Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-05
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.


items OF interest Gathered from All Parti
of the World.
Two inches of snow fell In Maine Thurs
day.
Farmers near Reading, Pa, are short o.
water, owing to the drouth.
There are $1,000 women employed In thi.
country as telegraph operators.
II will be two years before the big Chs
csgo telescope can be completed.
Northumberland miners have accepted a
5 per cent. reduction rather than strike.
The trouble in New Orleans is not YET
settled and a big strike is still liable tt
occur.
AT Port Clinton, Pa, the Schuylkil
river is but mere creek, owing to the
drouth.
creased it's offer for the Hall Fitzsimmons
fight &c $4,000
Over 5000 employ es of the Bass Brew
cries company, london, struck against
new regulations
At Palmyra, Pa, water is sold in the
streets by the gallon. Small streams have
entirely disappeared.
English and American capitalists will
shortly erect an extensive iron and steel
plant at Coyington, Va.
George S. Morris, a stationary engineer,
was shot and killed. at Detroit, by George
Frederioks, blacksmith.
Thousands of people are suffering from
want Of food in and about Zacatecas, Mex.
The government is giving assistance.
In the past few days several attempts
have been made to burn Beaver Falls, Pa
A vigilance committee has been formed.
The supreme court of Missouri has de
liyered an opinion which is in effect that
official notices published in Sunday paper
are not legal.
Sixty thousand people witnessed the
grand naval display at Charleston, Thurs
day night. This is the week of the earth,
quake festival.
Seth Low, the president of Columbia
college, New York, heretofore strong Re
publican, has come out for Cleveland. He
gives no reasons.
The city Jail at Sonoma, Cal, burned,
and two tramps arrested for drunkenness
burned to death. 1t is supposed the prison
ers set fire to the Jail.
Judge w. c. Andrews, judge of Harris
county, one of the best known jurists in
Texas, committed suicide at Houston dur
ing fit of dependency.
Jay Gould has expressed desire to make
a large donation from his rare and mar
Vicious collection of plants for New York's
exhibit at the worlds fair.
The total number of Chinese who entered
Canada and paid the poll tax of $50 each,
J,,,, n, +b,, fg,o1
was 1876, as against 2, Ia during the pre-
vious year.
The house of Mrs. Lewis, at Oliver
Springs, Tenn, was burned by a crowd Of
1aiasrsrrssumably because Mrs. Lewis had
bsen Nina 20 the soldiers when thsy were
stationed near there.
Lieutenant Colonel w. S. Hyton, of the
Fifteenth regiment, national guards of
Pennsylvania, is dead at Ridgeway. from
malarial fever contracted while at Home
stead with his regiment.
The celebrated suit of Attorney T. J.
Sutherland against the board of trade firm
of John T. Lester g. Company Chicago,
resulted in verdict of 7,442 for Suther-
land. The case is not. however, ended.
In Laurel county, Ky, a young man
named Langford lay down near the road
side to sleep. A fire in the underbrush
reached him and set fire to his clothes. He
was SO badly burned that he died in eight
hours.
At Fall River Mass, the manufacturers
voted to increase the wages of weavers to
twenty-one cents per cut, and all other de-
partments in proportion, an advance of Z
per cent, restoring wages to the standard
of 1884
From Jan to Oct. 81 there were ,3,G65
cases of diphtheria in Philadelphia. OF
these 1,095 were fatal The ravages of the
disease continues to increase, twenty six
cases being reported Thursday and as
many Wednesday,
Surrogate RANSOM of New York, has
decided to admit to probate the will OF
Miss Elizabeth U. Coles. who died leaving
an estate worth $1,000, 900. The greater
part of the estate was bequeathed to char
liable and religious organizations.
The coroner of Portland, Or, held an in
quest on the remains of the late Frederick
G. Schwatka and the jury returned a YER
dict that the deceased came to his death
from an overdose of morphine taken acct
dentally. The remains will be inferred at
Salem, Or.
United States Marshal A. f. Bates, of
Elmira, n Y, has issued orders to offset
the circular of w. f. Sheehan, of the Dem
ocratic executive committee, and declares
that United States marshals shall resist all
officers unless bearing authority of the
United States courts
At Charleston nearly all the Democratic
electoral tickets printed are too long The
responsibility for the error is hard to
locate They were all distributed a week
ago. New tickets have been ordered
prinred, but the Democrats are somewhat
exercised over the error lest it might result
seriously to Cleveland and Stevenson
The Democratic state central committee
issued an address to the voters Of Oregon,
saying that the Democratic electoral ticket
would not be withdrawn, and asking all
those favoring the election of Cleveland
and Stevenson to rally to its support. The
Democratic electoral ticket is now COM
posed of three Democrats and one Popu-
list.
The recent gales on the lr-5 were prob.
ably the most destructive to lake shipping
in the history of the inland marine. The
losses of the last five days are estimated to
be about $4,000, fully a dozen boats
having passed out of existence and not