Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-26
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

TIE by-eIections in Rhode Island resulted
in favor of the Republicans. They will have
a majority of eleven on joint ballot in the
Legislature.
CHARLES HOPKINS, sixty years of age, of
Philadelphia, was instantly killed, and John
Coogan fatally injured by falling from the
fourth story of & new building in Atlantic
City, n. J.
GENERAL FRANCIS FREDERICK MILLEN,
Irish patriot, soldier and journalist, died at
his late residence in New York city at the
age of ffty-three years.
PAULINE ZANCHIsKA, an insane Polish
girl, threw herself in front Of an approach
ing train near Scranton, Penn, and was
crushed to death. She did it in order to es-
cape capture by asylum authorities.
THoRwALD EGIDIUs the son Of the Nor
wegian Consul at Amsterdam, committed
suicide in his elegant apartments at New
York city. Egidius tail, athletic man,
about twenty-eight years old. Il was well
educated and was Of cheerful disposition.
WHEN Charles W. Knodel, of Black Rock,
n. Y, was awakened by his mother to GO to
work he put pistol to his head and shot
himself to death.
WILLIAM j. IRVING, JR, local manager of
the Hammond Dressed Beef Company. at
Hartford, Conn, is charged with embezzling
So COO.
EDGAR SWAN the defaulting teller of the
sentenced to five years imprisonment.
The New York Yacht Club has accepted
Lord Dunraven's challenge to sail for the
Americas Cup.
BILLINGS & EATON, wholesale hide and
leather dealers of Boston Mass, have failed
for 500, 900.
THE Planet Jute Mills, Brooklyn, N. Y, were
destroyed by fire. Loss over 100000.
THE men appointed to make complete
appraisement of the personal effects of the
late philanthrOpist Isaiah V. Williamson place
the aggregate value of the effects at 50, S10,-
639. IS.
RUSSELL B. HARRISON, son of the Presi-
dent, was arrested in New York city at the
instance of Ex-Governor Crosby, of Montana,
who asks 100000 damages for al alleged
libel which appeared in the LiUe Stock Jour-
nal, of which Mr.. Harrison is part owner.
The prisoner was Immediately released on
$4,000 bail.
GEORGE CALDER, proprietor Of the Fulton
Cotton Mill at Lancaster, Penn, has made
an assignment. Liabilities $150,O00
The thirty wood acid manufacturers Of the
United States met in Binghamton, n. Y.
and an association in the nature Of a trust
was formed.
INTENSE excitement was created in ship
ping circles at New York on Saturday by the
receipt of a dispatch announcing that the
Danish steamer Dan1nark, of the Thingvalla
line, had been passed in mid-ocean in a
wrecked condition, with no one on board.
The Danmark had sailed from Denmark
with 732 souls-Of whom $50 were passen-
gers-on board. The agents of the line at
New York believed that the people on board
had all been picked up by a passing vessel.
AN explosion of gas occurred in the Grant
Tunnel mine at Nanticoke, Penn, causing
the instant death of Charles Hogas a fire
boss, and Evan Maddie, pump runner.
THE Commodore Bateman, a pilot boat,
was cut in twain off the Georgia Banks,
Nantucket, r. l., by the steamer Sueva, and
Pilot John Handrau, of Brooklyn, and a
colored cook named Harry Halford were
drowned.
A CYCLONE struck the mining town of
Beidler, Penn, and demolished six dwellings.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN S. B. CH1TTENDEN died
at his home in Brooklyn. He was sixty eight
years old and was worth IS, 100000.