Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-13
LATER NEWS.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, while
being taken to New York from Baltimore,
burned at sea. She cost $50, coo. All the
crew were rescued.
An explosion from tie bursting Of an am
monia pipe connecting with a patent ice
machine blew the inside out Of Charles
Trefz's three story brick brewery in Newark.
\. J., wrecking fifty huge watts, flooding the
neighborhood with beer and causing loss Of
$175, 900.
TIE Jury in the trial at Baltimore Of the
Navassa Island rioters found George S. Key
guilty of murder in the first degree, Moses
Williams not guilty, and failed to agree in
the cases of the other sixteen prisoners.
Two witnesses in the CrOnin murder trial
at Chicago swore that they had seen the
two knives taken from Dan Coughlin, one of
the prisoners. and identified by I. T. Conklin
as belonging to DR. Cronin, in Coughlin's
possession prior to May 4, the date of the
murder.
JOHN STAPLEToN and his wife, aged about
sixty years, and their grandson, aged ten,
were found dead at their house at Elgin, Ill.
They mad been sufocated by coal gas.
THE Washington Hotel of st. Paul, MINI,
has been burned. Two men, one a Swede
and the other an Italian, persisted from suf-
location.
A CoLORED man and his wife living near
Franklin, KY, went to visit neighbor,
leaving their three small children in the
house. In their absence the house caught fire
and burned to the ground All three Of the
children persisted in the flames.
A COMMITTEE OF the International Marine
Conference reported that the establishment
of permanent International Marine Com
mission was not feasible
JUST before the opening of Congress the
Democratic members of the House held q
caucus and adopted resolutions in favor Of
tariff reform as outlined by Cleveland's last
message.
FRANK MACARTHUR, son of an ex-Judge of
the Supreme Court Of the District OF
Columbia, jumped from express train near
Washington and was instantly killed. He
was insane at the time.
The public debt statement shows that tbs
reduction Of the public debt during Novem-
Der amounted to 81 869, 672. So The total
cash in the Treasury is $617, 224, 5O5.22
THE United States steamer Enterprise,
in English waters and under orders to come
home, has been ordered by the Navy Depart
ment to proceed to Antwerp to receive the
remains Of ex-Minister Pendleton, and to
convey them to the United States for burial
NOUssA BEY, the Turkish official accused
OF murder, arson and pillage in Armenia
has been acquitted
SPECTATORS at a bull fight in the City OF
Mexico grew angry because the bulls refused
to fight and demolished the plaza.
EARTHQUAKE shocks winch occurred at
Alton Bay, n. H, and vicinity caused stop
page of clocks and b:eaAage Of glassware.
A FISHING boat in which were Charles
Hoyt, John Batcheder and Robert Bridges,
was capsized Off Norman's Woe, Mass, and
Foyt and Batcheder, who lived in New
Hampshire. were drowned.
A DOZEN Connecticut Postmasters have
been fined $50 and costs for selling stamps on
credit.
CYRUS FILLMORE a brother OF ex-President
Fillmore, died at Lagrange Ind. aged eigh-
ty-seven
GOVERNMENT receipts in November were
$50, ZIG, 967, and expenditures aggregated
S25 =34 55S
The Civil Service Commission in its an
nual report says that about 2S, 600 Govern
nlent employees now come under its jurisdic
ton.
CHICAGO gentlemen resident in London
had big banquet TO boom the Lake City for
the Worlds Fair
4 TERRIBLE disaster has occurred at Wein-
helm City, in the province of Shantung,
China, where a platform which had been
erected to accommodate spectators at
theatrical display suddenly collapsed killing
two hundred persons.