Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-12-22
NEWS in a NUTSHELL.
Items Of Interest Gathered from All Part
of the World.

of the World.
Spanish anarchists are still active Il
Madrid
George Kretzer, of Aurora, Ind, tool
carbolic acid and is dead
Duluth is threatened with grain blocl,
ade before navigation opens.
The death Of another victim of tn,
Homestead poisoning is reported.
John Brandt, n machinist, was killed
by an electric car at Evansville, Ind.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is to build palac,
in New York that will cost 81, 000,000.
Daniel Booker, a negro who killed hi
wife in Cincinnati last September, received
life sentence.
o., have been arrested for highway rob
berry at that place.
Engineer William Kemper, of New AL
bany, Ind, was killed by his engine run
ming into box car
The Belmont coal mines, near Bellaire,
O., are on fire, and several tramps are sup
posed to be entombed
Archbishop Janssens, of New Orleans,
celebrated his silver jubilee He received
many valuable presents.
AT Sarnia, Ont, the Canadian Express
company's safe was robbed of $1,000 while
the employees were at dinner.
The French government has issued or.
ders to General Dodds to raise the block
ade on the coast of Dahomey.
Orlando Metcalf, a capitalist of Colorado
Springs, Colo, has assigned Assests
$500, 900, and liabilities 81 100000.
Charles Frost living in Hamilton
county who has been dumb for twelve
years, suddenly recovered speech.
AT Brownstown, Ind, Frank McCor-
mick was acquitted of the murder of Carl
w. Doerr. Insufficient evidence
Fireman William herman, of Cincn-
natl, fell from the top of building and
was instantly killed while fighting fire.
AT San Francisco the papers say Presi-
dent Harrison will, after March 4, become
q member of the faculty of Stanford uni
versity.
Joseph Mellow was hanged at Man.
chester, England, for wife murder, and is
said to have acknowledged the justice OF
his sentence.
At Wooster, o., during quarrel
Andrew Trunk struck John Talbot with
Ratchet severing arteries of the neck
and injured the spine.
A steel manufacturing plant, with cap
ital of $1,000, 900, and which will employ
from 1900 to 5000 men, may soon be rs
tablished at New Haven.
At indianapolis bench warrants have
been issued against Iron Hall officers,
charging them with embezzling $175,000
of the funds of the order.
Alexander r.. Webb, who recently re.
signed his office as United States consul at
Manila, is raising fund to send Islamite
missionaries to the United States.
At Marion, Ind, Charles Fort was con
victed of the murder of Michael Halpin,
at Jonesboro last July, and given twenty
one years--the extreme penalty.
Repre- cntative Livingston, of Georgia,
secured the reading to the house Tuesday
of resolution of the Georgia Legislature
in favor of the repeal of the 10 per cent.
tax on stHtc banks
A box of dynamite caps which were &C
cidntally swept out of a hardware store,
at Charlottesville, Ind, exploded and shat
tered glass in the vicinity when the trash
was fired in the alley
j. B. White, a boarder at the st. Nicho-
las hotel, Akron, o., would have been suf-
located by smoke during fire In the hotel
II his dog had not jumped on the bed and
awakened him by barking
Marie Nevins, recently divorced from
James G. Blaine, Jr., says she has no in
tention of marrying again. She also says
she has made no effort to effect recon
citation with young Blaine.
The North American Endowment asso-
citation, of Boston, has gone into the hands
of receiver. The concern has about SIS.
600 in assets and about 800 members. II
formerly had 5000 members.
At Woonsocket, X. T., Erastus Wiman
said annexation Of Canada to the United
States could not come short of revolution,
and that it would be political death TO any
politician to advocate such move.
Assistant Secretary Spalding thinks the
revenue cutters on the great lakes are lit
tie less than war vessels, and he has no
fear that England will ever attempt to
rush feet through the st. Lawrence
At Fort Smith, Ark, Deputy United
States Marshal Bruner and posse had n
fight with the notorious Stan Rowe and
his band and killed Joe Raven, fatally
wounded Rowe and captured Ned Down
ing