Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-15
LATER NEWS.

took place at the Brooklyn On. " Navy
| Yard
The bathing ground at Cape May Point.
y. j., was the scene OF the viii lest excite
ment occasioned by the narrow escape from
| drowning Of Mrs. Dimmick. niece of Presi-
dent Harrison, and Miss Florence Hazard
OF Philadelphia The President and Score
tary Blaine were witnesses of the incident.
| THE reception rendered President Har-
rison and Secretary Blaine at Cape Nav.
/ N. J., was brilliant affair. About $500
persons were present and shook hands with
the President and Secretary
FERDINAND ScH1FFER, who weighs 500
| pounds, after floating an hour on the water
in New York harbor, having fallen from a
steamboat, was rescued by the Eliza Hancox
/ crew rigging derrick and hauling him on
| board
A THUNDER SHOWER resulted most disas-
| trously at West Greek, Y. Y, and Nelson
| Shinn, of the firm of Shinn Brothers, fish
| and oyster dealers, and OF their en-
ployes, Benjamin Kelly, lie dead. They ara
the victims of 1ightning's terrible work
A FAIrHLEss sweetheart an enrased
a
free fight among the Italians who work in
the gravel pits at Bound Brook, n J., which
resulted in the death OF two men and the
wounding of four or five more.
FIRE destroyed half the business portion
and forty residences OF What Cheer, Iowa.
Loss over 800, 900.
DEANE and Field Dickerson, aged raspec-
lively eleven and eight years, were drowned
while swimming at Star Island, st. Clair
Flats, near Detroit Mich.
Two colored girls named Mary Thomas
and Kate Parham were killed by lightning in
Prince George County, Va. during thur-
der storm
THE Kentucky State election was held.
Woodford Longmoor for Clerk of the
Court of Appeals was elected by a larger
majority than the Democratic ticket re-
ceived at the last general election.
The Democratic State ticket was elected in
Alabama by over 100000 majority.
The Secretary of War has received from
the English Government sample of the new
English service rife, handsomely cased in a
polished wooden silver-mounted box.
OENATOR JONES' OIL N0Vdud Willie OuG
riding in Washington lost SIS, 900 in bonds,
but they were returned to him by an honest
hack driver.
/ EMPEROR WILLIAM u Germany arrived in
England and became the guest Of Queen Vic
itoria at Osborne on the Isle of Wight
A RIOT broke out during a parade or Iral-
ians in Brooklyn, N. Y, and several police
men were injured. A similar affray took
place between Anarchists and the police In
Elizabeth, n. J.
CoNv1crs at the Massachusetts, State
Prison cut up the manufactured stock and
damaged the machinery in retaliation for
punishment inflicted upon fellow convict
who had endeavored to escape.
MRS. JOHN MAJOR threw her new born
babe into vault at Syracuse, N. Y, and
then fastened its death by pounding its head
with a cobblestone-
REV. Adm BALLoU, venerable Univer-
salist preacher, died at his home in Hopedale'
Mass, of paralysis. He was much reVered
all over New England.
GOVERNOR FIFER, of Illinois, signed the
Worlds Fair bill and the exposition directors
are iubilant. There were grave fears OF a
Veto and this would have caused utter de-
1noralizaton. The Columbian Exposition Is
now certain of securing S., 100000.
The election at Salt Lake City, Utah, re-
suited in the Liberals electing their entire
ticket by majorities ranging from 300 to ooo.
The city gives 935 Liberal majority over the
combined Mormon and Labor tickets. The
Mormons are badly broken up, as the result
means their everlasting defeat as body.
SERGEANT DAVID BOYD died at his home
in Portsmouth, Va, from old age. he was
1O1 years old and his familiar figure was well
known. He was in the service Of the United
States Navy and Marine Corps for hfty-slx
years.
The official rough count by the Census
Bureau shows the population of the city OF
Philadelphia to be 1,044, 894. This is an IN
crease during the last ten years OF 1877, VA, or
%. "A per cent
A COURT OF INQUIRY has been appointed
by the Secretary of the Navy to convene at
Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard to investigate the
difficulties between Major McLane I1lton, In
command of the marines at that yard, ana
his assistant, Captain William R. Brown.
THE Cuban Government has distributed
the fund raised for the sufferers by the dis
astrous explosion and fire which occurred on
May II. The fund amounted to 81, 900 gold