Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-19
LATER NEWS.

druggist of Maiden, Mass, and F. II. Miller
prominent Boston broker, were out shoot
ing, Carrath's rife was accidentally dis
charged, the ball entering Miller's neck, and
killing him instantly.
KROSsBERG, Mimi, little village of fifty
people, was visited by a windstorm and every
house in the village was more or less injured.
Two children were killed.
MRS. JESSIE HUNTER was shot and killed
by a saloon-keeper named Parks at Agnews,
four miles from San Francisco, Cal. Parks
then shot himself in the breast and died from
the wound.
Two men were killed in Chicago By the
falling of trestle in the power house Of the
Milwaukee Avenue Gable Railway.
GENERAL WILLIAM A. PILE, noted in
Methodist annals as the fighting parson,"
died few days ago at Monrovia, Cal, aged
sixty years. He a minister in st. Louis
when the Civil War broke out, and enlisted
and became Major-GeneraI in the volunteer
service. Hewas subsequently a member of
Congress from Missouri and Governor of
New Mexico.
NOTWITHSTANDING the proclamation Of
Governor Lowery, Sullivan and Kilrain en-
gagged in brutal prize-fght for the cham
pionship" near Richburg, Miss, the former
winning in seventy-five rounds. More than
5000 people paid SO and SIS to see the law
violated.
HERBERT A. PEARSON, q millionaire mine
owner from Bonanza City, Idaho was
drowned while bathing in the lake at Chi
! cage.
FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERA
GARRISON returned to Washington after an
absence of about ten days. the greater pOr-
ton of which was spent in a yachting cruise
in Chesapeake Bay.
SECRETARY RUsK took an important step
in the work of reorganization of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. He established new
division charged with the important duty of
editing the reports and bulletins issued by
| the other divisions.
THE President has appointed Thomas Y.
Cooper to be Collector of Customs for the
| District of Philadelphia, and Thomas 81.
Cavenaugh, of Olympia, Washington, to be
Surveyor-General Of Washington Territory,
vice J. Cabell Breckenridge removed.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, narrowly
escaped being killed by piece Of failing
glacier in Norway.
TREATY has been signed between Japan
and Germany at Berlin 1t is said to be on
the same lines as the treaty between the
United States and Japans
-FOUR THOUSAND weavers at JaegerndOrf,
Austria. have struck work.
THREE men, each of whom had slain a
woman, were sentenced in the Court of
General Sessions in New York city to be exc
cuted on the gallows. They were John Lewis
(colored), James Nolan and Patrick Packer
ham. The sentence was fixed for Friday
August %. They will be hanged together
RICHARD LEWIS, plasterer, fatally shot
Mrs. Elnira Moseby and her sister, Emeline
Myers, in Pittsburg and then committed sui
eide. The cause Of the tragedy was I'M
known. The parties were all colOred.
RHODE ISLANDS Legislature met in extra
session to enact law to regulate the liquor
traffic Several license bills were introduced.
ELENON 81. WILLIAMS of Colbrook, n.
H, has left for parts unknown, leaving
debts to neighbors and friends amounting to
were thought to have forged signatures.
FIRE in the business part of Carson Iowa,
destroyeda an entire block, with the exception
of one building. Loss sos 600.
THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the battle
of Monocacy was celebrated on the battle
field, three miles from Frederick, Nd. Ex-
soldiers were present from Vermont, Ohio,
Kansas Illinois, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
president HARRISON during the hot
weather expects to spend about two days Of
each week at work in Washington and the
remainder of the time i'll Deer Park, Md,
with Mrs. Harrison. This will make it I'm
necessary to take any extended vacation, as
has been the custom of previous Presidents.
THERE will be only weekly meetings of
President Harrisons Cabinet during the
heated term instead of bi-weekly meetings as
heretofore, and Wednesday has been selected
as the day Of meeting
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: Horace A. Taylor, of Wisconsin, Com
missioner of Railroads; Thomas G. Menden-
hall, of Indiana Superintendent Of the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey;
Henry W Diederich, of Indiana, Consul of
the United States at Leipsic.
The Pope of Rome is in receipt of a
petition signed by a number Of bishops and
others asking that Christopher Columbus be
canonized on the anniversary of the dis
covery Of America.