Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-12
LATER NEWS,

the commission of the deed
Ex-PREsIDENr CLEVELAND has been ap-
pointed, by a Naw York Supreme Court
Judge, one Of three commissioners of Esti-
mate and Assessment in the matter of the
High Bridge Park.
a GENERAL strike of carpenters occurred
at St Louis at o'clock In the morning.
Over 100 men demanded eight hours as a
days work.
a FREIGHT train plunged through a burn
ing bridge over Harris Greek, ". Va, and
two tramps were burned to death in the
wreck.
JOHN BOYLEs, OF Clinton, Mo-, attempted
TO cross Grand River, which was much
swollen, with his wife and six children III a
wagon. The wagon was overturned in mid.
stream, and four OF the children were
drowned.
WILLIAM EDWARDS a white man, who
had the mail contract from Washburn, Da-
kota, to Coal Harhor. has been murdered by
his Indian wife.
JAMES C. CALHOUN, timer, prominent
in business religious and social circles at
Darton, Tenn, crazed by financial losses, at
tempted to kill his family and himself. He
and his wife were fatally injured.
The Koderack, trading schooner, was
cruising between Graham and Moresly
Islands, Alaska, when five seamen-twc
Americans, Henry and Anderson, and three
Kanakas-landed, taking some trinkets for
barter with the Indians. The Indians de-
molished the whale boat in which the sailors
came ashore and then killed the five.
DURING March 1905 fourth-class postmas-
ters were appointed by the new Postmaster
General; 420 were appointed to succeed post
masters who had resigned, and 5S4 to take
the places of others suspended or removed.
MAJOR MARCUS A. RENO, formerly of the
United States Army, is dead, in his fifty
fifth year. For failing to go to General
Clusters relief at the Big Horn massacre,
Major Reno was dismissed the service in
1880.
The Navy Department has issued orders
for the following vessels to so at once to
Samoa: The Richmond, now in Rio de la
Plata, South America; the Alert, now in
Honolulu, and the Adams, now fitting for
sea at the Mare Island Navy Yard Cal.
THE reduction in the public debt during
March amounted to $13,605, 655, and for the
first nine months of the current fiscal year,
$4,000, 1874. The total debt, less cash in the
Treasury, is 81. ia, $50, 662. Cash or surplus
in the Treasury is S54, zoos. 396, against S4S,-
096, 15S a month ago.
THE new Assistant Secretaries of the
Treasury, Messrs. Tichenor and Batcheller,
took the oath Of office, and began at once the
discharge of their new duties.
JOHN HENRY POPE, Canadian Minister Of
Railways, is dead.
A LETTER from Henry NJ. Stanley, dated
September 4, 1883, has reached friend of
the explorer in Edinburgh. Mr.. Stanley says
he is well and in good spirits. He met Emin
Pacha on the shores of Albert Nyanza. They
were together for twenty-six days.
COUNTESS JOSEPHINE RADETzKY COM
mitted suicide at Vienna, Austria, by shoot
ing herself with revolver
The German men of-war Alexandrine and
Sperber have been ordered to Samoa to re-
place the lost vessels.
A FIRE in Croghan, Lewis County, de-
stroyed the residence Of James Welsh. Loss,
$500; insurance, $500.
JUDGE ALEXANDER MCCUE, Assistant
Treasurer of the United States, died of
paralysis at his home i'll Brooklyn. He was
sixty-two years Old On the day before his
death President Harrison nominated Ellis H.
Roberts to succeed him as head of the Sub
Treasury in New York.
THE st. David, 8 full rugged ship, reached
Philadelphia from Havre with the steward
in irons, hopeless lunatic; the first mate
down with acute bronchitis the second mate
a victim of rheumatic fever, and seaman
also suffering from complication Of dis,
cases.
HOWARD r. SWIFT, agent of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company at Hartford, Conn,
recently committed suicide in that city.
Financial embarrassment was the cause.
BIG land slide occurred ia Pittsburg,
completely covering the tracks of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad.
THIEVES broke into the old State house at
New Haven Conn.,, and entering the rooms
of the New Haven Historical Society, carried
away the sword of Admiral Foote held by
the Society as a relic 1t is presentation
sword studded with jewels and r-ocious
stones valued at $4,000.
The change in the Offices Of the Treasurer
and Assistant Treasurer of New York will
necessitate a count of all the moneys and
securities in both Offices, and will take at
least four weeks to accomplish
uDN-pv I TJocTrr Superintendent of the