Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-12

An unusually heavy surf at Asbury ParL
Nj, caused an estimated damage Of Sal-
900.
THE two factions OF workingmen in .Iew
York city had 3 parade on Labor Day, the
aggregate number of men in line being about
10000. In Brooklyn the paraders numbered
10000 Parades also took place in Pittsbury.
Boston, New Haven and other places.
A NATIONAL conference of Single Tax
clubs held three days session in New Yor,
:ity. Henry George, who has Just returned
from a lecturing tour abroad, and other
leading Single Tax men were present.
AN epidemic of crime has been sweeping
over Cincinnati. There were six murders in
as many days and numerous lesser crimes in
the same time
THREE people lost their lives in fire which
destroyed the Woltord House at Como,
Col.
FIRE almost totally destroyed the town of
Oxford, La.
LABOR DAY was celebrated in Chicago,
San Francisco and other cities by big parades
Of workingmen.
THE President has approved the joint re-
solution making an appropriation for there
lief of the destitute in Oklahoma.
DURING August the public debt was de-
creased 1888, or. IS. Total cash in the Treas
ury, 1904, 557, 451.O7
AS agreed to in Conference Committee Of
both Houses, the River and Harbor bill APP
propriated s24, 9S1, 295.
IT has just been made public that five
months ago Ex-senator T. c. Platt, of New
York, declined President Harrison's offer to
appoint him United States Minister to
Spain. In his letter of declination Mr..
Platt said that he was precluded by numer-
Gus business obligations from accepting the
offer.
FIFTEEN persons were killed at a fire in a
Hungarian village.
PROMINENT French papers favor the re-
moval of the prohibition of the importation
of American pork into France.
AsIATIC cholera has broken out in several
country districts of Portugal.
FIVE HUNDRED delegates took part in the
Trades Union Congress at Liverpool
HE new IorA EspupEcsn = jate Com
mittee, at a meeting in New York city,
unanimously nominated Judge Robert Earl,
a Democrat, as the party candidate for
Judge of the Court of Appeals.
BY the fall of a scaffold in New Orleans
William Harvey, carpenter, was instantly
killed; two painters, named Henry Albright
and William Ray, were fatally injured, and
several others were seriously hurt.
THE Vermont election resulted in the sue
cess of Carroll s. Page for Governor, and
the rest Of the Republican State ticket, on q
light vote
The New York State Board of Arbitra-
ton began an investigation in the Metropolis
of the Central Railroad strike 'contro-
versy;" Third Vice-President Webb, Mr.
Powderly, Grand Master of the Knights of
Labor, and others testified.
GOVERNOR EAGLE has been reelected
Governor of Arkansas by an increased ma
jority.
FOUR persons were killed instantly and
eleven others injured by the wreck of pas
senger train on the Northern Pacific Rail
road in Washington.
THE sloop yacht Petrol capsized just out
side the border of San Francisco, and the
six persons on board were drowned.
SIX THOUSAND Chicago carpenters quit
work because a promised advance in wages
had not been made.
THE British steamer Portuense from New
York, foundered near the Island of Ane-
gada, British West Indies, and ten of the
people on board were reported missing.