Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-26
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.

FoRGER ALBERT 81. SMITH. the Junior
partner of the stock brokerage firm of Mills
Robson s. Smith, who were swamped by
his forgeries to the extent of $500 600 has
been sentenced to seventeen years in Sing
Sing q. " Prison.
SECRETARY WINDOW has selected as site
for the Appraisers Warehouse in New York
City the square bounded by Christopher
Washington, Barrow and Greenwich streets.
This square contains Sc 900 square feet, and
with the exception OF a small portion, is
owned by the Trinity Church Corporation.
The price TO be paid for it is $500, 000.
THE Rittenhouse Wooden Manufacturing
Company of Passaic, \. j., has gone into the
hands of a receiver. The liabilities are $780,
600.
THREE men were crushed to death by a
train at the Port Richmond PENN coal
wharves.
JAMES IRWIN and wife persisted in the
burning of the Dickson Flats, in Pittsburg,
Penn.
THE lower house of the New HAMPSHIRE
Legislature killed the Senate bill euacting
legislation for the guidance o. the clerk,
thirty-seven Republicans voted with the
Democrats.
Dr.. FOSTER, of New Haven, Conn, has
made the first experiment in this country
with DR.. Koch's lymph, using the fluid sent
to Professor Chttenden, of Yale University,
JOSEPH B. ABBOTT, bookkeeper for Henry
W. Sage & Co, committed suicide at Al
bany, n. Y, when his defalcations to the
extent of 800, 900 had been discovered.
Four large business buildings, seven stor-
les high. on Liberty street, Pittsburg, Penn,
were burned. Chief Engineer Samuel Evans
and five firemen were caught under a falling
wall. Firemen Quigley was killed and Au-
gust Both fatally injured. The total loss is
estimated at $3.50, 900
THE special session of the New Hampshire
Legislature was declared adjourned by Gov
ernor Goodell.
A FIRE in the big n Cohn building, in
New York City, caused loss of $3.50, 600.
Two hundred and fifty men and women were
thrown out of work
EDWARD III. AMMIDoWN, senior partner in
the firm of Ammidown g. Smith, dry goods
commission merchants, and probably one of
the best known business men in New York
City, made a personal ass gnment, without
preferences. His liabilities are over $500, 900.
He was President of the Rittenhouse Mills,
Passaic, n. j., which failed recently.
The failure of William Furnel, wooden
manufacturer, at Wilton, Me-. has created
a great sensation throughout the State. The
liabilities are $40, GOO.
Two men, named Soper and Mclaughlin,
employees of the Ontario Paper Mill, near
" dCorCOWn, N. Y, were lowering Cn0 nOOd
gates at the fume when long lever slipped
from their grasp and swung around against
them with great force infiicting injuries
from which they died soon after.
NINE persons have mysteriously disar-
peared from Reading Penn, and neighbor-
hood within the past five weeks, and it is the
general opinion that they have been foully
dealt with. Their names are Jonathan
Smith, Engineer Thomas Mengle, of Pine
grove; George Miller, of Schuylkill Haven;
Jesse Corbett, of Phoenixville; Francis Schell,
Of Washington; and Kerling Sellers, of
Robesonia; John Konovoskle, of Hickory
Swamp; Antonio SUD- of Temple, and Rosa
A. B. Freese, of Pottstown.