Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
LATER NEWS.

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OTHNIEL EAGER, the old Town Clerk of
| Norwich, Conn, is dead, aged ninety six.
JUSTICE ANDREWS, of the Supreme Court,
ordered the release of Moroney and Mcdonald,
held in New York city for alleged completely
in the murder of Dr. Cronin; three Chicago
witnesses failed to identify them.
JOHN GIBBS GILBERT, the famous Ameri-
can comedian, died of pneumonia, in Boston,
at the age of seventy-nine He was an actor
for sixty-one years.
FRANK L. WOODRUFF, late Assistant
Postmaster of Lawrence, Kan, has been
arrested on charge of embezzIing 5000 from
the funds of that Office.
Two daughters of John Leavitt aged eight
cen and eight, who lives in Seward County,
Neb were found dead with their threats cut
from ear to ear. No motive is known for the
crime and there is no clue to the perpetra-
tors.
A VERY heavy storm passed over the south
west part of Berkeley County, W. Va. The
hai1stones lay in some places three or four
inches deep Crops and trees were ruined.
Live stock were badly bruised and in some
were wrecked by the wind.
HEAVY forest fires were burning on the
east side of the Cascade Mountains, in Wash
ington Territory. Large quantities Of fir
timber have been destroyed.
The Acknowledgement has accepted the
designations of George S. Peters, United
States Attorney for the district of Utah;
A CO.,
the Southern district Of Florida, and E. M.
Boykin, United States Marshall for South
Carolina.
Mr.. STRAUSS, the retiring United States
Minister at Constantinople, had farewell
audience with the Sultan. He was after
ward entertained at banquet in the palace.
AT a meeting in London, the Prince of
Wales presiding, it was resolved to erect
memorial to the late Father Damien, who de-
voted the last years of his life to the care of
the Iepers of the Sandwich Islands. The
memorial will be erected at Molokai.
The cab drivers strike at Paris is over
and cabs are running as usual
A FIRE in Montreal Canada, burned over
fifteen acres of territory in the lumber dis
MARTIN BURKE, a fugitive from Chicago
was held at Winnipeg Manitoba, as one of
the men who murdered DR.. Cronin. Chief of
Police Hubbard, of Chicago notified the au-
thorities to hold Burke at all hazards Burke
answers perfectly the description of the man
Delaney He is undoubtedly the man
wanted.
THE Hon William E. Chandler has been
reelected as United States Senator for New
Hampshire.
EMIL EBERT, of Waterbury, Conn, COM
mitted suicide in Central Park, New York
city, leaving a most pathetic letter addressed
to his wife, who, he said, had forsaken him.
The people of Pennsylvania have rejected
the proposed amendment to the constitution
prohibiting the manufacture and sale OF
liquor by a majority estimated on the day
after election to be about 90, 900.
MICHAEL ANDREWS, Simon NovoIk, John
Kutski and Joseph Taylor were fatally burned
in mine explosion at Plymouth, Penn.
JOHN MAPLE, a farmer living near
Wabash, Ind, attempted to ford small
stream, which was greatly swollen by hard
rains. He was accompanied by his wife and
three children and a servant girl In the
middle Of the stream the wagon upset and
Mrs. Maple and two Of the children we're
drowned.
A FEARFUL storm visited the southeastern
| portion of Indiana 1t extended over a scope
of country ten miles long and one mile wide
and ended in a regular cloudburst. Fences
and bridges were washed away and barns
torn down. Growing crops in the storms
path were destroyed.
ISAAC WAATI and William Kangas were
instantly killed by a cave-in in the Cleveland
Iron Mine, at Ishpeming, Mich.
president HARRISON has appointed Royal
A. johnson, of Arizona, to be Surveyor-Gen-
| eral of Arizona.
! L. B. AGNEw was appointed Superintend-
ent of the Dead Letter Office, and ex- Gov
ernor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, was
| Commission
THE Civil Service Commission has asked
! the President to extend the operations of the
Civil Service law so as to include appoint
ments to clerkships in the Census Office.
SEVERE haiI-storms prevailed in many
| parts of Germany, interfering greatly with
! railway traffic.
| WHILE procession was passing through
! Silesian town five of the paraders were struck
! by lightning and killed, and forty others in
| jured.
! THE residence of Richard Wilson at ManO-