Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-15
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
EasrAsn and Middle States.

EaSC08n ana u1OOfe States.
MERRILL EDWARDS GATES was elected
President of Amherst College at Springfield,
Mass.
CAPTAIN ROBERT BOYD. of the United
States Navy, died at his residence in Brook
Ign, y. Y, from heart failure He was fifty
six years old. Captain Boyd had seen twenty
years and nine months OF sea service.
GEORGE HUBLER, aged thirteen years, and
William Morrow, aged nine years, were
drowned at Pittston, Penn.
GENERAL BENJAMIN F. PRATT died at
Worcester, Mass. at the age of sixtv-six
years. He served through the war, attained
the rank of Northumberland of the Thirty
sixth Regiment and was Brevetted General.
He served in both houses of the Legislature
and was Mason and an Odd Fellow.
THERE were eight deaths in one day from
the heat in New York city.
THE entire force of ropemakers connected
with the ropewalk of the Charlestown (Mass.)
navy yard has been discharged.
MRS. SALLY BROWN died at Chichester,
n. H, at the age of los. She was the oldest
person in the State.
OVER $4,000 worth of stamps have been
stolen from the postoffice at Newport, r. /.
ADMIRAL WATSON and Sir John Ross,
with the British warships Bellerophon,
Canada and Partridge, arrived at Newport,
RI
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New York, the sole surviving owner of the
Americas Cup, which he formally gave in
IN 1887 TO the New York Yacht Club, died
very suddenly in his stateroom on the flag
ship Electra, anchored off the Pequot House
New London, Conn.
a TORNADO swept across New Hampshire
from the northeast and wrought havoc in
many places. The wind tore up big trees
eighteen inches Ill diameter as though tney
were straws, ripped Off chimneyS and blinds,
and blew down a few buildings. Damage
was done at Weirs, Plymouth, Laconia and
Meredith.
THE Volunteer won the Goeiet Cup for
5locps at Newport, r. l.; the Merlin was
first in the schooner class.
THIRTEEN fatal cases of heat prostration
one suicide caused by the heat, and sixteen
eases of serious prostratiOn were reported in
one day in New York city.
SECRETARY BLAINE arrived at Cape May,
n j., where he was to remain several days
n consultation with President Harrison.
AT Ararat, Penn, two children Of Joseph
Hobbs, Walter, age seventeen, and Annie,
age fourteen, took neighbours team during
their parents absence, and ran away with
George Wyman, age eighteen, and Myrtle
Wyman, age seventeen. The two couples
drove quickly to Windsor, n. Y, where
they were married. The Hobbs family will
Jake legal steps to regain their children.
MRS. fEESOR ana ner sister, MISS Ander-
son, were drowned while bathing in the
Niagara River at Youngstown, N. Y.
FROM the United oUaEes Assay Office in
Wall street. New York city, 81, 000 900 in
gold, in the form of bullion bars, was taken
IN one day for Shipment on European steam
ars for Europe.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES II. TONGUE.
boarders at a summer hotel at Magnolia, n
j., while enjoying midnight stroll on the
tracks of the Atlantic City Railroad were
struck by train of empty freight cars and
Instantly killed.
MANAGER CHAMBER and Treasurer Challer
Of the Erie Transfer Company, have been
arrested in New York city charged with
stealing SIC, 900 of the company's funds.
FRED AND ANDREW RAYMOND, aged ten
and twelve, respectively, children of J. F.
Raymond, of New York, together with Mag
gle, the seventeen-year-old daughter Of
Matthew McV eigh, farmer, were drowned
In West River, at Brattleboro, VT.
THOMAS CALVIN, lad, got beyond his
depth while bathing at Bullocks Point, at
Providence, R. l., and was drowned Mich
ael Clossick, of Providence, R. T., eighteen
years old, was drowned while bathing at
Mark Rock; Robert Regain, of the same city,
was drowned in SCOTS Pond, Central Falls;
and Thomas Kelly was drowned in Masha-
paug Pond, r. l.