Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation Of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects@

tlon making silver dollars legal tender.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa. compositors on
the dailies are out ON strike for an ad-
vance.
Jewish travelling men met in Chicago
and formed a society for the relief Of Rus
sian Jews.
The Messiah craze has again broken out
among the Pawnee and Oteo Indians in
Indian Territory.
1t is ramored that General Greely,
chief of the signal service in the army, is
to be tried for insubordination.
In Evansville, Ind, Misses Lizzie
Deinns and Mary Klinger were struck by
a switch engine and fatally injured.
AT Wapakoneta, o., T. r. Fay and J.
w. Woodall were struck and seriously
injured by fire engine Fay may die
Sunday morning the building occupied
by the Omaha Hardware company, at
Omaha, was destroyed by fire, the loss be-
ing 100000
At Sing Sing, N. Y, murderer Colto, an
Italian ragpicker, who killed fellow
countryman in Brooklyn last July, was
eiectrocuted.
Albert Thompson and Charles Brown,
"a 1NoiuAN ouu, Ist., nave Deeu urreSGeu,
charged with robbing Miser Sanford Jan
ner of $4,000
The loss sustained by the burning Of
Bromley's mill at Philadelphia Saturday
night will reach 100000 The insurance
is about 1926, 900
In Washington, Ind, Adam Neidig shot
and killed his wife and then suicided in
time to escape being strung up by angry
neighbors, Drink.
Near Boston, Ind, John Lane, who has
been living with woman named Os-
borne beat the latter's five-year-old
daughter to death and escaped.
At Osceola, Ind, Rev. II. M. Lambert,
a Kendallville Methodist minister, and
Farmer Henry Bowles We're struck by
some gravel cars and both killed
Nebraska was visited ON Saturday with
one of the worst snowstorms in many
years. AT Omaha all telegraphic com
munication was cut off Saturday night.
Some $l5,0oo,0OO to SIS, ,O00, 900 is the es-
timated amount invested in umbrellas
every year. The three largest manufact-
urers of umbrellas in the country are now
going to form trust.
The Ohio Society in New York is max
ing arrangements to tender Whitelaw
Reid banquet at Delmonico's on his
arrival per steamer La Champagne, which
is due at New York next Sunday.
Last Friday near Birds Eye, Crawford
county, Ind, William A. Ferguson and
James Garland, brothers-in-law, quar-
relied. Ferguson knocked Garland down,
choked him to death and escaped.
Mrs. Homer A. Baldwin, the lady who
suffered such frightful injuries in the
New York Central wreck at Hastings,
Will sue that company for $250,U00 dam
ages. Had she died the highest her heirs
could sue for is 5000.
Samuel Woolner, of Peoria, Ills, and
his associates will soon erect new whisky
distilleries in opposition to the trust
The capital stock at the outset will be
$l,000,000, and the two distilleries will
have capacity Of 5000 bushels each.
Patrick Boyle, well known as des-
perado on the upper Missouri for the past
ten years, was killed Saturday night at
Fort Assinaboine, Mon, by his nine year
old son. The boy took down the shotgun,
and, without any apparent cause, shot his
father dead.
James Witherell,' photographer Of
Little Rock, had narrow escape from an
infuriated mob Saturday night, and moth
ing but the shrewdness of the sheriff
saved him. Witherell is charged with en-
ticing young girls into his gallery and
running them.
The career Of "Prince Michael" the
long-haired Messiah, who, with his fol-
lowers has been making Detroit the head
quarters of late of the Flying Roll,n
will soon come TO an end. The neighbors
in the vicinity of Michael's harem, called
"The Godhead,r have tired of his immor-
alities, and are going to close him out
forcibly.
In a fight between farmer of Clear
Lake, Wis, named Austin Christler. and
a bull, the farmer finally got the best OF
1t. The second time the bull threw hi a
into the air he came down astride of the
animals neck. Taking horn In each
hand, inserting his teeth in the animals
ear, and twisting his feet around the
neck, he tired the bull into submission
Two Texas state rangers, on the look
out for horse thieves, had a fight with a
mounted Mexican near Corpus Christi, on
Saturday. There were two Mexicans on
the horse, the one handling the bridle
doing the shooting. When he fell NOR
tally wounded his companion raised his
head and beganto cry. She was SIX
teen-year-old girl and the couple were
eloping.