Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-10
LATER NEWS.

| The Legislatures or Rhode Island and Della
ware have adjourned sine die.
, FELIX KLEE, age fourteen, son of Adoiph
Klee, a prominent dry goods merchant Of
! Paterson, N. j., was found dead from pistol
| shot in his fathers woodshed. The boy was
| chastised by his parents and afterward shot,
| himself
THE earth over the Boston mine at Ply
mouth, Penn, covering an area of one acre,
caved in. Surface water poured into the
mines and submerged all the workings. It
will take six weeks to pump the water out
In the mean time 800 employees will be idle.
CHARLES E. WOODRUFF, of New Britain,
Conn, City Clerk has uttered forged papers
to the extent of $40 90. His victims are the
First National and Mechanics Banks of that
city the three leading banks of Middletown,
and banks in New Haven and Meridian.
Woodruff has practised forgery for nearly
six years according to his own confession,
during which time he has forged notes to the
extent of $500, OOO.
A FIRE broke out in Sparks & Co.'S hemp
warehouse at Lexington, KY, and burned
all day and night. One of the walls fell
killing two colored men and a white boy
named Willie Dineen.
ENGINEER J. s. BINNs and James Mer-
Ram, fireman, we're killed by train run
ming into a washout near Richmond, Va.
CESAR FRAZER, alias Berkley, was hanged
at Charleston, S. c., for the murder Of Mr..
Gutenberg an aged German.
A STORM ragged throughout Maryland the
worst for years. At Chestertown there was
a hurricane. The high wind blew down hum
dreds of fruit trees. The rivers and creeks
were all swollen A portion of Salisbury was
flooded.
A TRAIN pulling private car, containing
Vice-President Morton, Governor Foraker
and staff, General Schofeld and staff and
some ladies, collided at Baltimore with fast
express train, and the entire party received
severe shaking up. Four train men were in
jured-
AN attempt to hold an election for Mayor
in Guthrie, Oklahoma, was defeated by a
violent storm. Excitement was caused by
the discovery that the brackish river water
is poisonous. A smallpox epidemic threat
ened Guthrie and other towns in the new
Territory A man named Joseph Ellsworth
was taken with smallpox on his return fron.
Guthrie to Arkansas City. Hundreds of dis
appointed people are returning to their
homes in Kansas and other States A half
breed named Holbert was killed at Oklahoma
City by a white man named holland in dis
pute over claim
FURTHER important appointments by the
President: Dr. Daniel Dorchester, of Boston,
Mass, to be Superintendent of Indian
Schools; Warren 1ruitt, of Dallas, Ore, to be
Register of the Land Office at Lakeview, Ore:
Thomas B. Baldwin, of Folsom New
Mexico, to be Register of the Land Office at
Folsom, New Mexico; James B. McGonigal,
of Colby, Kan, to be Receiver of Public
Moneys at Oberlin, Kan.
A DESPATCH from Auckland says that the
United States steamer Nipsic was again dis
abled while being towed in Apia Harbor.
Samoa. Mataafa has returned to Apia.
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States Su-
preme Court, whose marriage with Miss
Jeanette Matthews, daughter of the late
Justice Stanley Matthews, is announced as
about to take place, was received into the
Episcopal Communion by Bishop Parrett in
ST. Johns Church, Washington. Miss Mat
thews was confirmed in the same church
about a week before.
A STORM has destroyed all the crops in the
Goerlitzen district of Silesia. Five persons
were killed by lightning.
THE Weldon Extradition bill, aimed at
American boodlers, has been passed by the
Canadian Parliament