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Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
THEY WERE GUILLOTINED.
TWO HEADS ROLL. TOGETHER
IN A BASKET.

Disgusting ana Degrading sights
at the Execution OfTwO French.
men as sAccessOrlest to NIurder-A
Desperate struggle.
PARIS July 25.-Horribe scenes have
been witnessed during the past week on
and about the Place de la Roquette, the
place where criminals are beheaded by
the guillotine. Crowds of the lowest Of
the low have assembled there every even
ing and have passed the night eagerly
waiting to witness the beheading of the
murderess Berland and her accomplice
Dore. On Saturday morning, as al
ready cabled, large crowd gathered
about the place de la Roquette in expec-
tation of seeing these criminals beheaded,
but the ghastly work was postponed on
account of the marriage of execu-
tioner Daiblcr's son and assistant to the
daughter Of provincial executioner.
Since that time, Sunday morning ex-
cepted, the voyous and their consorts. as
well as certain number of people of
better class, have gathered each morning
about the prison and the execution place,
singing, shouting fighting, and using OBJ
scene and profane language. This morn
ing the crowds were more riotous and
otherwise offensive than usual. The CON
sequence was that the police were COM
PEELED to charge the crowds, making
many arrests and somewhat clearing the
air of the neighborhood.
The gargotes, cafes and other public
resorts oft he neighborhood have through
outlthe week been doing booming busi-
ness as a result of this bloodthirsty ex-
pectancy, and when the police had
charged and cleared the streets they had
another and quite as lively task in
clearing out the most disorderly of these
drinking places. Here, again, many ar
rests were made, and drunken men and
drink-sodden women, yelling and fight
ing. were escorted to the police stations,
selling the very air through which they
passed by the horrible language with
which they profaned it.
hNis' Ihly IN NASNulNIl w
young Berland and Dore. two accom-
pliccs in what is known as the Courbc-
vale murder. took place this morning on
the Place De La Roquette. Berland
walked calmly to the guillotine, but
desperate struggle took place on the
scaffold. Finally the cxecutioners sue
coed in forcing him down upon the
bascuie and from there slid his head un-
der the knife. Dore did not make any
resistance.
The execution of the two men occupied
only eight minutes. Thousands of spec
tators, mostly OF a depraved class, wit
messed the horrible scene and six hundred
soldiers had hard work to keep order.
No sooner had Berland's head rolled
into the basket than the crowd with
combined mighty rush broke through the
Gordon OF troops and police and rushing
up to the scaffold, gloated over the
blood-stained machinery of execution,
some of them taking handtuls of bloody
sawdust away with them as souvenirs.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
DoINGs NGsATKENILwORTHu INN.
'rhe Wilson Fire Escape to he
Publicly Tested Tomorrow.

Those who have not already witnessed
the interesting and severe tests which
the Wilson fire escape is having imposed
upon it by the proprietors of Kenilworth
Inn, would be well repaid for their visit,
to see that alone.
DR.. Browning says that Mr. Seldom.
who is giving personal attention to the
setting up of this novel fire escape in
every room in Kenilworth Inn, has
proven its wonderful efficiency by first
throwing himself from the window, fol-
lowed by male and female employees of
the new Inn, all alighting gracefully on
terra firma, with intervals of few sec
onds each.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, afternoon at
$50, series of tests will be made from
the top floors. Mr.. Seldom. first illustra-
ting the method OF working the fire es-
cape, then in rapid succession, dropping
number of employees from the window
of the uppermost bedroom floor.
Music by the loveliest orchestra in the
United States will add greatly to the at
traction.
The public is assured by the manager
that, although the most unusual precau-
tions have been taken against fire at the
Kenilworth Inn, a thoroughly reliable
and efficient fire escape affords the same
style OF comfort to the guests that a
mouldy insurance policy does to the own
ers OF the hotel.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
ScIlcduIc.F
An Opportunity.

A cash prize of one thousand dollars
has been offered for the best short story
or novel having the Grandfather Noun
taH, and the beautiful scenery of that To-
calty woven into the plot.
This mountain. situated as it is in the
most picturesque part OF Western North
Carolina, furnishes an attractive setting
for IN interesting story.
The selection will I've made by COM
mittee of competent reviewers, and the
story must not be less than 10 nor ex.
ceed 80 pages.
Detailed information may be obtained
of the Linvile Improvement Company,
OF Linville, North Carolina.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
HOW TO MAKE MONEY

The way to make money is
to save it. And the way to
save it is to have your pre-
scriptions filled at Carmi-
chael's drug store, and you
will find by doing so you will
save from 25 to 30 per cent.
on every prescription. We
do not take goods that the
people know the price and
mark down to cost, and then
charge two prices for a pre-
scription to make up the loss.
You know clerk hire and
house rent must be paid and
the profits must be averaged
some way. A hint to the wise
is sufficient. A full line of De-
Vault Flavoring Extracts in
stock. Mr.. j. Taylor Amiss
and Mr.. Chas. w. Dpvault are
with me and will be pleased
to meet their friends and GUS
toners, Don't forget the
place. Carmichael's drug
store, No. 20 South Main
street, Asheville, N. G.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
New York Market.

steady Money, easy at 2; Exchange, long.
4.s4Qt4.S4b; short, +.s6A@4 SEA; state
bonds. neglected; government bonds dull
but steady. Cotton-quiet sales, 439 bales;
opened and closed steady; July. 1852; Au.
gust. 1857: September. 76; october. 7 So;
November, 7,96; December, 8 Of. Flour
quiet and unchanged Wheat-quiet and
steady. Corn-active and firm Pork-quiet
and firm at $11 25@13 25. Lard-quiet and
nominal at S6M6.S7a. Spirits Turpen-
tine-duil and easy at 3512@36c. Rosin-
quiet and weak at ST. 35@l 40. Freights-
active but steady
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
AFFAIRS OF CONSEQUENCE.

FOREIGN.
A serious anti-Tewish riot occurred re-
Gently at Jaffa. in Turkey.
Two horrible murders of women in
Marseilles, France, are thought in Lon.
don to be the work Of Jack the Ripper.
The steamer City of Berlin with two
hundred Knight Templar pilgrims from
America, have arrived at Queenstown.
A memorial tablet in honor of the Rev.
John Robinson, pastor in Holland of the
Pilgrim Fathers, and one of the pas
scngers on the Mayfower was unveiled
IN Leyden, Holland, with impressive ser
vices.
The loss by Saturdays fire at Dallas,
Texas, foots up $290,000; insurance,
100000.
Chas. M. Ozburn, who murdered lanes
M. Bradley in Atlanta, Ca, on MAY 5th
last, was hanged there Friday.
Mrs. James d. Rawlins, mother OF Gen.
John A. Rawlins, died at her home, near
Galena. ILL.,, aged lightweight years.
The Philadelphia Record says Quay
will resign from his position as United
States Senator when congress meets.
The Columbia, Oil Company, of
Chicago, which has plant estimated to
be worth 81 900, ,000ha collapsed. The
liabilities are supposed to be less than
$500,000.
The Virginia Farmers Alliance State
Convention will meet in Richmond Au-
gust 1s. 1t is believed strong resolu-
tion in favor of the free coinage of silver
will be adopted.
Col. W. W. Dudley is quoted in Boston
as saving that Senator German and Sec
retary Blaine will be the opposing can
didates for president of the United States
in the next campaign.
Judge Coke, of the United States cir
cult court in New York has filed decis-
ion in the case of the Brush Electric com.
pany against the Electrical Accumulation
company, maintaining the storage bat
terry patents of Charles F. Brush.
DR.. Herbert B. Adams, of the Johns
Hopkins University, now at Chautauqua,
N. Y. says he has not decided as to
whether he will accept the position OF
director Of the department of the Chi
cago Worlds Fair rendered him by the
director-general and local board of con
troll.
John Zimmerman, an inmate of the
Michigan, Soldiers home, has received
notification from the German consul ir
Chicago that fortune of SOS, 900 awaits
him in the old country. When he hearc
the news he was sweeping out a saloor
to swell his income. He did not hnisf
the job.
c. X. Partridge, of the Maine Pharma
ceutical society in recent speech said
Prohibition, after nearly half century.
trial in Maine, has proved moral, polit
ical, demi-religious fraud. 1t has grown
like a fungus on the body polite, stimu
lated by combination of dark-lanteri
societies with demagogy, fanaticism
political intimidation and intolerance o
individual rights"
The president and secretary of the Min
nesota Athletic club, Of st. Paul, hav
issued statement that their club viii
have nothing more to do with the Hall
Fitzsimmons fight, that no pugilistic en-
tertainments will hereafter be given b,
them. A Grand Rapid (Minn.) dispatcl
says that the Pokegama Athletic asso
citation, of Grand Rapids, has decided t,
offer $4,000 for the Hall-Fitzsimmon
fight, with or without gloves. The clu
will furnish guarantee that the figh
will not be interfered with.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
PRIVILEGED TO CHECK BAGGAGE

From hotel or residence to destination. A
speciality made of the transfer of baggage
from one part of the city to another.
bility perfect.
At private residences baggage will be deliv.
cred In any part of the house d, sired without
extra charge,
Orders may be left at the leading h tells, at
the X. Il u. City Ticket Office, at the Depot,
or at the General Office of the Company
Legal Block, Court Square, AshevilIe.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
Jay Gould Held up some.

PUEBLO, COL, July 27.-Jay Gould Sat
urday night experienced the extreme
novelty of having his train held up. 1t
was not done by road thieves, but by
Colorado's pests, the grasshepper, and
at Sterling, Col.
The Union Pacific has been compelled
to run two engines through this grass
hopper region for several days.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
Baltimore Prices.

BALTIMORE, July 27 Flour. steady; west
family, $4.65Q5. 90. Wheat southern, firmcr
Fultz 9o@9s; Longberry 93@ g Corn
southern white, steady at Use; yellow, dull
at 72@73c; spot No. 2, white, 76c.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
CRIMINAL. COURT.
Judge Carter's First Term Open.
ed this Morning.

The criminal court for Buncombe
county opened this morning, Judge H. b.
Carter presiding.
The grand jury was called and ably in
structed by his Honor, and the first case
called was John Evans and John Sumner
for fighting, which occupied the whole of
tae morning session, and is still in pro-
gress
The grand jury is at work, but has re-
ported no action as vet to the court.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
Over the YOnahlOssee Road.

sion, bv way OF Doe River Gorge, Roam
Mountain, Cranberry, Linvilc, Grand
father Mountain, blowing Rock and
Lcnoir.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
Marrles am American.

LONDON, July 27.-The engagement is
announced of Miss Lincoln, daughter of
the American minister, to Charles Isham
of Chicago. who came over here as pri-
vate secretary to her father.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
washington Appointments.

WASHINGTON, July 27.-These men are
appointed storekeepers and gaugers in
North Carolina: Julius F. Harkey, Fe-
lix; Philip S. Snider, Mocksville; Charles
A. Cook, Concord; James B. Houser
Cherryville.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
stock Quotations.

NEW YORK July 27.-Eric 1915: Lake Shore
1885: Chicago and Northwestern 1Os;
Norfolk and Western 4SA: Richmond and
West Point Terminal 1875 Western MON
7Dlh
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
BIG FIGURES.
Scaling Down the Capital of the
Lead Trust.

NEW YORK, July 27.-This morning all
parties having lead trust certificates
standing in their names received copies
Of circular signed by the president and
secretary, and announcing that special
meeting Of the stock holders would be
held on August 27, for the purpose of
acting on proposed plan of reorganiza-
tion.
The plan provides for the scaling down
of the capital from $s7, 900, 900 to $780,
100000, of which halt will be preferred
stock and the other half common stock,
and also authorizes for the issue OF $3,-
100000 in bonds.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27

Simmons Liver Regulator 10 most ex-
cellent appetizing tonic.-Saml. S. Pentz,
Chap. to Bishop of North Carolina.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27

"Star" shirt waists, all sizes and pat
terms. h. B. Barnum & Co., fine cioth HERS
and mrnishers, near postofice.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27

All our SO, $S, $3.50, $3.50 and 700
mems pants go for $500. &. B. Bar
mum a. Co.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
WHERE The SNOWBIRDS NEST.

For cool place in summer, for health
ami recreation, visit Linville, Grandfather
Mountain, and the beautiful region sur
rounding them.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
The Streets We're Cleaned.

EDITOR THE CITIZEN. The street in
front of the postoffice was in bad con-
dition Saturday evening. Sunday morn
ing found it thoroughly cleaned and in
perfect order. think when Mr.. Bre-
ward gets his staff to understand the
great Importance of cleaning the promi-
nent streets late Saturday evenings there
will be no more complaint about brother
or brother. in-laws. Observer.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27

Spring-time stirs up the bile. Simmons
Liver Regulator removes it.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
Western Carolina Stage
. Coach COMPANY.

Daily stage between Cranberry and
Lcnoir.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
THE SWITCH LEFT OPEN.
Villian0us Attempt Made "a
wreck a Passenger Train.

"aSSA I" "SoS"kSA AAsahs
STAuNToN, Va, July PA dastardly
attempt was made to wreck passenger
express train of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, due here at 1:3O this
morning. A switch in the western
suburbs of the town was left open and
the light turned of. The train ran into
the switch wrecking the engine and three
cars, but no one was killed.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
TORN, DROWNED, BURNED.
TWO HUNDRED RAILWAY PAS
sENGERs KILLED.
An Excursion Traiu Crashed into
by a LOGON Otive-Gas Tank Set
on Fire-The Firelnen Drowned
Out the Injured.

Out the Injured.
PARIS, July 27.-Late reports say 200
people were either killed or injured by
collision yesterday at st. Marde.
1t was most terrible affair. The
engine of one of two excursion trains
telescoped three carriages loaded with
excursionists, and at the same time a
reservoir OF gas on the damaged train
exploded and set fire to the wreckage.
Scores of people were pinioned down,
wounded and helpless, beneath the
ruins.
Three carriages were in a very short
time in flames which spread to such an
extent that numbers of the wounded
were slowing roasted to death before
they were reached by those who were
doing their utmost to rescue them.
Many of the unfortunate people inn
prisoned beneath the wreck were
drowned while partly roasted, by the
fremen who were summoned to the
scene and after DELAY of forty minutes
poured in such torrents of water that
they drowned many persons.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
BAD BUSINESS.

England Feels the Condition of
the south American Republics.
LONDON, July 27.-At meeting of the
Manchester chamber of commerce today
the president said that the strade Of the
country, especially that of the Manchcs-
ter district. was very bad. He added
that the wretched condition of the South
American republics and the cheapness of
cotton had seriously interfered with
trade,
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27

Summertime brings collie and stomach
ache Simmons Liver Regulator cures it.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27
FOR SALE.
small iron safe for sale cheap. Apply at
CIR ANTS PHARMACY.
BuncOmbe SarSaparilla
A positively Safe and Reliable
Blood Purifier.
Containing Burdock Root, Sarsa-
parilla Bark, Prickly Ash
Bark, Poke Root, &c. ..-~

by Its use you can save yourself
from the suffering caused by foul
eruptions and ulcerous sores,
through which the system strives
to rid itself of corruptions. 1t
purifies the blood, giving it re-
newed vitality and force. Being
an Alternative, it changes the action
of the system, imparting fresh
strength and vigorous health in
place of that weakness and tired
feeling, which is an indication of
disorder and decay.
The concentrated power and
curative virtues of Buncombe
Sarsaparilla render it the most
reliable Blood Purifier that can
be used, while it is entirely safe
for patients of all ages.
Manufactured only at
Grants Pharmacy.
Every bottle guaranteed, satisfac-
tory or money refunded.
GRANTS PHARMACY,
"a South Main st.
Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-27

Ofrcal estate at Linville on and after
June LIST. 1891. Business lots and resi-
dcncc sites sold at private sale only.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-29
1T TERRORlZED THE TOWN.
The Fail of a Big Meteor with a Nois
Like Artillery Firing.

The Fall of Big Meteor with Noise
Like Artillery Firing.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29-Word has just
reached here s. ating that the inhabitants
of Maribille, small town near Lathrop,
Mo, on last Wednesday night were terri
bly, frightened by a noise resembling the
continued roll of artillery, followed by a
horrible, grinding crash which seemed to
tear the very earth asunder There was a
very slight shock as of an earthquake. but
otherwise nothing resulted from it. The
noise was heard for miles in every direc-
ton, but it was not until few days later
that the mystery was explained.
Six-toot Mass of Iron
William Apperson found that a large
boulder which was on his farm had disap-
peared from its place and was crushed
into small bits which were scattered over
his farm for several rods in each direction
In the spot where the body of the stone
had rested there lay what appeared to be
mass of iron ore about six feet in diam
eter. The body was oblong in shape and
had evidently struck the mass of rock
broadside on, for it divided evenly in two
pieces. The hug mass of ore is undoubt
eddy of meteoric origin and has magnetic
qualities
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-29
ALL DEAD BUT NINE.
one Hundred and Sixty Men in
the Mammoth
WHEN THEFATAL GAS CAUGHT FIRE

or These Isl Were Hurried Into E..
fly An InexpIicabIe Horror
Mine Declared Safe by the Fire Ross
VINO was One of the yictims-WhoIe-
sale Funeral at Scottdale-sixty-th three
OF the Dead Put in a Common Graye-a
Whirlwind of Fire
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. ga snecial 70
The Times from Scottdale, Pa. saws: All the
Connellsville coke region stood Yesterday
with bowed form and reverent heads while
saxty-three of the dead miners taken from
mammoth shaft were shrouded. coffiped
ana LAID to rest for their long sleep. The
funeral procession was one such as has
never before been known there The re-
mains and the mourners were taken
90 St John the Baptist's cemetery at
ocottdaie,in long special train. Along the
nhaoted portions of the road hundreds
OF citisens turned out, and wherever the
train halted great crowds gathered. Over
SooO persons were present as the bodies
were placed side by side in a common
grave.
Only Nine Alive Out of $50.
The exact number of lives lost is now
put at Isl. There were, so it is authori-
aatiVelY announced, 100 men in the mine
when the explosion took place; of these
out nine were rescued alive Mr. c. H.
Merry, OF the j. W. Moore Coke company,
said yesterday morning: The Mammoth
shaft was considered free from all danger,
md know the utmost precautions were
ssken to avoid danger arising from gas or
nre-damp. The shaft was splendidly ven
tilsted, and can not imagine how any
gas could generate in the mine The only
theory l can advance in explana top of
she explosion which resulted in so MANY
deaths, Is tn At some of the rooms in the
shaft, not having been worked for some
WINE, became charged with the PREACHER
sns tre-damp, which must have been slow
~ but steadily increasing in volume, and
which gradually forced its way into the
main entry yesterday morning
The Report of the Fire Boss.
That Fire Boss Smith, whose BODY was
picked up in fragments, had done his
duty is proved by the following report.
which was filed in the Office of the com
Fsny early Tuesday morning:
MAMMOTH, Jan. q, 1891 TO THOMAS LYNCH
SENERAL SUPERINTENDENT; This is to GER
afy that We the undersigned, have this day.
clan q, loSJ examined the working places in
Mammoth and found them to be in a fit contii-
ZION for men and other workers employed
serein
WILLIAM SMITH. Fire boss
THOMAS PATTERSON, Inspector of Machinery
GEORGE PREFER, Engineer.
Smiths daily duty was to enter the
nlue between ? and a. m, and 90 all
syer the part worked, clear upto the face"
ri each room and heading. On the face
ri the coal he worked in chalk the date OF
se month 10 show that lie had been there
an found the place free Of gas
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-29
a SWEEPING DISASTER
40 One to Tell Its History-How the
Damp Comes On.

No One to Tell Its HistOry-How the
Damp Comes On.
The disaster has some remarkable feat
zres. Ii was as deadly, as sweeping and
~ complete as the sinking of a ship in
nid-ocean. Its history is to be told by
xhose who do not know it, for there i No
tongue of all those that wagged where the
disaster occurred to describe it's details.
1T comes to you like some whirlwind.
with blue tints of rainbow; and when
Il bursts into flame it passes over your
apdy like a great log. God does not often
srt man live to tell what has happened
81 him. Ii it catches you upright, you are
IKE leaf in tornado That was what
sminer who had been in the coal mines
riirty-fIve years said of fire-damp. the
-black death" in the darkness of the silent
seboing passageways where men delve
No Safety Lamps Thought Necessary.
The mine was believed to be so free
Nom gas that though the company pro-
vided plenty of safety lamps no one ever
Rsed them. In their stead the men wore
che familiar little open-fame lamps on
sheir hats-those small coffe-pot shaped
xtairs of tin which are fastened above the
Forehead in the headgear OF the workmen.
Fire Boss Smith was a man who had
worked in mines in Great Britain and in
Hhis country for thirty years
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-29
l. aEislatiye NnfeS

The Nebraska Alliance men continue tc
refuse to acknowledge Boyd as governor
Yesterday they defeated IA resolution to
appoint committee to ask the governor
to deliver his message Kansas was con
graduated on the defeat OF ingalls,.
The senatorial fight in South Dakota i.
still on. Yesterday Moody got only 3
votes and there seems little prospect of g
break in the deadlock Meantime the
house is busilv engaged in unseating Re
publicans.
Senator Roe, Republican, introduced q
resolution in the Kansas senate Yesterday
denouncing PUN b for "dodgingr the free
silver question.
Governor and Mrs. Fifer rendered the
members of the Illinois Legislature theil
first reception last night. Probably 80,
people availed themselves of the oppor
tunity to meet the state officers and the
members