Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-03
LATER NEWS.

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suicide. Dread of insanity and weight OF
business cares are supposed to have prompted
the oct.
DURING terrific thunder storm at Trinity
Lake Westchester County, n. Y, the house
of Levinda Adams was struck by lightning
Noah Adams, eighty years old, and Mrs. Ia
Adams's daughter were killed
HENRY A THOMAS, of Massachusetts, has
been appointed Superintendent of Mails at
| Boston, Mass, vice Peter J. Hughes re-
signed.
BYa majority OF A, 552, Massachusetts de
| cided against the proposed amendment to its
| Constitution prohibiting the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors.
A FIERCE forest fire ragged in the vicinity of
| Bellows Falls Vt, for forty-eight hours.
| About ten square miles of woodland was
swept by the fire, which destroyed many
Thousand of dollars worth of logs and cord
wood.
THE steamship Missouri landed 365 of the
| passengers and crew of the wrecked Dan
mark at Philadelphia amid general rejoicing.
| The saved people praised the kindness and
pluck of the crew of the British vessel Mis-
souri,. Captain Murrell was presented with
a floral ship and dinner given in his honor.
FRANK LYNN shot and killed his landlady,
Mrs. Noah, at Lebanon, Ohio, and then COM
mitted suicide.
SIMEON HoUTs of Attica, Ind, killed his
wife and then shot himself through the head.
Jealousy was the cause.
A RoBBER entered the railroad station at
Pattonsburg, Mo-, and robbed the safe of be-
tween $4,000 and $40, 900 in money. He COW
cred the agent with his pistol while ne was
searching the safe.
PRESIDENT HARRISON appointed the fol-
lowing commission to negotiate with the
Sioux Indians in Dakota: General George
Crook, United States Army; Charles Foster,
of Ohio, and William Warner, of Kansas
City, Mo.
The resignation of Nicholas NJ Bell,
Superintendent of Foreign Mails, Postoffice
Department, has been accepted by the Post
master-General
THREE public meetings in Edinburgh,
Scotland, protested against comforting the
freedom of the city on Mr.. Parnen.
THE strike of the carmen in Vienna has be-
come very serious. Already many persons
have been injured in the collisions which have
taken place between the strikers and the
police, and the trouble threatens to extend
TO the inclusion of workmen of other occupa-
tions.
Ex-KING MILAN has become a Monk of
Jerusalem with view to eventually becom,
ing Patriarch of all the Servians
AN explosion of natural gas occurred in
Armstrong; cork factory in Pittsburg, Penn,
wrecking the building and machinery and
killing two employees.
A LARGE public reception was given Cap
tain Murrell, the rescuer of the Danmark's
passengers in Philadelphia, and in the even
| ing he was the guest of the Sons of st.
George. King Christian has intimated his
Intention to bestow decoration upon him.
THREE men were drowned in the lake four
miles west of Grayling, Mich. Nobody knew
who the men were or where they came from.
FOREST fires have done great damage in
Marathon County, Wis.
| T. F. BURGESS, the Treasurer of Durango
Col, is a defaulter to the extent of $12OOO
He has fed.
SCOTT BAILEY, q colored man, was taken
from the Jail at Halifax Court House. Va,
and lynched. He was accused of attempted
assault on young lady.
THE Morgantown Female Seminary. at
MorgantOwn, W Va, was burned Loss
! 625, 600.
THE New York and Philadelphia syndi-
cate, which about three weeks ago paid
s., 100000 for the Laclede gas works of st.
Louis, has just captured the other gas com
pany at nominal cost of s., 500, 600, making
q total investment in ST. Louis of So OOO 600
in less than a month
REAR ADMIRAL KIMBERLY has forwarded
to the Navy Department report stating that
the engine of the Nipsic, which passed through
the hurricane at Samoa has been tried and
marked well. The report says that the ship
can be moved by steam if required
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON. of the
Marine Hospital service in Washington, has
been informed by the President of the Board
of Health of Sanford, Fla, that case of
yellow fever existed in that city.
THE Secretary of War ordered the COM
manding officers of all military posts to fire a
national salute of thirty-six guns on April
3d.
The body of Mr. Ashworth, the British |
vice-consul at Castellamare, Italy, has been
found at the foot of precipice at Vico |
Equense, on the Bay of Naples. 1t is believed |
that he committed suicide