Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
LATER NEWS.

JAMES MAHONEY and Robert Fisher were
run down aud killed by a train at Provi-
dence, R. 1. They were pushing an empty
car on a side track at the time
ALBERT F. WHITMAN, aged nine years,
and Harry Z. Hamln, aged ten years, were
drowned while bathing in the Merrimac
River at North Andover Mass.
CoMMIssARIEs at Johnstown, Penn, have
all been cl7sed
THE Hon. John T Clarke, Judge of the
Georgia Court, stepped off the train at
Snithville, Ga, and was killed.
TOMMY WILLIAMS, aged five, and his sister
Agnes, aged three, put lighted match IN
coal oil at Columbus, Ohio. The children
were so badly burned that they died in al
hour.
WHITE GHOST, head chief of the Crow
Creeks has signed the Sioux bill He was
the bitterest opponent of the bill.
PRESIDENT FRANK BROWN, of the Denver,
Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, and
two of his assistants, have lost their lives in
attempting to make a survey for that road
through the canyons of the Colorado River.
THE United States Government has been
invited to participate in an international cat
tie show to be held at Buenos Ayres, under
Argentine patronage, in April, 1890
The committee appointed by Postmaster
General Wanamaker to investigate the con-
dition of the New York Postoffice recon-
mend 1913 additional clerks and ten additional
carriers at an increased cost Of $4,000.
~, Of T ord
George Hamilton announced that the con-
struction Of fifty-t7vo waTships had been be-
gun Twenty of these vessels were being
built in the Government dockyards and thir
ty-two in private yards.
THE steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, of Boston,
Mass, was burned at sea and two firemen
were drowned. Loss 100000.
A LATER report says that 1000 persons were
rendered homeless by the fire in the town of
Paks, Hungary. Six men were burned to
death. The damage to property amounts to
$3.50, 600.
The island of Crete is again in a state of
Instruction. Bands of Insurgents have
seized the towns of Vamos and Cidonia, ex-
PEELED the authorities and burned the
archives.
The postofice at York Corners N. H.,
was destroyed by lightning causing loss of
$4,000
THE burning of three elevators and their
contents at Hastings, Nebraska, caused
$50, 900 damage.
e. E. POLsTER, lessee Of the Terra Gotta
Lumber Company in Kansas, has skipped to
Canada with $50 600 of stolen funds.
COLONEL RODGER J. PAGE, editor of the
Marion o. c. Iinacs-Register, while walk
ing with a Texas Judge, fell dead, bullet
penetrating and breaking his neck. The
shot was fired from the rear and at a dis
lance of but few feet. The unknown as
sassin fired three shots more and fed
THE Attorney General has appointed Henry
NJ Foote of Pennsylvania and James H.
Nixon OF New Jersey to be assistant attor-
neys in the Department of Justice.
The United States war vessel Monocacy,
which has been lying in disabled condition
at Yokohama, Japan, for q number Of years,
will beput i'll active service again by the
Navy Department.
A COMMITTEE composed Of DR.. George Ew
ing and H. L. Bruce of the Pension Appeal
Board and Captain Frank L. Campbell, of
the Assistant Attorney Generals Office has
been appointed by Secretary Noble to inves-
tigate the Pension Bureau.
SECRETARY NOBLE has rendered a decision
granting $4,000 to J. Milton Turner, the
colored attorney Of the Cherokee freedmen,
who obtained an appropriation Of $75, GOO for
them from Congress.
BELGIUM has vo~ ed s., 900, GOO for the new
Congo Railway in Africa.
A FIRE at Lu Chow, China, burned for
twenty-three hours. During that time 81, 900
dwellings were destroyed and 1900 persons
persisted in the flames, beside 100 who were
crushed to death in their efforts to escape.
Mr. PARNELL testified again before the
Commission in London; he declined to give
any information concerning the Trust Fund
sent from America.
FIVE sailors were drowned at the Island of
Flores while trying to escape from the sink
ing May Frazer. The vessel was total loss
Mrs. HATTIE GIBSON HEM, wife of Rev
David Hem, formerly of Tennessee, is under
sentence of death in Corea for teaching
Christianity.