The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-03-11
LATE NEWS BRIEFS.
Mayer Bros. Il Go, coffee dealers
O. New York, have failed.

Mayer Bros. Il Co, coffee dealers
O. New York, have failed.
Slugcers Sullivan and Mi chell
will 7:ug each other to-m, rrow.
Gustave Ranger, cotton merchant
Of Galveston. has failed for Sl5O,OOO.
The Mitchell, Dakota, Methodist
Uni :ersity VAS burned Friday.
Several were fatally injured.
The Remington Armory plant at
lli1n. \. ! has been ;sold to Hart
lev and Graham. Of New York, for
S20O,GGn
The miners strike in the Lehigh
region has come TO an end, and
there Is 4 general stampede OF mir~
er3 iHr places.
T"r Ottawa parliament is going to
build = monument TO the British,
Indian warriors and volunteers whD
fell il the battle .! Lurjy,s Lane.
Tha Northern Prtsby terians are
working to raise :. Si.C0O.NOO Ell
doWment fund L. 3r..5iie tnr aged
ministers and willows. "a $ i most
commendable
Thirty-fou; pea.ion bills were
passed b. ths House Thursday, in
Guiding nna ioT ;hc vi i"w of Gen1
Robert AnGtr-n:.. II :Huu!,tr fame,
Tor $1oU. r"r lnol;tM,
Neal Dew was u candidate for the
Mayoralty OF Portland, Maine. but
rum and Republicans defeated him.
The Democrats indorsed him and
got whipped out all along the line.
An avalanche has fallen upon the
church ut the famous Hospice St.
Bernard, in Switzerland, but fortu-
nateiy no lives were lost. In the
Italian Alps two hundred bodies
have been recovered Of victims from
snow slides.
Horace Smith, who lives in Will
linn Penn's cottage in Fairmount
Park, Philadelphia, has the largest
collection OF newspaper clippings in
the world. He began when ten
years Old and his clippings are the
result Of fifty years Of research.
II. NJ. Fiagier, the Standard Oil
millionaire, who built the Ponce de
Leon Hotel. at st. Augustine. has
bought the Indian River Hotel for
$4,000. This is the first step in
great scheme to extend his hotel
ventures Ill along the Florida
coast, from st. Augustine to Indian
river.
A leading New York city Repuh-
lican iOurual says the mem':ers o.
lis partY III the House Of ReDresen-
tatives are opposed to the Mills
tariff bill. Oj course they are
What are they there for put to op-
pose every measure, whether right
0 wrong, that originates with the
Democrats.
Prince William, the eldest son of
the Crown Prince ana the future
heir to the German crown, received
the title of major general as birth
day present from the Emperor on
January y, 1886 rhe advanced
age Of the monarch and the frail
condition Of the Crown Princes
health have certainly had much to
do with the grandson's rapid pre-
motion.
Macy Warner was hanged in the
Jsffersonvii'e, KY, Jail at 1850 FRI
day morning. Just before the sig.
nal was given Warner laughed and
said to the sheriff, II am ready if
you are" Warner and his victim,
Frank Harris, were fellow convicts
in the Jeffersonville prison and both
were employed in the shoeshop.
Warner cody prepared a shoeknife
as if for his work and announcing
his purpose to another convict,
hunted up Harris and cut his
throat in the presence of crowd OF
convicts. Both Warner and Harris
mad been noted criminals. The
murder was the result Of a trivial
! quarrel.