Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-30
LATER NEWS.

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spectively, were carried over the falls at
Easton, Penn, while boating. The girls
were drowned
REV. FRED a. BARNITZ, OF Middletown
Penn, a retired clergyman, and Charles II.
Carpenter, of Philadelphia were fishing
from boat on Swatara Greek. near Middle
town, Penn. when they were drawn into
whirlpool and drowned.
Mrs MARY HISCK and Mrs Emma White
of Byron, n Y. were killed by an engine at
| a railway crossing in Rochester, \. Y.
! ANDREW JOHNSON, a barkeeper and man
named Peterson e blacksmith, were drowned
| while fishing on Camp Lake, Wis
| J. C. LYONS was killed outright, c. W.
Pauly fatally mangled, an engine and eight
| cars were wrecked and large number of
cattle killed i'll wreck at Montgomery, Ind,
caused by the engine striking cow.
! WALLS constituting part of the r7:in of the
brewery recently burned in Fort Wayne.
! Ind, fell, burying five men. Charles Ruhl.
| Martin Thomas and Lawrence Overly were
killed, John Gleason and Henry Kentz were
, badly hurt
| ASSISTANT POSTMASTER DEWEY of Hunt
| ingto., Ind, has defaulted for $500 The
| fugitive clerk took $500 of Postmaster Swint's
money, who is completely ruined by the
theft. He has turned over to his bondsmen
the paper of which he was editor.
THE Department of Agriculture was closed
| for day on account of the death of ext Com
missioner of Agriculture Watts at Carlisle,
Penn. Mr.. Watts was Commissioner during
! Grants administration.
THERE are seventeen contested seats in the
House of Representatives, the papers being
| already in the custody of w. H Mobley.
| clerk of the Committee on Elections. The
cases are with one exception Indiana) from
the Southern States.
THE bond purchases by the Treasury De-
partment at Washington from August 3
1887 to and including August II, 1889,
aggregated $177, 624, 80O at cost of S204 514,
! ST. These bonds would have cost $40 543,-
277 at maturity, so that the saving has been
i $50, OPS, 4O5.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, has conferred
the title of Count on Thomas A Edison the
inventor, who is now in Europe.
EDWARD CoNRoY United States Consul at
! Porto Rico, is dead. He was one CT the old
est members of the consular service, having
been appointed Consul at San Juan, Porto
Rico April 81, 1869, from Pennsylvania He
was a native of Connecticut, and was fully
eighty years of age.
AUGUsT1N ARROYO DE ANDA has been cho-
sen President of the Mexican Congress, by
virtue of which Office he becomes Vice-Presi-
dent of the Republic
THE betrothal is announced of the Duke Of
Nassau to Princess Margaret, youngest sister
| Of Emperor William of Germany.
THREE miners were killed by an explosion
IN colliery at Hanley Staffordshire, Eng
land.
: HERR LACHMANN, editor Of the L0ndo1eT
Journal, a weekly newspaper printed in
German in London, England, murdered his
wife and child, and then committed suicide.
ALFRED PORTER, aged about nineteen
years, Of Dover n. H., student of Dart
( mouth College, was accidentally shot and
instantly killed at Kenniston's Island, by
! Herbert E. Towle, of Dover.
THE Finance Committee of the Worlds
! Fair Committee met in New York city and
| organized; Jesse Selignan, the banker, sub
lnitteda plan to raise money without asking
Congress for help
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
made arrangements to establish a pension
system for it's employees the first Of its kind
in the United States. The pension plan will
be introduced in connection with the com
pany's relief association
The body of Frederick Wilcox, aged
! twenty six, was found hanging in a hayloft at
Virgil, n. Y. He was to have been married
in short time Temporary insanity is the
alleged cause.
THE New York State Committee met at
Saratoga and decided to hold the Democratic
| 1st
PRESIDENT HARRISON, Private Secretary
Halford, Acknowledgement Miller and Sec
rotary Rusk left Deer Park Md, for Indian
apOlis Ind, where the President was to
spend several days before returning to Wash
ington.
THE Argentine Republic, through its
Charge d Aft Tres at Washington, Mr.. Err
nesto Bosch has addressed formal invita-
ton to the United States Government to take
part in the second international cattle show
of the Argentine Agricultural Society, to be
held at Buenos Ayres. The show opens on
April 20 and closes on May II, 1890.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS PORTER has
appointed Charles E. Taft, of Little Rock,
Ark, special agent on ship building.