The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-21
\ FEW NEWS ITEMS.

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Marian, died on the 18th from pneum
mia.
v The roofs Of two wings of the Insa,
~ Asylum nt Worcester, Mass, were d
= stroycd by fire on the 18th.
DR.. Thomas NJ. Miller, one of the ol,
" eSt ana best known physicians of Vii
IS Slilia, died at Winchester from heart tai
4 ure.
Prince Amadco, brother of King Hum
u bert, oi Italy. died on the 18th al Aost
J, OF pneumonia following an attack of il,
llucnza.
I P"wdcrly is under arrest under war
/ rant sworn out by Callaghan Pow
: hcrly VIII retaliatc by bringing sui
5 against Callaghan for libel.
!, A lad at Edinburg, Indiana, lame.
thompson by name, died on Sunda,
from liberation of the throat caused b,
the excessive use of cigarettes.
a fire Sunday night at Chattanooga
dcstoryed Hughes planning mill, with
iour adjoining cottages, Il two story res.
idence. and $4,000 feet of lumber.
a tank of the Standard Oil Company
at Eili"ab.th, \. j., containing $4,000
gallons OF benzinc exploded with terrific
force on the night of the 18th. Another
tank OF the same capacity, near BY, took
ilrc and was destroyed. The loss was
100000.
The bodies of several hundred persons
| VINO nave died OF contagious diseases
| through period OF several years. and
Inferred in the \. Y. State burial
grounds at Scguins Point, are to be-
burned under contract entered into
with Charles Mclean.
The government of Belgium proposes
to deal vigorously with the striking
miners, and labor troubles generally, a
large force of infantry in barracks al
Brussels being held in readiness for an
emergency, and a squadron of cavalry
having been sent to Charlcroi.
While travelling between Vienna and
Berlin on the 18th, Il lady, who proved
to he the daughter of Thomas A. Edison,
was aiken violently i'll. A physician on
the train pronounced it case of small |
poX; and upon the arrival of the train at |
Dresden. the lady was taken to a hos
pital.
tramp steamer. the Falls of Inver-
Snaid, from Java for Philadelphia, loaded |
with sugar. picked up i'll the Indian ocean
the disabled steamer Siam with a larg,
cargo and 400 passengers. and towcd
her safely into Alden. Otherwise, the
damaged vessel would have been lost
with all on board.
Mr.. John G. Wood, the oldest hotel
man i'll Bristol, Tenn, died suddenly on
the 10Th. He was for years proprietor
oi the Old Virginia, but had recently
built at Bristol, Woods Palace hotel.
He was also well known tor his great
weight, which was between 300 and 500
pounds.
a terrific gale prevailed in the Irish
on Sunday, and much damage
was done along the coast There was
mrch thunder and lightning, several per.
sons bcin. killed by the latter, and a
number were drowned by the wreck of
boats and shipping.
Mr.. Orlan W. Chapman, solicitor-rcn-
raj of New York, died in Washington
lily on Sunday, from kidney disease,
aggravated by an attack of grippe. He
VAS dangerously i'll only twcntv-iour
iours, and his death came before many
II his friends knew how i'll he was.
Typhus fever prevails in a malignant
orm at Hamburg, and all the schools
'ave been closed i'll consequence. 1t is
many years since this dreadful disease
lns prevailed as an epidemic. 1t has
'ccn known under worse sanitary condi-
ions than now exist as ship fever and
lil lever, and under its latter name
ddcd unutterabh horrors To the bloody
'sszcs, presided over by the Infamous
ciirics. :
Miss lii,land, who LETT New York ON
'ovcmber Il, to beat Jules Ncrncs' imag.
nary trip going round the world in
lghty days, arrived in London ON the {;
Sth westward bound She lett New
ork by railroad, going westward all
he way, going from san Francisco to
lpan. and thence westward until she i
as gotten as near home as London, and
I'LL probably beat Ncrnrs' record 4
telegraph operator, named John
oghlan. is believed to have died under |
rry distressing circumstances at Gas.
ldc, Ill the Sierra Nevada mountains L
lie young man was in the station alone,
nd was known tn bc i'll with pneumonia.
ightccn irct oi snow surrounded the
alton. The next nearest station was n
ght miles distant. The depth oi snow
rcvcnts access Ia him. and unless aid \
aches Inn by u proposed snow-pough
ain he must have pcrishcd miscrably
one. "