Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-03-21
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States

SNOWMAN BARNUM's circus and menager1e
arrived at New York few days ago after
long sojourn in England
JAMES LEsSARD was killed and Thomas
Owens fatally hurt by the premature expo
sion of q blast in the colllery OF the fly-
mouth Coal Company at Plymouth, Penn
BY the explosion of box of dynamite In
a contractors tool hose at Pittsburg, Penn,
David Hayes was instantly killed and VIII
lam Soddy fatally injured
AT the Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention in Providence John w DAVIS
was nominated for Governor, Captain Jonn
Waters for Lieutenant-Governor, and the
rest of the 1887 ticket was put In nomlna-
ton.
THE pottery works ofThomas Maddox &
Sons, at Trenton, n. J., have been totally
destroyed by lire.
MISS ANNA PUTNAM committed suicide
nv hanging at Danvers. Mass. Although
worth SIS. 600. she was harrassed by the fear
that she would become destitute, ana TOOK
her life in fit of dependency
CHALLENGES have been sent from New
York to the Earl Of Dunraven, owner or the
VaIkyrie, by the owners of the Katrina and
Shamrock for international yacht races IN
this country in the coming summer.
GROVER CLEVELAND, Andrew Carnegie,
Seth Low, Henry E. Rowland and Joseph
H. Choate, at a public meeting in New
York, spoke in favor of extending that cltys
free circulating library system.
EIGHT freight cars were thrown from the
track near Carlisle, Penn, and wrecked.
THE funeral of Ex-Governor English took
place at New Haven, Conn. Many proml-
nent people attended.
REUBEN EIsENHART, foremen at the Cam
eron Mine, Shamokin, Penn, which mad
been on fire for several days. was overcome
by black damp while in the mine and died
soon after being taken out
WILLIAM BUCKNELL, the noted Philadei-
phia philanthropist, died of apoplexy at the
agd of seventy-nine years. He gave S142, OOO
to Bucknell College, about $525, 900 to Bap-
fist churches and missions, and probably
500, 600 more to charities of various kinds.
THE Belgian steamer De Ruyter, Captain
Webster from Antwerp for Boston, went
ashore at Lighthouse Point, Mass, IN a thick
snow storm. The crew or tWenty-SeVeh Lnen
got ashore safely.
A NOTABLE auction sale of trotters has
lust taken place in New York. Eighty-seveD
horses belonging to L. j. Rose, of Los An
geles, Cal, brought s235, 945. The stallion
Alcazar sold for So, 800, and the two-year-
old Voodoo brought S24, 600.
THE town of Casey Hill, Penn, has caved
in. The family of Thomas Kelly were in
iured by their house topping over. Many
other buildings were wrecked. The town
was over an abandoned mine The damage
to property will reach $50, OOO
JOHN PEW. the founder of the house of
John Pew & Sons the largest firm in the
American fisheries, died at Gloucester,
Mass, aged 80.
A COLD wave, with a temperature as low
in places as twenty-five degrees below zero,
prevailed in New York State and New Eng
land.
Mrs. DAVIS convicted in New Jersey of a
theft of which she was innocent, was par
doned by Governor Albeit but learned that
her husband, who worked for her pardon,
had died the day before her release.
The schooner Blanche, which arrived al
Gloucester Mass from Grand Banks, had
on board Edward Fogarty ana William Viii
son. of the crew of the fishing schooner Nellie
G. Thurston, who were picked up at sea in
open dOry.