Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-02-07
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

The historic church In the W est RoXbury
District Of Boston. where Theodore Parker
preached from 1887 to 1S45, was burned BY
incendiaries.
ONE man was killed and several parson
were hurt by an explosion Of natural gas il
Pittsburg, Penn
4 MOB of armed Poles invaded the GENE
terry at Plymouth, Penn, and, tearing open
the graves of the Lithuanian children, threw
the bodies in the street.
GOVERNOR BCLKELET, of Connec lieut., ha.
dishonorably discharged Lieutenant Colonel
Thompson and Major Smith, of the Firsi
Regiment, for INSTRUMENTATION, and requested
Brigadier General Charles F. Graham to re-
sign for concurrence therein.
BY the explosion of four boilers at the Mount
Jessup Coal Company, at Scranton, Penn
Fireman Munley was killed and several
German laborers fatally injured.
THE four-stOry brick block IS to 10l
Bristol street, Boston, has been Quilted by
fire. Five men were injured, and the loss Is
estimated at 800, 600.
ADAM FOREPAUGH, the veteran Snowman,
died at his residence in Philadelphia of pneu-
monia superinduced by grip. He was sixty
eight years OF age.
Two little girls named Walker were killed
by a train near Allegheny City, Penn.
SEVERAL men were shooting at a mark
near Snowshoe, Penn when Mike Bordner
one of the party, shot and killed a man
named Stachick who was replacing the tar
get
Mr.. AND MRS. GEORGE COMsTOCK, an aged
and wealthy couple of Wilton, Conn, while
returning home in a carriage from the fu-
neral of a relative were struck by train
and fatally injured.
A QUINTUPLE wedding took place in Davies
County, KY, the other day. The five brides,
dressed alike, came in one carriage and the
five groOms In another.
II. BUSH a fireman, who was injured by
wild train" has recovered $40, 600 from the
Northern Pacific Railroad. He lost all use
of his legs.
By the explosion Of gas reservoirs at Sioux
City, Iowa, several workmen were fatally
hurt, several buildings wrecked, and SIC, 900
worth of machinery destroyed
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
League was organized at Cleveland, Ohio.
ALBERT PAUL SMITH, manager of the Chi
cago Clearing House, dropped dead of heart
disease.
NICHOLAS MEYER, of Chicago, ILL.,, MUIR
dered his pretty twenty-year-old wife in fit
of jealous rage.
FIVE men were killed and several injured
by the premature explosion of a blast,
caused by a cigarette, in Wilkes County,
N. c..
AS a funeral procession was crossing a
railroad track in Chicago an express train
dashed into it killing three persons and
wounding another.
HEAVY storms have prevailed on the At
lantic, and a number of steamships have
arrived at New York considerably battered
by the waves.
ADDISON NJ SAWYER, the millionaire of
Athol, Mass inventor of the Sawyer gun"
which was used during the Civil War, is
dead.
GEORGE G. LoUNsBERY, for many years
cashier of the New York. Postofice shot
himself at the home in Hackensack, n. j.,
after he had been told that he must give up
his place to another man; a shortage of ST.
600 in his accounts was found.
By the sudden caYe-in of an embankment
in an ore mine near Norristown, Penn.
three men were srnothered beneath twenty
tons of dirt.
DURING confirmation services at ST. John S
Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia,
a young man arose from his seat in the
church, and pointing a revolver at Bishop O.
w. Whitaker, who was taking part in the
services, fired shot at him. Immediately
there was great confusion and the would-be
murderer was taken into custody.
The body of J. G. Ditman, banker in
Philadelphia, was found floating in the
Schuylkill River.
TOBACCO-GROWERS in session in Syracuse,
n. Y. passed resolutions demanding pro-
lection from Sumatra leaf.
SIXTEEN miners families at Walston and
Adrian, Penn, were put out of their houses
by Sheriff Safer The Sheriff was accom-
panied Nv fifty-four PinkertOn police with
their W,Achesters, but the miners made no
trouble.