Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-27
LATER NEWS.


store. Loss, $4,000.
c. c. SHORTER, Speaker OF the Alabama
House Of Representatives at the last session,
died at Eufaula, Ala. after four weeks i'll
ness of typhoid fever.
ONE Of the peaks OF Mount Shasta, Cali
fallen into the crater.
THREE boys were drowned at Falmouth.
KY, while fishing.
Two men were fatally hurt during a fight
at picnic near EImwood, Ohio. A score OF
people, including several girls, were cut and
shot.
WIND and rain storm devastated a tract
of land three miles wide and twenty miles
long, in Wilson County, \. c. Joseph Farmer
was killed by lightning.
FREDERICK. the seven-year-old son of
Charles Lang, died at Newburyport, Mass,
in terrible agony of hydrophobia. He was
bitten in the face several weeks ago by
strange black-and- tan dog
JOHN MCCULLOUGH and Mary Buckley
were walking on the railroad track near
Mahanoy City, Penn. They We're strucl, by
a freight train and killed.
JOHN O'NEILL. ex-Alderman of the Boo
die Board of 1884, was released from Sing
Sing N. " prison after serving over three
years, and has returned to his home in New
York city.
THE Secretary of the Navy directed the
award of the contract for the S159-ton
armored cruiser 10 William Cramp & Sons,
Of Philadelphia at their bid of 81 $50, 900,
and the contract for the 550)-tOn cruiser to
the Union Works, of San Francisco at their
bid of 81, 1876 900.
THE President sent to the Senate the NOM
ination Of Joseph Edward Hayden, District
of Columbia, to be Consul at Breslau, Ger
many
JOHN DILLON, William O'Brien and Mr..
John Redmond have been appointed dele
gates to make a tour of America in the
autumn in the interests Of the Irish Ma
tionalist movement.
ADMIRAL LANG, the English commander
of the Chinese North Coast Squadron, has
resigned He gives as his reason for resi- gu
ing that the Chinese officers of the squadron
are insuboriinate.
BUNKER HILL DAY was celebrated i'll Bos-
ton an! elsewhere in the East.
WILLIAM L. ScoTT was no ninat9l for
Congress by the Democratic Convention at
Erie, Penn.
THE New York Court of Appeals granted
a mandamus compelling Commissioner Gill
roy TO ISSUE a pc init to the Third Avenue
Railro id of New York city to open the street
al change its motive power to cable trac-
ton.
NINE INSPECTOR WILLIAMS, Of the Third
anthracite Inspection district of Pennsyl-
vania, has just completed table of the
operations OF the coal miners for
the last twenty years. During
that time there were 40. 352, 10 tons of
coal mind. There; were 1904 men killed IN
the many disasters during the twenty years.
The highest number OF days worked in any
year was 233, in 1883.
THE big strike of cIoakmakers tailors, fir
ishers cutters, pressers and operators in New
York city is on. Nearly 100O men and
women went on strike, and the cloak manu-
featuring trade is practically at a stand
still.
The Arkansas Democrats have nominated
James P. E. Eagle for Governor.
\ FIRE which started in house about five
miles south of MERGED, Cal, spread to the
grain fields an1 raga1 for five hours, when
the flames reache an open space and were
brought under control. A strip thirteen
miles in length was bIcned over. Loss about
$780, 900.
RICHARD GLASS, the wealthiest farmer in
Southeastern Nebraska, died in frightful
agony at St Joseph No, OF rabies, pro-
duced by cat bite.
GREAT flights Of sparrows from Louisville,
KY, inva lie the wheat fields on tae In 1iau1
side every morning and are destroying the
wheat crop within a radius of five or six
miles. In many instances they have already
looted fields to the amount OF o1e-third of
the crop.
THE Secretary Of the Navy awarded to
Samueb I. Moore 6 Co., OF Eizabathport.
n. j.. at their bid of $3.50, 90, the contract
for the construction of steel practice cruiser
OF 800 tons displacement. This vessel is to
be complete man-of-war in miniature, AMI
is INTENDED for at the Annapolis Md
Naval Academy in the practical education
of cadets.
BARON Won ZEDWIrz, German Minister ID
Mexico aud Miss Mary B. Caldwell. an
heiress to many millions. were married in
Washington
AT Sheen House, in London England. thu
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