Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items or
Various Subjects.

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OF 597 bags of mail on the wrecked
steamer Elder all but fifteen bags have
been recovered,
A young woman who has been dubbed
"Sal, the slayer" is poisoning fine dogs
in Indianapolis
At Upton, Ind, Jesse Jacobs was found
guilty of killing his brother at Boyles-
town and given six years.
Ed Brown and W. f. Roberts, brake
men, were arrested at Indianapolis
charged with robbing cars.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, has issued
/ proclamation to the people of Ohio in
behalf of the starving Russians.
Quite number of men who have been
illegally fishing with nets in the vicinity
of Marion, Il l., have been arrested.
! AT Saltillo. Miss, Sam Brooks was shot
dead by an unknown assassin as he sat
near windc~ conversing with his wife.
| Near Dunlow, w. Va, the remains of
George Huff was found scattered along
! the railroad track. He had been drink
! ing
Right Rev Ignatius f. Horstmann, OF
Philadelphia, was elevated to the high
dignity of bishop of the holy see of Cleve-
land.
Near Malta, o., Charles Sherwood went
| to sleep on Il railroad trestle while drum :.
He was fatally mangled by a passing
| train.
Dependency, caused by leading a dis
reputable life, caused Lizzie Miller to sui
eide by taking a dose of morphine at Sa-
lem, o.
Fred Seller and Silas Hammer were
crushed to death in collision between a
freight train and cars standing on side
track at Palestine, Tex.
Director General Davis, of the worlds g
fair, will ask for another great exhibit
hall. Applil lltions for space are pouring
in from all over the world.
Near Cinci natl two trains on the Gin
cinnat Mort hern collided, killing En-
gineer Collins and probably fatally
wounding Catharine Flynn, passenge".
Robert II. arsh, a respectable young
man of Buffalo, went to dance Wednes-
day night at Little Valley, and while
there got into row and was kicked to
death.
Because he wished to waste no time in
courting Fan .ner James Dunlap got him
self wife from the county poor house at
Boonville, Mo-, and is satisfied with his
choice.
Charles Richards, one of the Oldest
printers in the country, died Thurday at
Wabash, Ind, aged eighty-two. He had
worked at the trade since he was twelve
years old
Right Rev William J. Frost, ID. D.,
LII. D., archc cacon of the Alton diocese,
| died at his home in Carlyle, Ills, Wednee
| day evening, at the age of eighty-two
years, of paralysis.
The Indiana Natural Gas and Pipe Line
company is financially embarrassed. A
receiver has been asked for. This is the
company that is piping gas to Chicago
from the Kok ONO gas field.
At Wetumka, Ala, two white convicts
named Gibson and Marshall were shot
and killed by Guard Jones, whom they
attempted to disarm, but were driven of
with clubs by three other convicts.
1t is claimc1 that another movement is
on foot in Gu to throw off the Spanish
yoke Thousands of Cubans in the United
States are said to be ready to assist their
oppressed fellow countrymen at home.
Assaults b. highwaymen on inoffensive
citizens have become so frequent ct JeffeI
sonville, Ind that they are almost afraid
to 90 out OF. the streets at night. There
is talk of resurrecting the law and order
league.
General J. " Meserole, of New York
has given Mrs. Theodore Larbig, the
widow of the man killed in Brooklyn by
hi S son, who was afterward acquitted
g., 600. The widow was in poor circum
stances.
Mrs. Helene tombstone, of Englewood
ILL.,, and her daughter, Mrs. G. G. Hart
mann, of Minneapolis, were fatally in
jured in runaway at st. Paul, being
thrown out of the vehicle in which they
were driving
Miss Lou Rose, young and well re-
spected, suic:ded by shooting at her home
in West Virginia opposite East Liverpool
/ O., because she had been betrayed and de.
serted. She left letter duplicating
Thomas Stevenson.
The jury in the trial at San Francisco
of Actor Curtis, charged with killing
policeman several months ago, after be
ing out one night and one day, failed to
agree and was discharged. 1t stood ten
for conviction and twelve for acquittal.
1t has been discovered that the orphans
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grace to the county. The grand jury haf
found that the children are insufliciently
clothed and fed, and kept in rooms damp
and unfit for occupancy. The citizens are
very indignant.
James Balfour, one of the leading deal.
ers in oleomargar in indianapolis, has
been arrested on the charge of selling his
goods to ret ill groccrs who have nc
! l. a 10 fai1 To,
port the names of such customers to the
federal authorities, as the law requires.
Another party of nine colored men
from Arkansas passed through Pittsburp
Thursday on their way to Liberia They
stated that Bishop Querner had told them
that they would be furnished free trans
portation to Liberia by the Liberian
consul Many other colored people are
on their way. Those stranded in New
York are being sent back.
) The largest Illicit distillery ever known
in Alabama-or ever in the south-was
captured by revenue officers in Cleburnt
county Tuesday. The distillery was op
Grated by fifteen-horse-power engine
and had a capacity Of 700 gallons OF
whisky daily. Ten feet from 1t was a
small brick house, containing thirty
stacks of hlcarms. Five moonshiners
were caught and the stills blown up with
dynamite.
James McGuff and George Watkins
with their wives and chi!aren, started fol
Oklahoma a short time before the recent
cold spell They were In wagons, intend
, ing to drive along, camping as they vert
When near the Indian Territory line tn:
blizzard caught them and they were al
frozen to death. When found the bodiel
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