Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-09
LATER NEWS.

one hundred million are TO be used in the
tabulating machine
4 sMALI. fly has made its appearance in
the wheat. hay and Oat fields OF the Mary
land peninsula and is doing great damage.
THE falling of a brake rod on the Cincin-
natl Old Point and Washington express
caused an accident at Stanton, Va, by
which one life was lost and eight persons IN
iured. All the injured were members OF
theatrical organization.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed ex-
Governor David H. Jerome, of Saginaw,
Mich. to be Chairman of the Cherokee
Indian Commission, vice Angus Cameron.
resigned.
EDWARD 0. LEECH, tina Director of the
Mint, has submitted to Congress report on
the production Of the precious metals Tor
the calendar year, 1889.
THE United States Supreme Court de-
cided that the law of Iowa providing for
seizure of liquor in Original packages" was
unconstitutional.
REPRESENTATIVE Of nine of the American
Republics-namely, the United States or
America, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador,
Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Hayti and the
United States Of BraziI---signed the formal
treaty of arbitration in Secretary BIalne's
office. Ten Of the seventeen nations particl-
pating in the Pan-American Congress have
now signed the document.
THE Grand Duke Of Oldenburg has been
appointed Governor of Finland.
FULL returns show tremendous falling
off in the Boulangist vote at the municipal
elections in France. The result Of the bal
loting is looked upon complete death
blow to BOulangism.
SCHMIDT, who was implicated in the Cron-
stadt scandal has been secretly shot i'll the
fortress of Peter and Paul at Moscow, Russia.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt at Lisbon,
Portugal
THERE is distressing financial condition
of affairs in the Argentine Republic. Owing
to increasing the gold premium and the cor
responding depreciation of the paper crcula-
ton business is absolutely paralyzed
MALIETOA, King of Samoa signed the
treaty for the settlement Of the Samoan
troubles in the presence OF the various con-
suls ct Apia and a large number of the
Samoan people. Tamasese and his party
have signifed their acceptance Of the new
regime.
AT the cOurt-martial of Commander Nc
Gala at the Brooklyn IN. " Navy Yard.
the defendants counsel made an unsuccessful
attempt to show conspiracy against his
client.
A BOAT containing four men was capsized
on the lake at Newport Vt, and three of the
men were drowned. They were Edward
Foss, clerk at the MenY)hremagog House;
Edward Green, an employe of the hotel, and
Joseph Robitaile. Arthur Moore, the fourth
occupant, swan ashore
MACMILLAN ALBRIGHT, Count Pappen-
helm, of Bavaria, and Miss Mary Wister
Wheeler were united in marriage at the resi-
dence of Mayor Filter in Philadelphia, Penn
The Count belongs to one Of the oldest fami-
lies i'll Europe, and is worth 50, OOO, 900. The
bride is also wealthy
JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
Circuit Court, granted a writ of habeas
corpus at the instance of Lawyer Roger NJ.
Sherman, in the case of Kemmler the muir
derer, who was to have been electrocuted in
the Auburn IN. Y Penitentiary, and the
cOnstitutiOnality of electrical executions will
be argued before the Federal Courts
DESTRUCTIVE prairie fires have been rag
ing on the Sioux Reservation in South
Dakota. A man named Shoun lost fifty
head of cattle and narrowly escaped with his
life. The fires were set by Indians who
have since been arrested.
THE Gead bodies of two infants, one white,
the other black horribly mutilated. were
found wrapped up in q newspaper near Biz
mingham, Ala.
AT the Convict Camp on the cotton belt
road, four miles north of Black Jack, Texas.
four convicts made break for liberty. They
were fired upon by the guards and one was
killed and another fatally wounded. The
other two escaped.
THE sufferers by the overflow in Con-
cOrdia, Tensas and other parishes of North
Louisiana are being fed by the planters,
who are strongly opposed to the distribution
of Government ratiOnS.
THE steamer H. B. Plant, of the ST Johns
River Line, IN Florida, was burned John
Collins, Albert Mallory, a waiter boy, and
4 deck hand, all colored, were burned to
death.
WILLIAM LAMBERT, the richest colored
man in Michigan, committed suicide
while temporarily insane, by hanging himself
in his woodshed at Detroit He was worth
800, coo
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent to the House a