Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-05
NEWS IN BRlEE.
A Condensation of Interesting Items on
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
Dubois, Ia, had a 100000 fire.
Another big strike of gold in the Grip
pie creek district of Colorado.
San Diego, Cal, James W. Collins bank
president, accused of embezzling 100000
suicided,
At Jobs o., Hiram Mills was fatally
injured by IA pneumatic explosion in a
coal miEe.
Aaron Aaronson, one of the typhus pa
TENTS on North Brothers Island, New
York, is dead.
Thursdays district conventions in Indi-
ana assure solid delegation for Harrison
at Minneapolis.
William Hackett, of Kansas City, was
shot and faually wounded by robbers
Wednesday night.
Ryer's upholstery factory, Philadelphia,
burned Loss $4,000. Many of the en-
ployes had narrow escapes.
Within year it is expected Chicago
and New York will be connected by a
ng-distance telephone line.
Theodore Myler, assistant postmaster
of Allegheny City, was arrested on a
charge of embezzlemet and malfeasance
in office,
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck an express train ON the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio near Akron, o.,
Thursday.
Mrs. Oscar Butler of Marshall county,
Ky, has eloped with her cousin, who is
but half her age The husband is in pur-
suit. She leaves six children.
At Chicago, f. H. Dunkan accuses DR..
H. M Scudder of numbering his mother
in-law, Dunkan's wife, in order to secure
her large fortune. The case is a strong
one.
Rev. j. J. Laird, under indictment here
for blackmail, has been debarred from
further participation in the ministry of
the Methodist Episcopal church at Gil
lespie, Mo
The appeals of the Pittsburg newspa-
pers against the law and order league for
selling papers on Sunday, were dismissed
by Judge Porter and the decisions of AL
derman Robe sustained.
Frank Primrose, the stereotyper for The
Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, was
shot by Charles Leander, stereotyper for
a local paper, during meeting of the
stereotypers' union, and died.
At Muncie, Ind, a matchbox saved
Ernest Hickerton's life He got into a
quarrel with Tom Fossett, a negro, who
shot at him, the bullet striking match
box in Hickerton's vest pocket, directly
over his heart.
The trustees of the Dartmouth college
have established lectureship of biblical
literature. and have invited DR.. Bartlett,
whose resignation as president of the in
stitution goes into effect next commence
ment, to take it at salary of 81, 800.
A mail train on the Baltimore and Lee
high railroad, was wrecked Thursday
evening at Little Gunpowder Falls not
far from Baltimore, by jumping the
track. Henry Raab, engineer, was killed,
and three persons dangerously injured.
At Longview, Tex, four men were
killed and six wounded by a boiler ex-
plosion in H. @. Farrell's sawmill Heavy
iron and timbers weighing 800 pounds
were hurled over 1000 yards. The concus-
sion broke windows and stopped clocks
for miles around the scene.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Mrs. Callahan left
her five-year-old girl in charge of her sick
baby while she went after some medicine,
In some unknown manner the house
caught fire and was burned. The baby
was burned to a crisp and the other child
will die from her injuries