Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-22
LATER NEWS,


THE Scrutin d. ACCOMPLISHMENT bill has
been passed by the French Chamber OF
Deputies, which is considered a victory for
Minister Floquet and set back for Boulan-
ger.
A MAN, thought to be "Jack the Ripper,
the Whitechapel fend, has been arrested In
Dundee, Scotland, for numbering his wife.
CARDINAL JOHN BAPrIsTE PrrRA, of
Rome, who was the second in rank in the
Papal Sacred College, is dead
THE Constitution of the japanese Empire
was proclaimed by the Emperor in person
amid great popular rejoicing.
MOB stoned the guard which was escort
lug William O'Brien, the Irish agitator, from
Clonmel Jail to Tralee, Ireland.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at Bolton
and Manchester, England. The earth trem-
ors extending to Wigan, Blackburn and
Stockport They were accompanied by re-
peated rumblings.
THE Soudanese have evacuated Handoub,
Egypt, after destroying the town by fire.
A GOLDSMITH of Vienna killed his five
children with cyanide of potassium. After
Cue pOlSOA w Cuo CII1ul Gil Ao
took some of it himself, and died In great
agony.
MRS. JOSEPH GRoNER, Of Tarport, Penn,
made call on a neighbor While she was
away the house caught fire and Carrie and
Joseph, three-year-old twins, wese burned
90 death.
EDWARD D. GRAIL, business manager OF
the Norning Gail, at Harrisburg. Penn,
died at his fathers house on South PITT
street, of blood poisoning eau jed by excessive
smoking of cigarettes He was in his twenty
third year.
COAL tar boiler at the Creosoting Brick
Works in Chattanooga, Tenn, exploded,
causing the death of Charles Falls and fatal
injuries to his son. Both Of the men were
covered with coal tar, and the body Of the
former was burned to charcoal
The postoffice at Amity, Ark, has been
robbed of $1,000.
A CoLORED woman in Henry County, Va.
on going to the field to work carried her in,
FAINT with her and laid it down in a fence
corner near where she was employed. In a
short time she saw her cabin, in which she
had left her two older children, on fire. She
ran to save them, but was too late. They
were burned up. Returning to get her only
remaining child, she was Mortified to find
that hogs had torn it into fragments
FIVE children were killed by the caving in
OF a sand bank at Ysleta, Texas.
COLONEL HENRY J. HUNT (retired,
Governor of the Soldiers Home in the Dis
trict of Columbia, died a few days ago from
a complication Of diseases. He was in his
sixty-ninth year, and was appointed Governor
of the Home about four years ago.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Colonel John G. Breckenridge to be In
spector-G General of the United States Army
THE Agricultural Departments bulletin just
issued makes the proportion of cotton already
marketed 643 per cent.
THE President has nominated Adlair E.
Stevenson, of Illinois, to be Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia vice William NJ Merrick, de-
ceased.
JAMES OLIVER, of Industry, Me-, died a
few days ago, age ninety six He was vet
eran of the War of 1912.
THE eightieth anniversary of the birthday
of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated by va
rious clubs in New York city, Brooklyn,
Philadelphia, Jersey City, N. j., and New
ark, N. j. Speeches were delivered by Gen
eral Porter, Congressman Butter WORTH Bou-
telle and S. V. White, Theodore Roosevelt,
Warner Miller and Others
GEORGE DIMOCK was killed by his eleven
year-old son, at Carbonate, Penn, during
rehearsal of private theatricals in which the
of the play.
r. P. G. WILSON has been nominated by
the Democrats of the Fourth Congressional
District of Missouri to succeed James n
Burnes, deceased
THE popular vote in Nevada on the bill le-
CALLING the sale of lotteries resulted in the
defeat Of the measure by about 400 majority
AT caucus of Republican Senators the
Southern question was discussed.
A STATEMENT has been prepared by the
United States Treasury Department which
estimates that the House Tariff bill would
reduce the revenue about S6o, 0OO, 900, the
Senate bill about SIS, 900, 900. The reductions
by the House bill wonld be on the internal
revenue $17,610,234, on tariff $50, $50, 345.
The reductions by the Senate bill, internal
revenue $50, 905, $50, tariff S13. 976,SS
The President has transmitted to Congress
the State correspondence with England and
other governments relative to the Behring
sea fisheries.
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