Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-17
LATER NEWS,


THE chiefs Of State Labor Bureaus for,
ell over the country are to meet in Hartford
Conn, for fear days convention On June
a.
MELCHoR HUBER, q wealthy contractor OF
Scranton, Penn, committed suicide by cut,
ting his throat. He had been drinking heavily
for some time.
LINCOLN CURTIS, chief salesman for Cong,
ion & Aylsworth, wholesale boot and shoe
dealers of Providence, r. l., was arrested,
charged with the einbezzlement Of $40
ThE dock trial Of the Unitef States gun
boat Petrol at Baltimore was satisfactory.
THE Secretary Of State has been informed
that Peru will send delegate to the confer.
ence of American States, which meets al
Washington on October next.
THE Court of Claims has given judgment
for S35,555 in favor OF the State of Georgia
for money advanced to the Government dur
ing the Revolutionary war, which has been
withheld rs a set-off to the money due the
Government under the Direct Tax law
THE soap works of Messrs. David and
William Gibbs, London, England, were
burned. Loss $500, 900.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN and Edward Harring.
ton, Irish members of the British Paria.
ment were released from prison in order that
they might give testimony before the Par
nell Commission. Mr.. Harrington was
attired in the prison dress.
JOHN DAVIDSON was instantly killed and
his facher fatally injured by the explosion of
a boiler 1T Beaver, Penn.
MRS. JOSEPH SANDS, sixty years Old
hanged herself while insane at Bethlehem,
Penn.
A BLAST as the Minnesota mine, at Tower
Mimi, killed John Oleson and fatally injured
Nelson Johnson.
THE entire business portion of Beaver
Dam, Ohio was destroyed by fire. But three
buildings were left.
1T Waklron, Mich, thirty stores and houses,
comprising the entire business portion of the
place, were swept Cway by fire.
THE John Hopkins Hospital, at Baltimore,
the largest, most richly endowed and CON-
pletely equipped institution of the kind in the
world, was formally opened i'll the presence
OF distinguished officials of the nation, State
and city, and members Of the medical profess
sion from many parts Of the country.
JAMES e. MCCORMICK, a prominent con-
tractor of Tacoma, Washington Territory,
has disappeared with upward Of $50, COO Sc
cured through good influence and confdmg
friends.
STAFFORD, Kan, was totally destroyed by
q tornado. Crops, farm houses and barns
were moved down. Three persons were
killed and about thirty injured iii the vicinity.
1Irs. John Love was blown fifty feet from
her house into wagon. She was fatally in
jured.
THE Michigan Legislature has passed bill
prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors I'M
der seventeen years of age.
TWELVE blooded horses, valued at S53, 500,
were lost by the burning of Captain Moore's
stables at Paris Ky.
THERE were issued on recent day by the
Patent Office $50 patents, the largest number
in any one week since 1885.
WILLIAM NJ KING, of Ohio, Chief of the
Seed Division, Agricultural Department, has
resigned, and a. T. Reeve, of Hampton, Iowa,
has been appointed to fill the vacancy. The
salary is $1,000.
IN the British House of Commons the
budget recently introduced by Mr. Goschen,
Chancellor Of the Exchequer, was passed by
large majority.
NJ EIFFEL the designer and builder of the
Eiffel tower in Paris, was received, with his
employees by President Carnot.
COUNT TOLsTOI, the Russian Minister OF
the interior, is dead.
The Samoan Commissioners Messr5.
Kasson, Phelps and Bates and Lieutenants
buckingham and Parker, went to Prince Bis
marck's palace in Berlin and were intro
duced by Count Herbert. The Prince was
extremely cordial and spoke in English He
said he was glad the conference was progress
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