Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-21
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REV. T. De WITT TALxAGE, the noted
Brooklyn divine has returned from his pill
gr1mage to the Holy Land.
HoS. SETH Low, ex-Mayor Of Brooklyn,
was installed eleventh President Of Columbia
College at the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York, with impressive ceremonies.
THE Gloucester fishing schooner Alice N.
Stouple was reported lost at sea with . crew
Of fourteen souls.
THE New York Presbytery, by 9 vote of
90 to q, accepted the report by the special
committee in favor OF revision of the Con-
fession Of Faith.
TIE three sons Of James Bright, Of Kirk
land Township. Ind, were found dead in their
beds They had been suffering from inf1u-
enza, but when they retired the previous
night their condition was not considered dan
gerous.
TIE Chicago Presbytery declared for a re-
vision of the Confession of Faith.
MENINGITIS has become epidemic In many
parts Of Texas, and people are dying rapidly.
The Belcher district has already lost thirty,
and many more were dying Not single
person attacked by the disease has recovered.
THE house of William D. Ellis, of Chicago,
was burned in the absence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellis, who returned just In time to save a
nine months old baby from death. A SER
want and a two-year-old daughter were
burned to death.
REV. S. r. FRAZIER, pastor Of the Second
Presby terian Church of Youngstown, Ohio,
and we'll known as an eloquent orator and
successful lecturer on Japan, has suddenly
become insane.
CORA AND ANNIE BROCK ate a poisoned
keintended for rats in the Schietz bakery
at st. Louis, and both died
JOHN KELLY, of Mariana, Ark, muir
dered his wife, from whom he had been sep
arated, and young man with whom she was
living. He then forced q neighbor named
Owens to accompany him to the woods.
Neither was seen again.
OWING to the calamity which befell Score
tary Tracy's family President Harrison and
the other Cabinet members abandoned their
intended visit to New York to participate in
the exercises in celebration of the Centennial
of the United States Supreme Court.
JOHN RED & Co., one Of the oldest ship
building firms on the Clyde, Scotland, havs
failed. with heavy liabilities.
THE New England Agricultural Society
met at Boston.
GENERAL JOHN D. ANDERSON, of Augusta,
Ne, has been elected Commander G. A. R.,
Department Of Maine.
A FREIGHT train crashed through a bridge
at Peoria, ILL.,, and the cars were precipitated
into the Illinois River. The engineer, fire
man and brakeman were killed.
A GREAT sensation has been caused in Gin
cinnati by public announcement that The>'-
dore Hayman, Superintendent of the crema-
tory, has been for months stealing and sell
ing the collins of those brought for crena-
ton.
NORTH bound passenger train struck
hand car near Clear Lake, Mimi. Three sec
ton men on the hand car were killed.
THE Senate Committee on Agriculture de-
cided to refer the bill transferring the
Weather Bureau to the Department of Agri-
culture to Chief Signal Officer Greedy for his
views Oh the subject.
THE report of Adjutant-G General Shelton
upon the militia force of the United States
has been sent to the Senate. It shows the
strength of the militia to consist of 9052
officers, 103 292 men, and 1852, III men not
organized but available for duty.
On the steamer La Plata during her voy-
age from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp s170, 900
in specie and bonds were stolen.
HERR SCHNTTz editor of the Cologne
Gazette, has been sentenced to one months
imprisonment i'll fortress for publishing
calumnies against the Empress Frederick,
mother Of Emperor William.
PORTUGAL has been notified that England
will agree to a conference to settle the dis
pute between the two nations.