Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1890-08-07
AFFAIRS OF CONSEQUENCE.
THE NEWS AT HOME AND
AWAY FROM HOME.
What IL Doing in COnvress-NIis-
sissippi Election Returns-TiII-
man Wind and
Hail storms.

| Inc hcurSarSc mas Dcen ordered To
Guatemala, and is preparing for the voy-
age.
The steamship Glenogle has made the
trip from Japan to New York in fifty-iorr
days.
The Baltimore and Yorktown Turn
pike company will exact toll of funeral
professions.
Preparations have been made Tor two
cable lines in New York City, one Of them
oi. Bro lway
General Grant family are opposed to
any removal of the Generals remains
from Riverside Park.
The republican club of New York has
declared in favor of straight-out nomina-
tions and no combinations.
Erastus Wiman proposes to carry out
his plan by uniting Staten Island with
Long Island by a tunnel under the Mar
rows.
The jury in the libel suit of actors Lot.
toe and Williams against Fanny Davcn-
port, at Minneapolis, Mimi, failed to
agree.
The Brick Manufacturers associa tion
will retaliatc for the boycott OF their
bricks by not sending them to the New
York market.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, recently lost
satchel from New York cab contain
lug S15,0O0 in bonds, but subsequently,
recovered the securities.
Ferdinand Schiil, of New York, weighed
over 800 pounds, fell overheard, being
unable to- swim, but he was so fat he
COULD not sink, and So iloatcd until he
was rescued.
Twcnty-four British sailors deserted
| Monday at Newport from the flagship
Bellerophonc. The dcscrters were fired
upon as they landed on Cow Island. All
but three were captured.
Mr.. T. G. Shaughenessy, assistant
president OF the Canadian Pacific rail.
road, estimates that the Northwest grain
crop will amount to Z ,OOO, 900 bushels,
of which l3,O0O,OU0 will be for export.
A wind and hail storm swept over Ly.
ons. Osccola, Dickinson, Emmett and
Winnebago counties. Iowa. Sunday. dc.
stroying ncarh everything i'll its path.
way. Many horses and cattle were
killed and men who were out badly cut
by the hail and several are reported as
seriously injured.
George Harris, n Chicago postal clerk,
| is missing with the contents oi two mail
pouches taken from Chicago and Alton
train, near st. Louis. lie is charged
with stealing registered matter from the
mail sacks entrusted to his care. The
amount taken may not be more than
$500, or may be many thousand dollars.
Tillman conventions have been held in
Grccnvillc, Anderson. Marion, Pickci.s
and several other counties in South Car
olna, and Tillman delegates elected, the
Tillmanitcs having captured the demo-
cratic machinery. In the Fourth district
ID. X. Norris, and in the Sixth, L. 7.
Stackhousc. were endorsed for congress.
Both are Alliance men.
Governor Waterman, of California, has
sent dispatch to Secretary of the lntc.
rior Noble protesting against declaring
open the suspended surveys III Tulatc
county on which are located the big
trees. The governor further asks that
Secretary Noble use his influence to have
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be set aside Tor a public park.
Nearly one hundred men became in.
volvcd in fight at the picnic OF the Ar
better Turnvcrn. at Eilcrs Grove, near
Elizabeth. y. j., Monday night. Six po-
r;a,nJ ,,,,ch;s,. one ~, whom E,,;I
Vopt, was locked up. An American ilnr
floating from n staff at the entrance oi
the picnic grounds was torn down and
tramplcd under foot during the riot.
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;nc,n,'I.,c Inn, nr, shn,vn tn INV, brcn
wcrv small ns ihcrc wns no contest. II
will probably not reach over 10000
George l.. Mclcyor and lsah T. Mont
pomcry, republicans. are elected in Boil.
Var county. Montgomery will he the
only colorcd man IN the convention. lie
was a slave of Jefferson DAVIS, aud is a
man Of great intelligence.
WASHINGTON.
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Lolst9ls : hreu.]ei soi,n.n i.' ,s o.,' nn',nG ,h-
pig sue Owing W ''seNs'"s'o" ''o''' '"'
mails.
| republican senator saws the Blaine
rcciprocity idea will probably bc adoptcd
In n modi6cd form,
ri. l,,,o,,,,s 1, IA, h,rs. of rc,rc.
sentative. nrc snid To have discovered n
means Of iilibustcring by demanding roll
calls.