Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

| various SuDJects.
The barb wire trust has dissolved
Slight earthquake shock in California.
William Burk, wife murderer, was
hanged at Stanford, Ky.
Jonathan Amstutz of Bluffton, O., sud-
denly became crazy on religion.
AT Lancaster, Pa, Stella Reese, twelve,
ate raw pork and died of trichinosis
Columbus has had twenty-one incendi
airy fires within the last two months.
julius Hebel, of Hamilton, O., found
his runaway wife in Louisville bordel
Jonathan Markley, a prominent lawyer
of Springfield, o., was found dead in bed.
Heart disease.
At Buda-Pesth three old women have
been arrested charged with having muir
dered ten peasants.
The British man-of-war Victoria, ashore
on the Greek coast, has been foated, and
will be docked for repairs.
John Bennett, miller, residing near
| West Elkton, o., was caught in shaft
ing and seriously injured.
| Dangerfeld, Tex, has an epidemic of
spotted fever. Several deaths have oc-
CURED and more are looked for.
The New York chamber of commerce is
| taking steps toward sending the food do
nations to the starving Russians.
George White, his wife, Mrs. Mary
White, and Sam Donelson were killed in
drunken row at leap year ball near
Gordonville, Tenn.
At Kingston Springs, Tenn, while re-
pairing revolver, Sam Brown shot and
seriously wounded boy named Hooper
Didn't know, etc
1t is said the Edison General Electric
company and the Thompson Houston
Electric company, of New York, have
formed combine
Edward Kimball, a convict in the Ohio
penitentiary, deliberately cut off two
fingers because he had been punished for
violating the prison rules.
Thomas Melrose, poor farmer living
near Grantsburg, Ind, has received word
that he has fallen heir to an estate worth
91 1000, 900 in northern England.
AT Erie, Pa, Charles Pietri, Jr., died
suddenly under suspicious circumstances.
His wife is suspected. An investigation
will be made. They lived in Buffalo
At Norwalk, o., Ernest Kenyon, an
electric lineman from Florence, O., fell
from a pole while at work, and was so
badly injured that he will be cripple for
life.
Bridget Pendergast, an old inmate of
the Indiana insane asylum, who has been
in stupor for almost eighteen months,
is expected to die. Her only nourish-
ment has been three quarts of milk per
day.
Conductor Edward Thorpe, of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago road, was
instantly xii ed at Warsaw, Ind, by being
caught in his caboose when the engine
of a following freight train ran into his
train.
AT Fostoria, o., Charles Booth, while
fooling with revolver pointed it at Will
Heltzer, who will probably die from a
wound in the forehead Didn't know it
was loaded.
Near Lower Mason, Pa, Maurice Fell's
team ran away. Fell was thrown out,
but his foot caught in the spring, and he
was dragged two miles. He was dead
when released
Miss Mertie Summers, Of North Man
chester Ind, suddenly lost her voice sev-
eral weeks ago and has not been able to
speak above a whisper since. She is in
perfect health.
under arrest for brutally beating Emma
Walker, nine-year-old child she took to
raise, The child will die. There is talk
of lynching the virago.
At Mount Zion KY, Miss Eva Daven-
port was fatally burned while Lighting
the lamps in the church near by. The
chandelier in some way was pulled down
covering her with burning oil
After thirty years of service the boiler
in Tuneak & Sons saw mill near Findlay,
O., exploded, wrecking the building and
slightly injuring several workmen.
Strange they say, because it was never
known to explode before.
A Richmond, Ind, J. G. Fresen has
two-year-old colt that drinks beer and
chews tobacco. If turned loose in the
streets it will "shoot snipes" along the
cutters, but draws the line on cigarettes,
which it will not touch.
AT Glasgow, KY, while clearing away
the ruins of the burned building four men
were caught under a falling wall. Seth
Dorsey and his son Henry were fatally in
jured Two negroes named Smith and
Oldham were seriously injured.
A letter has been received from Emin
Pasha, dated at Oswa on the west coast
of Albert Nyanza, says slave trading in
that portion of the dark continent COZ
tinues. About hundred people had been
killed by recent earthquake. He and
his exploring party were in serious danger
at the time the letter was written.
At Chicago Patrick Hurst stabbed his
wife to death. He surrendered at the
nearest police station, where he said he
simply killed her because she always
wanted her own way, and because he
thought she would not take care of him
when he was old. Both were natives of
Ireland, and had been married thirty-five
years.
Indian officials at Washington have re-
ceived no confirmation of the report that
trouble is feared among the Arapahoes,
Cheyennes and Usage Indians in the In
dian Territory, on account Of their belief
in the coming of their Messiah. They do
not believe that the Indians are on the
verge of an outbreak, but say that while
the Indians will always anticipate the
Messiah, and may dance in consequence,
they do not believe that any serious
trouble should be apprehended.
The Death Roll.
Rev. BENJAMIN st. James Fry, DID,.