Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Conde ensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| Cults near Oden, Ills.
The Ontario legislature was opened at
| Toronto, with the usual ceremonies.
| Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny, Pa. was
found guilty of eXtortion on two counts.
! Valuable deposits of tin have been
discovered in Colorado fifty miles north of
Denver.
Our minister to England Robert 7.
Lincoln, says he is not a candidate for the
presidency
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
has issued a proclamation relative to the
Russian famine.
William johnson and Perry Mcknight
residing near Kelly, KY, were struck by
train at crossing and fatally injured.
In Clay county, KY, Bob Sizemore shot
at General Boiling and Felix Farmer,
who returned the fire mortally wounding
young Sizemore Old feud.
A broken switch caused freight wreck
ON the Lake Shore and Michigan Central
railroad at Kendallville, Ind, in which
Brakeman Joseph Eldridge wac killed
The Overman court martial at Cieve-
land is practically over. A sealed verdict
will be sent to the president and the pub
lie will not know the result for some
time
The Delamaters the Meadville bankers
who failed some time ago for 81, 0O0, ,0a0,
are on trial for having received money on
deposit, knowing themselves to be in
solvent.
Firebugs have been getting in their
work in the vicinity of Wilkinson, Ind,
of late-two sawmills, a tile mill, a
creamery, gas and toll house and nine
dwellings.
Boston had the heaviest snowstorm
Thursday that the city has experienced
in years. The wires are down all over the
city on account of the weight of the damp
snowfakes.
The receiver for the Denver Water
Works company has brought suit against
President Venner to account for $685.
in bonds of the company that mysterious
ly disappeared
Near Martins Ferry, o., Farmer John
Spencer's COW gave birth to double
headed calf, each head having distinct
neck. The monstrosity was alive and
thriving at last accounts.
At Federal station, Pa, Thomas and
James Skidmore, miners, ran after Caro-
line Gardner, fifteen year-old girl and so
badly frightened her that she died. They
are held for manslaughter.
A secret marriage in New York city in
December has just become known. Miss
Eliza A. Clarke an eighty-year-
maiden, is the bride, and Dr. Marvin d.
Hubbell, aged thirty, is the groom.
Two Indian squaws are said to have
fought bloody battle with butcher
knives at their camp on the banks of the
nrpak
in which one was literally butchered
By the bursting of fy-wheel at coal
mine near Wellston, O., Engineer Nc
Carthy was seriously injured. One hun
dred and twenty-five men will be throy
out of work until the repairs can be made.
Chicago is having peck of trouble
about the management of the worlds
fair, the question being whether the ma
tional board of control or the local
board of Chicago directors shall boss the
job,
Near Tallahassee, Fla, Newton B. Ross
and o. Sherrell farmed together and
quarreled over the division of the profits
Sherrell shot Ross in the back five times
with a Win chester rifle killing him in
stantly, and escaped.
Governor Chase, of Indiana, gave Buel
G. Webster, a life prisoner, therty-day
leave of abse ice to visit his mother, who
is now eighty-three and dying, Webster
has been in the northern Indiana prison
for twenty-eight years.
Officer James B. Cole, of the Desplaines
station, Chi ago, was accidentally shot
and killed in the station. He had put his
hand in another officers pocket for re-
volver, which he wanted to examine,
when it was discharged,
The Longfellow copper mine in Tinjercs
Canon, near Albuquerque, N. M, is to lie
opened up. This is probably the richest
copper mine in America and was worked
by Spaniards years ago 1t has been in
litigation for many years.
The late supreme treasurer of the Cath |
olc Knights of America, Major M. j. |
O'Brien, who disappeared from Chatta-
nooga some months ago, leaving deficit |
of some $75, 600, was indicted Thursday by |
the grand jury of that city.
A boiler explosion in a sawmill near
Eaton, O., killed William kisling and
man named Shiverdecker. Jacob Kisling, |
the proprietor, was seriously injured. !
The boiler was an old one, and has not |
been considered safe for years.
AT Batavia, o., Miss BERTHE Perkins re-
mained in the upper story of her fathers
burning residence saving furniture until
the fire reached the room. She then ran
to the window, and swinging herself out
on lightning rod, climbed to the ground, /
Near Monterey, Butler county, Ala, Tom
Traweek sixteen-year-old white boy, |
shot and killed Bill Thomas and Jim |
Jackson, two negroes in self-defense
One of the men had knocked Traweek's |
four-year-old brother down with shovel. |
Wealthy jewelers. doing business in !
Maiden Lane, New York, claim to have F
been swindled out of $50, 900 worth of loose [
diamonds and nearly 100000 worth of
miscellaneous jewelry in the last two
months by dishonest jewelry firms !
throughout the country.
The first of the big armor plates made I
at Bethlehem, Pa, for the coast defense
ship Monterey will reach San Francisco
about the 25th inst. The plates are one
foot thick and the shipment weighs over
thirty tons. The rest of the armor will
be sent on as quickly as possible.
Miss Julia Long, teacher in the Mar
shalltown ia schools, was shot twice in
the head and was dangerously wounded,
by Samuel Kelly, an Iowa Central rail
way engineer The would-be murderer
then turned the revolver on himself and .
blew out his brains. All for love.
A freight train on the Fitchburg rail
road was wrecked ON the Nashua rivef
bridge at Aver. Mass. Twenty-four cars
were thrown from the bridge into the
river. Three-fourths of the bridge was
badly wrecked. Conductor ID. G. Connors
was buried in the river under the cars.
The United States grand jury at Dead
wood :. d., has indicted eleven Chinese