The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-04
a FEW NEWS ITEMS.

| The American squadron of evolution
will soon he at Toulon, and will remain
twenty days.
a girl in New York on n visit to dime
museum committed suicide amid the
crowd by taking Paris green.
Dr. McGlynn. the Catholic lecturer
who had gone To Chicago ON an engage.
mcnt, was taken seriously III on his ar
rival. His condition iscritical.
II is reported in London that the little
son of Minister Lincoln is dying of blood
poison supcrinduccd by injudicious treat
mcnt of the French physicians who at
tended him at Versailles.
An Indian grave yard has recently been
discovered in New Jersey, IN which many
skeletons and relies were uncarth, d
They long antc-datc the settlement OF the
country by the whites.
An explosion took place on saturday
in the Nottingham shaft OF coal mine
at Plymouth, Pa, killing several, and
burying Others in the ruins. who were
rescued more or less seriously hurt.
4 clothing store, Immediately under an
Italian boarding house. North street.
Boston. took fire Sunday morning and
nine of the inmates OF the boarding house
pcrishcd.
The Lookout Mountain hotel, near
Chattanooga, has been leased to vii.
liam Laudon, of New York. who has had
experience in keeping well known hotels
AT Lake George and Lake Champlan.
oil ,,,,, I,,,,,,, 4, Ia, 49,, a.
winter of 1929 was like he present one,
though somewhat warmer. Cotton
stalks were not killed. and the next year
bloomcd and lruitcd again.
a railroad has been built out from st.
Augustine, III connection with n seaside
resort. which is five miles long. 1t is the
cos,licst road in the State. being all built
on crcosotcd piles.
The steamer colina arrived at Halifax
from Glasgow on the LIST after u rough
passage of fourteen days. She was GOV
cred with ice. She got into a field of ice
aud was locked III for eight hours. Up.
wards of two hundred icchcrgs were
counted in sight around her.
The sporting editor of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, Joseph \. Murphy. has
been indicted for his participation, as rel.
cree, in the prize fight oi three months
ago in which Jackson was killed bv
Ahcrn. Nearly all the parties concerned
are now under indictment
a negro boy, ~ years old, living at
Louisiana, Mo-, deliberately killed his
brother and baby sister on the first. 1t
was purely diabolcal impulse with
which the boy took gun, aud went to
the bedside where his brot her was PLAYING
with the baby, and fired, killing both.
Mrs. Coppingcr, the eldest daughter of
Secretary Blame, whose illness we have
before noted, died on Sunday morning.
She was thirty years old This is the
fourth death in Mr.. Blaincs family
within the last thirty.iiyc days. two OF
them being the results of the grippe,
The nearest guess to the correct time
made by Nellie bly, in her trip around the
world was made by +. W. Stevens. of
New York. lie came within two.iilths of
u second and over one hundred gucsscs
were within fifteen seconds OF the time
made.
4 syndicate of Northern capitalists
nave Doupnt lnifty.SiN hundred citS lots
inside the corporate limits of Galveston.
including the Centennial park. The lots
all lie in one body, The price paid was
81 800 900. Evidently these purchasers
have not the fear OF Senator Ingalls, or
Speaker Reed before their eyes.
II is stated on good authority that the
Midland road from Dnnyilc to Wash
ington is to bc laid with n double track
to accommodate the great and growing
traffic upon IL. This conclusion was
reached through the energies of Colo
mel W. II. Green. general superintendent.
II this be done, the Midland will bc the
pioneer double track road of the South
Comments on the "Citizcn."
Mr.. T. g. Storcsbcrry, of Benton, Kan,
writes:
81 do not wish TuE CITIZEN to stop
its visits to the as long as live. take
five papers aud TnE CITIZEN is the first
one read. | have been taking it for
seven years. 1t has been one of the most
efficient mediums through which Western
North Carolina has had her vast rcsour.
ccs developed. aud Asheville advanced
from village to a city,"