Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-15
LATER NEWS.

at MS own lime Kiln. he neaO IaIiS1 aSicop
while attending to the fires.
JAY CowDERY, a fath-cure doctor OF
Hartford, delivered a lecture on mental
science in West Haven, Conn. Just after
saying: "a Christian scientist can defy
DEATH" he fell dead.
SEVERE weather was reported in Northern
New York and New England, the mercury
standing at thirty to forty degrees below
zero.
NINE barns have been burned in sue
cession recently in York County, Penn, by
incendiary fires.
WHILE James Reagan and John Nc
Cormick, arm-in-arm, and so intoxicated
that they could scarcely stand, were crossing
the railroad at Poorman's Crossing, Conn,
they were struck by train and instantly
killed.
ALL the surface railways in New York
city were running cars on the seventh day of
the strike, and only one line, the Second ave.
nue., awaited itself of police protection. No
riotous actions were reported, and many old
men returned to work. In Brooklyn every
thing was quiet.
GENERAL HARRISON has completed his in.
augural address.
HIGH wind blew down the Max Meyer
brick building at Omaha, Neb., which was
recently Quilted by fire. Two buildings on
the east side were wrecked. Six persons lost
their lives and seven escaped, more or less In
jured.
AT Hastings, Neb., the central school was
almost totally wrecked, four persons being
hat inn
possible, besides large number slightly in
iured. One of the scholars was killed out
right while another was injured fatally.
The teacher, Miss Aldrich, was fatally in.
jured.
JUDGE WILLIAM M. MERRICK, of the SUI
preme Court of the District of Columbia, re-
Gently died at his residence, in Washington,
of gastric complaint, in his SEVENTEEN year.
VALENCEY E. FULLER, of Hamilton,
Canada, has made an assignment. Liabii-
ties about 81, OO0,OO0
THREE pilots of Heligcland were drowned
in the North Sea during heavy storm.
THE French Minister of Justice has sent
his resignation to Premier Floquet.
A COLLISION occurred in the English
Channel between the Steamship Killochan
and the ship Nereid. Both were sunk and
twenty four persons drowned
ENORMOUS crowds viewed the body of
Prince Rudolph of Austria as it lay in State.
Some of tho Vienna doctors discredit the
theory of suicide, and believe that the Crown
Prince was assassinated.
HEAVY gales are reported from the coasts
of Great Britain, with shipwreck and loss of
life. There has been heavy fall of snow in
Berlin, accompanied by a thunder storm. In
the mountain districts heavy and continuous
rains have fallen and further floods were
feared.
A'BIG cave-in il taking place in the coal
mines of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, at Carbonate, Penn.
WILLIAM SoRTwELL, an engineer, pinned
in the wreck of his engine at Somerville,
Mass, was killed by an ice train that
into it.
THE six-year-old son of Jacob Knoll, of
Terre Haute, Ind, died few days ago from
the effects of hydrophobia.
COLONEL JOHN S. MosBY called upon
President-elect Harrison by invitation to
discuss the Southern question.
Mrs. HARRISON, the wife of the President
elect, and her daughter, Mrs. Mckee, after
spending week in New York devoted to
shopping, have returned to Indianapolis.
PREs1DENT-ELECT HARRISON has leased
the Spencer Cottage" at Deer ParS- Md,
for summer residence, and his family ex-
pect to take possession about June 1.
THE House resolution making an appro-
priation of $500. 900, to be paid to the heirs of
Captain James B. Eads, has been passed by
the Senate.
SECRETARY BAYARD has consented to a
resumption of the conference with Germany
concerning the Samoan affairs which was
suspended last year. The scene of the nego-
tiations will be removed from Washington
to Berlin
MANDALAY, Burmah, has recently been
visited by two immense fires. In the first
the flames destroyed 632 houses, a bazaar,
and Buddhist monastery. In the second,
500 houses were burned. Both fires were of
accidental origin.
A SNOW STORM interfered with the Mon
treal (Canadal carnival somewhat.
SIX women have been murdered and mutt.
lated in Managua, Nicaragua, after the
ghastly method of the Whitechapel fiend.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has con-
firmed the election of General Cluseret as
member for the Var. 1t was charged that
he was an American citizen, and therefore
ineligible to hold office under the French