Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-24
LATER NEWS.

ANDREW CovENAsH and Stephen Good
fash, Hungarian laborers, were killed by q
freight train near TullytoT7n, Penn.
DANIEL GILLEN and man named Joseph,
laborers, were killed by falling wall in New
York city. Foreman Thomas was horribly
mutilated and fatally injured.
WASHINGTON IRVING BIsEOP, the world
famous mind reader, died while giving an
exhibition of his powers in New York city of
hystrocatalepsy, disease peculiar to people
of extraordinary nervous development.
DUR1NG a quarrel at a dance near Ports
mouth. Ohio, Wilson and Amos Cooper,
brothers, were instantly killed.
GEORGE WARD, aged twenty eight, an en-
gineer at.the Memphis Tenn) Gas Works,
shot and killed his young wife and then killed
himself He had been married four months
and was jealous.
JEwELER CORNWALL, of Salida, Cal, was
robbed by Strauss, his clerk, Of $50, 900 worth
of jewelry.
ANDREW and Ole Erickson, brothers, aged
eight and ten years respectively, were
drowned in the river at CroOkstown, Mimi.
They fell of some logs on which they were
playing, and their father nearly lost his life
in the attempt to rescue them.
HEAVY rains have fallen within the past
few days over a vast wheat, oats and corn
growing area in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan.
!: Hon CHARLES LYMAN, of Connecticut has
been elected President of the Civil Service
Commission
, Mr.. JUSTICE GRAY and Miss Jeanette
Matthews, daughter of the late Mr.. Justice
Stanley Matthews, will be married at the
residence of the bride, June 9th, in Washing
ton. The ceremony will be witnessed by the
members of the families and the Justices of
the Supreme Court and their families
THE United States Supreme Court decided
that the Scott Chinese Exclusion act is valid
and gave an opinion in favor of the heirs of
Myra Clark Gaines in their suit against the
city of New Orleans for $576, 600. This is the
final decision in this famous suit which has
been in the courts for fifty-six years. The
decision against Sarah Althea Hill in the
Sharon divorce case was also confirmed by
the Supreme Court.
AMARAL VALENTE, Brazilian Minister to
Bolivia has been appointed Minister to the
United States.
A SERIOUS affray occurred at Eisenheim,
Germany, arising out of disputed claims to
the occupation Of private lands. The mill
tary were called out to dispense the angry
but were unable to do SO without
firing upon them. Seven persons were killed.
THE Shah of Persia has left Teheran for
st. Petersburg. On his arrival on Russian
soil he was welcomed by a body of Russian
A detachment Of Cossacks was de-
tailed to act as a guard of honor to the Shah.
MANY congratulatory kilograms were re-
ceived by the King Of Holland from foreign
rulers and other nOtables on the occasion of
his resumption of the Government. The
streets of the Capital were decorated with
flags Thanksgiving services were held and
at night the city was Illuminated.
The recent count OF money at the New York
Sub-Treasury revealed discrepancy of $35
out of total sum of 1854, 900, 900 to be &C.
counted for. The shortage resulted from the
acceptance of a few counterfeit notes in the
hurry of business and by the loss of a few
pieces of silver. The loss was promptly made
good.
LANGLEY & SMITH, shoe manufacturers of
Boston, have failed for 800 600
FIVE men were killed by the collapse of
three-story building in Tacoma, Washington
Territory.
SNOW fell to the depth of two inches few
days since at Hope, Dakota.
Mrs WILLIAM WAGNER and daughter
were killed by al accident on the Seattle
(W Washington Territory cable road.
KENTUCKY's long drought has been broken
by cyclone and rain storm that did much
damage.
A TERRIFIC storm prevailed at Danvile,
Va. Factories were unroofed, trees pros
trated and fences blown down. Hail fell in
large quantities. a swath six or seven miles
broad was cut through the trucking region
of Norfolk and Nansemond Counties, Va, by
the storm. The loss will probably reach a
million dollars.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent John F. Plummer of New York city.
George L. Leighton, of st. Louis, Jesse
Spalding, of Chicago, and Rufus B. Bullock,
of Atlanta to be Government Directors OF
the Union Pacific Railway Company: Will
lam Lyon, of New York, to be member Of
the Board of Indian Commissioners; Samuel
c. Wright, of Nevada, to be Superintendent
of the Mint Of the United States at Carson
City, Nevada.
THE Court of Senators empowered to try
General Boulanger cannot frame a specific
CHARGE against him and If ic nror,oCad tn