Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-12
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items of Interest Gathered from All
Parts of the World.

Items of Interest Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
Big rainstorm at Topeka, Kan.
Five lives were lost by landslide in
Tyrol.
Little Oza Sanders ate fly paper at Port
land, Ind, and died.
Anerica will not get another cardinal
this year, says the last report from Rome.
Mrs. M. Donieo, of Scranton, Pa, was
frightened to death by lightning during a
storm.
At Chatham, N. Y, James Riley fatally
stabbed Thomas Kildare and then killed
himself
Fully 800 hands are employed canning
corn at Folks canning establishment at
Greenwood, Ind.
The schooner Eva Douglass, is atquaran-
tine below Port Tampa, Fla, with nine
cases of yellow fever
Mr.. Curry, seventy year-old farmer,
received fatal injuries while threshing
near South Charleston, o.
At Jacksonville, Ind, Maggie Weber,
fifteen, touched match to can of blast
ing powder, and lost both eyes,
Harry Kernel, the well known Irish
comedian, is said to be mentally unbal-
anced. He is at Asbury Park, N. j.
Canadians are doing rushing business
at points along the border, smuggling Chi
nese into the United States at $50 each.
Julia Mecheaux, colored, of Palestine,
Tex, has confessed to killing her mother
by striking her with heavy piece of iron.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is ne
gotiating for the purchase of the Column
bus, Lima and Milwaukee line, now build
ing.
At Greenup, KY, Timothy Gates house
was besieged by rattlers, al of which were
killed by neighbors Tins hair has turned
gray.
A novelty in the way of wagon pro-
PEELED by electricity was seen on the streets
of Chicago Tuesday. 1t travels ten miles
an hour.
The eighteen-months-old child of Mr..
Blood, of Marion, o., fell into kettle OF
boiling water Tuesday, and was horribly
scalded.
At Hill, N. NJ, James Patterson, mine
owner, quarreled with Mexican employe
who shot him. Before dying he killed the
Mexican.
Charles Barbour, of Oxford, o., was
bitten by large green fly few days
ago. and is now suffering from blood
poisoning.
1t is believed that about 1900 of the
Ohio national guards will participate in
the dedcatory exercises of the worlds fair
buildings in October
Will II. Thomas, aged nineteen, and
frankie Pearce, aged fifteen, eloped from
Kokomo, Ind. She wore her mothers
wrapper and was barefooted.
Very Rev. A. Mandine, c. M, superin
tendent of the Sisters of Charity in the
United States, died at Mount st. Joseph:
college, in Emmitsburg, Md,
John c. Weaver, senior proprietor o.
the Ocean House, Newport, r. l., died
aged eighty He was largely known
throughout the United States
At Jacksonville, Ind, Saloonist Will
lam Keller will sue Knights of Phythia'
lodge for $4,000 damages for expelline
him ON account of his business.
Matthew Galley, of Charlottesville, Ind,
was found in his barn bleeding and uncon-
scious from brutal assault believed tc
have been committed by tramp.
1t is now claimed that nearly one hun
dred lives were lost by the collision of the
steamers Ajax and Runeberg, and tn,
sinking of the former off the coast of Fin
land
Frederick German and Charles MacKen
zie two prominent men of Sarnia, Mich.
were rescued on Lake Huron after a thrill
ing experience of sixteen hours in the
water.
AT Eagle Lake, six miles from Man
kato, MINI, Mrs. Martha Hester fed
| poison to one of her babies and drowned
another in deep well. She is supposed to
| be insane.
Frank Rox, aged twenty has made two
unsuccessful attempts to kill himself in
| GAINESVILLE, O., because a girl Tilted him
He says he will use gun next time and
make sure of the job.
The cotton crop in Texas is reported do
ing well and the prospects for a large croE
are good. In some counties in eastern
Texas rain would be beneficial, but Their,
is little complaint of drouth.
David Troop was given hearing by tn,
Mayor of Cridersville, o., Wednesday and
sent to Jail in default of $500 bail for ston
ing train from which he had beer
bounced, while stealing a ride.
John Green, alias George Shelvin, sup
posed to hail from Cincinnati, is in Jail al
Buffalo, on tie charge of non-support o.
his wife, seventeen-y ear-old girl, whom
he married under an assumed name.
Chief Appointment Clerk General Oar
Macanley, of the treasury department
who has been to South America and Mex
leo, where he was taken quite sick, is ex
pected to return to Washington by tn,
Goth inst.
The American consul at Copenhagen, II
b. Ryder, has confessed that he is guilty Of
al the entertainments OF which he is &C
cused by the authorities, and that he in
duced his wife to make false statements In
his behalf
Railroad men in Elmira, n. Y, ar.
greatly exercised over the discharge of foul
or five telegraph operators by the Della
ware, I4ackawanna and Western railroad
in that city, and also several others In
neighboring towns.
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