The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-04-29
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ff~ses A1t1 11ao1 NEWS Il ANMAO.
The mineral output of Colorado
for the past year amounted to $22,-
1851 600.
/ News from all parts of the country
indicates that the growing wheat
crop is all right.
New York, April 27.-A state
ment made in one of the morning
journals. dated Detroit. Mich, that
President Garfeld's body Was not in
its coffin, is vigorously denied by
Charles L. Benedict, who embalmed
president Garfield. Mr.. Benedict
tsafd TO q Unite1 Press reporter this
taffefnoon, that the whole story was
false and that there had been no
mistake made in embalming the
dead President; that his body was
never taken from the coffin into
which il was placed. s{
AT Pittsburg, on the 9th, as Ed
ward B. Schaum Was returning
home he observed q newsboy fail
on the street under peculiar circnm-
lstailces.s He went to pick the boy
up. and stooping forward his arr,
Icame IN contact with an iron awns
| ing post. He plunged forward With
| a .shrisk, and when bystanders
reached him he was dead. Investi-
CATION showed that Stacked .tele.
phone wire rested on top Of the aw-
ming, and was crossed with electric
light wires, the awning post convey.
ing electric fluid to the ground. The
newsbay Was badly shocked, but
soon recuv. red.
Brooklyn advices of the 26th say:
a number of striking hands at the
Mechanicsville sugar factory, return
ed to work to>day at the refinery at
the foot of Rush street, Williams
burg. Several loads ofmolasses were
carted from the dock to the refinery
without ally interference up to two
o'clock. About this time some
threatening demonstrations were
made by the strikers. The position
of affairs is now considered critical.
an outbreak is thought to be inn
minent. Four companies of militia
have been ordered under arms and
are in readiness to be dispatched to
the scene should any trouble occur
The strikers are very threatening in
their demeanor and this precaution
has been taken is the police force is
entirely inadequate.
Sevierville, Tenn, was on the 9th
the scene of a tragedy that was most
painful in its results. Lum Atchley
a young man about seventeen, son
of Jesse Atchley, of Sevierville, shot
and killed Bruce Hardin, about the
same age, son of w. H. Hardin, of
this place.
The boys were printers, working
in the Republican Office. They had
Just returned from their suppers.
Bruce was at his case setting type.
Lum went to his drawer and took
out a pistol, and walking up in rear
of Bruce, was looking at the pistol.
He pulled the hammer back, when
his thumb slipped off the hammer
and the pistol was discharged. The
ball entered about the centre of the
the back of Bruce's head, ranged
through the brain, and come to the
surface just at the edge of the hair
on his forehead, killing him instan :
ly. He died without struggle.
A dispatch from Athens says the
mediation of France in the Greek
troubles has failed, Greece demand-
ing certain concessions in return for
disarn,lng, which the powers refuse
to grant. An ultimatum was drawn
at Italy by ;he embassy yesterday
aad signed by the representatives of
England, Germany, Austria and
the italian ambassador, and was
presented to NJ. de Lyannis, the pre-
n1ier. The ultimatrm is to the eff
feet that Greece shall disarm within
eight days. De Lyannis, on receiv-
ing the ultimatum, at once replied
to the signers that he failed to dis
cover any grounds for the issuance
of such u document, inasmuch as
orders tor q disarmament had al
ready been issued. The war ships
representing England, Germany,
Austria and Italy will return to Pi~
cranes to day and take on board the
respective representatives of these
countries.
A dispatch from Vienna states
that the French government propoa
ses conference of the powers, to
consider the concessions demanded
by Greece, in return fer the disar-
mament of her forces.