Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-11
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.


of the World.
Charleston, Mo-, has six inches of snow.
War has been declared on the dives at
Lexington, Ky.
Dexter, Mo-, had eight inches of snow,
and more falling at last accounts.
Five masked men held up q train near
Guthrie, o. T., but got little or nothing
Thirty-two horses aud other property,
aggregating $4,000, were burned in New
York.
Miss Gertie Stoll, an inmate of the east
ern Kentucky asylum, hanged herself with
a sheet.
Rev. DR.. Joseph j. Bullock, Presbyterian
minister, died Wednesday at Lexington,
Kentucky.
At Danville, KY, Allison Owens buried
an AK in his wife's head and then cut his
own throat.
J. Doyle and wife, of San Francisco,
found dead in bed, from accidental gas
asphyxiation.
The strike at New Orleans continues,
and both sides are firm. The militia is in
readiness for action.
Two little children of E. F. Stokes were
drowned near Huntington, WaVa., by the
breaking of footlog over a creek.
The high school girls of Steubenville,
O., are up in arms because their teacher
wants them to discard corsets during the
Delsartean drill.
The tin plate factory and the glass
works at Elwood, Ind, employing thou
sand persons, will be closed down Nov. 10.
No cause given.
hA fnrnnS hn Ibt-YtcG 1y1
frontier have been increased by sixty-two
battalions of infantry and forty eight
squadrons of cavalry.
At Stockton, Cal, STEAMBOAT again made
new record of a mile in 2:0S fat his rec
ord recently having been lowered by an
eastern horse, Kremlin.
Hans Nelson has been hanged at Copen-
hagen for his third murder, he having been
convicted on two other occasions, but he
managed to be released the first time and
was finally executed for numbering his
jaior.
The biggest winner on the election is
Mike Dryer, the turf plunger, whose win
nings are SIS, 600 Other big winners are
Joseph j. Donohue, about $50 900; Edward
Murphy, Jr., about $4,000; and Ed Kear-
ney, about $4,000.
A row between II. G. Carter a Repub
lican supervisor, and James W. Earle, a
Democrat, at Hollands precinct, in Amber
sou county s. c.. resulted in the death of
both and also of Columbus Green, n spec
tator Three others were hit during the
fusillade.
The war between the Columbus co.
Street Railway company and its employees
has resolved itself into the question Of
which is the more powerful the company
or the union. Thursday few cars were
run under police protection. Serious
trouble is expected
The residence Of Mrs. Morley, in Sharps
burg, u suburb of Allegheny, Pa, was
wrecked by an explosion. Mrs. Morley
keeps colOred nOn-union boarding house,
aud it is believed that an attempt was
made to blow up the building with dyna
mite. No one was injured.
At Helena. Mon, Russell Harrison's pa-
per, The Daily Journal, was closed
Wednesday by the sheriff, pending a set
Element of Indebtedness in dispute The
managers state that the paper will issue
agvin in day or two, with all claims adj
justed. They say unfair advantage was
taken OF the paper on a legal technicality.
Governor Francis will be solidly sup
ported by Missouri Democrats for the post
master geueralship The governors name
is also connected with the treasury port
folio. but the postmaster generalship will
very probably be given to Missouri. For
United States district attorney in Missouri
Colonel Ed Harder and Attorney General
John NJ Wood will undoubtedly be ap
pointed.
In St Louis John c. WOLF, the abseond-
ing hookkeeper for Laukemeyer s Sons
planning mill, of Pittsburg, surrendered
himself at the four courts. On April 81
last he wound up n brief career Of reckless
ness by disappearing with $500. Rewards
were offered, and he wandered from place
to place a hunted man. His wife and
parents reside there, and he expressed "a
willingness to return.
At Chattanooga one of the most remark
able election bets in the campaign was
made. Miles Orton's circus is playing in
that city, but is minus an elephant, Hai
Dryine, young sport, now claiming the
animal Tuesday night Hal had $50 which
he wanted to put up with Orton's mau-
ager on the presidential result The man
had wagered all his money, but said Ly
would bet the elephant against Devine 5
$50. The bet was closed, and now, from
all indications, Devipe owns the elephant.
Devine's friends advise him to ride the ele-
pbsnt in the Democratic ratification pro
es--scn, and then turn it loose.