Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-13
LATER NEWS.

DARWIN A. HENRY, superintendent Of
construction Of the East River Electric Light
Company, Of New York city, has been killed
by a shock received at the switch board from
live wire.
LABOR DAY was celebrated in all the large
cities by parades merrymakings and mass
meetings. Business was practically sus-
pended.
THREE apprentices on the United States
training ship New Hampshire, stationed at
Newport, r. l., died in one week Of typhoid
fever. The other boys camped in tents on
the beach while the ship was being disin-
fected.
PRAIRIE fire ten miles wide swept the
Minnesota bottom lands Hundreds Of farm
ers lost all their hay and stock.
REIhUND HOLIDAY, a live highwayman,
who has terrorized Northern Wisconsin for
months past, robbing trains, waylaying
stage coaches and holding up pedestrians,
has been captured. While robbing a stage
recently he killed one of the passengers. He
is twenty-five years old, and took to the life
of a robber as the result of reading dime
novels.
ceived information that the Seattle and
Northern Railroad Company has begun the
construction of a railroad across the Swim
Omish Indian Reservation in Washington
Territory without authority of law.
The President has appointed W G. eazey,
of Vermont, to be a member of the Inter
State Commerce Commission; Edward Mitch
ell, Of New York, to be District Attorney
for the Southern District of New York; John
c.. Watson of Nebraska, to be United States
District Attorney for Alaska and Willis
Vanderanter of Wyoming, to DO Chief JUS
tice of Wvoming.
The Catholic Cathedral at Harbor Grace,
ST. Johns, Newfoundland, has been burned
to the ground. The loss is placed at $50, 600.
THREE THOUSAND looms have been stopped
in Blackburn. England, owing to depression
in trade.
ANindignation meeting of parties inter
ested in the sealing industry in Behring Sea
has been held in Victoria, British Columbia.
A resolution was passed asking for compensa-
ton for vessels already seized, for protection
in future, and for speedy settlement of the
difficulty.
IN the first eight months of this year 49,
CSC emigrants arrived at New York as
against 2Jl, 191 III the same time last year.
a REUNION Of Abolitionists will be hello
September % i'll fremont Temple, Boston, to
celebrate the anniversary Of the issuing OF
the Emancipation Proclamation. One thou
sand invitations have been sent out to anti
slavery men throughout the country
YARMOUTH and Sandwich, Mass have
each celebrated the 25Oth anniversary o.
their incorporation as towns.
PROFESSOR GEORGE L. GOODALE, Of Har-
ward University has been elected President
of the American Association for the Al.
vancement of Science.
The late Henry Shaw the ST. Louis mill
ionalre, left most Of his property to tha'
city. The famous Shaw botanical gardee
and park are left to st. Louis His estate i,
valued at between 81, 600, 900 and %, 600, OOO
SAMUEL C. SHowALFER, aged sixty nine
years, of Dayton, Ohio, who submitted to an
injection OF the alleged Brown-Sequard elixir
of life for rheumatism. has died of blood
poisoning.
Mrs. GEORGE COONs, of Little Sandusky.
Ohio has died of Asatic cholera. The peo-
pie there are greatly excited and many are
leaving the village.
A SALOON row between white and colored
men in Bibb County, Ala, the killing of John
Lawrence by two colored burglars, and the
lynching of the latter have caused much bad
feeling between the two races.
ABRAHAM SIKEs and Jude Spring, of Ma
lad City, Idaho, killed each other in a duel,
They both loved the Same woman.
OF the g23S, coo coins executed at the
1nints Of the United States during August
2.S75 900 were standard silver dollars.
Governments receipts for August were
S34, 40, 9O5, against 934 800 2l9 in August last
year. The August expenditures were $38,
1863, 249, against &24, rs, 84S in August, 1888.
The Acting Secretary of the Interior
| at Washington has requested the Secretary Of
| War to station troop of cavalry at Fort
| Sill to prevent a war dance or medicine
dance by the Kiowa Indians.
THE national debt was increased sc, O7O, 900
! during August.
/ A SEVERE shock of earthquake was ex-
| perienced in Erzerum, Armenia. The vii
| lage of Kantzorik has been engulfed in lava.
One hundred and thirty-six lives were lost.
THE Liverpool dock laborers struck be-
cause they were refused an advance of 8
shilling day.
THE Federal Council of Switzerland has