Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-07-04
LATER NEWS.


stantly killed, Her husband and son were
also shocked and fatally injured
EDWARD McCULLock hung himself with
clothesline from a tree In the rear Of his
house al Rock Glen, y. Y, because of a dis
appointment liz a real estate transfer. Nc
Outlook mounted tree, a limb of which
grew out over a gorge whose bottom lay
eighty feet below. He had calculated that IL
the rope broke he would be killed by the fall
RICHARD CROKER, the head of Tammany
Hall was a witness before the Fassett Com
mittee, in New York city, and denied all
charges made against him by Patrick II.
Mccain, his wife's brother-in-law.
The boiler of the tug Alice D. Carew ex-
p!oded while the boat was lying at the foot
of Van Brunt street, Brooklyn, n. Y. Two
men were instantly killed and three others
were niured.
A TERRIFIC wind, hail and rain storm &C
compane1 by fierce and incessant lightning,
visited the Juniata Valley, Penn, doing
much damage to growing crops. Three
houses in Huntingdon, Penn, Were struck
by lightning and James Swoope was fatally
injured Miss Mary Hoffman, twin daugh-
ter of John Hoffman, died from fright.
AUSTIN CoRBIN cabled from Europe to
Philadelphia his resignation as President Of
the Reading Railroad.
CH1cAGo's population is put by the census
returns at l, 100000.
GEORGE w. MCCREARY, Secretary Of War
during President Hayes's administration,
died in ST. Joseph, Mo, at the residence OF
his daughter. He had been suffering with a
tumor of the stomach for some time. He
was born near Evansville, Ind, August %,
1885
THE Senate confirmed the nomination Of
George J. Collins. as Postmaster of Brook
Ign, N. Y, and also the following Consuls:
Edward D. Roper, Jr., of Massachusetts,, at
Zanzibar, and William Newell, of Washing
ton, at Managua.
A CABLE message was received at the
Navy Department in Washington from Con-
sui Garesche, at Martinique, West Indies, as
follows: Half of Fort de France burned.
Martinique demands aid. Five thousand
homeless people need lumber, beef, pork,
-four and other provisions. Gable quickly
what the States will do"
DURING the progress of the iagisterial
election at Kalacsa, Hungary, serious rioting
occurred The mob having attacked the vo-
ting station. it was repulsed by the gen
darmes with loss of three killed and eight
wounded.
The English Government has withdrawn
the licensing clause of the Taxation bill.
THE project to connect Berlin with the
sea by means of canal is causing great ex-
element in Germany. 1t is PROPOSED to ex-
tend the canal as far as Stettin.
TR1PoL1 is being devastated by locusts
The decomposed bodies of the insects fill the
wells, injecting the water and rendering it
unfit for use.
THE American Gas Investment Company
with capital of $50, OOO 900, has been incor.
porated at Trenton, n J.
THE New York Court of Appeals decided
the Sugar Trust case adversely to- the Trust
it also affirmed the death sentence of Will
lam Kemmler uphoding the constutionality
of the Electrical Execution law
The sixth International Sunday-school
Convention met at Pittsburg, Penn. Will
lam Reynolds of Peoria, H., called the
meeting to order.
TREES were uproo5ed, fences swept away
and the growing crops prostrateIby severe
storm in Rockingham and Augusta Counties,
in Virginia.
DR.. ORAOND BEATTIE, ex- President of Cen
tire College, Of Danville KY, diel after a
brief illness of con sestion of the stomach
He was born in Mason County, KY, August
10, 1915
j. W. DELAPLANE, of Hampton, Va, WITH
his son, daughter and nephew, was sailing
The son was knocked overheard by a collision
vita another boat, and i'll trying to rescue
him the other two men were drowned with
him.
A GREAT strike took place on the Illinois
Central Railroad at Chicago. Ill. Over one
thousand conductors, switchmen and brake
men quit work because Of the alleged obnox-
iousness of Superintendent Russell
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, plead
guilty at Purvis, Miss, to the Indictment for
prize fighting with Jake Kilrain, and was
lined 800 aud costs He paid his fine AMI
was discharged.
The entire business portion of Cerrillos,
New Mexico, fifty miles north of Albuquer-
que was destroyed by fire. The loss is about
800, 600
THE Illinois Republican State Convention