Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-15
NEWS IN BRIEF.
A Condensation of Interesting Items OF
Various Subjects.

Various Subjects.
No revolt in Montevideo
The New York city Russian famine
fund is now S25, 900.
At Muncie, Ind, Rose Hardesty got
drunk and was fatally frozen.
Joseph Curtis, a farmer living near
Aurora, Ind, was crazed by grip.
Indiana stone men will contribute the
stone for the state building at the world s
fair.
At anarchist outbreak is feared at
Xeres, Spain, where the four suspects
were garroted recently.
The Empress Augusta Victoria of Ger
many is still i'll and several court festiv-
titles have been abandoned.
John l.. Sullivan denies the report that
he is to fight Maher, the Irish champion,
in New Orleans in August.
AT Napoleon, Ind, Mrs. Bonchard,
whose husband suicided, died of broken
heart on the day of his funeral.
The Philadelphia and Concord, United
States war vessels at Montevideo, have
been ordered to the West Indies.
An unknown man was found hanging
to a tree in the woods near Youngstown
o. 1t is supposed to be case of suicide
Carter Broadbent accidentally killed
his little daughter near Bowling Green,
KY, while chopping. The ak flew off the
handle
At Indianapolis Mrs. Della Abbitt got
an $1,000 verdict against the Lake Erie
and Western railroad for the death of her
husband
John w. Mackay has filed notice of
appeal from the Judgment of 800, 166 OBJ
tanned by Edward S. Stokes in the tele-
graph deal.
Chief of Police McClaughrey, of Chi
cago, is determined that the gamblers
must go. He has arrested lately an aver
age of one hundred night
Mrs. Mont Barton, of Charleston, w.
Va, whose baby's death by choking had
driven her insane, made an unsuccessful
attempt to suicide by drowning
AT st. Louis four small boys stole $50.
When arrested the leader said they in
tended to invest it in white rats, ele-
plants, rabbits, etc, and start circus.
Several negro firebugs, who confessed,
were taken from the guards at Sylvan,
Ala, and lynched. Placards were pinned
to their bodies warning other incendiaries
At Bradford Pa, Willie Putnam four
teen, put q revolver he supposed was
empty to his temple and pulled the trig-
ger. 1t was loaded and Willie is no more
Miss Made'le Goodae, a wealthy heiress
of Louisville, and Henry Lyons q young
broker, eloped to Jeffersonville, Ind. and
were married Her mother refuses to for
give.
Friday northwestern Pennsylvania and
western New York had the worst snow
storm for years. In some places the rail-
road tracks were covered with drifts ten
feet deep
Minister Porter says he will not return
to Italy until he is ordered to do so by the
department of state. His return, he says,
is contingent upon the return of the Ital-
ian minister TO this country.
In the province of Penza, Russia, hun
dreds of the famine sufferers are dying of
typhus and other fevers. The same state
of affairs exists in Samara, Saratov,
Charkov, Kasama and Nijini-Novgorod
William R. Gaul, young man of good
social standing, was placed on trial in the
criminal court at Greensburg, Pa, on
Friday for the burning of his mothers
elegant residence for the insurance of
81, 600
Thousands of skilled mechanics and
other workmen in Austria and Hungary
are out of employment. They attribute
their condition to the Mckinley bill which
has crushed out certain branches of in
dustry.
At Columbus, o., George Il. Mcclellan
and VIM. r. Riley, two colored delegates
to the United Mine Workers convention,
from Jellico, got into a dispute Riley
badly stabbed his adversary in the shoul-
der, and is now in Jail.
Thomas Johnson, claiming Richmond,
Ind, as his home, was arrested at Day
ton, o., for raising" S. bill to SEQ bill
by pasting figures cut from revenue
stamp over the 5. Two other bills were
found in his possession.
After beating down his door with a bat |
tering ram, white caps entered the resi- |
dence of Milton Stanley, highly re-
spected farmer near Danville, Ind, and |
searched for some one they charged had
stopped there. Damage 500.
The grand jury at Memphis, are after
the vendors Of cigarettes to minors, which |
is prohibited by a law passed at the last
legislature, Already one hundred tobac- |
conists and grocers have been indicted, |
and the jury is still loaded for bear.
ii. A. Bruins, president of the failed |
Moorehead (Minn.) bank, has been ar |
rested on the charge of defrauding the de- !
positors out of $4,000. The complaint is
made by Robert Enegren, who has been
the banks bookkeeper for about three
years.
North Plain, Conn, has something to |
talk about. Richard Parsons and Alex I
ander Boyee, prosperous young farmers,
had a iacket-whipping contest short
time ago-all for the love of one Alice (
Grover. The contestants left hands ware