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


the Agricultural College of New Jersey was
passed by the House at Trenton, y, j.
AN insane woman endeavore1 70 burn
the insane asylum at Lancaster, Penn.
and nearly SUCCEEDED. Great excitemen-
prevailed among the inmates OF the asylum.
THE wholesale dry goods commission
house Of Ross Campbell & Co, New YorG
city, failed with liabilities Of about S125,
900
A TEXAS steer escaped from the abattoir
at Jersey City, \. j., and it ran two miles
and wounded four people before it stuck in
the mud and was killed by policemen.
A NoRTH-BoUND train ran into a mis-
placed switch in Nashville, Tenn, killing
two men, injuring several others, wrecking
many freight cars and damaging the depot
building.
IN searching the ruins of the recent fire
in Seattle Wash, the charred remains of
three bodies were found-two man and one
woman.
A TORNADO inflicted considerable damaga
in portions of South Carolina, principally at
Sumter and vicinity, and a number o. fatal
ties were reported.
THE Midway Hotel at Kearney, Neb., has
been destroyed by fire, and Harry Deming,
of South Omaha a guest, was killed by
jumping from a window 1t one of the
finest hotels in the State, and cost 500, 900.
MRS. JOHN LOWRIE wife of a farmer liv
ing at CharIestown, Ohio, has given birth to
four children-two boys and two girls-ali
alive and well developed.
THE House Committee on Agriculture au-
thorized Mr. Allen to report bill providing
for the transfer of the Signal Service from
the War Department to the Department OF
Agriculture.
THE President has nominated John F. Sci
by United States Attorney for the District
of North Dakota; Major Thaddeus H. Stan
ton, Paymaster, to be Lieutenant Colonel and
Deputy Paymaster-General; and Calvin T.
Spaulding, Postmaster at Brainerd, MINI.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued a proca-
nation warning all persons against entering
the waters of Behring Sea for the purpose of
| killing otter, mink, marten, sable or fur seal
or other fur-bearing animals within the linn
its Of Alaska Territory or the waters thereof
O|"A "OA
(colored). was shot and fatally wounded
shortly after midnight in Washington by Lee
Queng, a Chinaman, who charges that
Brown was trying to rob the laundry Of
Hing Lee.
The German authorities have hanged a
slave-dealer named Swahili for trying to
embark slaves at Bagamoyo on the East
African coast
THE Danish Minister of War announced
III the Folkething at Copenhagen that
Socialist workmen would not be employed in
State workshops.
Township, n j., for the last three years, is
$4,000 short in his accounts.
A BOY is said to have died of yellow fever
near Reading, Penn.
BURT GARDNER, Do1phice Ranault and
Michael Mulvey, painters, fell from a scat
fold at Lawrence, Mass. Gardner was
killed, and Mulvey and Ranault badly in
jured.
FIRE in the business portion of Laredo
Texas, destroyed property worth 100000
COLONEL RICHARD OWEN, a well-known
Indianian, died from drinking embalming
fluid by mistake
Four boys were drowned in the Missouri
River, near Florence, Neb, while out hunt
ing.
ONE man was killed and seven injured in
train wreck near Huron, Mont.
THE Kansas prairie fires have been sub
dued There was no loss of life but the dam
age to stock and farm produce in store is es-
timated at $3.50 900.
DR. J. s. DORsETT Superintendent of the
State Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Texas, was
assaulted and dangerously injured by a lu-
matte named McDermott
MAYOR DAVIDSON, of Baltimore, has re-
ceived letter from the British Consul-Gen-
eral to Jamaica, inviting the citizens of Bal
timore to participate in the Jamaica E1posi-
ton.
POSTMAsTER-G GENERAL WANAMAKER re-
ceived letter postmarked New York, in
closing $1,000 United States gold note, and
one $500 gold note, which the sender desired
him to place to the credit of the Conscience
Fund.
AN addition to the Presidential nomna-
tions are: Pay Director Thomas H. LOCKER,
to be Chief of the Bureau of Provisions AMI
Clothing, and Paymaster-G eneral with rank
of Commodore; Medical Inspector Walter
X. Scofield, to be a Medical Director:
Surgeon Daniel McMurtrie, to be Medical
Inspector; Passed Assistant Engineer Henry