Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-16
LATER NEWS.

Sixty, OF CO1SackIer " L, SLTucA his son
James On the head with an axe. Death re-
suited next morning.
JOHN GIBBS and David Erwin farmers,
quarTelled over a division of crops near Kan
sas City, Mo-, and Erwin shot Gibbs dead.
Later in the day a son of the murdered man
shot and instantly killed Erwin.
CHRIS SYLVESTER, and Archie Cock
burn, while fishing from a rock ten miles
south of the Cliff House, San Francisco,
Cal, were washed off by an immense wave
and drowned.
RETURNS from the election for State
Treasurer in Kentucky on the day after il
dictated that Stephen G. Sharp, of LeZing
ton, the Democratic nominee, had been
elected by about 80, 900 majority.
A WAGON containinga family Of five ia
ther, mother and three children, was blown
from the road into Black Creel- during a
storm at Mitchell, Ind. All five were
drowned.
AN epidemic Of bloody fu1 is raging with
fatal effect in Warsaw, Iowa, and WHITEHALL
ILL.,, and has also appeared in Keokuk, Iowa.
Thirty-one deaths have occurred at White
hall, and sixteen al Warsaw.
SECRETARY WINDOW has directed that all
the bonds purchased by the Government
since July l be applied to the sinking fund
until the requirements for the current fiscal
year. estimated at SAT, O0O, 900, are met. The
amount already applied to this purpose is
So, 1858, $50, of which all but $15 500 was in
4 1-2 per cent. bonds
THE Royal Grants bill was passed by the
Queen Victoria the additional sums of money
that she asked for.
HEAVY rains have fallen in certain dis
tricts of Japan. At Amagi 565 houses were
either washed away or knocked down and
twenty people were drowned. At Hita 200
houses were washed away and nine people
drowned.
A TERRIBLE riot took place between two
factions of the Chinese coolies at Sangkong
Siam. About five thousand men engaged in
the conflict. Spears and firearms were used
and 900 coolies were killed.
The entire Pacific fleet of the British navy
has gone to the scene of the recent seizure by
the American vessel Rush. on the Behring
Sea. This was the result of much telegraphic
communication between the admiral in COM
mand Of the feet and the Canadian and I'M
Perial Governments. The feet that went
North consists of seven war ships and two
torpedo boats.
HENRY SIMMONS. aged twenty-four years,
and two boys, Willie Simmons and Eddie De-
plore, aged respectively twelve and nine
years, were drowned while boating at Pitts
burg, Penn.
A 80 IL Il
Valley, Penn, killed two miners, John
Stokes and Thomas Allen.
PATRICK E. WHITE and Stephen Wallace
fell from staging seventy feet high while
working on building in Boston, Mass, and
were killed.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, accompanied by
Secretaries Window and Proctor and Private
Secretary Halford, went through New York
city on his way to Bar Harbor, Nc, where
he waste pay visit to Secretary Blaine.
OLLIE MARTIN of Connersville Ind, and
Miss Maud Saylers of Brownsville, Ind, were
drowned in the Whitewater River. They had
been out driving, and in attempting to ford
the river the horse and buggy were carried
down by the current. They were to have been
married soon.
AT Princeton, KY, John Hutchins shot and
killed two brothers, George and Albert Lewis
One of Hutchinss stray shots also killed
Frank Dunn.
DELHI, Iowa, has been nearly destroyed
by fire. Every business house but one was
consumed.
TFEEyoung twins of Mrs. Line were killed
by passing train at Lawrence Va.
JOHN CARTER, a guard a San Quentin
tCal) Prison, killed his wife while she was
dressing her hair before a mirror. and then
shot himself in the head, dying instantly.
RICHARD TATE, Kentuckys defaulting
Treasurer, has been arrested at Scottsboro,
Alabama.
THE Topeka QAan.) sugar works were
burned, involving loss OF about $3.50, 900
SEVERE storms were reported in Kansas.
Missouri and Virginia
AT the request of the Postmaster-General
the Secretary of War hes directed the Quar-
ternaster-General to instruct his suborcli-
mates to pay no more Government telegraph
bills until the rates to be paid are furnished
by the Postmaster General
ACTING GENERAL LAND COMMISSIONER
STONE in his annual report shows that dur
ing the fiscal year, ending June 80, 1889,
there were certified to railroad companies
under the various grants a total of 425, DIG
acres of land, being a decrease of 4O4, 116
acres as compared with the preceding year.
GENERAL PHILIPPovIcH, the conaueror