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


THE All-America and Chicago baseball
teams were warmly welcomed home by their
friends at public dinner at Delmonico's. in
New York city, and their trip around the
world was celebrated with toasts, words of
wit and praise and applause. Among the
many Speech-makerS were Chauncey NJ.
Depew, Mark Twain, Erastus Wiman and
Daniel Dougherty.
JACOB SANDT, a well-known and respected
grocer of Easton, Penn, Commander of Hugh
Payne's Commandery, committed suicide by
hanging himself from a rafter in the garrett
of his home
CRAFTS sawrnill, near junction City, KY,
was wrecked by a boiler explosion and four
men were killed
RAIN fell in South Dakota eztinguishing
prairie fires.
MISS BERTHA TRACY committed suicide at
Chattanooga, Tenn, by firing bullet into
her heart, having only few minutes pre-
viously taken chloroform with the intention
IF ending her life
FRANK HARss, of Bloomfield, Mich, aged
twenty 1.-TWO years, was tramped to death by
q stallion. The animal seized him by the
neck with his teeth shaking him terribly,
and stamping him to death.
By direction of the President the Secretary
of War has ordered that the new military
post near Denver. Col, shall be known as
Fort Logan, to honor the memory Of the
late General John A. Logan.
THE President has designated Assistant
Secretary Bachelor to act as Secretary of
the Treasury in the absence of Secretary
Window, and Assistant Secretary Tichenor
to act as Secretary in the absence of both
Secretary Window and Assistant Secretary
Bachelor.
THE Amer Of Bokhara is about to send
MS son to Russia 20 be educated. The State
Bank of Russia will open branch in
Bokhara
AFTER shutdown of only weeks dura-
ton, the coal miners along the Monongahela
River, Penn, have resumed work About
5000 men in all were affected by the resump-
ton.
THE Boston freight houses of the Boston
and Maine Railroad were destroyed by fire.
Loss over $500, 00O
MAYOR GRANT of New York, has APP
pointed Fire Commissioner Richard Croker,
the leader of Tammany Hall, to the office of
City Chamberlain, recently resigned by
William NJ lvins. Mr.. Croker was promptly
sworn into office The salary is $1,000
year.
THE recent storm which ragged in Balti-
more with severity swept over the lower
Chesapeake most disastrously to shipping
More than dozen sean1en lost their lives and
forty vessels were wrecked.
THE Louisville (Ky) Bridge and Iron
Companys Works. the largest establishment
of its kind in the South, has been destroyed
by fire Loss $50, O0O Two hundred men
were thrown out Of work.
SCARLET fever of a malignant type has
broken out at Fairbury, Ill.
NEAR Marlborough Station, Texas, Rev.
Hall Miller shot and killed an intoxicated
man of evil reputation named Purchard, who
had disturbed his meeting.
HAROLD NJ SEWELL, removed by Secre-
tary Bayard from the Office of ConsulGen-
eral in Samoa, has been appointed by Secre-
tary Blaine the disbursing agent to the
Samoan Commission at Berlin.
ADAM C. TANNER, of Canton, Ohio, has
been appointed Chief of the Appointment
Division, Interior Department.
THE President has made the following ap-
pointments: Frank Phimley, to be United
States Attorney for the District Of Vermont;
George A. Knight, to be United States
Marshal for the Northern District of Texas,
and James Mcdowell, to be Register Of the
Land Office at Huron, Oak.
The Persian Government has coded the
districts of Kelat and Kederi to Russia
OVER Is, 900 persons were rendered homo
less by the great fire at Surat, India To
add to the prevailing distress cholera has
broken out in the town.
THE r1lmor that Stanley and E1nn Pasha
were marching in the direction Of Zanzibar
was an Arabian invention.
a WINE store at Sill, Hungary, was en-
tered by thieves. The proprietor surprised
the robbers at their work and was seized and
crushed to death i'll wine press. They
caught the blood in q cup and forced q pass
er-by to drink it.
HING JOHN, OF ADySS2nla, OeIOre MS deaLn
appointed as his successor his nephew, Dagiac
Mangacia.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the bill regulating the procedure of
the trial of Boulanger by the Senate. War
rants have been issued for the arrest of Gen
eral Boulanger, Dillon and Rochefort.
Copies of them have been submitted to every
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