Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-19
NEWS In BRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

n CohuehsatioH OF interesting items on
Various Subjects.
Mount Etna, Sicily, threatens an erup-
tion.
Hartford, Ind, has new 1900, ,0O0-foot
gas well,
Nearly 200 anarchists have been arrested
at Cadiz, Spain.
Secretary Elkins says President Harri-
son is candidate for reelection.
Hoosier Republicans in Washington had
big blowout on Wednesday night.
Boot and shoe workers at Beverly,
Mass, want an advance in wages and
shorter hours. A strike is probable.
The Mexican revolution is being upheld
by wealthy Americans and Mexicans.
AT Keokuk Ia, Leo A. Basset child,
choked to death while eating an apple
James Walker, noted counterfeiter,
has been placed in Jail at Noblesville,
Indiana.
AT Louisville A. Whitsitt and j. Wilson
We're caught in the act of making counter
felt money.
The Tennessee Mining company will
work their mines at Briceville on the CO.
operative plan.
At Jacksonville, Ind, Theodore Hop
wood has not eaten for almost three
weeks He is insane.
Another fall of slate in the Patton rail
road tunnel in southern Indiana will de
lay traffic for some time
AT Dayton, O., Jacob Harvey was con-
victed of numbering Mrs. Lehman, his
mistress, and will hang
At Ferona, N. Y, the supporting tim
bers in mine gave way Three men were
killed and number injured
An outbreak of the unemployed work
ingmen of Rome is looked for. Many
thousands are idle and desperate.
At Portsmouth, O., Mrs. William Will
son is under arrest charged with having
poisoned her husband, who died recently.
Judson Consol, living near Worthwhile,
o., was killed by the accidental discharge
of loaded gun shell he was trying to
uncap.
The statement of the accounts of the
province of Ontario for the year show the
receipts were $4, 183, 1881, the disbursements
"a, 163, ,563.
Jacob Bunger, of Monroe county, Ind,
has died from the effects of a runaway
eleven years ago. He had not been out of
his house since injured.
N. Ii. Martin, leading minister, has
fled from Chatham, Ont, being engaged
to marry three young ladies on Monday
night, but preferring none.
The report that Bob Ford, the young
man who so cowardly murdered Jesse
James, the outlaw, had been killed in a
saloon row at Creede, Colo, is denied.
According to the will of Asa Packer,
of Bethlehem, Pa, the moneyed endow-
ments in round numbers to Lehigh uni
versity library and st. Luke's hospital is
100000.
AT Tarrytown, N. Y, Chief of Police
Hackett shot and killed James Hannon a
well known citizen The murder was the
result of quarrel at the Democratic
primaries.
AT Brazil, Ind, Farmer j. X. Miller is
under heavy bond for having cut down
Postal Telegraph company poles along the
road in front of his farm. 1t is not his
first offense.
Barber Harrington, of jug Tavern,
Tenn, and his friend have skipped, it
being discovered that the "friend" was
woman. They have been together for
three months.
An attempt was made to kidnap the
one-year-old child of Mrs. Snyder, at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, but after q long chase
the man was compelled to put down.t the
baby and escaped during the excitement
At indianapolis William f. Davis is
under arrest for incest, his victim being
his eight-year-old daughter. His wife
few moments before her death told the
neighbors of her brutal husbands crime
Deputy Sheriff Hubbell arrived at
Albuquerque, N. M, from Coolidge, on
Wednesday, and reports all quiet be-
tween the cowboys and Navajo Indians.
He thinks there will be no further
trouble.
A novel cause of suicide developed at
Des Moines, Ia. Ferdinand Fontanelle, a
young Frenchman, has recently been ad-
vertising for a wife, and failing to receive
a favorable answer concluded to put
bullet iuto his brain.
Louis Rbeinhart, of Winona, Mimi,
met peculiar death last Tuesday. Last
week he had violent toothaehe and had
the tooth extracted His throat and face
began to swell up until respiration
stopped and death resulted.
Caliph, the big hippopotamus at the
Zoo, in New York, and formerly of the
Cincinnati Zoo, is i'll almost unto death
His trouble seems to be Inflammation of
the bowels. Three doctors are attending
him and everything possible is being done
for the sick fellow
Since the recent 81 ,00d,00 fire in Mem
phis, no less than six attempts have been
made to burn business houses and resi-
dences. The police think that the incen-
diaries are tramps from Birmingham,
Ala, and all suspicious characters will be
driven out of the city.
Starving wolves in large numbers have
made their appearance in West Seneca, a
suburb of Buffalo, n. Y, appearing in
the village at night and escaping to the
woods in the morning Children are
afraid to go out Of doors. Great excite
ment prevails in the suburb.
About dark Wednesday night, Jerry
Mckinley, a well digger at Chattanooga,
who had been buried alive since noon of
the previous day by a caye-in at the bot
tom of twenty-five foot well, was
rescued. He suffered terribly from ex-
haustion and cold, and it will be miracle
II be lives