The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-25
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

". l.. bHTDcc, an cS-NoHltucTHtc soI'
dier, died at Chattanooga on the 23rd OF
the grippe.
A Young lawyer named Hoover, lately
arrived at Chattanooga, was bound
over on the 23rd on charge rape.
The cold wave has given encourage
mcnt to the ice gatherers on the Hudson
that they will yet secure a good crop.
The boy Elkins, convicted of cruelty
killing both his parents while they were
asleep, has been convict d at Dcs Moines,
Iowa, and has been sentenced to impris-
onmcnt for life.
The Episcopal church. St. Timothy's,
New York, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 23rd, caused by an over
heated fluc. The destruction of church
and contents was complete.
News comes from Mcsopotamia that
the cholera is raging there with great ia
tality. Already 5000 deaths are re-
ported. As that epidemic moves from
Will Lowry and John Cole went to
Lick Creek church, near Carriers depot,
Ky., while the Rev. Mr.. Glover was hold
ing one of series of meetings, when Cole,
watching his opportunity, cut Lowry's
throat. The wounded man died i'll about
twenty minutes.
Lee Bailey, of Chattanooga, was con.
victcd at the last term of the court on a
charge OF forgery, but pardoned by Gov
ernor Taylor before he reached the pcni-
tcntiary. Now he is up again for n new
offence. and will make fresh test of exc
cutive clcmcncy.
A fierce factional fight is raging at
Wilkcsbarre, Pa, between the Lithua-
nian and Polish Catholics, resulting in
one instance, on the 22nd, in party OF
the latter horribly dcsccrating the Gene
tcry, digging up and casting out the
bodies oftwo Lithuanian children bur
led that morning
Five dcsperadocs, who murdered Con
stable Long near Catlcttsburg, ky., at
the same time dangerously wounding his
wife, were captured Tuesday night by n
heavily armed body of pursucrs. They
were also heavily armed. but were caught
mapping. To avoid lvnching, the pris
onrrs were taken to Richmond, ny.
A sad thing happened in Chicago on
the 23rd. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Payne
were ON the way to the cemetery to inter
five months old child. While crossing
a railroad track they were run over by n
train. The two parents were killed, as
also n lady riding with them. and the
driver of the carriage, \ little girl. nine
years old. daughter of the Paync's cS-
capped with slight bruises.
1t is stated that the people in nineteen
counties in South Dakota are in n state
of starvation. Their condition is deplor-
able; they have no -four. and but little
meal. and in some counties every farm is
mortgagcd. and the shcritis are lcvying
on the stock which is sold at pitiiully
low prices. cows selling as low as So
apiece. This is the State which was re-
Gently admitted with such a flourish OF
trumpcts.
| A hill has been introduced into the
Dominion parliament to suppress the
! use OF the French language in the north
west territories. This is the last refuge
of race hatred, race fear, or tyranny.
Russia has been at such work ever since
the conquest of Poland. The Normans
tried il when they conquered England.
But the English speech yet lives, better
for the attempt to make it dead Ian
guagc.
Carbolic acid seems to bear very
deadly similarity to beer or whiskcy.
Yesterday was noted the tragic end oi
the son ofJudge Avery in Washington
drinking out oi n bottle oi carbolic acid
marked whskcy. The day before the
postmaster at Holmdcl. Pa, stopped on
his way home from kcyport at the town
house kept by his brother, and told the
servant girl to bring him a bottle of beer.
She brought by mistake n bottle con
tanning the fatal acid, OF which he drank
and soon died.
A very sensational case is reported in
Chattanooga. An attempt was made on
Sunday to poison Mrs. Whitcsidc and
other ladies. She had invited two oi her
daughters in law to n private lunch n,
which was produced u bottle Of win,
which had been in the house several
years. but which had previously been
opened. and n part of the contents taken
out. All drank n portion, and all were
made violently ILL., Medical aid was
quickly had, and the lives of all wcr,
saved. Chemical analysis developed
enough arsenic in the bottle to- kill scv
cral people. There is no clue to the mys
terry.
Another one of those cowardly mur
dcrs of q woman by man with which
the Northern press keeps MS so familiar
occurred in New York on the morning -
the 23rd. A young Russian, who had dc
s,r, ,l thp Russ ann nrmy uul fled tp NCN