missouri is loaded with
100000 pounds of flour for the Russian
poof.
At Kokomo, Ind, Eva Osler suicided by
poison because she quarreled with her
lover.
Father Heffron, denies that he said
Archbishop Ireland would be made
cardinal.
At Fostoria, O., Saloonist Anthony
Scharf suicided by cutting an artery at
the wrist.
The Junior Order of United American
Mechanics will ask congress to restrict
immigration.
In New York hospital Charles Krantz
slept five days and nights without waken-
ing and died.
Bedford, Ind, had fire which de-
stroyed eleven business buildings and
three dwellings.
The terminus of the New York, Lake
Erie and Western railroad in Jersey City,
had 100000 fire.
Reports favoring the admission of Ari-
Zona and New Mexico as states have been
made at Washington.
1t is reported that the Sugar trust has
bought in the Franklin refinery at Phila-
delphia for S10,000,00O
The 300 negro colonists bound for Lii
IBERIA will get there despite their swindling
treasurer, James Gantley.
j. Messieglia and his seventeen-year-o
son were murdered by unknown parties
in their store in Yazoo, Miss
Secretary Blaine, as soon as health per-
mits will go to San Antonio until after
the Republican national convention.
Ex-senator ingalls, gave J. Ware But
terield written denial that the latter
had suppressed political letter of his.
Prairie fires in Oklahoma and South
Dakota have burned number of houses
and barns and considerable grain and
hay.
At st. Mary's, o., Charles Barber's
hound ate unbaked biscuits and shortly
after exploded, with fatal results So tits
said.
Ashinger the Cleveland school teacher,
who won the bicycle contest at New York,
will receive only II 900 The management
lost $S,000
There is trouble brewing between the
1000 machinists of Chicago and their en-
ployers, and strike is looked for in the
near future.
AT East Liverpool, o., "a pocketbook and
a suspender buckle saved j. j. Ikirt's life
when Daniel McNeely shot at him. They
had quarreled.
At Springfield, O., Cleveland Leflel,
aged seven while fooling with revolver
shot and probably fatally wounded Clar
ence Rhine, fifteen.
The National Travellers Protective asso-
citation will meet in annal convention at
the Hygeia hotel, Old Point Comfort, Va,
June Is, 16, II and IS.
AT Dayton, o., Hector ii. Hall, of Pull
man, Ills, suicided by poison because his
wife secured divorce from him. He pre-
ferred death to drink
On Saturday night a terrible explosion
occurred in the Revenue tunnel, Mount
Sheffels, Colo, killing two men and Sc
verely wounding a third.
One hundred congressman have signed
petition favoring expending $9,500,000
for the improvement of the channel con-
Meeting Lakes Superior and Huron.
At Chester, Pa, Frank and Lewis
Moore, boys, employed in mill, were
poisoned by stealing and eating another
boys lunch which had been poisoned
Lewis Gordon, a tramp, was hanged to
telegraph pole at Carrolltown, Mo-,
Saturday, for criminally assaulting Mrs.
Perreton, the wife of John Perreton,
farmer.
President Harrison has issued his pro-
clamation announcing the establishment
of a reciprocal treaty with Nicarauga un-
der the reciprocity section of the McKin-
ley bill.
The complaint of the Chicago freight
bureau, alleging discrimination in favor
of New York and against southern ports
will be heard this month by the interstate
commission.
John H. Bright who shot and killed
his wife at Laney county, Mo, last Fri
day, was captured on Saturday. He was
tried by a mob, Judge Lynch presiding
found guilty and hanged.
In Cincinnati a twenty-four-ton f--
wheel of the Cincinnati Electric Light
company's plant burst, doing $4,000
damage to the building. No one was in
jured. The engineer expressed no sur
prise but refused to talk.
MrS. Jane louHS, the dReu WiuoW ol
Hugo Young, Mexican war veteran was
found starved to death in her house, near
Edgerton, Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania She had long been expecting
pension, which never came.
James Allison, chief of the worlds fair
department of manufactures, has been
asked to accept the position of executive
commissioner for the Ohio state board of
worlds fair managers by Governor Nc
Kinley, who offers $4,000 as a yearly sal
ary.
Lewis Rausch living near .a5ristnn