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The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
CRIMINAL COURT.
Henry Erwin, Charged With Bril-
berry, Not Guilty.

The attention of this court was oc-
cupied most of yesterday, with the con-
sideration of the case of Henry Erwin
who was charged with bribery and cor
ruption.
The counsel for the defense, consisting
of Messrs Cobb & Merrimon, Jones x
Shuford and Gudger, Carter and Martin,
opened the proceedings by making four
motions to quasl he indictment: First
because it was not legibly written,
second, because the bill was found at a
term of the court not legally held; third
because the party to whom it was
charged bribe had been given, was de.
scribed as an ''electOr entitled to vote
for members of the General Assembly,
instead OF 'for mayor and aldermen o
the city of Asheville," and fourth, be
cause the bill of indictment charged {
felony instead of a misdemeanor. Aftel
an exhaustive argument, the court over
ruled each of these motions, the bill o
indictment was read by the Solicitor anC
the examination of witnesses begun.
After the introduction of two witnesse
for the State, and some half dozen for tn
defense, the Solicitor consented to take
verdict of not guilty, and the detendan
was discharged.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
A TRAIN DITCHED.
The Sldebars of the Engine Break
No One killed.

TOLEDO, Ohio, October 3O.-The west
bound fast. train on! the Lake Shore,
known as the limited No. l, was thrown
into ditch about 6 O'Clock this morn
ing, near station called Wawaka, Ind,
on the air line. While the train was rum
ming at it's usual high speed, the sidebars
on the engine broke, and the separated
parts, in flying round, SO damaged the
track as to dcrail the trucks of the for
ward car. This, in turn, pulled other
cars off the track until three cars, with
the engine, went into the ditch. The en-
gine was damaged somewhat, and the
trucks of the derailed cars were smashed
up, the cars themselves escaping with
lighter damage. The track was badly
blocked, and it will require the greater
portion of to-day to clear up the wreck
age. The only personal injuries sus-
tanned were by passenger, name un-
known, who was bruised a little. The
train was composed wholly of sleeping
cars and combination car, no coaches
being in its make up, which fact may serve
to account for the escape of passengers
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COLLISION AT SEA.
THE CRYSTAL WAVE AND Gle
OPATRA COME TOGETHER.
Crystal wave was Cut Through
to the Keel, and the CleOpatra's
PIanks Farted-BOth Boats go
Down, but no Lives Lost.

Crystal wave was Cut Through
to the Keel, and the CleOpatra's
PIanks Parted-BOth Boats go
Down, but no Lives Lost.
NEW YORK, October 3O.-The Crystal
Wave was purchased week ago for
$40 900 from the Bridgeport Steamboat
Company by E. S Randall, OF Washing
ton, D. c. Capt. Dan Martin, one OF the
best known steamboat men in this port,
was placed in command of the Crystal
Wave, and she left here last Saturday
for Washington. The weather was clear
and the sea smooth until the vessel
reached the Horse Shoes. There light
storm came up, and the boat anchored
until Monday night. At 7.3O O'Clock
that night the boat resumed her voyage,
proceeding without further interruption
until a few minutes after O'Clock Tues.
day morning. At this time the darkness
was intense. Capt. Martin "us i'll the
pilot house, and he says his vessel s side
lights were brightly burning when sud
dealy and without any previous warning
agrcat black object loomed up. Before he
could signal the engineer to slow down,
the black object that Capt. Martin now
saw was the bow of a steamer, crushed
into the Crystal Wave. Her Captain
had lust time to make out the name
Cleopatra on the approaching vessels
bow, when he was thrown to the floor
of the pilot house by the shock of the col
lision. The Cleopatra struck the CryS-
tai Wave at right angles between the
paddle box and stern on the starbOard
side. The Crystal Wave was cut clean
through to the keel The Cleopatras 5
plankS parted, and in an instant both
vessels began to fill with water. 1t was
not then known that any vessel other
than the two which had collided was
within nlileS of them, and hurried prepa-
ratons were made by those on board
each vessel to take to the boats.
The Cleopatra was the least damaged,
and her captain, Ira L. Dale, ordered his
crew to lower the lteboats and endeavor
to save those on board the Crystal Wave.
One or two boats had been lowered and
several men had been taken from the
CRYSTAL Wave by the Cleopatra's boat,
when the coal boat Kanawha came in
light and those on board both vessels
we're transferred to the kanawha in life
boats, with the exception of Capt. Mar
in, who refused to leave his vessel. The
CRYSTAL Waves owner Randall, who had
been taken off, saw his vessel was sink
ing and shouted to Capt. Martin to enter
the life boat that was waiting for him !;
but the captain refused and remained on
board for an hour after the collision.
Then the Crystal Wave plunged down,
bow first, with Captain Martin still in
the pilot house when she sank. He was
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
RANDOM NOTES
ROPed III by Rambling Reporters
Roaming Round the City.

There was no police court yesterday
A force of hands have been put to work
grading Church street.
The trains continue to arrive behind
time from both east and west.
Our warehousemen are being run night
and day by the heavy tobacco sales.
The room in the Eagle block formerly
occupied by the postoffice is in the hands
of the carpenters for repairs.
Between seven and eight thousand dol
lars worth of tobacco was sold on the
floors of the warehouses in the city yes
terday.
There will be several cases, consisting
of drunks and fights, before his honor
Mayor Blanton at this morning session
of the police court.
The street sprinkler was drawn from
it's seclusion yesterday and aided in hold
ing the dust down to the great delight OF
the public generally.
Messrs RawIs and Summers new
house on Haywood street, is approach
ing completion, and is compact, con
venient and stylish.
At Oak Forest, in South Ashevile, a
very pleasant dance was given to tn,
Young people by Miss Hattie Harring-
ton on Tuesday night.
The regular monthly meeting of the
W. c. T. L. will be held this evening at
Johnston Hall, at four o'clock. A full
attendance is very much desired.
Rev. c, NJ, Campbell, pastor Of River.
side and Doubleday Methodist churches,
was soundly pounded by his congrega-
ton on Depot street on Tuesday.
Married, at the Methodist parsonage,
on Willow street, yesterday afternoon,
by Rev. DR.. G. c. Rankin, Mr.. F. W.
Snider and Miss Bessie Mcclellan, both
of Buncombe.
The ladies of the Methodist church
have presented Rev. J. H. Weaver, the
new presiding elder, with some neat
furniture and other useful articles for the
district parsonage at Weaverville.
On Tuesday night, at the residence OF
Capt. A. G. Halyburton, a most enjoya-
BILE party was given in honor of Miss
Meroney and Miss Kesler, of Salisbury
who leave this morning for home.
The young mems meeting of the Young
Mems Christian Association will be hello
at the Central Methodist church this
evening at eight clock. Subject flight
ing Men and Their Armor;;" list chron
12: /, 2, s; Eph. 6: 10, 13: All young
men are invited.
Mr.. W. B. Merritt, formerly of Orange
county, this State, but well known il
Ashcville and Western North Carolina
was united i'll marriage yesterday tC
Miss Mary j., daughter Of Rev. T. X
Brown, Of Black Mountain, Rev. J. X
Connally officiating.
During the month of September The
amount turned into the city treasury il
the way Of fines from violators of city
ordinances, aggregated about $575.OC
in cash. We were informed by an Office
yesterday that not more than half tina
sum would be realized during October
which shows that our population, boil
resident and visiting, is improving.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

PoRr IERvIS, n. Y, October 30.-The
accident at Otisville on the Erie railroad
last night was much more serious than
at first reported, Thirty-ive cars broke
away from the switching engine and ran
back down grade to a point about a
mile east of Otisville at a speed Of forty
miles an hour, crashing into a west
bound freight train, They wrecked the
engin completely and twenty-four cars.
Sammuel Sloot, flagman was instantly
killed, Levi Breird died this morning from
the effects of his injuries, Engineer ]. D.
Fardick was badly scalded and fireman
Iohn c. Briefly and brakeman Lee
Garrett were burned and bruised The
ROAD was obstructed until four O'Clock
this morning
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NOT THE CHAMPIONS.
The Mills River Club Not Emit
tied 20 this Distinction,
CHARLESTON, S. c., October 2S.

CHARLESTON, S. c., October 2S.
Editor Citizen will you grant me
space in your valuable paper to call at
tention to a very grave error contained
iu a local headed Base Ball" in your
issue of October %. | cannot believe
that the statement was made on the au-
thority of any OF the members of the
Mills river base ball club. That club has
no claim whatever to the title of cham
pions of Western North Carolina, and
they know well that that they have not.
Flat Rock holds that proud position,
having played eight games, and lost one,
thus making percentage OF .S75. Mills
River according to the published item
PLAYED eleven and lost two. Any one,
familiar with the most elementary rules
ot-arithmetic, who will divide 8 by II,
will find the result .S1S, considerably
less than .S75. OF three games that this
club PLAYED with Flat Rock they lost
two. The game forfeited was lost, be-
cause Mills River refused to play, and on
the authority of the Sporting Life, y
was counted as a game won by Flat
Rock. Why did not Mills RIVER make a
claim of this sort in the county paper
If they thought that by giving the item
to the Asheville paper it would not come
under the eye of any of the Flat Rock
team they little reckoned on the wide
spread circulation of THE CITIZEN, and
the care with which that paper is read
in the city by the sea.
BY publishing this you will further the
cause of fairness and justice, and correct
what trust is only a reportorial error.
Very respectfully,
w. NJ. WHITEHEAD,
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
FOLKS YOU KNOW.
who They Are Where They Are,
and What They Are Doing.

Miss Maria Love, of Waynesville, is
visiting friends in the city.
DR.. Boynton, who was much before the
public few years ago as one of Presi-
dent Garfeld's physicians, is stopping at
Battery Park.
Miss Irene McLoud, daughter of Capt.
c. NJ McLond, left for New York on
Tuesday, where she will attend a private
select school during the ensuing year.
Miss Meroney and Miss Kesler, of
Salisbury, who have been visiting in the
city for some time, leave this morning for
home much to the regret of our beauX,
DR.. W. u. Hiliard left on the east bound
train last night on professional business
for the Richmond and Danville railroad
of which corporation he is the physician
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POLITICAL. ASSESSMENTS.
They Must Not be distributed In
the Departments.

WASHINGTON, october 3O.-The Star
tonight says: "The civil service com
mission have decided to ask the district
attorney to prosecute i'll persons con
cerned in the preparation and distribu
tion of the political assessment circular
recently sent by the Old dominion Rcpub-
liran league to Yirginians in the govern
mcnt service. Those persons, not EN-
ployes of the government, will be prose
cutcd under section twelve of the civil
service act, which provides that no per
son shall in any government building
solicit or receive contributions for any
political purpose. The commission held
that person not connected with the
government in any way may ask for and
receive money from government employees
for political purposes anywhere except
in a government building; but that
where the occurrence takes place on gov
ernment property, or where letters are
sent to government buildings, those con,
cerned are liable to prosecution. 1t is
also proposed to prosecute McssrS
| Elan, Gadwin and Nerser, who are gov
ernmcnt employees under section eleven OF
the act which prohibits all persons draw
ing compensation from the United States
from being i'll any manner connected with
political assessments.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

BRUSSELS, October 3O.-The strikers in
the mining district now number 5000.
The delegates sent here by the strikers
waited upon De Bruyn, minister ofindus
try, to-day, and urged him to support
the mems demands. Golfers in the Cen
trail and Chaeroi coal fields are joining
the strikers. The owners of the coal
mines have issued manifesto. They re-
fuse to grant the strikers demands, and
assert that since 1887 the wages OF the
men have been in proportion to the price
of coal.
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THE COAL FAMINE.
The Situation iii Knoxville still
Very Threatening.


OF this troublesome contingency, the
Knoxville Journal Of yesterday says,
"a way out of the difficulty has not been
suggested; the end of the trouble ap-
pears to be as far off now as ever" AS
Knoxville is nearer the seat of trouble
than we are, and withits large population
md more numerous industries, it is GER
tain that one ofits leading papers would
lot express such despondent views with
)ut reason.
1t seems to be certain that there is coal
in plenty at the four mines from which
supplies for Knoxville and this section
IRE obtained. The difficulty is in de-
icency Of transportation, or negligence
or indifference in supplying it. Either
norm of the dilemma places the E. T. and
Y. railroad authorities in awkward
straits. With a steady increase of de-
nand there should have been steady in
crease of rolling stock, never necessarily
20 stand day idle. If there be a sufficient
provision of rolling stock, not to keep it
in use to meet demands now becoming
imperative, is criminafc A great length
and breadth of territory has become de-
pendent upon these four mines for do
nestle fuel; costly and important in
lustries depend upon them to give life to
their motive power. The railroad COM
panies are legally bound to hold fast to
the implied good faith of contracts.
We hope the authorities Of our road
will interest themselves to ascertain If
something cannot be done, and that
speedily.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
HOG CHOLERA.
The Disease Raging ia Many
Counties iE Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, October 30,-The State
board of agriculture has advices from
many Of the northern and northwestern
counties saying that hog cholera is cpl
demc and that hundreds of hogs are
diving daily and the disease is steadily in.
creasiLg in Steuben county. 1t has as
sumed such proportions that some far
mers have lost every hog on their farms,
and there are but few who have not lost
from 80 to 10 per cent of their stock. 1t
is specially fatal in hogs that have been
put up for fattening. No remedies ap-
pear to have any effect and all attempts
to stop the spread of the disease have
| failed
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, October 30.-The
net result of the chase after Rube Bur
rows and his partner in Blount county is
two dead deputies, and one dead blood
hound. The outlaws have escaped, tie
chase has been abandoned, and all hands
have returned home.
The State Association of Confederate
veterans was perfected here to-day.
General f. W. PETERS of Selma, was
elected president. with a vice president
from each Congressional district. Que
object of the association is to build a
confederate home in Alabama.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
A Destructive Boiler Explosion

WHEELING. w. Va, October 3O.-One
of the large boilers of the Belaire blast
furnace at Belaire exploded this morning
with terrible force, breaking two other
boilers in the main battery, and wreck
ing the boiler rooms. The south end OF
the nail factory was entirely demolished,
windows were broken in all the ad-
Joining buildings, and the wreck was
scattered over an area of one hundred
yards. The damage to the mill and ad
Joining property is $4,000. No one
was injured.
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Makes A HAD Shot.

ATTowA, ILL.,, October 3O.-The ST.
Joseph cannon BALI train On the Rock
Island road ran into the rear of the Den
yer express at Seneca last evening wreck
ing the dining car on the Denver express,
and the engine, tender and baggage car
of the st. Joseph train. Maj.'T. c. Glib
son, of this city, an unknown lady, and
the engineer of the st. Joseph train were
quite seriously injured.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

NASHVILLE, October 3O.--First race
six turlongs; Leo Brigel won Carlton
second, Rose Pearl third. Time 120l2.
Second race-six furlongs: Metal won,
Buckler second, Littroll third. Time
1.l912.
Third race-two year old dmaidens, four
furIongs: Harry H. won, kenilworth
second, Radcliffe third. Time 5312.
Fourth race-six and one-half furlongs:
Renounce won, Kitte X. second, Col,
Hunt third. Time log
Fifth race-one mile: Monita Hardy
won, Mt. Lcbaron second, Nevada third
Time 45.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

Larkin Docktry, the y year old tobacco
raiser, of Marshall, who was in town
Monday and sold 600 pounds Of the
weed, is a fair specimen of what thegood
air and good climate of this region does
for man. There is no reason why this
active, hearty farmer of 70 should not
live to be 100. We hope he will visit
Asheville oftener than onccin twenty-five
years. Marshall is mighty good place
to live in, but we want Mr.. Dockery to
look in on our town more frequently
We are growing so fast he may not know
us if he stays away ten years.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
rx.coxernor Manning Dead.

COLUMBIA, S. C.. October 30.-Ex-Gov.
Tohn Lawrence Manning, of South Caro-
lima, at one time one of the wealthiest
planters in the South, died at his home in
Kershaw county yesterday, aged seventy
five years. He was a son of Governor
Richard ]. Manning, and grandson OF
Lawrence E. Manniug, distinguished
officer in Lees legion army of the revolu'
tion,
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

ing, however, he said Dan Coughlin came
up to him, and said that tinformationh had
been received in Chicago to the effect that
a confederate of lie Car0n was in the or
eanization, and indications pointed to
DR.. Cronin, as the man. Witness stop
ped him at that point
Police officer John NJ. Collins was then
called to the witness chair He %estlhed
that he had been a member OF Camp 20.
He said that at the reunion meeting on
February %, Dick Powers and Pat Nc
Garry made speeches denounCing the
triangle. Then Beggs said that this
TRADE against the triangle, and AlcXan-
der Sullivan had many friends. Collins
description of the meeting OF February :
failed to bring out anything new.
Patrick McGarry, senior guardian OF
the Clan-na-Gael camp in Lake View,
instituted by Dr. Cronin, and ofwhich DR..
Cronin was a member, was the next wit
ness. He told the story of the reunion
meeting of February %, without adding
any ma eral information, and then told
of a visit he made to the house of O'SuI,
livan on the Sunday following DR.
Cronin's death. He there questioned
O'SuIlvan very closely about his contract
with Dr. Cronin to treat his men in case
of accident, and described the twitchng
of O'Sullivan's moustache. The court
then adjourned till tomorrow.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
wOrkiugmen's TICKET ELECTED.

STREATOR, ILL.,, October 30.-J. J.
Geraghtv, candidate of the miners and
other workingmer, was elected mayor o
this city Yesterday after an exciting con
test, over F. W. Eades and Mr., Barn
hardt (Prohibitionist.l Thevote stood
Geraehty 991, Eades 643, Barnhardt 73
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

A defendant of the jay bird alleges that
in the country his voice is harsh and graf
ing. When he comes to town his voice is
subdued and his habits more honest. If
said defendant would come over our way
we will introduce him to jay birds within
the CITY limits whose voices are not yet
subdued. Their vocal utterances are
short and nerve-harrowing enough to
drive English sparrows, bald headed
eagles and buzzards out of the county,
as well as many nervous invalids. The
jay ought to go.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

AUGUSTA, Ca, October 30,-An i'm
portant case has been on trial for three
DAYS before the superior court of Rich
m0nd county, Judge Raney presiding.
Suits were entered against number OF
prominent citizens who, two years ago,
subscribed to the capital stock of the
National Express and transportation
Company, They were based upon a
decree Of the chancery court at Rich
mond, Va, authorizing new assessment
of 80 per cent to liquidate an alleged in
debtedness of the corporation. A test
case was made to-dayin the case of W. H..
Howard, prominent and wealthy cot.
tonmanufacturer and averdict rendered
against him. This virtually carries the
other cases with it. The verdict is re-
garded as a great hardship, althoug h in
accordance with court decisions in these
cases in all States from Maine to Texas.
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Oxerno,y of the Po.

ROME, October 30.-The river Pc and
its tributaries and other streams have
overAowed their banks. Portions of the
city of Verona on the Adige are flooded.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
New outlet for Florida products

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, October 3O.-The
steamship Hutchinson, Of the new line
between New Orleans, st. Petersburg,
Fla, and Havana, will load at the wharf
of the Orange Belt Railway in st. Peters
burg tomorrow. This line furnishes a
new outlet for Florida products through
New Orleans to the west and south
west, and is expected to operate in con-
nection with the Orange Belt railway,
which has its terminus at st. Petersburg.
This port has deep water and an excellent
harbor, and this new connection will be
of vast Importance to the trade OF south
Florida through the ports of the Gulf OF
! Mexico.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31
OUR MAN ABOUT TOWN.
What He sees and what He
Thinks About 1t.

Last Saturday Miss Winnie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, sailed for
Havre on the steamship La Gascoigne.
She will have to make a quick trip if she
is to attend the grand ball, etc, at Fay
etteville announced for November 20.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

Good for Governor Fowle He pro-
poses to try and see if the Lexington
lynchers can be punished for their crime.
Lynching is murder. If the grand old
North State is to progress as it ought to
progress, lynchers and assassins must be
punished and put down. The law has
been shametully violated by a red handed
assassin in search of vindication of
"honor." This cowardly murderer was
allowed to go scot free. Naturally this
is premium on murder.
The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-31

No New York newspaper mail was re-
ceived here for sixty hours early this
week. Without THE CITIZEN to depend
on, we would have been in large meas
ure newsless. Ashevile is to be congrat-
ulated on being independent of the mails
for ber news supply, Beside the delays
of the paper mail, which is an annoyance
to many Northern visitors, the delays in
letter mails continue. Johnny Wanna
maker needs to polish up the service a
bit, and promptly too, if he would win
any commendation in this county