Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-21
LATER NEWS.

boat by the drunken husbands of the two
ladies in the Monongahela at Pittsburg,
Penn.
THE subscriptions for the Johnstown food
sufferers up to late date aggregated nearly
So. OO0, 600.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Jersey City Charter Act is
constitutional. The effect of this decision
will be to GUST all the old officials and turn
the CITY government over to the Democrats.
The fast express on the LehigA Valley
Railroad was thrown from the track at Su-
gar Notch, Penn. The cars were telescoped,
and two Of them crushed in a frame house
which stood near the track. Eleven passen-
gers were injured
WILLIAM ANDERSON, a railroad section
master, of Above, S. c., while suffering
from delirium trernens killed his wife and two
children by cutting the threats of each.
CROPS in Indiana have been badly dam
aged by rain and freshets.
The product of petroleum in the United
States in 1888 was q, 346 O18 barrels (of ~
gallons each), valued at about $24, 599, $50.
displaced by natural gas in the United States
in 1883 was IA, 1913, $50 TONS valued at S22,
662, 1913.
THE President has appointed Thomas j.
Morgan, of Rhode Island, to be Commissioner
of Indian Affairs vice John Fl. Oberly, re-
signed.
FROM the monthly Government crop re-
port, it appears that the general average con-
dition of cotton on June 1 was 1O1; winter
wheat, 90; spring wheat, nearly 95; oats, SO;
rye and barley, 95.
POsTMASTER-GENERAE WANAMAKER has
announced himself as an advocate Of the Sun
day rest movement, and will from this time
forth so conduct the affairs of the Postoftice
Department that no work will be performed
on the Sabbath day except such as is abso-
lutely necessary for the proper transaction Of
the public business.
THE town of Zbaraz, in Austrian Galicia,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Many
lives were lost.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visited
the Paris Exposition and assembled the Eiffel
Tower.
rejected sutton murdered farmers daugh-
ter, the father and mother, and man SER
want.
CHARLES MCDONALD and John J. Mo
roney were arrested in New York city by
Inspector Byrnes on orders from Chicago on
charges of completely in the Cronin murder
Both prisoners acknowledge they are Clan
na-Gael men.
A VERY wealthy bachelor farmer, seventy
years DID, Elias Snowberger, hanged himself
in his garnet, near Waynesboro, Penn.
THE Coroner's jury, in Chicago, after being
out five hours, returned verdict recon-
mending that Alexander Sullivan. P. O.
Sullivan, Daniel Coughlin and Frank Wood
ruff be presented to the Grand Jury as the
men who were engaged in the plot against
the life of DR.. P. Fl. CrOnin, and were either
the principals or accessories to the murder or
had guilty knowledge Of the conspiracy to do
away with Cronin.
EXAMINATION Of the damage to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal in Virginia by the re-
cent flood shows that it can be repaired for
$500, OO0
AT Dalton, Ca, State Senator S. E. Fields
was shot and killed by his stepson, Dennis
Taylor. Fields was trying to chastise Tay-
lor.
WILLIAM ATKINSON, a wealthy and promi-
nent citizen of Ironwood, Mich, committed
suicide by jumping into the shaft Of the Ash
land mine. His mangled body was found at
the bottom of the 4O0-foot pit.
IN accordance with the findings of the
Court Martial the Secretary of " ar has pre-
scribed the limits within which Captain
Armes, who assaulted Governor Beaver, is to
be confined for five years as within radius of
fifty miles of the District of Columbia.
THE President will leave Washington the
latter part Of this month for Deer Park, Md.
where cottage has been prepared for his
reception.
THREE hundred and fifty-four thousand
persons visited the Paris Exposition on a re-
cent day. Of this number $4,000 made the
ascent of the Eiffel Tower
THE Duke of Portland, the wealthiest
nobleman in England and Miss Dallas
Yorke, daughter Of country squire, were
married in London by the Bishop of Lin
coin.
CARDINALS hats were presented to the
Archbishops of Paris, Lyons and Bordeaux,
at The request of the Pope, by President
Carnot of France.
AN Immense bridge is to be built across the
Mississippi at New Orleans There will be
TWO piers IN the center of the river. The
President of the Poughkeepsie On W Bridge
Company IS at the head it. It will be one Of