Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-17
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.


POSTMASTER EDWARD S. Unison, OF Ash
bourne, Penn, shot and killed a burglar who
was trying to break into the postofice.
JOSEPH LUTON, aged fifty-fve, and A
Lawson, aged forty, while returning home TO
Vernon Centre Conn, from Manchester
drove from the road down steep bank and
over wall into Tallcotville mill pond. Both
men and the horse were drowned.
The body of Mr. James c. Anthony,
brother Of the late Senator Anthony, was
found floating in the river near Silver Spring,
Z. /. He had committed suicide.
JACOB D. SHAULIs, a wealthy farmer, sixty
years of age, who lived in Jefferson Town
ship, Penn. was found dead hanging to
tree near his house. Lying in the barnyard,
a few feet away, was his young wife shot
through the body and fatally wounded.
4 RECEPTION was given to Chief Justice
Fuller by the Bar Association of New York
city.
EVERY man in Pittsburg engaged in the
building trades, with the exception Of the
brickla yers went on strike and work was
generally suspended. The mum Der of strikers
was computed at 5000. The principal griev-
ances were the hours of labor and the en-
plOyment by the bosses Of non-uniOn men.
IN a collision between trains at Hancock,
n. Y, due to the carelesSneSS Of an Erie rail-
road telegraph operator, q car was thrown
into the Delaware and ten passengers were
hurt.
MANAGER HAHN, of the Manhattan EIe-
waited Railway, New York city, has said that
about 9, 346, 600 fares were taken during tie
three days of the centennial. This is an
average of 1872. 900 a day, and specifically,
Monday, 765, 900; Tuesday, 625, 900, and
Wednesday, 100 600. Estimated in dollars
the returns were S117, 300.
THE entire force OF the life saving crews
along the New Jersey coast has been laid off
until next October The keepers will take
If II
MAYOR GRANT appointed Thomas F. Gil
roy to be Commissioner of Public Works of
New York city. He made formal demand
for the Office and the books upon D. Lowber
Smith, who refused to give them up.
THE four-story building attached to the
Catholic College at Germantown, Penn, was
burned. Ignatius Hillian aged seventy, per-
ished in the flames. and his brother Michael,
aged eighty five, was fatally injured by jump
ing from a window.
THE Southern Society gave dinner at its
new clubhouse in New York city in honor Of
a number Of Southern Governors; speeches
were delivered by Vice-President Levi P.
Gordon, Of Georgia; Governor Lee, OF Viz
ginla, and others.
THE funeral of Hon. w. H. Balnu1n, as
Lime Rock, Conn. was attended by a large
number of people. Among those present.
were ex-President Cleveland and Colonel
Lamont.
THE Centennial Committees expenses in
New York were about $500, O00
A TRAIN demolished a coach in Philadel-
phia killing two occupants, F. K. Womrath
and James DUNCAN, and mJuring three
others.
GUsTAvE HosLEQUIsT and John Bullsley,
both Of Middletown, n. Y, We're struck by a
train in New Haven, Conn, and killed.
HUNDREDS Of miners are starving in the
Pennsylvania coal regions.
THREE miners were fatally injured by
fire-damp explosion in the Beachwood col
liery, near Pottsville, Penn.
ITALIAN railroad hands employed by the
Raritan River Railroad Company invaded
Furman's bricIsyard at Sayreville, n. J., at
the dead Of night to lay the tracks of an ex-
tension. The brickyard hands resisted the
attempt and their foreman, a man named
Gessenger and another man were killed.