Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condensation of Interesting Items on
Narinus Suhiacts.

a Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.
Columbus, O., will have fire risk rates
increased SO per cent.
Gales along the New Jersey coast did
considerable damage.
Evangelist Mills has converted over
5000 sinners in Cincinnati.
At Seattle, Wash, three children per-
ished in a burning dwelling.
Thirteen new cases of typhus fever have
broken out in New York city.
Senator Hill will visit Mississippi and
address the legislature March 10.
Jay Gould is off on his western trip, ac-
companied by his daughter, Helen
Mardi Gras has begun in New Orleans.
There was an immense parade Monday.
At Memphis, Gus Price shot and fatally
wounded his son Rube during a quarrel
Senator Sherman says he will not re-
sign, and never contemplated such q
thing
Mrs. A. S. Winslow's only child, a boy
of twelve, was kicked to death by horse
at Odin, Ills.
The Ryan-Needham prize fight in New
Orleans was postponed on account OF
Ryan being ill.
At Savannah stationary boiler ex-
ploded, killing two men and probably
fatally injuring another.
At Washington Professor S. A. Whit
comb, a Universalist minister, created a
surprise by joining the Episcopal church.
Willie Armister was taken for a wild
turkey in the bushes and shot by his com
panion, Eddie Hunter, near Prospect, o.
A commercial treaty between France
and the United States has been arranged
Inv Minister Reid and the French minister
! of commerce.
Workmen at Muncie claim to have
found natural gas frozen solid in pipe
! They slipped out section of it, touched
/ a match and claim it burned beautifully
| A new industry.
A vest button found in the Union rail
wav Office at Chester, Pa. after the
burglary on Feb 13, has been identified as
| belonging to Alexander Dick, who has
confessed, duplicating two friends in the
robbery.
The Indianapolis street car strike il
practically over. The company has beeI
! placed in the hands of receiver, who says
he will soon have all the cars running tt
the entire satisfaction OF all the parties
! concerned.
Lieutenant George Edward Krapf, wht
cut a great swell ON the Aurania as
/ German army officer, was arrested a
New York when the steamer landed, on
charge of embezzliug In his stateroon
were found 1900 marks and -e12,OOO il
English money.
M b Harrison, commissioner to th
worlds fair from Minnesota, died a
Duluth from Brights disease, superin
duced by the grip. He leaves fortun
estimated at 100000. He was born q
Petersburg, Va, and the body will b
taken there for interment
IT. is said the Wheeling puddlers AM
rollers, now members of the Amalgamate'
Association of Iron and Steel Workers
will withdraw from the order and reoI
panize the Order of Vulcans, to whicl
they belonged in 1875 The men in Pitts
burg and Cincinnati are dissatisfied, ant
may ioin the movement About 1000
men will be affected.
The illness of Chairman Springer, c
the WAYS and means committee, is tn
subject of considerable anxiety on tn
part of his friends. He is suffering fror
acute erysipelas, complicated with nerV
Gus prostration and a severe cold, an
, is unable to see anyone but the immediat
members of his family. His features ar
swollen almost beyond recognition, an
have assumed a purple hue, yet he ha
never lost consciousness, and his mind
apparently perfectly clear.