Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-19
TIE NEWS EPITOMIZD.
Eastern and Middle States.

a MILK TRUST has been formed ut Pitts-
burg The Trust viii handle al the naEk,
some thirty thousand gallons, winch 1s
brought to Pittsburg daily.
ADAM MAUI was found drowned IN .
spring on his farm, near West Sand Lake,
believed to have committed suicide.
BOOTH. the great American tEagedian, was
stricken with incipient paralysis during nus
aupearance i'm ''Othello, at Rochester, y. Y,
and the performance had TO 60 on without
him Ali his dates for tne season have been
Cancelled
TEE Rhode Island State election resulted
in no choice by the people en- the general
ticket, and the General Assembly will be
called upon to elect State officers
EDWARD D1ETz of Pittsburg, Penn, killed
one of his children, young CIR! three years
his throat. The deed was the outcome OF a
!. quarrel between Dietz and his wife.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature will adjourn
I; on May 9.
ALLARD & Sons, a large Partisan firm
dealing in antiques, art furniture, rare tapes
tries, paintings and bric-a-brac, having a
branch establishment in New York city,
have been detected in smuggling operations
| by which they have defrauded the United
States of several hundred thousand dollars
Their scheme was to conslgn to their New
York house cabinet furniture, in which were
the Vanderbilts and Astors.
THE complete vote of Rhode Island gives
Laid, Republican, 16, 952; Davis, Democrat,
p, $50; Richardson, Prohibition, 1911; Chace,
Law Enforcement, 1886. Davis lacks 54S Of
an election, but has plurality. of 1893. This
throws the election into the General Assem-
bly,. There viii be twenty-One Republicans
and eleven Democrats in the Senate, with
four still to be elected. In the House Of Re
representatives. there are twenty=thFee RepubG-
cans and thirty -seven Democrats. with twelve
yet to be electt1. The only candidate elected
to State office was S3ocum (DemOcrat At
torney-General
GEORGE w WARD, Assistant Postmaster
of Elmira, n. Y, has disappeared, and $500
in Government funds is missing.
A. G. SPALDING, Of Chicago, and his party
Of baseball players who left San Francisco
last fall arrived in New York city after
tour around the world.
ISAAC RICH & Co, the oldest fish house in
Boston, are financially embarrassed. Their
liabilities are placed at S200,6 The firm
was part owner of the steamer Haytien Re
public, which was seized at Hayti. The
troubles at Hayti are said to have had much
to do with the firms trouble.
Downs & FINCH, shirt manufacturers of
New York city, with large factories at James
burg, Bordentown and Hightstown, N. j.,
regarded as the leading firm in the business
in the United States, have failed for $500, 900.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has returned
to New York city from his trip to Cuba and
Florida and resumed the practice of law.
A RECEPTION was given to Secretary
Tracy by the Brooklyn Club in Brooklyn.
ORDERS were issued for the entire Pennsyl-
vania division of the National Guard to go
to New York and participate ia the cere-
monies incident to the centennial of Wash
ington's inauguration.
THE extensive ak, shovel and saw factories
of Hubbard & Co., at Pittsburg, Penn, were
totally destroyed by fire. The loss EVill be
fully $500, 900.