Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

cided by hanging at Youngstown, o.
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The Portland Qnd.) oil field is booming.
Several wells are producing from lbs to
$50 barrels per day.
The old and famous Spencer House at
Niagara Falls was. entirely destroyed by
fire Wednesday night
The total output of licensed" maple
sugar in Michigan this spring will prob
ably be 10000 pounds,
at Brazil, Ind, Robert Thresher was
cleared of killing Fred Williams, his
brother-in-law. Self defense.
A snowstorm struck Memphis, Wednes
day, and never let up until it reached
such depth that the street cars had to
be abandoned.
Silas Potter, two weeks married to
Fannie Griest, at Wooster, o., has
skipped. She refused to allow him to
handle her money.
At Greensburg, Ind, while Will Win
chester was preparing to shoot gas well,
the charge of dynamite exploded, blowing
off one arm and his nose.
President Noel, of the Olympic club of
New Orleans, says that the club will ac-
cept the offer for the Sullivan-C Corbett
fight, the purse to be $4,000.
AS an outcome of the Williams divorce
case at Rapid City, S. D., Miss Nettie
Boyd has sued Patrick Cox, of Rochester,
for $4,000 damages for defamation Of
character.
Dallas experienced on Wednesday the
fiercest norther of years Fruit trees
which were on Tuesday covered with full
bloom were next day in an Arctic en-
brace of ice.
The wife of J. w, Atlaway, of Miller
county Ark, gave birth Tuesday to four
fine daughters. The mother is nineteen
years old and weighs 100 pounds. The
babies are doing we'll.
Six tuberculosis cattle out of herd of
seventy-nine, valued at $50 1000, were at
Philadelphia, killed and dissected. Their
lungs were affected, and the symptoms
were developed by use of Koch lymph.
H. L. Nelson and S. G. Jackson, of Kerr
villey Tex, have made the following
wager on horse race: Three hundred
head of stock, twenty head of saddle
horses, III acres Of land and $500 in cash
each side.
Senator Hill and. party arrived at At
lanta Thursday morning where breakfast
was taken. Macon was reached at II and
Savannah about in the evening. Here a
banquet was rendered the party by en-
thusiastic admirers.
Deputy Clerk Haywood Heathman and
Thomas and j ~ Gradde, brothers, all
of Lexington Mo, went hunting ON Tues
day on the r ,er in leaky skiff. They
have not returned, and it is supposed that
they have been drowned.
Word comes from Chattanooga that
Mrs. Martin, who shot and killed her
brother-in-law at Birmingham two years
ago, will go on the stage in play called
/ "Rachelle de Martaire." 1t is a drama of
her own life written by herself.
The coal agents have ordered an ad-
vance of twenty-five cents per ton fer
chestnut coal to take effect Immediately.
The prices for other grades remain un-
changed 1t was decided to restrict the
output for March to 100000 tons.
The position of head professor in polit-
ical science in the new University of Chi
cago, at salary Of $1,000 per year, has
been offered to Professor Edmund j.
James, of the Wharton school of finance
and economy, University of Pennsyl-
vania.
At Dayton, O., Percy Clifton, an actor
was about to wed Mrs Van Loon, aged
and wealthy, when wife No. appeared
and matters were declared off The
prospective bride assisted in getting away
with the feast. Clifton acknowledges his
guilt.
At Akron, O., Clifton Wright, travel
ing salesman, suicided by taking poison
in saloon with a number of people look
ing at him. They thought it was bluff
Two years ago he married Miss Berth
of Bowling Green, Ky. They did not five
happily.
Lady Somerset, who has been spending
some months in Chicago, associated will
Miss Frances Willard in editing Tit
Union Signal the organ of the Woman:
Christian Temperance union, departed fol
the east Wednesday. She will soon re
turn to England.
Emory f. Smith, of San Francisco, ha'
been appointed professor of horticultur,
at Leland Stanford university. Professo
Smith is twenty-eight years old, a directo
of the State Horticultural society, hold
offices in other horticultural societies anC
, is editor of The California Fruit-Grower
Governor Boyds attorneys, at Lincoln
Neb., asked for a formal reversal of the OLE
, preme court mandate, and Thayers attor
news did not appear. This may be the fna
settlement of the gubernatorial dispute
though it does not prevent reopening o
the case.
Peter Petruna, mine boss, working
= near Wilzesbarre, Pa, deserted his wifi
3 in Poland twelve years ago, came to thi
: country and married again and has fiv
n, al xttfa
fronted Peter who tainted, and the SEE
ond wife, hearing of the circumstance
went crazy.
Near Ashland, Pa, on Wednesday night
three outlaws shot and killed Policema
John Mergott and escaped. Twent
4 mounted men followed in pursuit, an
a late in the night the three men were caI
y tured and imprisoned A military con
Q pany was placed on guard at the jail
!, prevent lynching.
7 Professor Clarence e. Dockery and
n Gallagher were talking at the Hotel E'
!, change bar in New Orleans, the conversi
= ton being principally about boxin,
From talking they got to an imprompt
sparring exhibition. The professor wa
:. knocked down, and in falling, struck I'll
= brass fender rod in front Of the counte
o o breaking his neck.
n A good oneis re ported from Little Rocl
E About two weeks ago Mrs. George
J. Samples chopped off the head of lart
leghorn rooster and threw the body to Il
= ground The rooster no sooner struck q
= ground than it jumped up and ran ava
J. while Mrs Samples tainted at the sigh
v The rooster is reported still alive, recei
: ing its food through a glass tube al
crows as Justify as ever IL did.
A weird story comes from No Man