The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-12
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

1t is said that the ice crop in New En-.
gland, SO far as the New York companies
are concerned. is good one.
Alice Roberts, a handsome young ac-
tress, was found dead in her room on
Sixth avenue, New York, suffocated by
gas.
On account of the very mild winter, very
few visitors have gone to Bermuda this
season, and the hotels have done little Of
their usual business,
The planters on the river near Memphis,
Tenn. are alarmed at the prospects of
disastrous foods from the accumulated
frcshets of the upper rivers, and are NOV
ing their stock back to places of safety.
The former palace of Marguerite of
Navarro, In the vicinity of Paris, was
the time by the Marquis of Osborne. The
loss is placed at 100000.
keifcr, the cx-speaker, supports the
unruly rulings of Speaker Reed as might
be expected. But as kcifer's own party
sat down on him and squelched him. his
approval is rather condemnation of the
man he sustains.
The Panama canal commission is try
ing to galvanize the scheme into vitality
again. 1t seems to be rs hopeless as an
attempt to put life into the ten thou
sand Of corpses that are already strewn
along the line OF the abandoned work.
The noted Alabama outlaw, Rube Bur.
rows. has been positively located near
Milton, Florida, where he has been work
ing as farm hand. He became alarmed.
and fled to the woods, and is now being
pursued.
Another big steamer for the Hamburg
American company has recently been
launched nj Glasgow. She is called the
Normannia, and is 500 feet long. and OF
$500 tons burden. She will accommo.
date 800 persons.
The daughter of editor Rutherford. of
Bolckow, Mo-, eloped with actor Ed.
Terrence. The girl was stagc-struck and
blind to facts or results. Terrence al.
ready has wife. The indignant father
is in hot chase, and threatens to shoot
Terrence on sight.
The Planters hotel, St. Louis, for long
time the finest in the west. built in 1886.
was closed on the 9th by the sheriff. II was
situated on Fourth street, for long
time the fashionable retail street of the
city. The trade moved elsewhere, and
the Planters was left high and dry.
1t seems that trouble is anticipated in
Brazil when the September elections come
of. The army. which now consists oi
5000 men, is to he increased to %. 900.
recruited from the dregs of the people. A
military despotism is looming up in the
future.
A report comes from Birmingham. Ala,
that some parties in Marion county
tarred and feathcred some Mormon eld.
crs. and then set fire to their rigging and
burned them severely. The tarring and
icathcring would have been enough. but
the application of the other remedy for
Mormon iniQuity was somewhat heroic.
In Savannah, Wayne county, n. V. an
old sea captain. whalcr. retiring on a
small fortune. married at the age Of ~.
for the first time, a captivating widow,
as she represented herself. After living
two years together, the widows" first
husband made his appearance; and the
old man having in the mean time turned
over all the title deeds to his property to
his wife, was turned adrift.
A lad. only II years old. named Sam.
ucl VanDusen Abbott. and son of an
English admiral, shot himself through
the head on Saturday night at the house
of his grandfather Samuel B. VanDuscn,
81 West Thirty-second street, New York,
and died soon after. The boy had been
surrounded with every luxury. and per
haps had exhausted prcmaturely all the
resources of pleasure.
The lease of the Grand hotel at Chi.
cago. or rather the half Of il was sold on
the 9Th for $4,000. The hotel was
built in 1872 at cost Of $500. 900, and
rental was stipulated at eight per cent.
upon half the value of half the ground
aud seven and half per cent. on the
other half, in addition to the rent of the
building. Rc-valuation makes the value
Of the ground alone So, 900 900. and the
interest on that is more than the lcsccs
can pay so they get out Of their bar.
gain.
A duel, or rather street fight, took
place on the night Of the Sth at Pearl
river station. fifty miles from New Or.
leans. between two brothers in law,
Portcvent and McEvoy. growing out oi
| family troubles. in which both were SO
seriously shot that they were taken 10
New Orleans for treatment. One OF Por'
tcvcnt's arms had to be amputatcd, and
| McEvoy has desperate wound IN the
abdomen. besides another III the shoul
! der