Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-06
LATER NEWS.

A COMBINATION of Eastern capitalists has
been formed TO purchase all the coal prop
erty along the Monongahela River in Penn
:ylvania, and control the river coal business.
1t has been decided that it will require S13,-
300, 600 to complete the deal, including the
aggregate of stock the sellers are willing to
take.
GENERAL ISAAC F. SHEPARD died at
Bellingham, Mass, aged seventy-three. He
was poet, statesman, journalist and
soldier.
A VALUABLE vein of ochre, a rich yellow
metal extensively employed in the manufac-
ture Of paints, has been discovered on the
south side Of Neversink Mountain, near the
Black Bear Inn, three miles east of Reading,
Penn.
MARY ANN DOENELLy, nurse-maid, was
stabbed and fatally wounded at Atlantic
City, n. J., by Mrs. Hamilton, wife Of
Robert H Hamilton in the Nol Cottage.
THE water in the rivers at Johnstown,
Penn, is getting very low, and a conse-
1uence a great des of pestilence-breeding
matter is being exposed. The stencil along
the river bank is becoming unbearable. The
body of a child was recently taken out Of the
sand near the stone bridge.
The T. J. Mailer Carriage Company, of
St. Paul, Mimi, has made a voluntary
assignment to ex-Congressman John L. Nc
Donald The liabilities are placed at $780,
300.
THE trial of the six men indicted for the
murder of Dr. Patrick Cronin has COM
menced at Chicago.
JACOB THOMPSON, of Port Tobacco, Mo-,
hanged himself to a cherry tree because of
loss OF $500, which he had boarded for many
years.
The Union Furniture Company at Rock
ford, ILL.,, has been burned. Loss, 1927, 600;
half insured. Ralph Emerson, William
Ward and Fireman Cavanaugh were knocked
from a building by hose, and fell forty feet.
Emerson was killed.
FOUR tramps arrested at Moberly, Mo,
for vagrancy, were put up at auction and
sold, the highest price brought being 50.
AT San Francisco, Cal, the new United
States cruiser Charleston had satisfactory
official trial
FIFTY persons were injured in a railroad
wreck at Kingman, Ill.
The wife of William r. Lewis, United
States Consul to Tangiers, Morocco, died a
few days ago at that place.
A SEVERE earthquake shock has been felt
throughout Greece. Serious damage was
done in several towns.
The owners of Canadian sealers have
through the Dominion Government, formal
ly demanded the protection of Great Britain.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN and Mr. James Gill
hooly, members of the British Parliament,
have been sentenced to two months and six
weeks imprisonment without labor respec-
lively, for holding a Nationalist meeting
which had been proclaimed.
The crops have turned out very badly in
Russian Poland and famine is predicted
there and in Galicia.
MRS. JOHN ASTON, OF TayIorsvlIIe, Penn.
poured kerosene on the kitchen fire. The oil
blazed up and enveloped the woman and her
babe in flames, the child being in cradle
near the stove Both were burned to death.
The house of Robert King, residing in JEFF
ferson Township, Penn, was burned, and
Mrs. King persisted in the flames.
J. K. TOOLE has been nominated for Gov
ernOr Fl. Conrad for Lieutenant-Governor,
and Martin Maginnis for Congress by the
Montana Democratic State Convention.
AN oil tank exploded in the penItentiary at
Columbus. Ohio, which did damage to the
extent of $780,
Ten THOUSAND visitors and exhibitors
from all parts of the country were present at
the formal opening of the Changers National
Exhibition grounds at Carlisle, Penn.
REPORTS from the Indian Territory state
that cattle are dying by hundreds of Texas
fever in that section.
TRAINMEN on the Alabama Great Southern
Railroads train, report that they saw two
dead colored men swinging to limbs Of trees
few miles from Meridian Miss. They were
told in Meridian that two of the editors of
tbs Independent, who were run out of Selma.
Ala, were caught there and were lynched.
The official report on the Boston shows
the accident to that vessel to have been even
more serious than was at first supposed. 1t
is thought that 100000 will hardly be
sufficient to put the vessel in condition for
sea service again
THE earthquake shocks caused a panic in
many Grecian towns, and the inhabitants
passed the night in the open air, fearing that
their dwellings were unsafe. The damage
was done at Etalicon, where nearly half the
houses were So much shaken up that they are
no longer habitable.