Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-01
LATER NEWS.

BENJAMIN T. BABBrTT the weil-known
soap manufacturer, died few days since in
New York at the age of eighty years. he
left large fortune.
THE Democratic City Convention, of
Brooklyn, has renominated Alfred c. Chaplin
for Mayor of Brooklyn.
THE Finance Comm:tteo Of the Worlds
Fair, at New York city, adopted a subscrip-
ton form for the 6, 900, 900 guarantee fund
and ordered 1000 subscription books printed.
THE Presbyterian RerietC, Of New York
city, will suspend publication on account OF
a quarrel among the editors over the relig
ious tone of articles printed.
THE residence of George Kessler, six
miles south of Van Vert, Ohio, has been
burned and his six-year-old daughter and
her aunt persisted in the flames.
A CROWD of colored men lynched col
ored man at Lake Carmorant, Miss, for
outraging young colored girl.
FRANK J. BOWMAN, notorious attorney,
was shot and killed at Ferguson, Mo-, by
B. M. Chambers, ex-publisher Of the st.
Louis Times.
REPORTS from Northwestern Minnesota
and Western Dakota state that nearly ons
Thousand families are destitute from failure
of crops by drought.
A PASSENGER train was derailed forty
miles from Portland Ore. James Nolan was
killed and the engineer fatally injured.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is already busy at
work on his forthcoming Message.
THE President has appointed Oscar F.
Williams, of New York, to be Consul of the
United States at Havre, France.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER, of the Census
Bureau has appointed Charles H. Cooley, OF
Michigan, a special agent of the bureau foI
the collection of railway statistics.
IT is announced at the State Department
that the Venezuelan claims commission is
now ready to consider at once all claims pre-
sented.
A COMPANY has been formed in London
for the purpose of erecting a tower in that
city on the Eiffel plan. The tower is to bf
1850 feet high.
The American Public Health Association
began its annual session in Brooklyn.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER has been elected
President of the San Miguel Gold Placer
Mining Company, of Colorado.
The Protestant Episcopal General Conven-
ton, at New York city, decided to make the
communion service part of the marriage ser
vice, but rejected it for funerals
The Belford- Clark Publishing Company,
of Chicago, which failed some weeks ago,
will resume business.
AN engineer and fireman were killed by
the explosion of a locomotive boiler at Wells
boro, Ind.
In the village of Woodville, Ohio, there
have been in one week ten deaths from ty-
phoid fever and as many more from diph-
liberia.
LORD HINTON, son of an English Earl, is
said to have been engaged in some swindling
transactions in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A COMPLETE jury mas at last been secured
in the Cronin murder case at Chicago, Ill.
THE residence of ex- Mayor Ballard at Lex
ington, Mo-. has been burned, and Mrs. Bal
lard, who was of unsound mind, persisted in
the flames.
CHOLERA is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates in Persia. During
the past three months there have been 1000
deaths from the disease.
The Gar of Russia and his family have
donated 400, 900 roubles for the sufferers by
the famine in Montenegro.
ALDERMAN ADAM, a French member of the
City Council of Ottawa, has ,absconded and
fled to the United States He is a lawyer
and has illegally embezzled funds to the
amount of $4,000
IN the speech from the Throne at the
opening of the Reichstag at Berlin, the EN-
peror William announced that he hopes to
preserve the peace of Europe.
THE Central American Congress- which
met at Guatemala, approved the basis for
the union of the Central American States.
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