Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
The Bey of Tunis has the grip.
Mark Twain is seriously i'll with grip at
Berlin.
Muncie, Ind, in now illuminated by
electricity.
The empress of Germany is suffering
from the influenza.
The Rome (Ga.) Tribune, heretofore a
Cleveland organ, is out for Hill.
Pat Gallagher, of Scranton, Pa, fatally
injured his mother-in-law with a stone.
Now a rumor is current that Secretary
Blaine will resign, owing to his health.
AT Mattawa Ont, M. Rothschild and
his two children perished in his burning
store.
AT Tuesdays cabinet meeting Blaine's
letter and the Behring sea question were
discussed.
A cyclone in the oil field near Cygnet,
o., did considerable damage. No one was
killed or injured
The priests of the St Louis diocese,
have prevailed on Archbishop Kenrick to
accept a coadjutor.
Captain John Hughes, the pioneer ship
builder of New Orleans is dead, eighty
seven years of age.
AT Carlisle, Pa, Mrs. Cora Frey was
convicted of throwing vitriol into her
husbands face as he slept.
Joe Manley, of Maine, Blaines very in
innate friend says the Withdrawal from
the presiden ial race is final.
At Sedalia, Mo-, Attorney William
Parmelee shot and killed William J.
Condor, whose salary he had garnished
1t is now alleged that most of the re-
ports we receive of the trouble on the
Mexican frontier are greatly exaggerated.
Another fall of rock in the Patton tun-
mel of the Evansville Louisville and St.
Louis will delay traffic ON that road for
some time.
AT Allegheny, Pa, J. G. Alderman,
prominent contractor, suicided by shoot
ing. He had been drinking and quarreled
with his wife.
At Springfield, o., B. A. Orinsbee shot
at Officer Bishop, mistaking him for
chicken thief The bullet passed through
the officers coat.
Governor Boyd is now governor de facto
of Nebraska. He sits in that unique ar
elegant chair presented to him by his
Democratic admirers.
At Springfield, o., Chris Ziegler,
butcher, got drunk and attempted to do
up his wife and mother-in-law and was
knocked out by his muscular wife.
1t is understood in New York that the
Vanderbilts have secured control of the
Reading railroad. The Drexel-Morgan
syndicate are said to be in the deal.
The timely application of stomach
pump saved the life of Jennie Rame, of
Columbus, Ind, who tried the NOR
phine route because her husband deserted
her
At last the municipal troubles at Omaha
have reached a climax On Tuesday even
ing the grand jury returned thirty-two in
dictments against boodling councilmen
and Others
Mrs. Jack Hurley, of Cincinnati, woke
in the middle of the night and not hear
ing her husband snoring thought some
thing was wrong, Investigation showed
he was dead.
Mrs. K Matte James Barn Trip, the
great spook priestess, whose seances on
East Seventeenth street, New York, have
created such a sensation, has been sent to
the lunatic asylum on Wards Island.
Great discomfort exists at Port Allegro,
brdZli. Inc SOlLltTS hTt DdkiUk away
arms from the citizens. The higher civil
officials are abandoning their posts. Gov
ernor Martin is meeting with strong OPP
position.
The ashes of the famous songstress,
Emma Abbot, were on Monday inferred
at Gloucester, Mass, in the gorgeous mon
ument which covers the singers husband,
Eugene Wetherell, which has just been
completed.
A hugh sea lion floated into Fire
Island, l.. L., Tuesday, on large cake of
ice. After a twenty-minute battle with
the life-saving crew at that station it was
made prisoner. II barked and snapped
and used its flukes like John l.. Sui
livan.
Mrs. Amiza Williams, of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, Is under arrest charged with bigamy.
She quarreled with No. 4, showed him
four wedding rings, and told him she
would keep on adding until she got the
right man. This was too much and he
had her arrested.
The last of the series of official card re-
ceptions at the White House, given 20 the
army and navy Tuesday night, was the
most successful and brilliant of the
season The attendance was the largest
of a similar occasion for years, the crush
being something terrific