Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-14
LATER NEWS.

bus, Ohio.
THE English syndicate, which for some time
past has been buying up American breweries,
has obtained control of Denver's two leading
properties. The amount paid is 8, 900, 600.
HULL BROTHERS, the largest retail grocery
and provision dealers in Detroit, have failed
for S134,47
DR.. OSWALD OWEN. of Anderson County,
S. c., was shot and instantly killed by his
stepson. Owen assaulted his wife, and,
upon being demonstrated with by his step
son, turned upon him with an uplifted knife.
The lad retreated few steps and then drew
a pistol and shot his drunken stepfather
through the heart.
THE President made these appointments:
First Auditor, Treasury, George B. Fisher, of
Delaware; Second Auditor, Treasury, Joab
N. Patterson, of New Hampshire; United
States Attorney, Lewis E. Parsons, Jr., of
Alabama, for the Northern and Middle Dis
tricts OF Alabama.
JOHN ANTON WOLFF GRIP, the new Minis
ter of Sweden and Norway to the United
States, presented his credentials to the Presi-
dent. The President replied to the Minister'S
speech.
The reduction of the public debt during
May amounted to IS, 7O2, S77.27. The total
cash in the Treasury is 1929, 169, 89S. 70.
THE President has appointed Charles L.
Knapp, Of New York, to be Consul General
of the United States at Montreal Canada,
and Alexander Reed, of Wisconsin, to be
Consul at Dublin, Ireland.
MEssRs. ToMKINs AND MARTIN, English
men, were recently stoned to death by a mob
of mountain Indians at Potosi, Bolivia.
THE Brazilian Ministry has resigned.
VICTOR MACLIN, the famous brigand chief
who has terrorized Cuba for years and made
the lives of travellers a plaything, was exc
cuted at Havana in the presence of 10000
people.
The new harbor at Calais, France, was
formally declared open by President Carnot
in the presence of great throng of people.
HEAVY storms Of rain and lightning have
occurred in the Midlands of England. The
lower part of Liverpool was under water. A
bank building at Preston has been struck by
lightning. Numerous fatalities are reported.
of a bridge at WilLamsport, Penn, was in
creased by later reports to sixty, mostly boys
First accounts made the number thirty. Be-
sides this terrible casualty many other peo-
pie in Willamsport and vicinity were
drowned in the inundation. The lumber loss
at Williamsport and Lock Haven is put at
over 81, 600, 600.
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Pennsylvania railway and two tramps were
killed Engineer Hiram Meek was badly in
jured.
THE English brewing syndicate has pur-
chased the second largest brewery establish
ment in this Countrywide Ballantine Brew
cry, of Newark, n. J. The price paid by the
syndicate for the plant is 81 10000
MARYLAND, next to Pennsylvania, suf-
fered most heavily from the floods. Many
lives were lost, and the pecuniary damage
amounts to millions of dollars. Every bridge
in Frederick County was washed away.
Miss ANNIE MCMAsTER, of Havre de
Grace Nd, a beautiful girl of twenty years,
killed herself with her brothers revolver on
account Of a quarrel with Daniel w. Henley,
LAWRENCE MURRY, bachelor, aged forty
six years. and his mother, aged eighty, resid-
ing on an unfrequented road in Argentine
township, Green County, Mich, were found
mysteriously murdered in their home. Both
were shot in the back of the head, and had
been dead several days.
JOSEPH W. ARNOLD, a wealthy farmer,
x1oIl ;Ior
was shot and killed by his wife as the result
of domestic quarrel.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has been in constant
communication with Governor Beaver, of
Pennsylvania, concerning the sufferers by
Johnstown food A meeting of Washington
citizens to raise funds for the sufferers was
presided over by the President, and the sum
of 900 contributed.
Observation-Disclosures WAEAMAKER has
sent circulars to 100 of the largest postoffices
in the country with a view to learn the pos
sibility of reducing work on Sunday.
CAPTAIN MEADE, the commandment at the
Washington Navy Yard, has made recon-
mendation to Secretary Tracy that Congress
be asked for a sufficient appropriation to
erect wall around the water front of the
yard to prevent overflow by future freshets.
The London Stock Exchange subscribed
$4,000 in aid of the Johnstown flood sufferers.
A HURRICANE at Hong Kong, China, has
caused loss of 10000 lives and great dam
age to property.
A MEETING of Americans was called in
Paris by Minister Reid, to express sympathy