Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-21
LATER NEWS.

anu meadows Tor q ulSIa0cs OF over
seven miles were submerged
TEE jubilee in honor of Field Marshal Won
Moltke's ninctieth birthday was celebrated
in New York city at the Metropolitan Opera
House, which was packed To the doors.
Chauncey NJ. Depew made q stirring GRAFTON.
Mrs. JANE TURNER MARTIN, probably thu
oldest person in Lancaster County. Penn.
is dead in the County Almshouse. She is re-
ported TO have been lOs years old.
Two italian lAborers were buried alive IN
q land slide IN canyon fifty miles north CT
Ogden, Utah Another man was rescued
fatally injured.
THE entire wharf front of Apalachieols,
Fla, was swept BY fire The kennedy anG
Kinbal lumber mills, in each OF whiea were
from two million TO three million feet OF
lumber; the Apalaehicola iron works Ora
dy's store, the Apalachicoia ice factory, Gould
& Warren's planning mill, the Orman build
ing and a number of frame structures were
destroyed. The loss is estimated at from
$175, 900 to 10000
FIRE broke cut in &Srle='s shoe store
at Andover, Ohio, and spread rapidly The
town had no fire apparatus and an engine
was sent from jefferson. The fire was ex-
tinguished after fifteen buildings, including
the postoffice, had been completely de-
stroYed.
AN unknown colored passenger boarded
train at Navasota, Texas. lie refused TO
pay his fare and having some words with
the colored porter drew a revolver and fired
three shots into the porter, killing him in
stantly. He then pulled the bell cord and
as the train slowed up jumped Off and
escaped.
TEN miles below Austin, Texas, on cotton
plantation, four Mexican gamblers fell out
over a monte game, when one OF them drew
his pistol and shot and killed the other three.
BILL DARNwELL ex-poiicemAn and
keeper of a 'chili con carne' stand at Austin,
Texas, shot and killed woman, Maggie
Null, and then blew out his own brains.
SECRETARY WINDOW determined to call
meeting of the lady managers of the Worlds
Fair, to be held in Chicago November 49,
They will receive SC day and expenses.
THE number of strikers in New South
Wales has been increased to fifty thousand.
A GENERAL parliamentary election was
held in Greece. The Government was de-
feated, retaining only one-thrd Of the seats.
VERY heavy earthquake shocks lasting
twenty minutes, were felt at Ignala and
! Chilpancingo, Mexico.
MAYOR filler, of Philadelphia decided
that an enumeration of that city's popula-
ton should be made by the municipal au-
thorities. The correctness of the census
taken by the Federal authorities is doubted.
THE large ish-dealing firms of WatertOwn,
N Y, and Kingston, Canada, five IN all,
have combined and formed company to be
called the Lake Ontario Fish Company
Qimited) of Cape Vincent, n. Y, with capi-
tai stock of 800 900. They will have prac-
tical control Of the wholesale fish business
along the St Lawrence and the lake shore.
BROADER GENERAL SAMUEL H. ROBERTS
died at his home in Brooklyn, n. Y after
years illness, of asthma and general debility.
He was born in New York city about seventy
wears ago When a mere boy he enlisted in
the regular arm.
In Gwinnett County, Ga, Fanny Cham
bers, a colored girl, who quarreled with
Pierce Wright, her lover, cut off his head
with razor.
FIRE started in H. S. Collins's jewelry
store in Eureka Springs, Ark, and con-
sumed property valued at 100000. The
Perry House, Springfield House, Ohio House
and thirty-ive other business and dwelling
houses were destroyed
JOHN WEBER and Henry Switzer, living
at the same cabin on the line Of their adJoln-
ing claims, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Territory, were called to their doors by per-
sons unknown and shot and killed.
THE train carrying Barnum d Bailey's
circus was wrecked at Macon, Ga. John
Kelly from Michigan, and Mack Glenn, from
Macon, were kille outright, and eight valu-
able horses were killed.
THE books of John J. Irving, late Circuit
Court Clerk of Hamilton County Tenn,
have been found short between $1,000 and
$4,000.
A FATAL runaway accident occurred in
Washington by which Mrs. Margaret CAN'T,
widow of the late Lieutenant CAN'T, Of the
Navy was killed and her daughter, Miss
Clare CAN'T, fatally injured.
THE Director of the Mint issued a state
ment regarding the silver policy OF the
Treasury and the recent decline in the price
Of silver.
Tuv Indian Pureau has recaiva1 from the