Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.


Mad dog scare at Pecksburg, Ind
Abraham heed and Henry Schumacher
were convicted of robbing the bank at
Minister, o.
George Siddons defeated Tommy War
rem at New Orleans in nine rounds.
Featherweights
Congress has adjourned till Monday,
and the Gilman correspondence will not
be put forth till next week.
Peter Gottfried, Of Wickliffe, near Eek
erty, Ind, is glad he Lad the grip, His
speech has returned after about thirty
years,
AT Massillon, o., two-year-old son of
George Crise played with matches. He
set his clotho, on fire and was burned to
death
Cedar Bluff college for ladies near
WoodJurn, Ky, was burned Thursday
morning No one was injured. Loss
heavy,
Ohio City, a small townnear Van Vert
o., had $50, 900 fire viii III swept away the
business pOr..Jn. 1t is believed to have
been incendiary
AtNew Bremen, O.. the natural gassup-
ply is shorl Whether il is occas .oned by
supply is not known.
AT Leon, Ky, James Tripett shot and
killed Mrs. Thomas Stapleton. Cause
not known. A posse started in pursuit.
Irplett is noted tough.
At Dwight, Ills, two men went into the
express Office and while one engaged tha
agent in conversation the other got away
with a $3 900 package. No clew,
Old Abe, che giraffe at the Cincinnati
Zoo, died of pneumonia day or two ago,
HE was one of the finest specimens in
America, standing twenty feet in height.
At Hamilton, O., Neal Bunnell, while
endcayoring to split a cake of ice by
throwing his whole weight on the end of
the pike pole, was fatally injured by the
blunt end of the pole being forced into
his abdomen several inches,
The STANDARD Fire Insurance company,
Of New York the announcement of whose
voluntary re rement was made last week,
has reinsured its 100000 of risks in the
Liverpool, l. ldon and Globe Insurance
company, dang from the 10th inst.
Owing to reproduction and difficulty
i'm arriving 4 satisfactory agreement
in regard to freight rates, ten Pittsburg
flint glass houses closed down Thursday
Ten or twelve more are expected to put
out their fires next week. Twenty-Five
hundred men, including quota of boys,
will be thrown out of employment.
Harrison Hogan, the famous Bull
Creek terror" is dead. He died of
grip at his home near Charlestown, Ind
lie had been sick but short time and his
sudden taking away was a great surprise
Once possessed of great wealth, he died in
peGury. Hogan feared neither man nor
the law, and his many fights made his
name well known in three states,
Frank CARA, relative of the revolu-
zionist Catarina CARA, has been captured
in house west of Palito Blanco, Tex
The prisoner, who has been the right
hand man of the leader said Garza's
force consisted of 400 men, divided into
three bands; that the money the leader
was supposed to control was mythical,
and that the men, while still enthusiasts
tic, were only half fed and wholly unpaid
The town If Danyille, Pa, was invaded
by tramps who made house to house
canvass for food The residents were
greatly alarmed, At night the large
army of strangers went to the iron works.
They crowded every department and re
fused to leave when ordered, Thursday
eighteen arrests were made, all able
bodied men. One hundred citizens are
acting as constables, and the tramps are
leaving
At Rocky Mount Franklin county, Va,
Della NichoIas suioided because her
parents objected to her marriage with
Young man named Penhard. She put
rope about her neck and tried to swing
from the limb of a tree, but the rope
broke, Then she tied herself up, and the
second time succeeded in breaking her
neck, Her little sister witnessed the
deed, but could not give the alarm in time
to prevent it. Her lover took poison and
died.