Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-30
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.


THE citizens or Danbury, Conn. are great
ly excited over repeated attempts which
have been made TO burn the town. Thirteen
fires were started within seven days, burning
many buildings and causing the loss Of one
life
JOHN HENDERSON. OF Syracuse. y. Y. and
Bernard Mckeunon. OF Philadelphia, two Of
the crew of the schooner Marion Manson.
from Bath, Me-. for Baltimore, were swept
overheard and drowned
LIGHTNING caused heavy loss by fire in
oil works at Bayonne, y. J. 4 Government
building at Sandy Hook was destroyed
PRESIDENT HARRISON visited the ship
yards at Bath, Ne.
WILLIAM JONES. for twenty wears a
trusted enploye of E. H. Butler & Co. edu-
cational publishers of Philadelphia has dis
appeared. He is said to be snort so 600 in
his accounts Jones is bachelor.
THE State Committee met in New York
city and decided to hold the Republican
State Convention at Saratoga on Septem-
Der 25
ABOUT 2200 plasterers struck in New York
city for an increase of wages from 81 to $50
a day. About 100 had their demand CON
coded.
PROFESSOR ELIAS LOOMS MUNsoN, Pro
fessOr of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy
at y ale University, died in New Haven,
Conn, of Brights disease. He was born IN
1911
GREAT devastation was done by storms on
the New Jersey coast. Many watering
places were seriously damaged
AFTER a nine-days' vacation in New Eng
land President Harrison left Bar Harbor,
Me-, for Washington. He stopped at Man
chester n. H., long enough to drive about
among the mills. At Concord n. H, ne was
formally received by members of the Legis-
lature in joint convention. He made a brief
address. He went thence to Fall River,
Mass, where he took the steamer Pilgrim
for New York.
DURING the late storm Benjamin Andreas
and William Mcdonald, both married, We're
drowned at Walnut Port. Penn. They were
employed on the bridge being erected across
the Lehigh River.
The vicinity of Mammoth, Penn, was
visited by a snow storm The ground was
completely covered.
MICHAEL and John Murphy, two brothers,
aged five and six, respectively, while sailing
their little boats near Bloomfield, n. j., fell
into the Morris Canal and were drowned
EBEN s. ALLEN, ex-President of the Forty
second Street and Grand Street Railroad
Company,o of New York city, who had pleaded
guilty, in the Court of General Sessions, to
the fraudulent issue of stock Of the company
was sentenced by Judge Gildersleeve to four
teen years imprisonment in State Prison.
AN explosion of gas in the crockery store of
T. J. Macable, New York city, killed ia
cobs Morris, aged seventeen, and wounded
twenty-five other persons.
UNITED STATES SENATOR WILLIAM NJ
EvARTs sailed for Europe, from New York
city, accompanied by his son Allen and
daughter. He goes to have eminent oculists
operate on his eyes, which are failing him.
A HORSE and wagon hired from Pearsalls
ivery-stable at Freeport N. Y, were stolen
from in front of the hotel in Bellmore
Next day the outfit was found at Baldwin's
in the possession of Miss Susie Brewer, of
Merrick, N. Y, highly connected young
woman, who confessed the theft
DRUNKEN quarrels among miners at Pitts
burg Fem, who had just been paid off, re
suited in two murders in quick succession.
Thomas Smell, a sinker. aged forty-five, and
Charles Fitzgerald were the victims.
GOVERNOR GOoDEuL has prorogued the
New Hampshire Legislature. During the
last session the Governor approved 238 bills
and 81 joint resolutions, and vetoed one
act.