Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OIL
Various Subjects.

Milton, Ala, had a $4,000 fire.
News from Venezuela is suppressed.
Cleveland is the favorite with Kansas
Democrats.
Leo Dale was killed by lightning at
Effingham, Ills.
1t is understood that Minister to France
Reid has rendered his resignation.
Lila Lere and Mertie Hill, of Valpa-
raise, Ind, have mysteriously disap
peared.
A storm Tuesday damaged Illinois
worlds fair building to the extent of
$4,000.
Near Highlandtown, O., Sadie Smith,
| eighteen, suicided with a razor No cause
known.
Advices from Honolulu say nothing
| short of asmiracle can prevent a revolu
tion in Hawaii,
On Monday night the postofIice at Mar
| win, Ills, was burglariZed and robbed of
| 81 100 in stamps.
|. NJ Irwin, of Cedarville, O., was
caught in the machinery of an elevator
and fatally injured.
Minister to Italy Porter once more de-
MES that he has designs on the Hoosier
gubernatorial chair.
At Finday, o., while playing with a
Flobert rife Ed France shot and killed
Earl Johnson, boy.
James p. Allen, Jr., farmer, was
killed at a crossing on the Big -Four few
miles from Cincinnati.
At Columbus, Ira Wells, boy, while
fooling with a revolver, shot himself in
the knee, necessitating amputation.
| T., al
Morton Brown stabbed Charles Nesbit,
probably fatally injuring him. Both boys
Old raftsmen predict that this spring
will witness the greatest floods ever
known in the history of the Allegheny
river.
In Cincinnati Mrs. Sybilla Fairchild
the bride of a month, was burned tC
death by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
For three weeks Mr. Smith, travelling
salesman, has been mysteriously missing
He was last seen at Kentland, Newton
county, Ind.
Cron, Kills g. Company's mammoth
furniture factory, Piqua, o., was burned
Several adjoining houses were destroyed
Total loss, $125 600; insurance, $4,000.
Miss Bette Fleischmann, daughter of
Cincinnati millionaire, has broken he
engagement with an Hungarian count be
cause he refuses to become an American
citizen.
e. c. Stanton, the successor of The
M. Banta of cashier of the New Yorl
Life Insurance company, has resigned hi
position, and it is probable that Nj
Banta will be reinstated.
9 In Lawrence, Mass, Peter Emo worth
/ less railroad brakeman shot and kille
his wife, Minnie, while drunk. She ha
refused to live with him because he ha
s another wife in Plainfeld Conn.
+ Mondays rain and snow storm wa
heavier and more general in South Dg
kota than first reports indicated, but II
casualties have been reported. The rair
> fall at Huron was nearly three inches.
l. l.. Heath, of Marshall, Ind, claim
to have found under the hay in his NOV
a live hen which had been there since las
June when the hay was stored. Sh
weighed but pound and a half, and wi
+, survive
;, Two masked men on Monday night Ell
= tered the postoffice at Boise Ida, and 8
y the point of the pistol compelled tn
y postmaster to deliver up the casl
= amounting to 81 200 The robbers are b.
ing pursued.
+ John d. Wooley has served eight tern
q in the Missouri penitentiary for hors
a stealing. On Monday at St. Joseph, /
was adjudged insane. Experts testife
u that his mania for horse stealing was III
ia controllabe
4 At Snyder, Kan, Mona Terrill locke
N her twin sister Mana in room just as 81
n was about to elope with William Hawk
C. son and took her place. William did NJ
IS discover the change until after the Ger
" mony was performed, but now says
at will stick to the one he married. III
IN other twin is Frustrated
T. At Washington Sam Moore, a negr
ID was sentenced to death for murder II
neck was saved by the president commu
ne ing his sentence to life Imprisonment
it His counsel claims that as Moore new
IS accepted the Communication and the da
MS of execution is passed the prisoner C;
sc not be held. The case is watched with
re terest.
Ill The school election at Bloomingto
ne Ills, developed II surprise. Under /
Ill cent act of the legislature women CT
vi, vote at school elections and as MI
in Raymond has been city superintende
i'll of schools for some time it was thong
tn her reelection was n certainty She W
81. showed under by the ballots of her sc
of who wanted no more "petticoat regim
Il in theirs.
A sad case of n child's sorrow n
'ut suffering comes from Allegheny, I
zen Twelve year-old Cora Vunora, in descer
orr ing the stairs at her parents home
oil Friday, tripped on her shawl and dropp
'ur her baby sister, killing it. The child
10 now in a raging fever. Moaning and to
ing, she pitcously implores those abo
gs' her bed not to hang her, rs she did L
MS mean to hurt her dear baby sister
rec y" There was good sized scare among t
WI audience Mt the Worlds museum
hu' Shamokin, Pa, Tuesday night Alne
we the snake charmer had finished his p
"'' Torrance with the boa constructor, and
Gu was laid in box. The performance p
'"I ceeded, when suddenly a panic arose
''''' the appearance of the reptile, which h
wriggled its way out Of the box. Manat
~ Hurd's hand was pierced by the reptil
W teeth and he would have been squeel
ue to death had it not been for the reappe
Wv. W. ance of Alneta.
am. Death Roll.
1t a William j. Schader, editor of the Pot
i'm willie CPa) jefferson Democrat.
lev Willard Salisbury, aged seventy t
our wears, chancellor of the state of Delaw
and ex United States senator, sudde
ana at Dover of heart failure.
Ms II 10 Death Roll.