Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-02
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items ofInterest Gathered from All Part
of the World.

Items OfInterest Gathered from All Part
| of the World.
Lizzie Borden's friends do not belev
she is insane.
The Ohio Farmers Insurance company
will reorganize.
There are prospects of strike on tn,
Georgia Central railroad system.
| Richard Alsop aged twenty-six, dice
suddenly at Harrodsburg, Ky. Mysteri
| GUS
A cabinet crisis is imminent in Spain
| The causes of the trouble are chiefly
financial.
| Andy Atkinson, young brakeman, was
| killed by q switch engine at Harrodsburg
Kentucky.
| AT Jackson, Mich, three people were
horribly burned by the explosion of cal
of gasoline.
The Stone City bank, of Joliet, Ills.
with capital stock of 100000, has sus
pended payments.
At Borden, Ind, William Littell dis
charged a cartridge on an anvil, and the
| load lodged in his leg
Mrs Birchell created scene at the trial
| of her son for murder at Bryan, O., by de
The fourth murder in two months has
| just been reported among construction
hands near Greensboro, KY Booze.
A crusade against all the houses of i'll
repute has been commenced in Pittsburg.
The ministers declare they must all go.
j, 0. Kinds, Il farmer, living near FL
wood, Ind, was shot through the head by
an officer, while resisting arrest, and will
die.
By the spreading Of the rails passenger
train jumped the track near Arkansas
City, Ark, injuring twelve or fifteen per
sons
The Amalgamated association has held
another meeting, and the members are
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of a new
strike.
The Florida orange growers will receive
$.D per box for the fruit on the trees.
Last year they got only few cents over 81
per box.
A mail pouch thrown from a Big -Four
train at Thornton, Ind, has been stolen.
1t contained some registered mail, but not
much money.
Stubby Jones was shot and instantly
killed at Elgin, Ills, by A. N. Curtis,
whose store he was trying to enter through
a rear window.
Mr.. Edward c. Little, of Kansas who
was recently appointed consul general tc
Egypt, has notified the president of his &C.
ceptance of the office
Fire in Watson's jewelry store at Fay.
etteyille, n. G., is supposed to have orig,
mated in attempted burglary. Loss $40,
600; insurance, $4,000.
At Mayfair, suburb of Chicago, three
residences, the postoflice and village store
was robbed about 1000 worth Of goods.
The gang used wagon.
AT Canton, o., Coroner Openheimer rem,
dered a verdict of premeditated murder in
the case of Robert Obernesser, who killed
Scott Ellis in saloon row.
A dwarf hermit, armed with a gun and
an OK, has spread terror throughout the
eastern part of Duchess county, N. Y. He
has seriously shot one man.
The humane society at Salem O., ar
rested Samuel Simpson for assault with in.
tent to kill. He attacked his wife and
child, and the latter will die
John o. Sweet, Bellefontaine (O) law
yer, who embczzled over $4,000 from an
estate which he was settling up, got
three years in the penitentiary.
Cleveland Italians are excited and
threaten a Malta vendetta because of the
killing of an italian by officers. He re
sisted arrest and drew knife.
Robert Olsen was hanged at Dorchester,
N b., for the murderof a policeman. He
left confession with his lawyer which
will reveal his history and real name.
Ohios official vote has been announced:
Harrison, 4O5, 49, Cleveland, 404, 1f5; Bid
well, 26,012; Weaver, IA, $50. No candidate
on the Republican ticket had 1900 plu
rality
The sisters of the convent of Notre
Dame, Baltimore, are in a state of great
fear because of the constant ringing of the
bell by invisible hands. Nobody has been
able to stopit
Mrs. Anthony Gregg, Wisconsin wild
ow, very eccentric, died recently. Money
in large sums was fround concealed in diff
ferent places about her house. The amount
is estimated at 10000.
The trial of Father Corrigan, pastor of a
church in Hoboken, U. r., is set for Dec
IL Corrigan wrote a letter denouncing
the alleged effort of the German priests to
Germanize the United States
A man claiming to represent the Bon
Ton Picture company, of Cincinnati. en-
tered the apartments of Mrs. James
Schelly at Louisville and attempted to
assault her She drove him away with a
pistol.
Experts who have been examining the
accounts of w f. Snyder, bookkeeper in
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
freight Office at indianapolis, found a
shortage of 81, 400, and they are not half
finished
According TO Professor Jacoby, of Co
lumbia college, there are now no less than
seven comets visible. This, he says, is, so
for as he has any information or expert
ence. the largest number on record, They