Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
LATER NEWS.

THE United States gunboat yorktown re-
tarned 10 New York from a cruise at sea,
undertaken 10 test the ships strength and
stability and the effectiveness of her main
battery. The results were highly salts
factory.
a CYCLONE, followed almost Immediately
by terrific rain storm, visited North Wilbra-
ham. Massachusetts, doing considerable dam
age to property. The earth was torn up,
blowing a furrow fifteen feet wide for
long dislcnce. It threw water fifty feet high.
Public thoroughfares were badly damaged
IN many sections OF western Massachu-
sets.
LAUREL, Del. and the surrounding coun-
try have been visited by disastrous storm,
which continued with uninterrupted fury for
TWO days. Small wooden bridges across the
streams and fences have been washed away,
and fields and orchards ruined.
The Cannon Fruit Commission and the
Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company were
burned out in Wichita Kan. Loss, s110,
GO.
The five men accused of completely in the
murder of DR.. Cronin-Coughln, BeggS,
raigned in Judge Horizons court in Chicago.
All pleaded not guilty.
The steamboat Colchester on her way
from Baltimore Nd, to Deals Island, ran
down a sail boat There were five persons
in the boat, three of whom, Mary kalb,
Mary Wiener and John Bitz were drowned.
THE signature of White Cloud, the leading
Chippewa Chief, has been appended to an
agreement by which 100000 acres of his
tribes reservation will be thrown open to
settlement. His signing ends the labors Of
the Commissioners.
FIELD fires have burned twelve dwellings
and killed numerous cattle and horses in
Santa Barbara County, Cal Loss, $50, 900.
FOREST fires have just destroyed vast
amount Of property along the Missouri
River in Montana. An area of over four
miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Sew
eral mining camps and a quantity Of tim
Der were burned at Lost Gulch and Gunni-
son, i'll Colorado.
Mrs. SNoDGRAss and her two children
were drowned at Rockford. Ark, while
fording the White River.
cided to exempt from examination clerks on
steamboats, who also act in the capacity of
postal clerks
Mr.. SEXTON, member OF Parliament and
Lord Mayor Of Dublin, Ireland, complains to
the State Department at Washington, that
President Harrison's letter, thanking Dublin
for the sympathy expressed with the Johns
town sufferers had been opened in transit
and the official seal defaced.
THE United States revenue cruiser Rush
recently seized the British schooner Black
Diamond, while sealing in the Behring Sea.
DR.. TANNER, member of the British Par
lament for Cork, Ireland was sentenced at
Tipperary to one months Imprisonment for
essaulting Police Inspector Stephens in May
last. When judgment was pronounced he
cried out in the dock: 81 defy you. The mag
istracy are the real criminals" For this out
break three months was added to his SEN
5ence.
JOHN IRELAND, a welI-k1loWn Ne" IorI1er,
who for years has kept popular restaurant
on Lispenard street. was robbed Of $4,000
in securities while a patient in Chambers
Street Hospital.
E. & A. II. BATCHELLER, Of Boston, Mass,
one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the
country have assigned. Their liabilities are
81, $50, 900.
EDWARD STYLES, son of DR.. D. w. Styles,
and Captain Philip Fl. Wagner, both of Buff
falo, N. Y, were drowned while boating.
MCKEAN 6 APPLETON, shoe manufac-
turers, of Salem, Mass, have failed their cs-
timated liabilities being between sos, coo and
S75, 900.
IN Ulster County, N. Y, tornado de-
stroyed several houses, and three persons
were badly hurt, one of them fatally.
Texas fever is playing havoc among the
cattle in the Indian Territory. Hundreds Of
cattle were dying in Oklahoma.
J. w. GRIFFIN, an old farmer and citizen
Of Claiborne County, Miss, was mistaken
for q burglar and shot and instantly killed
by his son Edward, aged eighteen
WILLIAM ScHIEK and Mrs. Hannah Becker
were killed in Louisville, Ky, while crossing
a railroad in a wagon. Henry Pfistner was
fatally injured.
ANDREW c. DRUIM, General Manager
of the cattle firm of a. Drumm &c Co, of
Kansas City, Mo, one Of the largest il the
West, has fed with $40, COO
The President designated General MacFeelv
as Acting Secretary of War in Secretary
Proctors absence.
The Japanese town Of Kumamoto on the