Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-02
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condensation of Interesting Items OIL
Various Subjects

Arthur A. Zimmerman, the American
champion bicyclist, beat the half-mil,
cycling record, Friday, in London Zim
merman was in great form, and mad,
| the distance in the unequaled time of LOS
! 1t is unotficially stated that the choler,
| from the east has already reached Italy
Five cases are reported at Brindisi, between
! which port and the Levant steamers pl,
7 regularly, and two cases are reported al
! Latiano near Brindisi.
| Mrs. Sarah Graves, of Anderson, Ind. /.
missing, and it is thought she has drowned
herself She is slightly demented over tn,
death two weeks a of her infant. Mrs
f. l.. Bennett disappeared the same day
and has been found, raving maniac.
Mrs, A. Richards gave her little boy and
girl in charge of two different families in
Brazil, Ind, four years ago, and went
away to seek work A few days ago she
returned and kidnapped the boy, but was
prevented from getting the girl. She has
left
The New York Clipper says that Ida
Reynolds, an opera singer of Cincinnati. left
home last week to marry Richard Burton
of Chicago. Burton is concert hall man.
ager at Minneapolis, and has wife living
in New York with friends at 362l LaSalle
street.
Josephine McHale, aged seventeen years,
of Waverly, w. Va, charges Loomis Bauer
with criminally assaulting her May 25. He
threatened to kill her if she made il
known, and she kept the secret until june
81 when she secured his arrest. Bauer de
nies the accusation.
William Galliher, an iron puddler from
McKeesport, Pa. on jamboree at Muncie,
Ind, tore $50 bill to shreds and threw il
in the face of bartender, Samuel Spring
er. Soon afterward he spit in Springers
face and was knocked down with q beer
mallet and seriously in Jured
On application of Henry M Duffield, at
torney for tho relators, the chief justice of
the supreme court of Michigan granted a
writ of error to the supreme court of the
United States in the case of the Miner elec.
tion law, which was recently declared con
stitutional by the state court
The latest news from the seat of the
Venezuelan war is that Crespo has now
complete control of the Orinoco river and
the country surrounding it. His forces
have also captured the towns of Guiria and
Campano, and are also in complete posses
sion of the island of Margarita.
Elias 7. Hopkins, transportation man,
personally conducted the first Republican
demonstration of the campaign on the
Produce exchange of New York Thursday
afternoon. He appeared there wearing a
vast "grandfather's hat" a structure Of
straw about foot and a half high and
with spreading crown of vast extent As
he is very tall, 1t was ali imposing speota
Gle. He was warmly greeted by the brokers
and the hat was carried around the grain
pit in a triumphal procession.
Proceedings are to be brought against
the Lake Erie and Western Railway com
pany, it being charged that one Of the
company's switch engines fired the Hem
ingray glass works at Muncie, Ind, re-
Gently, The loss was over 100000.
A thunder, lightning and windstorm,
accompanied by tremendous hailstones
and heavy rain, struck Winstead, Conn,
Friday afternoon. 1t blew down trees,
broke telegraph wires, washed out high
ways and damaged crops 1t is feared that
the hail has ruined the tobacco crops.
Miss Nancy Hopkins, of English, Ind,
has mysteriously disappeared. 1t is feared
she has taken her life. She kept company
with Horatio Quigley, who recently sep
arated from his wife, much against hei
parents wishes When last seen she was
with him. There is talk of lynching.
A year ago Louis Roberts, of Richmond
Ind, fell from load of hay and fractured
his skull, since which time he has been in
sane. A day or two ago piece of his
skull was removed, and a plant an inch
long was found with numerous roots.
1t is thought to be the product of a hay
seed.
Prince Bismarck has arrived at Kis
sengen. A lady threw bouquet of flowers
at the prince. The bouquet was fastened
with wire and the wire struck the prince
in the eye, wounding the eye, but not
seriously. Prince Bismarck made light OF
the accident, although suffering much
pain.
Proceedings will be begun to wind up
the Guarantee alliance, of New York, fol
swindlng practices Superintendent Pierce
said Friday that he was determined limo
cent policy holders in this class of insur
ance companies shall have every protec
tion, and to that end he has ordered an ex
animation of the affairs of all associations
of this class.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Berlin says that, according to the Ultra
montane press, the leaders of the Center
party are determined to support the gov
ernment against Bismarck. Herr Lie
Der, a prominent deputy, stated at q
party meeting that statesman acting
like Bismarck, when Bismarck was in
power would have been immured at
Spandau.
The Norwegian ministers have rendered
their designations. The premier stated
that this action of the ministry was due to
the kings refusal to sanction the storth.
ings resolutions in regard to the estab-
lishment of separate Norwegian consul
ates. The king in accepting the resigna-
tion of the cabinet intimated that he would
further consider the question to which the
crisis was due
Severe storm in the vicinity of Philadel
phia At Gloucester, N. j., the sporting
resort of Philadelphia, Patrick Highlands,
aged fifty, and Robert Hamilton, aged
forty, were killed, and number Of persons
injured. Great damage was wrought In
Jersey towns along the Delaware river. II
is feared that many sailboats were capsized
on the Delaware during the storm and q
number of people drowned.
A startling discovery was made at Mill
Creek, Pa, Friday. Some time ago we'll
to-do Hungarian received a fine grey.
hound that had been sent to him by a
friend in Hungary A few days after the
dogs arrival several persons were stricken
with smallpox, and the disease soon became
an epidemic. 1t has since been discovered
that the dog came from a district in Hun
gary where smallpox is raging.
Notwithstanding the defeat Of the gov
ernment at Cincinnati and New York the
United States authorities at Chicago will
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