The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-18
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

Roanoke, Va, expects to have 5000
added to its population throughimprove-
mcnts projected by the Norfolk and Wcs-
tern Railroad Company.
A knitting factory is in successful op.
Grafton in Greensboro, \. G. 1t employs
about thirty hands and Northern
house takes most of the work done.
1t is said in London that the Gear is
insane. the effect of the chronic terror in
which he lives. He is wretchedlv dcs-
pondent and tries to allevite his misery
by the constant use of morphine.
The bodies of two section hands of the
Gcors in Pacific road were recently found
about II miles east of Birmingham.
They had been murdered by blows on
the head inflicted with some sharp in.
strumcnt. There is no cine to the mur.
dcrers.
Our sympathy with the sick little King
of Spain is good deal modified by learn.
ing that he is a homely little fellow,
bald headed, without eyebrows, an
ugly mouth, a sallow complexion, and
an unpleasant temper. That is not the
sort Of baby King we had painted.
Subway explosions occurred in New
York on the night OF the 18th in Six.
tenth and Seventeenth streets, blowing
out two manhoes and followed by gem
eral darkness in. the vicinity No one
was hurt. 1t was combination of cleo.
tricity and gas, opposite forces under
ground as well as above it.
Millet's "Angclus." which has created
great interest in art circles in New York
for many weeks past, has been sent to
Chicago for exhibition. We suspect that
the cost of the little piecc-$120,0 200
with duty Of 100000 addcd-had
more to- do with the interest excited than
its intrinsic merit. 1t would have scarcly
otherwise have been deemed, in the eyes
of thousands who crowded to see it.
more meritorious than a fifty cent
chrome of the same size.
The Masonic fraternity is much cx.
cited in the circles near the scene of the
fatality at the death of the Rev. W. f.
Marshall, rector of the Episcopal church
at Huntington, West Virginia, who was
killed while undergoing initiation into
the Royal Arch degree, during which the
| CUUultIttc wUS ICt uOWH lIltO NVut
thirteen feet in depth. During the de-
scent of the trap, the supporting rope OF
its fastening gave way, and the candi
date fell with fatal result. II is, as far as
we know. the first instance on record o
such an accident.
Hartford. CT. had its first victim on
the 18th to the electric wire. Oscar vii
liams. an cmployc, was almost instantly
killed. II was his own toolhardincss
that caused his death, tor he leaned ou,
Of the window of the room in which ht
worked, and graspcd one Of the wires
that ran close beneath it, as Others o
the workmen were in the habit of doing
daily. But Williams leaned over steam
radiator to reach the wire, and formed d
complete circuit. A pitcous shrek and q
blue smoke told the story. The victim
was dead in ten minutes.
All the steamships arriving lately il
New York after prolonged voyages re
port uncommonly tcmpcstuous weather
and what appears strange to landsmci
who were at the same time wondering n,
the continued warm weather on shore
every one of these ships report exccssiv,
cold, one reporting fall of ls' below
zero. All OF them were covered with ice
The steamship Rugia had her decks
swept from stem to stern by waves o
such force that everything was washet
overheard, including brass cannon
weighing $500 pounds.