The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-19
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

! The Argentine republic has officially
recognized the government Of Brazil.
1t is stated at the Chicago health
eragc of forty deaths duy as the result
OF the influenza epidemic.
II is said that terrible mortality exists
| in the Soudan owing to famine. The
| fighting forces have dispersed; for fam
ishing men can have mo stomach for the
fight"
An old barn was lately burned in
Gloucester, Mass. 1t was built in 1850,
and was the first rnivcrsalist church in
America. 1t came into use as barn
long afterward.
The shoe house OF Clatlin, Coburn &
Co., Boston, has been burned with loss
of $2OO,OOO in stock and 100000 on
the building. Heavy insurance nearly
covers the loss
-Four men are reported to have been
killed at a camp on the new South At.
lantic and Ohio road, near Johnston City,
Tenn, on the 7th by the premature ex-
ploson of blast.
DIR. Talmage, who is in Paris, is not
sick as reported. He was recently enter.
tanned by Minister Reid. lie goes from
Paris to London, and will embark for
home on the 25th.
Commissioner Raum asks for the re-
moval of Henry A. Phillips, of New York,
chief of the middle division of the Pension
bureau. Phillips is one of those whose
pension was rcratcd under the Tanner re-
gime.
The influenza is playing havoc in the
Ohio legislature. and seems determined
to reduce the democratic majority. Two
members, both democrats, have died,
and two others are hopelcssly i'll. Sew
eral Others are on the sick list.
A Russian party who recently ascendcd
Mount Ararar, found thermometer left
there by somebody. The only authentic
ascent, or rather descent, upon this
mountain, is that made by Noah. Could
he have lost the thermometer
Commodore Hull. of the navy, is dead
at the age of 81. He is not the Hull OF
glorious memory who, won the fight he
tween the Constitution and The Gucrricrc,
and made name and fame for himself, his
ship and the American navy.
\ parcel OF boys going home from
school at Shamokin, Pa, came to rail
One oi them was dared by his playmates
to cross the track in front of the engine.
He did so with the result of being hurled
to distance and fatally hurt.
4 Paducah policeman has been sen.
fenced To thirteen years term i'll the
pcnitcntiary of Kentucky, having been
found guilty of ma 1slaughtcr for killing
with slight provocation on the streets
man with whom some time previous he
had a quarrel III saloon.
The American Agriculturist has
awarded to Mr.. T.. Drake, of Marlboro,
s. c.. the prize of $500 for the largest
yield OF corn ever made to the acre-255
bushels green weight, and 239 when
kiln dried. II also gave to Henry ]. Bur
ton, of Salt Lake, Utah, $500, for the
largest yield of wheat to the acre, raised
last year, so bushels.
The report of the committee to investi.
gate the Johnstown disaster of June last.
reports that there were estimated to
have been drowned in Concmaugh valley
1850 persons: number OF bodies rccov
cred ,6T5, identified ,O2l. unidentified
COL, missing Cos. Unclaimed dead mum.
bcring 7il were collected and buried in
Grand View cemetery.
In trial for libel going on in the court
at Fredericksburg, Va. on the 10th.
lively encounter took place in the pres
encc of the court between the opposing
counsel. Canes, ink stands, fists. etc.
were used promiscuously, and general
rio; prevailed. which forced the judge to
suspend proceedings until the afternoon.
Plaintiffs, defendants and counsel for
both sides were then placed under So.
900 bonds to keep the peace.
a telegram from Richmond. Va. relat.
ing To the projected Colombian and
South American railroad. makes a state.
n,cnt somewhat remarkable in the an.
nails OF railroad construction. II states
that the object OF the bill before the Vir.
ginia legislature is the establishment
of road from Tampa. Florida.
across the Gull of Mexico to the
Caribbean sea. thence to the mouth
of the Magdalcna river. a road so con.
structcd will bc the first long distance
road ever built ON the surface OF the wa.
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