Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-27
LATER NEWS,

TWO trains cOllided at Tioga Junction
Penn, resulting in the death Of two person..
and injuring about twenty-five
THE tin box containing the clothing Of
DR.. T. II. Cronin, who was murdered at
Chicago, was shipped to New York and is
now there. 1t was intended to be sent to Eng
land to mislead the police.
SENATORS HoAR, Pugh, Butler and Eustis,
OF the Committee on Relations with Canada,
visited Cambridge, Watertown, Lexington
and Concord, Mass
gan County, Ohio, was murdered by his
niece, Mrs. Hamilton, who hacked his head
to pieces with butchers knife.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL Ma
GLE, who shot Judge Terry, has been released
ON his own recognizance in bonds Of $4,000, by
decision Of Judge Sawyer at San Fran
cisco.
Up to recent date the United States Sen
ate Committee on Investigation had travelled
over 10, 600 miles, held more than $50 sessions
and examined nearly 500 witnesses As result
in brief, the committee have grown enthusi-
astic over the possibility of retaining a
large portion of the arid lands of the West.
SECRETARY TRACY has sent a dispatch to
ex-Secretary Whitney, congratulating him on
the magnificent performance of the Balti-
more.
The President has appointed Judge L. A.
Golf, of Omaha, Commissioner of the General
Land Office, and William Smythe Postmaster
at Oswego, n. Y.
A CAN of powder exploded at the stone
quarries, Vancouver, British Columbia, kill
ing two men, and badly injuring four 9TH
ers.
A FAMINE prevails throughout Tigre,
State of Abyssinia. Bands of starving
peasants are ravaging the country around
Srkota.
THE anniversary of Mexican independ-
ence and the birthday of President Diaz
were observed with great enthusiasm in
Mexico.
THE captain and crew of the British
steamer Garston, wrecked in the Pacific,
reached Wallis Island after being twenty
two days in an open boat without food or
water
KING MALIETOA has returned to power in
Samoa, and German support has been with
drawn from Tamasese.
FIRES have ragged near Spring Valley
lakes, California, in Ventura County
Sonoma County and other parts Of the State.
Miles of fences, much timber and many
buildings have been destroyed.
A PREMATURE discharge of blast at the
Lake Chabot reservoir at Oakland, Cal, has
resulted in the death of four Cinnamon,
and several others were seriously injured.
A CHICAGO letter carrier claims to have
seen LIE Caron, the British spy, in the Post
office Of that city.
| A TwO-sToRY brick building on Park
avenue, Chicago, was blown down in a storm
and two men fatally injured
By the breaking of lamp in San Francisco,
a women and her baby were burned to death.
THE south-bound Central freight train has
been derailed at Atlanta, Ca and the
engineer, fireman and brakeman killed.
THOMAS E. JACKSON, aged eighteen, was
killed il a prize fight by ED" Ahearn, in
! st. Louis.
By an explosion of gas in the Nelson shaft
! at ShamOkin, Penn, two men were fatally
!
GENERAL E. BURD GRUBB has been nomi-
mated by the Republican State Convention at
Trenton for Governor of New Jersey.
FIFTY prominent colored men of Massa-
chusetts, in conference at Boston, have passed
resolutions demanding better recognition
of their race in political life.
SECRETARY WINDOW has appointed Rob-
ert H. Terrell of Massachusetts,, Chief of the
Navy Pay Division of the Fourth Auditors
office. The new appointee is colored man.
THE Benton sugar refinery in Bordeaux,
France, has been burned. Three hundred
thousand Kilograms of sugar were destroyed.
The loss is placed at $500, 900.
AT Cairo, Egypt, enteric fever is epidemic
among the soldiers in garrison there. Several
deaths from the disease occur daily
RACE ARRAY IN ILLINOIS,