Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-05

The committee consists OF Messrs. Morrill,.
Sawyer, Smyser, Goodnight and Lewis.
THE Secretary Of the Interior has denied
Governor Princes request that troops be or
dcred into New hexico 10 prevent further
outrages by White Caps.
THE Senate in secret session confirmed the
nomination of W G. Riley, OF Virginia. to
be Consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
NETTLEToE. after telegraphic commune
cation with Secretary Window at Williams
town. Mass, decided TO offer 10 buy twenty
million dollars worth of four and one-haif
per cent. Government bonds, having par
value therefor and full interest 10 maturity
without rebate.
SECRETARY NOBLE sent to Senator Platt.
Chairman of the Committee on Territories,
q copy Of communication received from
the Special Land Inspector sent by the Sec
rotary to Oklahoma to inquire into the desti-
tuition OF the people of that Territory.
Alarming distress prevails.
THE Senate in executive session confirmed
the following nominations: Niels 2. Born
hauldt. United States Consul at Riga, Den
mark: john F. Convey, of Washington, Con-
sui General at Kanagawa; William T. Sims,
of Virginia, United States Consul at Colon,
Panama.
THE Treasury disbursements this month
have been unusually heavy, amounting to
more than $50, 600, coo.
UNITED STATES TREASURER HUSTON has
mailed all checks in payment of the interest
due September ], on the four and q half per
cent. loan, amounting to 1929, $40.
A BILL passed the House of Representa-
dVes setting apart a certain tract of land In
California as public park.
Foreign.
AN unknown plagued ravaging the fish
ing towns on the French shore, Newfound-
land.
A TORNADO swept through the Canton of
Vaud, Switzerland, doing an immense
amount of damage. The villages of Laval
lee and Ioux were devastated, and whole
forests were destroyed. Many persons
were injured. The storm lasted three min
utes.
THE Sultan of Morocco has defeated the
rebels OF Zemmour and beheaded eighty of
them.
AT Conway, in Wales, a boat containing
eight persons was swamped in the river and
all it's occupants were drowned.
SENIOR BARBosA has resigned as Minister
Of Finance, of Brazil. and is succeeded by
General Floriano. Senior Peixoto has been
appointed Minister Of War.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY lives were lost in
the cyclone in the Canton Of Wand, Switzer-
land.
FIRE in a customs warehouse in Copen-
hagen, Denmark, caused loss of 500, 900.
SEVERAL cases of cholera have appeared
in the vicinity of Berlin, Germany.
AN explosion occurred in one of the out
houses Of the Government Powder Mill at
Waltham, England. Two men were blown
to fragments and several others were in
lured.
DENNIS LYONS and his two sons, aged ten
and twelve, were drowned by the upsetting
of their boat at Factory Greek, Canada.
THE Argentine Ministers of Finance and
War have resigned.
THE United States Consular Conference on
the Mckinley Customs Administrative bill
began at Frankfort Germany.
The French steamer Amerique ran down
and sank the English steamer Redbrook Off
st. Nazaire France. Three persons were
drowned.
THE town of Szany, near Oedenburg, Hun
gary, was destroyed by fire. Nine lives were
lost.
ADvrCEs received from the New Hebrides
Islands states that the natives Of Amba ISL
and massacred the crew of a German labor
vessel. A French war ship subsequently
shelled the villages On the island.
ANOTHER battle has been fought in Cen
trail America, in which the army of Saliva
dor was victorious over that of Honduras.