Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-15
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.

The Seaside House, Rockaway, L. T.,
burned Loss $550e0
1t is thought Premier Abbott of Canada
has virtually abdicated.
New Jersey Republicans nominated John
r. Kean, Jr., for governor.
Connecticut Democrats nominated L. b.
Morris, Of New Haven, for governor.
| -Four miners were killed by an explo-
sion of gas In mine at Plymouth, Pa.
Conductor Fisher and Brakeman McVey
were fatally injured in a wreck near Water
Valley, Miss.
The supreme chief justice of the Iron
Hall order, F. d. Somerby, has sold his
dwelling house in Philadelphia.
G. Molloy, our consul at st. Johns, N.
| f., was brutally beaten by drunken Off
Ger. He was rescued by citizens.
A home company, with 800, 900 capital,
has been organized at Huntington, Ind /,
| to build an electric street railroad.
Orders have been received at the Mare
| Island navy yard for the old cruiser AL
| lance to start within ten days for Homo
| lulu.
Theodore Murgan, half-witted youth
of Kokomo, Ind, has confessed burning
three barns and attempting to wreck two
| trains
Frederick o. Clark, bookkeeper for Will
| lam H. Post e. Company, of Hartford,
acknowledged embezzling $4,000 and dis
| appeared.
Anna, Ills, was visited by an alleged
earthquake shock Tuesday afternoon.
| Windows and dishes were ratified per-
ceptibly.
At Wellston, O., William Carr died
from the effects of beating received at
the hands of Ward Meadows Lynching
is talked of.
| hominy mills burned. Loss, $4,000; in
have caused 1t.
| Edward Hurdle, a negro desperate of
Norfolk county, Va, was shot and killed
by deputy sheriff during raid on a
gambling house.
Frank Upheim, one of the crew of a
| Grand Trunk eastbound train, was fatally
mangled while attempting to board the
train at Granger, Ind.
Cornelius Baldwin, an Alliance (O)
butcher, had his leg broken and was other
wise injured by beef he was in the act of
killing falling on him.
| A report comes from Brussels that the
monetary conference will be held in that
city in accordance with the wish Of the
majority of the powers
| Thirty-fve Hungarian laborers were
shipped from Alliance, o., to Homestead,
Pa, where they are insured steady work
in the Carnegie iron works.
A great legal battle is promised in
Cleveland over the lake front, which the
city claims and which Is occupied by the
Lake Shore and Pennsylvania railroads.
The accused supreme officers of the Order
| of Scion have been removed from office
pending their trial in court ON charges of
embezzlement and conspiracy at Pitts
burg.
Although the Iron Hall delegates were
wrangling all day at Indianapolis, they &C
complished nothing outside of nominating
Frank Town, of Philadelphia, to succeed
Somerby.
Lieutenant Peary, who just returned
from an expedition, says he planted the
American flag two points nearer the north
pole than was ever before reached by civil
lied man.
At Memphis, while drunk, George For
rest, levee contractor, shot and fatally
wounded r. l.. Dukes, a clerk, mistaking
him for Colonel James T. Taylor with
whom he had trouble
The divorce suit of Edward Parker
Deacon, of New York, against his wife, be-
cause of her relations with Abeille, for
staying whom he Is now imprisoned, will
be heard In Nice in October.
In Stokes county N. c., George Hall and
Arto Smith quarreled over pistol, which
Smith finally secured. Smith reported to
his father, who followed Hall and shot
him, inficting fatal wound.
Train robbers Sontag and Evans were
overtaken by officers at Sampson Flat,
Cal, and a battle resulted in Marshal Nc.
Ginnis, Richard Oliver and q man named
Williams being killed. The outlaws es
capped.
The Corydon Qnd) grand jury, which
has been investigating the recent White
Gaping of Rev. B. T. Vancleave, adjourned
without finding an Indictment The sever
men arrested for the crime will be dis
charged.
J Joe j. Blakenship, farmer of Monroe
county Tenn, tried to get his wife to lei
J him cruelty her for the sins of the cholers
| sufferers She refused, whereupon the hus
band became violently insane and had tc
be put in custody.
| The strike at Shoenberger's mill at Pitts
burg has been declared off by the Amalga
mated association, and the men are return
ing to work at the employers terms TIT
works will be operated Independently o
: the Amalgamated association hereafter.
: Rev. DR.. Talmage and Mr.. Loui
: Klopsch, who visited Russia to distribute
: the cargo of the Christian Herald relic
steamship Leo, in the famine province
sailed from Liverpool for New Yorl
Wednesday, on the steamer City of Paris
The rear car of an express train jumpet
; the track near New Brunswick, N. j.
bumped along the track for some distanc
and toppled over against freight on
1 siding John Roder, track walker, wa
Q caught and crushed to death. A brakema
named Allison was fatally injured. A
n though the car was crowded none OF tn
, messengers were injured except slight cut
4 from flying glass.
g At Shelbyville, Tenn, young forge
, named Kyle shot Constable Watt Ia.
n who attempted to arrest him The woun
is near the heart and serious. The pluck
h officer captured kyle, however. Shout
,e Ray die kyle will undoubtedly
y lynched.
i The harvest in the west OF Ireland whl'
d promised to be abundant, has been cor
l. pletely spoiled by incessant rains ~
IS shannon and its tributaries have ove
flowed their banks. Potatoes are bighte