Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-02
LATER NEWS,

HENRY BOYLE. alias John Cox. life con
Wet at Joliet, H., committed suicide By hang
ing himself with towel in his cell
CAPTAIN W L. Couch the noted Okla
homa boomer. died at Guthrie, Indian Ter
ritory. His death resulted from a wound in
iicted by J. c. Adams with a Winchester
rife, on April /.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM HOOPER and one other
man were killed and five seriously injured BY
an accident in the Great Western Mine near
Norway, Wis.
HARRODsBCRG, the oldest town in Ken
lucky, has been partly destroyed by fire
The loss Is $500, 900.
THE schooner W. H. Brinsfield, Captain
John Ellison, of Tappahannock, Va, sunk off
Point No Point Md, and Mate David Prim
Seamen John Harkum, John Belts and Robert
Ellison. passenger, were drowned
SECRETARY BLAINE recalled the Pan
american excursion train from Richmond,
Va. because only two Of the foreign del
-gaces were in the party.
SECRETARY TRACY has recommended an
". H, Arnoux. Of New York. for services as
counsel upon the occasion of the Congress
sionaI Investigation into the facts connected
with the Jeennette Expedition.
CHIEF JUSTICE BINGHAM, Of the Supreme
Court OF the District of Columbia, has ad-
mi1ted {. E. Kincaid, who shot and killed
e1- Congressman Taulbee, Of Kentucky, to
bail in the sum Of $40 600
THE British steamship Bilbao has been lost
in the North Sea, and fifteen persons We're
drowned.
FIVE HUNDRED houses at Taungdwingye,
near Rangoon, Burmah, including the COM
nissariat stores, containing $50, 900 rupees
worth of grain, have been destroyed by fire.
RECENTLY 800 houses were burned at
Aomati, Japan. The day after over 500
buildings We're destroyed at Noshiro, and
over 300 at Mimuro. The latter fire ragged
six hours
DALMATIA, Austria, is being scourged by
disease"
AT the conclusion of a bull fight at Qua
dalajara, Mexico, a section of the amphithe-
atre collapsed, precipitating thousands of
spectators to tie ground and fatally injuring
a number.
The trial of Commander McCalla. of the
United States vessel Enterprise, for cruelty
to seamen, was begun at the Brooklyn IN.
" Navy Yard
JOHN BEEKMAN and Elisha Dyer of Ham
Mile Point, Keuka Lake, by the capsizing of
a boat
OVER five hundred acres Of heavy timber
have been destroyed by forest fire, about
two miles south of Egg Harbor, N. j., and
over SIX hundred acres of pine from ten to
fifteen years growth have been laid in
ashes.
For the third time in three years the bust
ness portion of Knightsviile, Ind, has been
burned Loss, $25, 600.
The large wholesale business block at
Davis and California streets, San Francisco
burned. Loss, S1C0, 900.
SAMUEL NELSON Hesperia (Mich.) Swede,
shot and killed his sweetheart Annie Nelson
because she refused to marry him. He then
fed into the woods, and was found dead with
a bullet through his head
a BODY Of striking carpenters caused a
riot In the southwestern part of Chicago.
and as result about fifty OF them are locked
up.
MALIGNANT diphtneria Is epidemic In the
village of Vining, In Otter Tail County.
MINI. There have been twenty deaths in
the place since April 1.
President HARRISON gave reception at
the White House to the officers of the Army
and Navy.
A PARCEL post convention has been con-
ciuded between the United States and the
Republic of Costa Rica.
The President sent to the Senate the fol-
owing nominations: John G. Fremont, OF
New York to be Major General, United
States Army, on the retired list; John 7.
Ensor United States Attorney for the Dis
trict Of Maryland; William Fairey, United
States Marshal for the District Of Maryland.
OWING to the troubles arising from the
OF 500, 900 by the Treasurer
of the Canton OF Ticino, Switzerland all the
members of the CaatonaI Government have
resigned.