The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-02-25
A FEW NEWS ITEMS.

a FEW NEWS ITEMS.
Cincinnati has at last adopted stand
ard time.
The thermometer at Saranac, New
York, is down to 16 degrees below
zero.
John Jacob Astors funeral will be hclt
on Tuesday. The coffin will be covered
it is announced. with royal purple"
Two hundred and fifty thousand do,
lars worth of Cac!eron & Sizer's TO-
bacco factory at Richmond. Va, has
gone up in smoke.
His imperial majesty. the Gear, is to bt
petioncd by Americans to ameliorate the
condition of the Siberian exiles. The
idea started in Philadelphia.
Two parties OF dudes had pitched
battle in Vicc-Prcsidcnt Morton's saloon
in Washington. The chief clerk was
forced to bounce the party.
4 boiler in the Armour Cadahay pack
ing house in Omaha burst Saturday and
two men were instantly killed. Twenty.
five were injured, some fatally.
l.. T. Stephenson. of Crab Orchard.
n.y., ate opium tor number of years
and SATURDAY. he died of lock Jaw caused
by demcntia, the result of his habit.
Steven K. Cave. of Brooklyn, stabbed
his stcpdaughter with knife four feet
long and weighing niiic pounds. The
girl will die and Steven will bc given n
chance to explain.
Grover Cleveland bought the first box
for the concert to he given at the Lenox
museum in New York on March 22, for
the benefit Of the Washington memorial
fund. lie paid 500.
The Lehigh Valley coal company has
suspended work in all its cOllieries at
Pittston, Pa, and hundreds of people are
in actual want. Thousands of miners
crown the street daily.
X. II. Culpepper. member of the firm
of ". ID. Cleveland & Co.. the largest
grocery and cotton house in Texas, COM
mittcd suicide Saturday by shooting
himself with revolver.
a number of tramps at lIackcnsack
dug under the corner stone of the new
Catholic church and stole the relics and
coins. The whole gang was arrested
shortly afterwards and made to dis
gorge.
Port Townsend, Washington, wants n
little free advertising herself The city
has raised $4,000 and on Marchl7 Miss
Regina Rothchild, young lady Of that
place, will start eastward to make tour
of the world in 81 days.
George Dowcll. OF Kansas City, set n
shotgun trap in bis barn for q thief and
forgot to tell his wife about it. She was
buried two days later. and the fact that
the pair had only been married two
months adds tritlc of pathos to the IA
tality.
Frederick A. Walton, the absconding
agent of the Pacific Express company.
at Dallas. Texas. has been arrested at
st. Johns, N.B. Walton stole S35, 900 of
the comrany's money. Only $1,000
was found on his person. His oifcnsc
is not eXtraditablc.
Deputy Sheriff lake Myers and posse
went in pcrsuit of n highwayman named
White and his paramour near Albuqucr-
que. n. II. They met the pair and
fight ensucd. Three of the posse returned
to Albuquerque feet foremost and White
and the woman escaped. The latter is
credited with bringing down two of the
pursucrs.
There will bc two reports from the
Ohio ballot box investigating committee.
hp. vt,,,,1, ..,,tl La, p..,anI Ia, al ,.,,n
totally cxoncrate the congressman whose
names appeared in the paper. The other
to bc signed by the two democrats
Turner, Of Georgia, and Wilson, of West
Virginia, will be a general expose oi
republican political methods in Ohio.
CIV. Gable. lccturing at Boston ycstcr-
day. said: III, by 1892. any State in
this Union has not ut least begun, with
good show OF completing the establish.
ncnt Of equal American rights for all
the men of this nation. who.
IN whatever party, believe in free govern
Incnt first, will strain their every nerve
and sinew to give the nation n president
md congress that will establish il
pcaccably, promptly and forever"
One year ago 5. l.. Dinkclspicl, an agent
Of a New York life insurance company,
visited Detroit, Mich. and effected life in
surancc policies of 100000 each on
Senator James Mcmillan. d. NJ. Ferry,
Mayor Pingrec. Hugh Mcmillan, II. Il.
Ledyard and fifteen others. In lieu of
dividends he offered them ono per cent. of
the gross Michigan business for 1889,
which he assured them would be over
81 500 each. When the year closed they