The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-08
A FEW NEWS ITEMs.

Morristown. Tenn, is looking up. A
farm of 200 acres was recently sold for
$4,000. Some Boston capitalists are
in the city prospecting.
The Ensley mill at Sheffield, Ala, sold
on the 9TH 5000 tons of pig iron to u
Pittsburg firm. 1t will be shipped by
bargcs via the Tennessee and Ohio riv-
crs.
Three men were drowned on the 9th
while attempting to cross Lake St. Clair
in skiff. While crossing heavy wind
rose, and the waves soon filled the boat
and sank it.
A Boulangist advocate, NJ. Laguerre,
was recently sentenced to six months
deprivation of the right topractice in the
courts for an assault committed upon an
opposition advocate.
The town of Burke. Idaho, has been
nearly overwhelmed by avalanches.
Half of the business houses are in ruins,
three men were killed, and the rest of the
Inhabitants fed to neighboring towns
King Milan has hal his sympathizers
because he lost the throne of Servia, and
become pauper exile. But the young
royal scamp could afford to lose quar-.
ter of million francs at one sitting at
the casino at Monaco.
The French navy board, stimulated no
doubt by the ambitious plans of the
American policy board, proposes to add
sevcnty-eight powerful new vessels to
the French navy; and then we suppose
our board will raise n little higher in it's
estimates.
A lady, aged CO. living near East New
York avenue, Flatbush, l.. l., was as
saultcd in her house by some young
roughs during the absence of her lns.
band, and now lies in critical condition
in the Flatbush hospital. Two sus.
pcctcd parties are under arrest.
The Pacific express company has again
hcen robbed, this time by a trusted clerk
who got off with $35, 900, part OF ship
mcnt of $50 900 made by bank at Dali
las, Texas, to bank in st. Louis. The
clerks name is Walton, and he is still at
larse-gone to Canada, probably.
Andrews, the Bellcfonte, Pa. murderer,
has confessed to the killing OF Miss Price,
upon whom he had made a criminal as
sault. She escaped from him, and he
shot her dead as she ran that he might
escape the fate of lynching, which he
feared would follow her exposure of his
crime.
A Nashville telegram says that DR.. W.
T. Gaines shot and seriously injured n
farmer named Wright in the vicinity OF
Nashville on the 9TH. There was dis
putc about medical bill, and the doc
tor was attacked on the road BY Wright
and his sons. The doctor, in resisting
the attack. shot the father seriously.
and one OF the sons slightly.
The Seventh New York regiment, the
richest military organization in the
country, propose next September tn
hold an International musical jubilee in
it's armory. which will be fitted up to
seat 10000 people. Signor Cappa, the
leader of the rcgimcntal band, has sc.
cured sufficient orchestral aid in Europ,
to make the jubilee memorable one.
1t is not vet revealed with any Ger.
tainty how the fire in Secretary Tracy's
house originated. 1t may always be
mysterious how it was that the butler
and the head servant should hc dclibcr.
atcly going about their morning duties
in one part of the house, while in anot her
certainly not far off. the fire was raging
to an extent to cut off the escape OF the
other inmates.
A little scare prevailed in the capitol
on the 9th by the reported discovery of n
dynamite bomb in the building. A tin
tube filled with some sort Of powder
with fuse attached, was found in a
spittoon and taken charge of by the po.
lice. II was an innocent kind OF dyna.
mite compared to that MIR. Reed has
been applying to constitutional rights
and parliamentary privileges.
Six White Caps attacked Francis Tai.
lev. of Cannon county, Tenn, threw Il
lasso round his neck. dragged him into
the woods, gagged him by filling his
mouth with stones, and then beat him
with sticks until he became unconscious,
and was lett for dead. lie was found
and taken home and rcvievd Tallcy is
n respectable farmer, and does not know
in what way he had offended.
We learn with sorrow that the physi
cal condition of Mr.. Randall is critical
and his friends are very anxious as "a
the result. Mr.. Randall is poor, and is
dependent altogether on his salary. III
anticipation of fatal termination to his
illness, friends have quietly been making
provision in anticipation for Mrs. Ran
dali, and have already raised S5O, 900
George ". Childs aud A. ]. Drcxcll are at
the head OF the movement.
The steamship MincoIa, arrived at
Philadelphia on the 9th from Hamburg
reports meeting the highest floating ice
berg on record 1t was 700 feet high and
mile long. The captain OF the ship tells
some wonderful stories. lie says h,
encountered once IN the China seas q
wind that registered 115 miles an hour
hut that wind was gentle breeze I,
that encountered by the Mincola on hcl
last voyage.
II il announced in st. Louis on higl
authority that preliminary steps have
been taken to transform the Nationu
Linsccd Oil Trust (which had its inccp
ton in that city, into corporation
with n capital of S1s.000,0O0. Thu
reasons assigned for the change are til,
same or similar to those actunting tn,
whisky and other trusts which hav,
taken like action.
II In stiII u Tie.
DEs MolNgs, Iowa, February 6.-ln tn,
house this morning a resolution provid