Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-26
NEWS IN A. NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.

of the World.
Drouth along the Mexican border.
Yale defeated Princeton at foot ball
Thanksgiving 10 to O.
At Scranton, Pa, 600 miners were given
a 10 per cent. increase.
Peter Schneider, an engineer, walked ON
the track at Columbus, O., and was killed.
The new Hawaiian cabinet desire closer
commercial relations with the United
States.
AT Port Arthur, Ont, William Gehl fell
into vat of boiling beer and was fatally
scalded.
Fleckenstein's brewery, at Faribault,
MINI, burned; loss $500, 600, with little or
insurance.
1t was denied Thursday night at the
Blaine residence that Mr.. James G. Blaine
was seriously ill.,
There was no Thanksgiving celebration
by the late employees Of the Carnegie mills
at Homestead, Pa.
Near Troy, o., twelve-year-old crippled
daughter of Albert Forbrite persisted in
the burning residence.
At Wheldon, o., Lindsay Goodman shot
and killed his uncle, William Goodman
during drunken quarrel.
About fifty persons applied to the mills
at Homestead on Thanksgiving for work
but few were given employment.
The costly summer residence of Sir Don.
aid A. Smith, just west Of Silver Heights
Man, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 600
Oliver. p. Pindell, ex-president of the
Commercial Travellers association of the
United States, died at Columbus, O., aged
forty-five.
AS the waters subside in Washington
the true state of affairs is becoming known
Both people and. stock are suffering from
want of food.
At Sparta, KY, Jerry Constantine a
hotel keeper, shot and killed q negro
named Roberts for failing to pay him $4t
which he promised on Thanksgiving.
Cornell college, at Mount Vernon, Ia
has a fierce fight ON hand between the
sophs and freshmen. Quite a number Of
the students have been seriously hurt.
A rumor is afloat In New York from
Ohio that ex-Congressman Benjamin
Butterworth is candidate, or will be, fol
the governorship of Ohio at the next state
! election.
Miss Emma Crosby, of Chattanooga
was to marry John Criber. He bet Oh
Harrison, lost, got drunk, and failed tc
call ON her for three days She has bounced
Mr.. Criber.
Colonel" Morris Pinchover, well
known Washington character who thought
he had a claim against the government, and
was daffy on the subject, died In an asy
lum at Washington.
/. Rosie joiner, frail woman, suicided
at Columbus, o., by taking croton oil, IL
obedience to the will of a suicide club Of
which she was member and whose vic
Tins average one month.
In the past four years George Eiche
twenty-one years old, stole about SOS, 00(
worth of merchandise from Daley e. Gales
of New York city. A fast life caused his
downfall He was arrested.
The house Of horsethief in Lithuania
Russia, was fired by mob. The man, his
wife and five children were burned tC
death An attempt was first made to gel
the thief and let him alone suffer.
A bill has been laid before the reichstae
to further restrict immigration from Ger
many. 1t provides that no one shall BIZ
allowed to leave the country who has any
| obligations due the state or to private per
sons.
William Mayfair, farmer living neal
Riverton, Ia, is suspected of having pois
oned his fifth wife. All died under very
suspicious circumstances. An investiga
ton showed that the last died from strych
| nine.
All the firemen in the New York Steam
company's great plant, at CORTLAND ant
Day Streets struck Thursday midnight
against reduction Of wages. About fifty
men went out. The company supplies
steam to many of the large newspapers
and a lively time resulted getting the un
used plants to working again. All the
papers were successful. Friday hundreds
of elevators in the high office buildings
were idle. Later in the day about half the
places had been filled, while the company
claimed they had over one hundred appli
| cations on hand,
| Confessed n Theft and Killed Hers elf.
MARTINsvuLE, Ind, Nov. 26.-Mrs
Walter O'Neal, of Ballengertown, stole
SEQ last Thursday from Daniel Balm, 9
| neiChbor farmer SATURDAY. she con