Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-13
LATER NEWS.

Winchendon, Mass, were instantly killed at
State Line depot, the carriage containing
them being struck by a locomotive and
hurled 100 feet.
Mrs. EVA HARsCH of williamson, Penn.
stood on a box to look into the loft in barn
The box tilted leaving her suspended, and
when found, she was dead.
CLAUDIUS DANSER, four years old, found
pistol in his home at Harrisburg, Penn,
and in playing with it shot himself, causing
instant death
THE Amalgamated Iron Workers Of Penn
sylvania have struck against a reduction of
wages and over 100, 900 men have quit work.
MILLIONS of grasshoppers have appeared
about st. Paul. Mimi, where the farmers
are fighting them with great vigor, bounty
of a dollar bushel being offered for them.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has been conveyed in
the United States steamer Swatara from
Washington to Nonquitt, Mass A short
stop was made at Fortress Monroe gen
eral improvement in his condition was re-
ported.
COLONEL SAMUEL LAMONT, President
Cleveland's Private Secretary, has rented for
the summer the Weeden Cottage, at James
town, COnanicut Island, r. l. and the Presi-
bent and Mrs. Cleveland will be his guests
during part of the heated term.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT JAMES c. DUANE.
Chief of Engineers, has been placed on the
retired list
Mr.. JAMES LowTHER, Conservative, de-
feated Mr. Knatchbull- Hugessen, GIadston
ian, in the election in the Isle of Thanet,
England.
PRESIDENT-ELECT FLORES of Ecuador,
South America, arrived in New York few
days since. He had been abroad two years,
effecting treaties with foreign nations, and
is now homeward bound.
FIRE at Reading, Penn, destroyed the
works of the Reading Hardware Company,
entailing loss of $350,0OO.
AFTER suffering for four days the most
dreadful agony, Charles R. Fenimore, a prom
inent citizen and ex-C Collector of Burlington,
county, died at his residence, near Delanco,
n. j., of hydrophobia-
MRS. MATTHIAS SCHRIENER, of Chicago,
poured kerosene oil over her husbands body
while ne lay in a stupid state of intoxication
and then set fire to his clothing, burning him
to death.
Two United States Marshals were killed
at an Indian green corn dance in Indian
Territory, while attempting to arrest a
border desperate, but not until they had
shot dead the ruffian himself
THE Coroners jury on the death of S. K.
the Chicago merchant who was
killed in June at the Newfane station bridge
by falling from the train, have discovered
to;, ioh MT To ha of
suicide as certainly the cause of his death.
Two deputy sheriffs got into an alterca-
ton on board floating saloon at Pineville,
KY, and, firing simultaneously, they killed
each other and fatally wounded two by
ISLANDERS.
Mrs. Ed. COUSINS, colored, of Lockland,
Ohio, was awakened by her partially par
alyzed husband trying to kill her. She es-
capped, but was unable to rescue their two
year-old child. When she returned to the
room the husband and child were both dead
with their Threats cut.
Two business blocks in Brainard, Mimi,
were burned, causing loss of $4,000
THE cost of the National Republican Con-
vention at Chicago was $4,000; of which
$1,000 was for rent of the hall, $270O for cleo
National Committee.
G. G. NELSON, a banker, who has been run
ming the North Side Savings Bank in At
lanta, Ga, has disappeared with the funds
of the institution.
BY strict party vote, the House Commit
tee on Elections has decided the California
contested election case of Sullivan against Eel
ton in favor OF the contestant, Sullivan, and
has reported resolution unseating FELTON,. /
THE appointment of Judge Melville W. !
Fuller to be Chief Justice has been reported
by the Senate committee. to which it was re-
ferred without any recommendation in the
matter.
DURING June the national debt was re-
duced S14 429, SOP. A The debt now stands: !
Principal. S1,7O5, 1872, 32O5S interest, SILL !
792, 473. IA; total, s1,317, 7S4, 1913. Cash in !
treasury, 1923, S54, OS9.S4
GOVERNMENT receipts in June aggregated !
$50, 400, III, decrease of $5SO,20 over tn
month of last year, and the
expenditures were SIC CAB 265, an increase of
s., 6S3, ST. over June, 1887. Receipts last .
month were: Customs, SIS, 012 593; internal |
revenue, S11 ,215, 324; miscellaneous, s., 262,-
SIS.
PATRICK BAYNES. hero of the Balaklava
charge of the Light Brigade, drowned him
self at Montreal, Canada.
THE Dublin Ireland) MuniciDal Council