Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-13
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. .

Items of Interest Gath cred from All
Parts of the World.
Near Logansport, Ind, James W. Pow.
ell was drowned while bathing
Near Orgonia, o., Mrs. Angelina Cum
Minis was probably fatally injured in
runaway.
Half dozen business blocks and several
dwellings were burned in Portland, Or.
Loss S250000.
Bill Murphy, a notorious outlaw OF
North Carolina, was shot from ambush
and instantly killed.
Ex-President Cleveland says he does not
desire to have Baby Ruth's picture pub
lished in any newspaper.
At Cleveland, Jerome Robinson, shot
and killed George wilkins in a quarrel
over q crap game, Both colored
At Brazil, Ind, Frank Lydick, twelve
was rendered insane by falling out OF q
hammock and striking on his head
The report that William Waldorf Aston
died in London Monday afternoon is UNI
true. He is somewhat ill., but not seri
ously SO.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the president, has
improved steadily since he arrived in the
mountains, and will be entirely recovered
within a week.
Mayor Fletcher issued an order closing
all the gambling houses in Little Rock.
There We're eight in operation and every
one ceased operations at once.
Ida Huff, frail woman of Nashville,
threw her pet dog into the Cumberland
river and then jumped after it. Both were
drowned She had been drinking
Big storm in the Chamounix valley,
France. The village of st. Gervais was
practically swept away by the flood, and it
is reported that 200 people were drowned.
At Stunton, o.. Peter Woller has sued
Silas Mikel for $1,000 for substituting tur-
pentne for whisky in Setting 'em up"
Wollcr drank it before he discovered the
difference,
The first bale of this years cotton crop,
consigned to the Houston CTeX.) Cotton eX-
change, has reached there. 1t was classed
by the committee rs seyen-eights strict
middling and one eighth strict low mid
ding,
AT indianapolis William d. Kittell, vice
president and head cutter of the Kahn
Tailoring company, was convicted of rob
bling the firm of goods valued at $1,000 and
his punishment placed at ten years in the
penitentiary and $500 fine
Advlces from northern Norway state
that the German kaiser is expected at
Tromsoe, whence he will proceed to Karl
soc in the whaling vessel Duncan Gray
Karlsoe' is on the verge of the Pacific
ocean, near the head of the Hammer
| Fiord
Jamna Chadad, a Syrian woman, ar
: rived in New York Friday on the Amster-
| dam, only to be declared leper by DIR.
! Wheelock and ordered out of the country
| on the same vessel that brought her here.
| The ship has been fumigated and the leper
carefully isolated.
At Ha2lotou, Pa, John Dravoc was mar
| ried, and celebrated the event with a feast.
| The bride and half dozen of the guests
! dropped in agony to the floor poisoned in
, the midst of the festivities An investiga-
ton showed dead rattlesnake in a key of
beer the party had been drinking
A French soldier, Dick Fleury, shot his
mistress Jennie poiguette at Cheyenne,
! Wy, on Monday, and then shot himself,
The girl was badly wounded, the bullet
having passed entirely through her body.
Fleury WAS Killed instantly. The girl had
told him she did not care for him.