Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ON
Various Subjects.

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right law.
Free trade has been abolished in New
South Wales.
Nebraska's legislature will not be called
in special session.
The threatened coal strike in England
may prove fiasco.
The Coldwater (Mich) bank loss is now
said to have been $4,000.
Dexter (fo.) citizens suffered $4,000
loss by an incendiary fire
The United States grand jury may get
after the cordage trust next.
Dublin is making preparations to be
represented at the worlds fair.
1t is reported shat war has broken out
between Guatemala and San Salvador.
At Hills Station, O., John Donalds,
sixteen, lost foot while jumping train
The longsh oremens strike in New Or
leans is interfering with the city's COM
merce.
Edward Owens killed Isaac Elam at
Dallas for speaking disrespectfully of his
mother
1t is believed at ST. Paul that Arch
bishop Ireland will return from Rome a
cardinal.
Russia empowers Poland's governor to
declare a state of seige in that country if
he sees fit
In Mineral county, w. Va, Lawrence
Hickey beat his aged mother to death
while drunk.
Congressman Hatch attacked Mr.. Hol-
man on question of appropriations and
won his point.
A sensational damage suit is being tried
at Chicago against Christ" Schwein-
furth and his heaven"
AT Gallon, O., a six-year-old daughter
of Ferdinand Hess fell into an open
cistern and was drowned
In New York Rabbi Mendez was shot
and seriously wounded by beggar whom
he had several times befriended.
Another relief steamer-the Missouri
is ready to start for Russia with contribu-
tions from generous Americans.
Mercer county (O) people are excited.
They think they are on the border of the
Indiana oilfield and will prospect
An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe car
heater exploded near Kilmel, Kan, prob
ably fatally irjuring two persons.
Near Pixies Peak, Brown county, Ind,
robbed by two highwaymen of $780,
George S. CIumman, saloonist of Nor
walk. Conn, is under arrest for counter
feiting nickels to operate nickel-in-the-
slot machines.
Near Menomonee, Wis, Farmers Bal
lard and K1opps fought with rifles.
Knopps is dead. He was too attentive to
Billiards. wife.
At Oakhill, Tenn, Charles Kennedy
was killed and John Eldridge seriouslv
injured by premature blast while blow
ing down trees.
In saloon row at Newtonville, Ind,
Joe Sherrell, Jim Sherrell and George
Hill, were fatally and several others
seriously injured.
In Washington Howard j. Schneider
shot and killed his wife and her brother,
Frank Hamlink, because Mrs. Schneider
refused to live with him.
1t is said that James G. Blaine, Jr., is
courting one of ''the Patten girls"
wealthy orphans well known in New
York, Washington and St. Louis
Near Charlotte, N. c., Peter Maher, the
defeated Irish pugilist, attempted suicide
by jumping from a car window. He was
Sunday in Washington an Englis
artist named Ferneleigh l.. Montague,
shot and killed his wife and then suicided.
Dependency is supposed to have been the
cause.
Near Millersburg, o., Elizabeth Merl,
who had violent pain in her stomach for
seven years. took violent emetic, threw
up lizard and crawfish and now feels
better.
At Cincinnati James w. Dubois, or
Boyce, believed to be from Portland, Ind,
Ind, threw his four-day-old baby into the
river. lie is now in Jail charged with
murder.
At Owingsville, KY, Oscar Jones, the
negro murderer of Marshal Vice, of
Sharpsburg, was convicted of murder and
sentenced to death. 1t was his second
murder.
Near Brighton, Clark county, o., Austin
Gilbert, who lived alone, was found dead,
having died of blood poisoning, caused
by opening carbuncles with dirty pair
OF shears.
Cincinnati physician has discovered
= 1y for consumption, which he claims
w. sure without danger. 1t is founded,
he says, on koch's treatment, but goes
further back.
The Hotchkiss- Hawkins Hardware COM
pany, one of the oldest firms in Great
Falls, Mon. closed its doors Saturday on
note due the First National bank for
SIS ,995, and $22,6l2 due Bach, Cory g.
Company.
That typhus fever is getting firm hold
in New York is no longer questioned. Up
to Sunday there were eleven deaths. The
latest victim was Catharine Glenmon, one
of the women volunteers who went into
the plague ue-stricken camp to care for the
suffering Hebrew immigrants.
John L. Sullivan has issued a challenge
to fight anybody in the world for SIX, 900
purse and a side bet of $4,000. He is anx-
ious to have the challenge accepted by
either Frank p. Slavin, the Australian;
Charles Mitchell, of England, or James
Corbett, of San Francisco, or all of them
A remarkable bold robbery occurred at
New Haven, Sunday night About 7:30
man ran into the ticket office at the
depot and covering the ticket agent with
pistol shouted. "Out with every d--n
cent, or down you 60" The agent
handed the fellow $75 Later the robber
was captured.
The negro quarter of Memphis was the
scene Saturday night of another riot
Officers, in seeking to arrest gang of
colored desperadoes, were attacked and
fired at by the negroes, with the result
that Policemen G. Cole and K. Yerger
were fatally shot, and Officer Bob Har-
rold was seriously wounded.
About o'clock Saturday afternoon, at