Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-05
LATER NEWS,

A COLLISION between excursion harges and
the ferryboat Baltic in New York harbor
i,nreriled the lives OF COCO excursionists OF
the Arthur Club.
The seventeenth annual National exhibi-
ton Of the Changers opened at Williams
than 1000 people were on the grounds The
exhibit OF machinery is much larger and
more complete than heretofore.
STEUBExvILLE, Ohio, held q celebration
in honor of Baron Steuban, the Revolution
airy hero.
THE business portion of Pembroke, KY,
has been burned.
THE Supreme Council OF the Federation Of
Railway Employees, at Terre Haute, Ind,
approved OF Mr. Powderly's course in regard
to the trouble ON the New York Central
Railroad, but decided not to order q strike.
THE Hanna Wagon Works ut Peoria, H.,
have been burn ed. Loss, $4,000.
ACTING ADMIRAL JAMES e. GILLIs has
been detached from the command Of the
South Atlantic Station, and placed on wait
ing orders.
THE Treasury Department has made a de-
cision that articles brought from abroad by
citizens Of the United States or othe.s, and
intended as presents for members OF their
families or for friends, are clearly subject to
duty under the law.
A SEVERE hurricane has prevailed at
NASSAU, Austria. During the storm light.
ming struck twenty goods trucks on the
Franz Joseph Railway, throwing them down
an embankment and smashing them.
AN epidemic of disastrous fires has oc-
CURED in the frontier towns of Prussian
$50 families homeless.
THE total population of Rhode Island is
given as 345, 343, against 276, 531 in 1880, az
increase of GS,S12, or "A, So per cent.
THE officers of the Knights Of Labor have
ordered about 1000 Knights who are still at
work for the New York Central Railroad to
go on strike. Knights of Labor formerly
employed on that road held a mass meeting
in Union Square, New York city.
WILLIAM SMITH and his wife were struck
by an express train near Scottsville, n. Y,
and both were instantly killed.
GOVERNOR FERRY, of Washington, issued
a proclamation converting the Legislature in
special session for the purpose of reappor-
tioning and redistricting the State.
Hon. WILLIAM Fl. MCKINLEY was renom-
mated at Massillon, Ohio, for Congress from
the Sixteenth District.
McV1cKER's THEATRE in Chicago, ILL.,,
was almost completely destroyed by fire,
causing loss of $3.50, 900.
IDAHo's first Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Boise City and nominated Ben
iamin Wilson, of Boise County, for Gov
ernor.
The total count Of the population of Idaho,
rs announced by the Census Bureau is 81, 229.
In 1880 the population was 80, Co., increase
since 1880, 1,6i9, or 15S.29 per cent.
CAPTAIN ALLEN V. REED who was re-
Gently investigated by Naval Court of In
quiry on charges preferred by Admiral Will
lis, has been restored to the command of the
United States Steamship Richmond.
ELEVEN Russian soldiers were killed dur
ing the recent man9uvres by the blowing up
of pontooD bridge on the Looga River.
A TORNADO did much damage in the city
Of Perugia, Italy, and devastated the COM
mune of Citerna.
FIRE destroyed the whole of the town of
Tokay, Hungary, with the exception of thir-
teen houses. Tokay is in the centre of the
celebrated Tokay wines.
THERE are four thousand cases of small
pox in Pernambuco, Brazil, and there is an
average Of twenty deaths daily.
FIRE has swept away the Soukaras forest
in Algiers. Two villages were destroyed by
the confagration.
A LARGE mass meeting of German Social
lists was held at Berlin.