Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-07-03
THE SUNNY SOUTH.

Chas. Dcvinc, an Is year old whit,
boy, was run over and killed by a freight
train near Bristol, Tenn.
Joe Lynch, colorcd, was drowned a,
Hartman, Tenn, while wading in tn,
Emory river. lie was drunk.
The annual convention of the South
crn railway and Steamship association
will bc held in Atlanta Wednesday July o
. &C. Henderson, of Lincolnton, N. G..
was killed by w. Il. Parker, of Greens.
bury, La, in a quarrel at McComb City
Miss.
Atlanta is threatened with an ice fam.
inc because the factories cannot obtain
enough ammonia to carry ON the manu-.
iacturc.
Jos. Keith, town marshal Of Childcrs-
burg, Ala. was shot and killed by an ,n-
known negro tramp while trying to ar
rest him.
The supervisor of Knoxville estimates
the population of the city at $4,000.
II all the suburbs were added the popula.
tion would be St5,OOO.
Gov. Fleming, of West Virginia, has
withdrawn the rewards offered some
| time ago for the arrest of the members of
llatiicld-McCoy vendetta party.
John Green took dose of morphine
for the purpose Of ending his life at Har-
riman, Tenn, hut the doctors used the
stomach pump and saved him.
Miss Mamie Rogers and Miss Ouccnic
Woods, of Nashville, guests at the Look
out Mountain Inn, were robbed of dia-
monds worth 5000. Their room was
broken into.
To- y. W. Chocklctt, n messenger boy Of
seventeen, employed by the Norfolk and
Western Railroad company at Roanoke,
Va, was thrown under the wheels while
riding on shifting engine and fatally in
jurcd.
Lightning set fire to the East Ken
tucky Normal College at Catlcttsburg,
n.y., and it was totally destroyed. Three
young ladies were shocked by the light
ming, and one of them, Miss Gala May,
partially paralyzcd.
Mrs. Mary Swab, n widow living near
Franklin, KY. killed herself by taking an
overdose of laudanum. II was the sec
ond attempt ut suicide she had made
within year and il is the general bc-
lief that her mind is impaired.
II is now thought that cave under
the building was thee of the collapse |
Of Briscoc's block at Knoxville. The |
theory has great many believers for |
the workmcn found difficulty in getting
a solid base when work was begun.
While the people of the North, writes n |
Georgia editor, are swcltcringi in the heat. |
we are sitting under our own vino and |
fig tree, with a watermelon on one side, |
jug of cider on the other, four miles |
from railroad station and scvcnty-iivc
miles from our mother in law.
\ passenger and n construction train
collidcd between Augusta and Green.
wood, 5. c.. on the Port Royal and |
Western North Carolina railroad and /
Fireman Andrews was fatally hurt. A
number oi passengers received injuries. /
The wreck is described as a acomplctc one.
Warrcnton Gcorgia's bearded woman,
Miss Eliza Pinson, died recently, aged
10 years. For half Of her life she has
worn black beard fifteen inches long.
Miss Finson was often approached by
showmcn but refused all oi their offers
and lived in retirement in her country
home She never married.
In the manc Of horse which was sold
at the Buffalo. y. w., market was found
a note which read: This il Maud
Sherman. Treat her kindly. She is q
real lady's horse. kind to ride or drive,
and is Qtict. She was born in old Nir.