Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-30
LATER NEWS.

! Ne by the capsiZlng OF n boat
HENRY MARTIN. OF Piscataway Township,
| \. J., died in his one hundred and first year.
| He was the pioneer FISHERMAN of the Rarita n
| River.
| JEREMIAH CURRER, nineteen, OF Man
| chester, y. H, snapped a revolver at his
| twelve-year-oldb brother. The gun happened
| to be loaded and the boy dropped dead.
| THE Public Grain and Stock Exchange,
| limited, of Is Wall street, New York city,
| the largest bucket shop in the country, has
suspended with liabilities of about 81 600, 600
MARION TUCKER, farmer living short
distance from Stanton, Neb- while oIt row
| ing on a small lake on his farm with his two
children upset the boat and the three were
drowned
The millers of Southern Illinois and East
ern Missouri have formed a trust and will
operate the sixteen mills as one thus con-
trolling the price of -four in the South and
Southwest.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR JONES, o.
I Florida, was committed TO an insane asylum
| near Detroit, Mich.
DUPONT, Ga, was visited by the heaviest
hailstorm ever known in the history of the
| town. The stones averaged from three
quarters of an inch to an inch in length.
Crops will be totally ruined by the severity
of the storm. The hail lasted from twenty
to thirty minutes.
Bob CRAWFORD a white convict com
mitted suicide at the Platt mines near Biz
mingham, Ala, by blowing himself up with
dynamite, which had been given him to blast
mines.
SENAToR-ELECr CARLISLE of Kentucky.
decided to continue to occupy his seat in the
House until the Mckinley bill had been voted
upon.
KATE KANE, a lawyer of Chicago, was
admitted to membership before the bar OF
the Supreme Court in Washington on the
motion of Robert G.. IngersolI. Miss Kane
is the eighth woman lawyer to add he"
name to the Supreme Court list.
THE United States Supreme Court rem
dered decision in the Fiske will case adj
verse to Cornell University, of Ithaca, n. Y.
This result means loss to the university OF
about 81, $50, 900. Decisions were also handed
down declaring the dressed beef law of Min
nesota to be unconstitutional, and declaring
the confiscation of $50, 900 worth of prop
erty belonging to the Mormon Church t.
have been just.
THE President sent to Congress a letter O.
the Secretary of State submitting the plan
for q preliminary survey for a railway line
to connect the principal cities of the Amer
lean Hemisphere, in accordance with the re-
Communications of the Pan-American Con
ference The share of the United States in
the cost of the survey will be So, 900.
SIR ALFRED KIRBY, owner of the Dept
ford Distilling Works, London, England,
has failed, with liabilities estimated at ST.
100 900.
THE new Japanese Cabinet has been
formed, the Minister of Agriculture being
the late Minister to the United States.
RUSSIA has made one of her periodical de-
mands on Turkey for the payment of the
war indemnity. The Russian Ambassador
at the Porte has threatened that unless the
arrears from the new loan are paid Russia
will reserve the right to take further meas
ures.
A MARE belonging to William Barnes, near
Elmwood No, recently foaled a trio of
colts. 1t is believed to be the only case on
record.
SENATOR BLAIR introduced a joint reso-
luton proposing an amendment to the Con-
stitutton, providing that neither the United
States nor any State shall pass any law au-
thorizing the establishm ent or maintenance
of any lottery or distribution OF prizes by
chance
THE seat in tue Senate formerly occupied
by Mr.. Beck will hereafter belong to Mr.
Reagan, of Texas and Mr.. Carlisle when he
is sworn in, will be assigned to ono of the
chairs at the end OF the outer row.
FLOODS have ruined crops and washed out
railroads i'll Central New York. Canisteo,
n. Y, was inundated, and great damage was
inflicted at Utica Buffalo, HorneIsvIle and
Binghamtor.
RICHARD VAUx (Democrat was elected to
Congress from the Third District Of Penn
sylvania, to succeed S. J. Randall.
JOHN MARoNEY, a scoopar, fell into the
hold of the steam barge Italia at Buffalo. n
Y, and was instantly killed. His sister Mrs.
Thomas Hanrahan, upon being notified OF
his death fell dead from heart disease.
THE Union Labor Convention of Portland.
Ne, has nominated /. r. Clark for Governor.
LUDWIG MARQUARDr, an artist, of PhiIa
ielphia, Penn, murdered his wife, Frederika.
oy shooting her several times, aud died
shortly afterward from the effects of poison