Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
a Condensation of Interesting Items Oh
Various Subjects.

Great gale on the Atlantic coast.
w j. McHenry, of Toledo, is mysteri-
ously missing
1t is believed the French Orleanists are
on their last legs.
Heavy gale on the Atlantic coast in the
vicinity of New York.
Eight persons died from the grip at
Louisville Wednesday.
One-fourth of the 5000 population Of
Portland, Ind, have the grip.
The Maxim ordenfeldt Gun company
may move to the United States.
Rufus Crosby, prominent banker of
Valley Falls, KY, hanged himself because
of poor health.
Senator Coxey, of Ohio, wants congress
to issue $500, 600 treasury notes to i'm.
prove all the roads in the country.
The bituminous coal operators of the
Indiana coal field refuse to recognize or.
ganized labor, and strike is probable.
At Nashville John Morris is dying from
being struck on the head with poker by
Joe Franklin, whom he found in his wife's
room,
1t is said Bulgaria has resolved to pro-
claim her independence should the porte
yield TO the demands of France in the
Chadouine affair.
Robert j. Cascaden, son of late Phila-
delphia merchant, when detected in the
act of burglary, shot one officer dead and
wounded another.
The stockholders of the Commonwealth
National bank, of Philadelphia, have de
termined to go into liquidation and
will close the bank.
The Indiana Midland railroad, extend
ing from Anderson to Waveland, has been
abandoned by its owners. The rolling
stock was seized for taxes
Governor Chase unwittingly married
runaway couple in the persons of James
Hodell and Nancy Warrick, two Parke
county Qnd) school teachers.
A certain tough character is suspected
of the crime of blowing up the calaboose
at Fordsville, Ky, with dynamite, which
occurred at midnight Tuesday.
The Duke Of Devonshire, formerly Mar
quis of Harrington, has been elected
chancellor of Cambridge university, in
succession to his father, the late duke
l.. Edward Elliott, noted criminal of
many aliases, was arrested Wednesday
for robbing the postoffice at Coffeyville
Montgomery county, Kan, on May 49,
At Cincinnati Pete Bender, politician
and bad man on general principles, shot
and probably fatally wounded William
bloomsbury, colored, without provoca-
ton.
After April 1 all accounts, etc, in AL
sace-Lomaine must be computed in
marks instead of francs as heretofore, I'M
der penalty of a heavy fine and imprison-
ment.
At Dallas, Tex, w. X. Hall, a promi-
nent insurance man and state agent for
the Michigan Fire Insurance company, was
arrested on the charge of forgery and
swindling.
James Dustin, the we'll known trainer,
has been appointed trainer for Senator
Stanford's Palo Alto stables, to succe ed
Charles Marvin, who recently accepted
position in the east.
The great barrel works of the Standard
Oil Company, at Constable Hook, n j.,
were burned. Loss about 81 100000 The
origin is II mystery. Hundreds of men
will be thrown out of work.
DR.. c. n. Metcalfe, secretary of the In
diana state board of health, was arrested
at indianapolis by Marshal Patterson, of
Greenfield The charge preferred is inter
feriug with the Greenfield board of health.
Jere Little, the famous Breathitt
county Q<y), outlaw, was accidentally
killed near Jackson, Ky, while rolling
logs His cant hook slipped, throwing
him down, and an immense log rolled over
him.
The annual convention of the American
Society of Naturalists, in session at Phila-
delphia, passed a resolution advocating
further efforts for the introduction of the
study of natural science in the public
schools.
Arthur Murphin was arrested at Chi
cago as he stepped from Panhandle
train. He had in his possession $4,000
worth of diamonds and jewelry which he
had stolen from a guest at a Columbus,
O., hotel.
Indianas plan to have an educational
exhibit at the worlds fair is to have each
pupil in the state contribute cent and
each teacher five cents. The aggregate
sum will be large enough for the purpose
intended
1t is now said that General Garcia, the
loyal Mexican general, who has been at
tempting to defeat the revoutionists
under Cara, the insurgent leader, was
killed by his troops, who have joined
Garzas band
1t is reported that some 6,0O0 to 1000
pounds of Arctic whaebone has been sold
in New York at an advance over last
sales. The whalebone syndicate has some
70, 600 pounds of bone stored in Bedford,
Mass, estimated to be worth over $500, 900