The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-30
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

| huHalo blli IL eAHlhitiHb MS WIN NSs'
show at Naples.
Miss Anne Van Schracdcr. n rich heir
css of St. Louis, has taken the veil.
4 snow slide at Downievillc, Cal, or
the 27th, buried house and killed two
of the inmates.
The health Of the Pope is reported as
fairly good, and he walks firmly and
without assistance.
Queen Victoria is reported TO have
been suddenly taken quite sick, and it
is feared with the influenza.
The hostile feeling of the Portuguese
against England is increasing. and is
said to lse more bitter than ever.
Senator Quay has introduced n bill ia
construct great bridge across the Hud.
SON to connect Jersey City and New
York.
There are some signs that the winter.
summer is passing off, Ice is floating
down the upper Mississippi, where not
long since il was as mild as it has been
south.
On her passage from New York to Liv.
erpool the British steamer Nissmore
ploughed into huge iceberg, The
steamer Was moving slowly, and no
great damage was done.
There is terrible intestinal disease
raging in Persian khorassan, and the
mortality is excessive. Three thousand
leaths are already reported. 1t is not
the Asatic cholera.
Geronimo, the Apache chief, is pro.
nounccd by General Crook to be heap
good Indian" He is teaching Sunday
school. ami is said to have lost all his
hatred to the whites.
The British ship Loeb Moidart was
among the vessels wrecked on the Brit.
ish channel during the recent hurricane.
She struck on the coast Of Holland. and
thirty o: her crew were washed over
board and drowned.
The United States ship Enterprise,
having IN board the remains of Mr..
Prndlcton, late United States minister to
Germany, sailed from Dartmouth for
New York on the 27th. but was driven
back by stress OF weather.
Baliour, the secretary Of Ireland, who
is the nephew oi Lord Salisbury, is to be
married in the spring to Emma Alice
Margaret, youngest daughter of Sir
Charles Tenant, Bart. She is pretty.
with Il large property.
1t has hccn decided at Doylcston, Pa,
in suit brought by the commonwealth
against member OF a Philadelphia gun
club, indicted tor participating in a pr
gcon shooting match. that sport so con-
Quoted comes under the law to prevent
cruelty to animals.
The Russian government is to build /;
railroad from Lake Baikitl III southern
Siberia To Strctinsk on the Chinese from
tier and on the Amour river. Ultimately
the road will reach the Japan sea, thu
making railroad connections across both
the continents of Europe and Asia.
The frigatc Constitution. old lronsides
for which every American who knows her
history has vcneration, narrowly es-
capped destruction in the recent fire at the
kittery navy yard. But she escaped as
she had done before, coming out Of hot.
ter places covered with glory.
A terrible explosion occurred at ill.,
omencd Johnstown on the 9th, caused by
the throwing OF a load OF cinders into
the Concmaugh. The cinders were
blown long distance, setting fire to sew
cral houses. No great damage was done,
but many buildings were shaken, and
there was much alarm.
A Yale student, Fletcher Bitzinger, aged
10. from indianapolis, and in the sopho.
more class. while riding in a buggy with
a friend undertook to cross the track oi
q railroad ahead Of an approaching
train. He was too late. lie was killed,
as was also his horse. The friend Jumped
out in time 10 escape.
At a base hall game at Laurel. Del.
Between two clubs having bitter rivalry
towards each other, one OF the pa'ties
lcmurIrd to the decision of the umpire.
which led To general tree fight between
the clubs IN wh'Ch the spectators joined.
Seven we're badly bruised. and one had
an ear III; or cut off, aud So battered
about the head that he will die.
Kansas, founded by n man named vii.
cox. II claims To have n foundation in
the Bible. Among his doctrines he teaches
that all diseases can lie cured by drink.
inc human blood fresh from the veins.
In the hous, of one OF his votarics was
found man Tar advanced in consump.
ton. In the same house were two pal
lid cnacia'ed children upon whose blood
the vampire was living and trying to re-
gain his health by destroying theirs.