Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-19
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
Items ofInterest Gath cred from All Par
of fha yVprI1

Items ofInterest Gathered from All Parts
of the World.
A plate glass combine has been formed
to prevent overproduction.
Indiana Prohibitonists are already pre-
pairing for the fight in 1894,
ST. Louis has just begun its sixth new
hotel to be built this year.
State Treasurer Donald w. Balm, of
North Carolina, died Wednesday.
De Lesseps is to-be prosecuted for alleged
swindling in connection with the Panama
canal
Pugilist Corbett's father says Jim will
Aght just once more and wants that to be
with Mitchell
The Ohio supreme court has decided
against the habitual criminal act unless it
Is stipulated in the sentence
During Democratic celebration at
Decatur, Ala. a Miss Jones was struck by
a skyrocket and instantly killed.
The analysis Of his stomach shows that
Gamble Weir, late chief of police at Pitts
burg, was undoubtedly poisoned.
Fireman John Yonkers leaned too far
from the cab mt Sellersburg, Ind, and was
fatally injured by the mail catcher.
At Salem, O., Edward Cook, intoxicated,
fell twenty feet into a sewer being con
strUctsd and was seriously injured.
The Society OF the Army ST tho Tonnes
| see chose General G. W. Dodge president.
| Chicago will be the next meeting place.
Michael Moon, of Columbus, O, was
granted a divorce because bis wife had
! never given birth to any children, but was
| a crank on dolls.
John Kokensparker was fatally pc 5oned
while butchering hogs near GAINESVILLE, O.,
by his hand being wounded by the t,.sk of
one of the animals.
Eighteen thousand pounds of dynamite
and other explosives have been received for
the government rain-maSing experiments
near san Antonio, Tex.
While Gwincth Maude the jcwelry thief,
was being tried in Lendon word Nas re-
ceived that her mother had suicided The
hearing WAS postponed.
Al Smith, whose fame as a sportin man
! is International made the greatest pay of
his life this week against faro bank in New
York. He won s22,4 400.
| Vice President elect Stevenson has ac-
copied an invitation to attend the ops ming
OF the nav commercial club house at At
lanta on or about Dec. 90
Five families and a number of students
about twenty in all-are suffering in
! Columbus, o., from the effects OF being
| poisoned from eating canned beef,
Near Bowling Green, o., a man named
| johnson had both arms broken while
| shooting gas well with nitro glyCerine
| Several other people were injured.
| Two of Farmer Beetles children found a
match and set fire to a stack of straw near
Hiawatha Kan. Their clothing caught
! fire and they were burned to death.
r. j. Wendell and Henry Buch, express
men, fatally injured by their team becom-
ing frightened and throwing the Wagon
over twenty foot cliff at Wheeling
At Griffin, Ga, at the water works
pumping station Assistant Engineer HIATT
away shot and killed Chief EngneerL. c.
Baird. Hathaway claims self -defense
! President Harrison has appointed Louis
! f. McComRs, of Maryland, to be associate
! justice of the supreme court of the Dis
| triCt of Columbia, vice Montgomery re-
! signed.
| Auditor w. X Alderman, of the worlds
fair, has rendered his resi- Lnation, and has
! informed the local executive committe,
that a leak existed between the treasurer's
Office and the gates
Near Crane Ledge, Mich, William Lind
man, an inohensiyo old citizen, past sew
enty five years Of age WAS murdered either
Monday or Tuesday night He was found
! lying on his bed dead.
The smallpox epidemic at the general
hospital, New Haven. continues un-
abated Despite every possible effort to
check the progress Of the disease new cases
are breaking ont each day
Captains Watkins and Lewis can not be
uaturalizod in time to take charge Of the
steamers City of Paris and City OF New
York. An effort will be made to pass a
special act conierring citizenship.
:. : Rowland WA, SIN 3shed in the face
with an umbrella Mt the Madison arden
horse show in New York by Robert Ne
vile. Both arc swell New Yorl. r.. A
quarrel over real e4Ate was the cause.
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