Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
4 Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Plntos grain elevator, brooklyn,
burned Loss, 100000
Morocco has rebellion. A brother of
the sultan is the leader
Secretary Foster spends short time
each day at the treasury department.
Peru, Ind. put on her overcoat Satur-
day night. Natural gas main bursted
1t is believed no very important business
will be transacted in congress this week,
Guy de Maupassant, the French author,
is insane. He attempted suicide by shoot
ing
Charles Jones, of Muncie, Ind, started
for Cincinnati and has not been heard
from since
George Todd of Upton, Ind, attempted
suicide by shooting. Grief over the death
of his mother.
Lima, O., will bond herself for $125, 900
for the purpose of booming her manufac-
turing interests.
Edward PAIL four, of Newark, N j.,
died of hydrophobia. A younger brother
is also in danger.
Fifteen hundred cabmen of Paris struck
Monday, causing much inconvenience to
the general public.
~ hlIlht Is uuTtibtiltNi DN Vie C,pub tlll-
ployes of the Elgin National Watch com
pany at Elgin, Ills.
At Sheboygan, Wis. Edwin Fairchild
shot his stepdaughter and then suicided.
Caused by 6 family jar
A coal OF! stove exploded in lodg-
ing house at Hanford, Cal -Four persons
perished and six others were injured.
A nitro-glycerine magazine exploded
near Mcdonald, Pa, killing John Fair
and George Condy. Cause not known.
At Greenville, Mich. James Taylor
suddenly became insane, attacked his
wife with a razor and probably fatally in
jured her.
Southern Express company messengers
on the Illinois Central and branches be-
tween Cairo and New Orleans are on a
strike for better pay.
At Cordova, Mex, two young Mexicans
fought duel with knives over young
lady, One was instantly killed and the
other died from his injuries.
Senator D3vid b. Hill says x-President
Cleveland will decline to have his name
go before the Democratic convention for
the presidential nomination.
1t is said that Garza's band of revolu-
tionists has been routed and escaped into
the forest The Mexicans feel confident
they can cope with the insurrectionists.
Converse college at Spartanburg, S. c.,
one of the finest colleges in the south for
women, burned Saturday night Loss
about $4,000; insurance, half The annex
was saved.
Near Helena, Mon, highwaymen held
up stage Saturday night and secured
$4,000 worth of jewelry and 500 in cash
The iewelry belonged to Ed l.. Huntley
of Chicago
A few days ago Jesse Moore and his
young wife, of Newcomerstown O.. vert
west to buy land Moore was taken in
sane in Illinois. His wife brought him
home and is now insane from the shock.
A general strike of the telegraph oper
ators on the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad is threatened. Three
operators discharged for alleged incom-
potency claim it was because they were
Brotherhood men.
Salvationists and the town rowdies of
Eastbourne, England, came together Sun
day A squad Of police rescued the Saliva
tionists and escorted them back to their
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less injured on both sides.
Near Yorktown o., Harry Jacobs, aged
ten, on banter held cannon fire
cracker while it exploded He was
knocked down and killed by his head
striking stone. His last words were
that he was not a coward.
AT Texarkana Ark, a car containing
ten non-union telegraph linemen, whom
the Western Union Telegraph company
was sending south to take the place of
strikers, was broken into Saturday night,
and three of the men were killed
Kansas City is doing her utmost to Sc
cure the Democratic national convention.
Sixty thousand dollars has been raised as
means to that end, and enough more as
sured by the representative business men
of the city to swell the amount to 800, 600.
Niccolo Frezza an Italian under death
sentence by clectrocution at Sing Sing,
N. Y, has been reprieved on request of
the Italian government pending an in
vestigation into the case McElyaine, also
under death sentence, is to die during
the week beginning Feb g.
At ST. Louis the rear portion of the
building occupied by II. j, Miller's bakery
was blown out by an explosion supposed
to have been produced by dynamite.
Frank Bach, an employe, was seriously in
iured. Miller employed non-union men
only. Union men are suspected.
At Vallejo, Cal, w. w. Vanderbilt
died Saturday afternoon. He was born
in New York in 1915, and was for many
years in the service of his cousin, Com
modore Vanderbilt, of New York. He
was chief engineer of the pioneer steamer
California, when she made her voyage to
this coast
1t is stated that the lithographing com
panies of the United States have formed a
combine, with s12, 100000 capital, styling
the new organization the American Litho-
graph company Among the firms are
George S. Harris a. Sons, Shoemaker a.
Ellinger, the Knapp company, F. Heppen-
heimer Sons, George II. Buck and the
Giles company.
Mrs Anna Hanson was arrested on
charge of manslaughter, it having been
discovered that she runs a baby farm Mt
2Sl2 Calumet avenue, Chicago. Six babies
are known to have been taken to her
house during the last five months, while
five dead babies have been found during
the last six months within half mile
of her place.
At Perry Taylor county, Fla, Thomas
Wallitis and William Parker, both promi-
nent young men, got into row on the
street over some trining occurrence.
Parker became angry, and drawing a
sharp pocket knife, slashed Wallitis across
the abdomen, making deep wound.
Robert Parker, brother Of William, took
hand and was killed. William fired and
missed Wallitis, but hit Judge J. J. Gar
ranta. Willitis was afterwards wounded.
Death Roll.
General Ebenzer Sprague, one of Michi-
ans most illustrous Freemasons
rs.t.s., I4rgttta,, J. Noclsar of NeNyarl