Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-26
LATER NEWS.

the Pennsylvania Railroad Company says
that the bottom Of the COnemaugh River,
near the bridge is full Of dead bodies, and
that probably hundreds are lying there one
upon another, held down by tons Of wire.
WHILE out sailing at Portsmouth, Ohio,
William Bickle, Philip Herbst and his SOD
were drowned by the capsizing OF the
boat.
NEAR Bonneville, Mo, $50 head of cattle
belonging to Chicago parties were killed in
a railway collision. Both engines were de-
molished and twenty cars were destroyed.
Loss, $40 900.
THE engagement Of Emmons Blaine, son Of
Secretary Blaine and Miss Anita Mccormick
Of Chicago, the second daughter Of the late
G. H. Mccormick, Of reaper fame, is an
nOunced. She will have a fortune Of two
millions or more in her own right.
JONI FITZPATRICK, of New Orleans. who
was referee in the Sullivan-Kilrai fight, has
surrendered to the Mississippi authorities.
Mr.. Rich, owner of the mill where the fight
took place, and Mr.. Jamison, who had charge
of the guards at the ring side, have been ar
rested. Steps have been taken to forfeit the
charter of the New Orleans and Northeast
ern Railroad.
MRS. EATENHovER and child were muir
dered by John Gilman, on his farm near Co.
guile City, Oregon. They were tenants of
the murderer, who wanted them to leave.
which they refused to do until their lease ex-
pired.
MRS. TERRY attempted to light a fire at
Salt Lake, Utah, with coal oil An ex-
plosion occurred, and the burning oil caused
the death Of herself and q thirteen-year-old
daughter
A VIOLENT wind storm accompanied by
heavy rains swept over portions Of Ohio, In
diana, Iowa, Kansas Illinois, Wisconsin and
Texas. The damage to houses and crops was
immense.
THE Secretary of the Interior has made a
ruling which allows pension attorneys to
collect from veterans $25 for services, for
which they were previously allowed only s..
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS PORTER has
appointed Edward Stanwood, of Boston,
Mass the editor of Youths Companion,
special agent of the census office, to
collect the statistics of cotton manufactures
throughout the United States.
A COLLISION occurred at Grenoble,
France, between a passenger train and
goods train on the Paris, Lyons and Mediter-
ranean Railroad. Twenty persons were
killed.
Mr.. LINCOLN, the United States Minister
to England, and his wife and Russell B. Har.
rison, son of President Harrison, dined with
Queen Victoria at Windsor Palace.
MANUEL LOPEZ, British Governor of the
Bay Islands, in the Bay of Honduras South
America, is dead
THE international Socialist Congress
opened i'll Paris.
THE session of the French Parliament was
closed in Paris amid some excitement
MICHAEL BOLAK has been hanged in the
Jail at Belvidere, n j., for the murder of
Michael Bollinshire
Tom CONDOR, who murdered Jack Riley
has been hanged at Nashville, Tenn. Con-
dor was forty-three years old and had been a
Mormon for years.
ROBERT DALTON, fatally shot in Oklahoma,
Kan, by Lee West, a desperado was the
third United States Deputy Marshal killed
within two weeks in that city. After re-
ceiving his mortal wound the officer fired at
West, killing him instantly
THE United States gunboat Petrol re-
turned to Baltimore from her trial trip,
which was very satisfactory to Lieutenant
Commander Bainbridge Hoff, who was in
charge for the Government
THE Mississippi Democrats have nominated
Ex-Governor j. NJ Stone for Governor.
THE contract for the exterior walls of the
Congressional Library Building at Washing
ton has been awarded to the New England
Granite Works of Hartford, Conn, of which
James G.. Patterson is the President 1t is
for 81, 221 ,6OG.72
R. J. HARTMAN, of FindIay, Ohio has
been appointed chief of the division of &C
counts in the General Land Office
A FIGHT has taken place at Puerto del
Aqua, State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, between
n party of thirty smugglers and n force of
custom house guards, in which two guards
and three snlugglers were killed.
A wATERsPoUT destroyed the town of
Chilapa, State of Guerrero, Mexico.
THE Bundesrath (Switzerland) has post |
poned the time for holding the international
Labor Congress at Berne until next spring.
GENERAL GREENFIELD, of the English army,
las assumed command of the Egyptian |
troops now fighting the Dervishes
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