Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items ol
Various Subjects.

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in New York.
| The Siemens-Halske Electric compan,
of Berlin, will have an immense exhibit q
| the worlds fair
The agricultural and industrial confer
ence at st. Louis elected Colonel l.. l
Polk chairman.
| In miners riot with clubs and stone
at Nanticoke, Pa, fourteen men were in
| jured, two probably fatally.
AT North Liberty, Ind, Levi Bond Gu
his throat and then plunged into tn
Whitewater river. No cause known.
AT Cincinnati Joseph Levo, who sho
and killed his sweetheart, Ida kipp, in
beer garden during fit of jealousy, wa
| given life sentence.
At Brazil, Ind, Frank Miller, Will
drunk, abused boy named Gus Reubelt
who retaliated with beer mallet. Mil
ler's condition is critical.
AT Chillicothe, o., John Moriarity,
section boss, was buried by cavins
gravel bank. He was rescued in fifteel
minutes and may recover.
The sanity of Edward M. Field, head o
the firm of Field, Wiechers, Lndley 6
to a jury for determination.
AT Eminence, Ind. about 1870 higl
school pupils are kept at home by thei
parents on account of an Objectionable
teacher Less than twenty attend
An immense chamber literally linet
with outcroppings of pure silver ore j
said to have been discovered near Crede
Colo, by poor prospector named Brandt
An explosion in mine No. of the Ca
haba Mining company Blocton, Ala, ha'
destroyed all the machinery. The mine il
still burning. The men narrowly ESCAPED
death.
The Allegheny City council unani
mously elected Nicholas Voegtly mayor
for the unexpired term of ex-Mayol
Wyman, who recently rendered his resig
nation
Jonn Kinney, principal witness against
"Blinky" Morgan, hanged in the Ohio
penitentiary, ..as gone stark mad because
of the constant threats on his life made
by Morgan's gang at Cleveland.
Near Craw ordsville, Ind, Perry Beck
suicided by shotgun route. The shot
ignited his clothing and he was nearly
burned to % crisp Leaves wife and
two children No cause known.
Jacob G. and Margaret Y. Schmidlapp,
of Cincinnati have given the city $4,000
the proceeds of which are to be expended
in free Sunday concerts in the city's vari
GUS parks during the summer season.
In Washington young man named
Vanderventer died from the effects of be
ing hit on the head with a billiard cue by
another young man named McCreary
with whom he quarreled over game ol
pool.
AS the outcome of difference as to
temperance il the little town of Newport,
Tenn, dynamite was used rs a forcible
argument. A saloon was blown up Mon
day and incidentally two stores adjoining
were destroyed.
At San Francisco, William Wiegel, step
son of Robert McMurray, the well-known
mining man and capitalist, was shot and
probably fat, lily wounded during an alter
cation with couple of unknown men
over a dice game.
1t is now stated that Nick. Twombly
will not accept the presidency of the con
solidated Edison-Thompson Houston Elec-
tric Light company, and that 1t is more
than probable that G. A. Coffin will be
elected to the office.
Bendoff, the famous English pugilist,
who fought Wolf at Cape Town, South
Africa, n few years ago for purse of
10000, has arrived at Victoria, b. G., Oh,
the steamer Empress of China from Hong
Kong, on his way to San Francisco.
Lester Folg II attempted suicide at Chi,
cago with morphine. He was the son OF
Mrs, p. T., Folger, of Cincinnati. An un-
fortunate love affair is said to have caused
the act. H. was well known In Cincin-
natl railroad and mercantile circles. He
will recover.
On board the steamer John X. Speed,
on the Ohio, near Aurora, Ind, Second
Mate Daugherty attempted to shoot n
mutinous negro roustabout, missed him,
hit and probably fatally wounded Charles
Pikey, a wealthy Missouri stock raiser,
who was on board.
Private Dalzell has issued call for q
convention of old soldiers to meet at Min
neapolis the day prior to the national
Republican convention, lie says the poll
ticians have not treated the soldiers right,
and that the veterans must make plat
form and compel the politicians to stand
on it.
In the agricultural and industrial CON
ference at St. Louis, Fred Swayne, ex-
member of the st. Louis legislature and a
local labor agitator, attempted 10 in
troduce an e.ght-hour resolution. A free
fight resulted. Swayne was attacked on
every side and laid out. Four of the
antagonists were finally taken by the
collar, waist and legs and carried into the
lobby.
At Beaver Falls, Pa, desperate fight
between police officers and three toughs,
supposed to be burglars, took place when
the former attempted to arrest the latter.
As result two men are dying and two
others are badly wounded, one of the lat
ter being an officer. The wounded men
refused to reveal their identity They
are supposed to hail from Pittsburg.
Death Roll.
e. NJ. Chamberlain, the noted labor re-