Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-07-14
AFFAIRS OF CONSEQUENCE
FOREIGN.

rOhEiCN.
Herr Wollsteimer, large hop dealer,
of Nuremburg, having extensive connec-
tions in the United States, has been de-
clared bankrupt.
The sitting Of the chamber Of deputies
of France was suspended Saturday.
owing to great disorder caused by the
rejection Of the temporary duty on cotton
yarn.
NJ. Christople, of the Credit Foncier, in
an interview relative to the Panama
canal, said that if engineer experts pro-
nounced in favor of proceeding with the
work the financial plans to relieve the
enterprise would not fail.
Gen. O'Neill, who claims to have been
an officer of the United States Army, was
shot and seriously wounded by his wife
at Wiesbaden. Mrs. O'Neill was separa.
ted from her husband, and was jealous
of another woman. She was sentenced
Saturday to four months imprisonment.
A report has been circulated in Berlin
that the French minister of foreign affairs
had approached the Russian government
on the subject of coalition against Eng.
land, offering to cooperate with Russia
in the seizure of Constantinople and the
formation of new Turkish state in Asia
embracing Egypt, under Franco-Russiar
projections.
HOME.
Galveston claims the credit for being tn,
third cotton port in the United State,
and sends greetingsto allexchanges with
! the announcement that her yearly re
ceipts for the first time have exceeded
1000, 900 bales.
The Sheffield Ala. Land Company ant
the plant of the Alabama Iron and Rail
way Company of Sheffield will be sold t
an English syndicate. The property con
sists OF three large blast furnaces ant
nearly two-thirds of the town of Sheffield
The price is understood to be three mil
lion dollars.
President Frank McGrath, of the Kan
sas Farmers Alliance, has announced tn
appointment of committee to TAX
charge of the placing of loans for mem
bers of the alliance. Men having mort
cages coming due which they are uuabl
to meet will be assisted in securing eS
tensions when they are deemed worth
Of it.
Enormous caverns have been discoy
cred in Josephine county, Oregon, abOu
twelve north of the California line an
about forty miles from the coast. Man
of the passages within the cave are DEF
cribed as of great beauty, containing |
them semi-transparent stalactites, gian
milk-white pillars, pools and streams {
pure, clear water and a waterfall thirt
feet in height.
, One of the most destructive forest fire
which has ever swept through the nortl
ern peninsula Of Michigan 10 raging b
, tween Marquette and St. Ignace, alon
the line OF the Duluth, South Shore an
Atlantic railway. For hundreds Of milk
nothing can be seen but one mass I
{ flame, and the density of the smoke is s
pronounced that. the beaming sun a
pears like golden ball.
| The Texas Farmers alliance conve
ton, at Fort Worth, adopted resolution
denouncing the sub.treasury land los
schemes and governmental ownership
, railroads, demanding that office-seeke
who are now farmers be removed fro
national and state Offices of the allianC
s and indorsing the course Of President
S. Hall, of the Missouri Alliance, in \
opposition to DR.. c. W. Macune. AL
ance leaders in Kansas say the Fo
Worth movement is scheme Of southe
T! democrats to break up the alliance.
n The Omaha Bee says Nebraska b
bank deposits of $50, ,507 900, or s.
per capita, almost enough to paw all t
farm mortgages in the state. The es
mated yield OF the crops tor this year
II grcnter than ever before. Omaha h
i grown to be the third meat-packing &C
4 tire in the country. The industry W
unknown three years ago. The sta
produces fifty thousand pounds Of butt
Is and forty thousand pounds Of beet sug
IS a day. There are 5,345 miles Of railro
track in the state.