The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-20
A FEW NEWS ITEs1 No.


The search for the missing head of the
murdered Sawtele is still going on.
Work on the Tchuantepec railroad
across the isthInus is progressing finely.
1t is asserted with som. show of au.
thnrity that bismarck will soon retire
from the Prussian service.
The former director of the Brazil de-
partmcnt Of telegraph proves to be n de-
faulter to the amount Of about $780,
600.
1t il said that President Carnot will
pardon the Duke d. Orleans, who, on his
liberation. will lie escorted to the BEL
gian frontier and turned loose.
Footpads stopped and robbed man
in a well frcqucntcd street in New York
the other night, holding him mp at the
mouth of a pistol.
A fight took place in the New York Gus.
tom house, in which Il lawyer and bro
kcr were severely punished by another
broker. New York is improving.
Kilrain had fight in New Orleans ON
the 18th with the California champion,
Corbct. aud was easily beaten. lie had
hoth Of his eyes blackencd.
Curtis Wells. a head man at the Cliff
ford breaker. Forest City. near Scranton,
Pa. lost his balance and fell headlong
down n shaft 200 feet deep. and wns
killed instantly.
Forty American students have been
dropped from the rolls of the Heidelberg
university, because Of their frequent Wis
its to Heidelberg and Vienna in violation
of the rules Of the university.
Smallpox is reported as raging with
fearful fatality in Texas on the Rio
Grandc. On "A ranch in Duval county
1+7 ont of $50 employees were attacked,
aud sixty-iivc are reported to have died.
Another snow blockade is reported
from Truckcc as threatening the rail-
roads. All the rotary plows, snow shov-
oilers and other equipments arc at work
to keep the track clear.
No doubt now exists that the steamer
nubcrry was lost in typhoon in the
China seas carly in January. She had
on board 800 Chinese passengers besides
her crew. No trace OF vessel or crew has
ever been found.
Near Corinth, NY. a gang of boys,
none Of them over Ii years Of age, arc
reported to have got into II drunken
frh. in a saloon, during which Dick
Pickett, aged II, stabbed his brother
George, aged 16, so that he died.
In North Queensland. Australia. recent
rains have caused destructive floods, the
waters rising tn incredible height in the
streams. At Cardwcll. from December
- to January ., iorty.ninc inches of
rain fell. which is nine inches more than
falls in this section during the year.
The personal effects of the cx-Empcror
Dom Pedro has been valued by the pub
lie administrators of the Brazilian repub-
lie. who. Tor this purpose is the minister
of Justice. They include jcwelry, plate.
carriages, furniture. horses, ETC., the cs-
,inatcd value of the whole bcing about
81. 200. 900, which becomes the property
oi the republic.
Two boys. : and ., cous ms, living IN
the Roxbury district, Boston, had n saw
nyc fight about little girl for whom
they contested the honor Of escorting
home from church. Sticks and then
knives were used, and one of the children
was dangerously stabbed. The hub is
ahead again, as she was with the Pom
croy boy murderer,
During the homcward passage of the
r. and o. company's steamer Victoria
from Australia, between Colombo and
Alden, a passenger lcapcd overheard.
Boats were lowered. and in the struggles
to get the attempted suicide on board,
one OF them was upset IN the midst of a
school Of sharks. Before they could be
rescued two of the crew and the man
they tried to save were devourcd by the
sharks IN full view Of the Mortified pas.
scngcrs.
The Farmers Alliance oi three contigu.
ous counties gave an entertainment at
Lexington. Indiana on Saturday night
last. A number Of roughs were present
with purpose to break up the festivities.
In the melee which followed the attempt
to put them out, a general fight took
place, in which the leader Of the roughs,
bollcs, was shot through the heart, and
several others wounded. and n lady
thrown into convulsions through fright,
and whose condition is critical.
The seamen Of the American squadron
Of evolution. by the courtesy OF General
Noyion, military governor at Villa
Franca. landed at that place on the 10th
and went through series of drills. The
Chicago sent ashore 2SO men, the Boston
and Atlanta each 1SO and the York
town so. General Novion emphasized
his permission for the use Of French sol
Tor the drill that would not grant th,
same privilege to the squadron Of an,
European powers, but was glad To cS
tend the courtesy to the United States.
One Of the most brutal practical Joke,
ever I,erpetratcd was played of IN Pnri'
recently on the family Of the Marquis d
Oylev. The family had recently suficrct
n distressing bcrcn vcmcnt, and the lous,
wns saddcncd with the cmblcms Of gricf
Some malicious person sent out IN thu
name Of the marquis invitations to {
soircc dansantc nj his house. At th,
hour named carriages filled with guests
arrived, many Of those, thinking II n cur
nivnl bali, coming in fancy dress. The!
were horror struck to find they were vic
Tins to hcnrtlcss joke.
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