Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-31
LATER NEWS.

terson, n. j., into the boiling waters, a dis
lance of 105 feet. He was much exhausted
after his perilous feat.
A CYCLONE swept through the farming
section west of Scranton, Penn, destroying
fruit trees and buildings. In the path of the
storm the fruit crop was ruined. The vii
lagos Of Clark's Summit and Clarks Green,
in Pennsylvania, were partially destroyed.
WILLIAM B. DERBY, cashier of the Mutual
District Messenger Company, Of Boston, was
arrested, charged with embezzling $4,000 or
more from the Western Union Telegraph
Company.
An earthquake was felt in middle Califor-
MIA. At some points the shocks were quite
severe. and in a few cases the tops of chin
neys were thrown down. The shock was suf-
ficiently heavy in San Francisco to awaken
nearly all slumberers
MRS. EMMA G. FOLSOM, the mother of
Mrs Grover Cleveland was married in Jack
son, Mich, to Henry E. Perrine, a wealthy
merchant of Buffalo, n Y. Mrs. Cleveland
was present at the ceremony.
THE steamer Rockton, bearing eight officers
and $50 men of the Vandalia and twelve Off
GERS and 300 men from the Trenton, arrived
at San Francisco, Cal. from Apia, Samoa, in
command of Captain n. H. Farquhar. Ad-
miral Kimberly, ten officers and seventy-five
men remain at Apia.
FIRE in Howard CITY, Mich. DESTROYED
the Opera House building, Mathers's Bank.
the Baptist Church, several stores and eleven
dwellings. Loss $55, 900.
DONALD MCDONALD, a Sergeant of the
United States Army, stationed at Presidio
Cal, shot and killed Ethel Anderson, a Young
woman, and then shot himself, dying il
stantIy.
The number of persons drowned in the re-
cent floods in Austria is estimated at one
hundred The Pilsen district was still sub
merged.
Mr.. MCLANE, American Minister to
France, has presented his letters of recall to
President Carnot.
THE strikes among the peasants near Milan,
Italy, are spreading. A conflict occurred be-
tween the strikers and the military during
which a peasant was killed and eight others
were injured. Four carabineers were also in
iured.
miles of railroad track in Maine and stopped
q train
A STORM did heavy damage to crops and
small buildings in the West.
THE Supreme Court of Ohio dismissed the
case against Ives and Stayner, indicted for
swindling stockholders of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad.
JOSEPH SCHEIDHELM and Peter Goetiz,
two Milwaukee coopers, went fish ng in the
Milwaukee River. The boat capsized and
both were drowned
THE passenger steamer Johns Hopkins, of
the Baltimore and Savannah route,
burned at Baltimore. Loss 100000.
THE Secretary of State is informed that
Mr.. Zegarra the Minister of Peru in Wash
ington will represent that government at the
Conference of American States, which meets
October next.
THE Treasury accountants completed an es-
innate of the cash value of the currency,
coin and securities turned over to Treasurer
Huston by ex-Treasurer Hyatt, and found
the total amount to be 9722 600 900.
TIE coal miners, who were on strike in the
Dortmund, Boehum and Essen districts of
Germany, have resumed work
Two French fishing vessels, the Ella and
the Four Brothers, which left France some
time ago for the Newfoundland fisheries with
seventy men on board, have been lost and all
hands were drowned.
FORTY-F FIVE persons have been lost through
the foods in Bohemia.
THE steamer City OF Paris arrived in
Queenstown, from New York. after phe-
nominally fast trip. Her time was five days
and twenty-five hours, beating her own
record on the last westward trip, of five days,
twenty three hours.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, arrived in Ber-
lin, and was given brilliant reception. EN-
peror William and Prince Bismarck and
General Won Moltke greeted him as he
alighted from the train. The streets were
filled with people and the buildings were pro-
Iusely decorated