Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-05
LATER NEWS.

ONE workman was killed and two were
fatally injured by the collapse of an unfin-
ished building at Binghamton, n. Y.
PATRICK FLEMING, hay dealer OF Provi-
dence, r l., has left town with liabilities
placed at $40, OO0
W. Fl. BIGELow, of Maine, has been ap-
pointed Superintendent OF the Railway Mail
Service of New England.
THE plant of the St Paul Mimi Meat
and Provision Company was burned. Loss
500, 600.
BURNS HARGETT, aged twelve years, was
caught by the foot and drawn between the
rollers of a corn-crusber at Friedrich. Md. 1t
was two hours before the body could be re-
leased, and then it was ground up into q
mere mass of flesh and bones.
NAVIGATION is open for the season in all
the Western rivers.
ALv1s TURNER and JEFF King were going
toward Cumberland Gap, KY, and James
Burch was coming to town, and the meeting
was celebrated by Avis Turner shooting at
Burch, the ball only striking Burchs gun
Burch returned the fire, promptly killing
Avis Turner, and then King fired on Burch,
killing him and beating hasty retreat ur
Clear Greek.
THE President has reserved Monday to
himself, and on that day sees those only with
whom he has engagements
COLONEL FRED D. GRANT called at the
Department Of State and took the oath OF
Office as Minister to Austria.
SECRETARY WINDOW has issued the follow
ing instructions to customs officers in regard
to the Paris Expostion Manufacturers
articles or wares produced or manufactured
in the United States which may be sent to
the Paris Exhibition of 1889 for exhibition
will upon their return to the United States
be admitted to free entry.
THOUSANDS Of canal workmen have left
the Isthmus of Panama, and work has
about stopped.
AN excursion party of seventeen persons
enjoying sail on Lake Chalpa, in the State of
Jalisco, Mexico, were capsized by gale and
all were drowned
The Ministers have prevailed upon thu
the Queen of Holland to undertake temper
arily the duties of Regent. The Cabinet
! has decided to convoke a Congress of the
the King incapacitated for the duties of
| Sovereign.
THE probabilities were that the steamship
| Conserva, which sailed from New York to
become gunboat in the service of Hippoyte,
the leader Of the Haytian insurgents. was
wrecked by collision and that not only did she
| go to the bottom but also the unknown craft
which struck her. The Commander OF the
steamer John Henry Ankers, of Brook
! lyn. The crew was composed of twenty
three Malays and Lascars
THE explosion of barrel of kerosene de-
stroyed hat factory in Williamsburg, y,
and there being other escape for the
eighty workpeople, they Ieaped from the win
dows. About twenty were seriously injured,
two fatally.
e. CUMMINGS & Co., Boston leather deal
ers, have failed for 100000
EIGHT tramps were publicly logged on
their bare backs by Citizens Committee in
Fairbury, Neb, for impudent and bosterous
conduct
FIRE at Kenny, Ill, destroyed 100000
worth of property, intending moro than
twenty stores and business houses
A TRAIN near Dunlap's Ind, struck a
buggy containing Robert Mccartney, aged
twenty, and Miss Della Love, aged eighteen,
of Elkhart- Both were found on the pilot
OF the engine dead. McCaffrey's head was
crushed, and the young woman's neck bro
ken,
HARVEY JOHNSON, a thirteen year old boy,
and IL playmate found a small keg Of pow
der i'm barn at Sioux City, Iowa The
johnson boy dropped lighted cigarette into
the key, and explosion followed which
| killed them both.
| The Central Warehouse at Chicago. with
| its valuable store of teas and coffees,
burned to the ground, entailing a loss of
about 81 500, 600
driven to bay at FrankIinton, N. c., and as
he refused to surrender, the Sheriff and his
deputies fired six bullets into him. ending his
life
| POSTMASTER-(IENERAL WANAMAKER and
the Hawaiian Minister have signed con-
venton increasing the amount of money
| orders between the two to 800.
| PosTMAsTER-GENERAL. WANAMAKER has
appointed the following division supern-
tendents of the railroad mail service: First
Division, w. e. BigeIow, Boston, Mass;
Second Division. r c. jackson, New York;
| Third Division, c. w. Vickery, Washing
ton, d. c.; Fourth Division, L. NJ Terrell,