The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-14
A FEW NEWS ITEMs.

A fire in the Grand Rapids parlor ful
niture establishment on the 18th cause
a loss Of $2s, 900.
The Brazilian minister of the interio
has resigned because of a quarrel witt
President Fonseca.
Secretaries Blaine and Tracy NJ attended .
cabinet meeting on the l1th for the frs
time in six weeks.
A New York policeman found a liv,
baby in pail which had been set adrift
and was floating out to sea.
The Majestic, a sister ship to the ia
nous TeutOnic. will sail from Livcrpoo
April End on her first trip to New York.
The Gentiles for the first::time have mu
nicipal control of Salt Lake City, and
the Mormons drop into the background
The trial Of John WHY. charged by
Dick Hawes as being the actual murderer
Of Hawcs' wife and little girls, is fixed
for the 18th.
Captain Zalinski, the inventor of the
dynamite gun. has received an order
from the British government for fifty OF
his guns.
Mr.. Wanamaker proposes to establish
IN connection with the postotfice depart
ment: limited telegraph service through
out the United States.
FAM, the victim of the Aberdeen,
Mississippi, outrage, as it is called, is in
Washington, and will give such testimony
as suits the committee
A libel suit for S25, 900 brought by one
Scherer, of the Baltimore Daily News as
sociation, resulted in a verdict for the
plaintiff with one cent damages.
The steamship Noordland sailed from,
New York on the 10Th with party OF
sixty ladies' and gentlemen, who are going
to make an excursion to the Holy Land.
A hoary old rascal. seventy years old.
named Keller. and living at Egg Har-
Dor City, N. j.. is under arrest for
poisoning his wife and child by putting
Paris green in their food. lie has been
married four times,
A report of the commission to test the
electrical apparatus to be used in the ex-
ecution Of criminals in the State of New
York, says that death by electricity can
be accomplished in about four seconds,
and that they see no reason to anticipate
any failure in the application of the
At Ironton. Ohio, farmer named Ter
rell was killed by his son. The son inter
iered to protect his mother from the vio-
lencc Of the husband; the latter attacked
the son with the poker, and he in turn
knocked down the father with a chair,
and with single blow broke his neck.
To the criminal carelcssness of rail-
road operator. a boy II years old. named
Brunson. the coroners jury ascribe the
death Of three persons killed by the rail-
road near Spring Garden cemetery, near
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
road ou the night Of January II. The
railroad company was censured for its
OF incompetent operators.
Inquiry is being made in the Dominion
parliament into the causes of the emf
grafton of canadians to the United States.
II is ascertained that the exodus from
Canada into our territory amounts to
Az 900 people. There are said to be
1000 Canadians in Chicago. 1t is ap-
parent that these are deep causes for dis
content In the Dominion.
Ex-Treasurcr Burke is in Costa Rica,
engaged in forming syndicate to work
rich mining concessions which he had
obtained in Honduras. In
this he shows wiser purpose than the
thieves Of his class who escape to Canada
and spend their stolen money in idlcness
Or debauchery. Burke may be able some
iav to make amends tor his guilt BY res.
.oring the money he took from the treas
iry.
A New Yorker. named Mckay, who
had big claim pending before congress.
recently carried {. II. ]. Taylor, a colorcd |
awyer of Atlanta, and not long since
minister to Liberia, into the dining room
If the Riggs house at Washington and
,at down TO the table and finished their |
neal. The other guests. however, rose
md retired from the room, paid their |
bills and LETT the hotel. The sensation
VAS q great one.