Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-31
LATER NEWS,

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/ changes, Endorsed the bill % empower the
/ city to spend SO, 600, 600 for the Worlds
! Fair.
/ NEwBURG, n. Y, was the scene of re-
markable electric wire tragedy. A current
/ escaped to an awning frame, and a horse
| touching post was felled. Thomas Dawson
/ touched the harness and was killed, and
Robert Salts, going to the rescue, was laid
PROSTATE
/ THE Russian epidemic has considerably
abated in New York city, and there has been
mortality record.
| DIPHTHERIA is epidemic at Hayes, H.,
and several deaths have occurred. Three
children in the family of James Woods died
within two days.
ELMER FREED, Silas Tracy, Charles VIII
son and Alexander Whitmore, of Gladstone,
H., started for a dance, when their team be-
came unmanageable and backed the wagon
into the river. All were drowned.
! FREIGHT trains collided at Waverly, Ohio,
and E. Stapleton, brakeman, was killed.
ALL the railroads that cross the Rocky
and Sierra Nevada Mountains
blockaded by the snow drifts
AT Unionville, No, the residen of Luther
McCalment was burned to the Ground, and
Mrs. McCalment's aged mother and two
children were burned to death.
HENRY A. PHILLIPS the Chief of the
Middle Division in the Pension Office whose
resignation was demanded by the Commits
sioner of 'ensions wrote to the Commits
sioner declining to resign.
A BRAZILIAN decree requires that foreign
corporations doing business there bring two
thirds of their entire capital to that country.
THE European powers having declined to
mediate between England and Portugal;
the latter country submits to the British pre-
mier's demands under protest.
TH1RrY-N1NE persons, chiefly Polish and
German nobleman, have been banished from
Russia
A FREIGHT train ran into n landslide near
Shamokin PENN and ten cars were thrown
into creek. Engineer Clark Hoffman was
instantly killed and Fireman Gensyl and
Brakeman Started were severely injured.
LEON ALBEIT was inaugurated Governor
of New Jersey at Trenton with elaborate
ceremonies.
PETER OGLEsBY, phew of Ex-Governor
OgIesby of Illinois, accidently shot an
killed himself viii hunting near Denver,
Col.
A BAND of thirteen Indians attempted to
cross the Flat Head Lake Mont. Eight of the
party crossed in safety, but the other five,
who rode too close together broke through
the ice and were drowned.
A FORT BEND roter when placed on trial
in Galveston, Texas, was shot down by a
brother of a man he had killed; general fu-
sillade took place in the courthouse
CONSTABLE LONG, of Guyandotte County,
KY, was murdered and his wife desperately
wounded by band of ruffians who broke
open the door and found the couple in bed.
SHERIFF DAVIDSON, at West Plains, Mo,
attempted to arrest John Langston. When
he approached Langston the latter made
motion as if to draw his revolver, when the
Sheriff shot him dead.
A SERIOUS fight between whites and col
Ored mill hands occurred at Apalachicola,
Fla Frank Horne was killed. The Sheriff
appealed to Governor Fleming for guns, am
munition and troops.
THE snow blockade on the Western rail
roads has been raised The first train in
week from the East arrived at Portland,
Ore. Six hundred passengers and fifteen
hundred sacks of mail have been released by
the opening of the road.
SECRETARY WINDOW sent to the House q
letter requesting that the limit Of cost of the
Postoffice and Court House at Troy n. Y,
be increased from $500, 900 to $500, 800.
THE Chinese Embassy gave grand dinner
in celebration of the Chinese New Year at
the Legation in Castle Stewart Many dis
tinguished statesmen and officers of the
army and navy were present.
HENRY A PHILLIPS, of New York, the
Chief of the Middle Division in the Pension
Office, has been dismissed by Secretary
Noble
NATHAN MARCUS ADLER, D. D., chief
rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregatio S
of the British Empire, died at London.
FOUR THOUSAND of the leading merchants
Of Lisbon, Portugal, paraded the principal
streets shouting war to England
THE transatlantic steamships Gallia and
Catalonia arrived at Queenstown after ex-
ceedingly rough passages; three firemen were
killed on the latter by an explosion
JOHN GoRLEY and three children persisted
by fire at St Johns, Newfoundland. Gorley
died in the flames while making a third at
tempt to rescue his children from a burning
house. His remains were found with his