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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
In the House

191ST DAY.-The conference report on the
Fertilization bill was agreed to-. .TAa
Speaker laid before the House the Senate
bill for the relief of Nathaniel Mckay ana
the executors of Donald Mckay who seek
compensation for work done upon the mont
tors. Mr.. Springer, of Illinois made the
point of order that the bill must be consid-
cred in Committee of the Whole The
Speaker overruled the point of order, and
Mr.. Springer appealed. On sustaining the de-
cision Of the Chair, the vote stood-yeas los,
nays 81; no quorum. A cali of the House
disclosed a bare quorum, which disappeared
when the vote REQUIRED on sustaining the de-
cision Of the Speaker. The House then adj
journed.
192D DAY.-Mr. o. Neill fayorably reported
the Senate concurrent resolution requesting
the PreSid ent to convey to the widow of
General Ulysses S. Grant the desire of Con-
greSs that the body of General Grant be re-
moved to and buried in Arlington National
Cemetery. :. Mr. Struble asked unanimous
consent for the consideration of the joint res
olution for the aid of the destitute persons in
Oklahoma. Mr.. Walker of Massachusetts,
and Mr.. McClammy, Of North Carolina, OBJ
jected. Mr.. Belden asked unanimous con-
sent for the consideration of the bill grant
ing leaves of absence to per diem employees
in the custom service. Mr.. Cheadle, of In
diana, objected. No further business was
attempted because of the absence of a
quorum
1JOD ~ A1.-1 he COul6ToUCe report on LUe
Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to.
Mr.. Belden made another unsuccessful effort
to secure the passage of the Senate bill
granting leaves of absence to per diem en-
ployes in the customs service; Mr.. Kerr, Of
Iowa, Directing. AT the evening session
(Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, in the chair the
House passed 1876 private pension bills.
18th DAY.-The Anti-Lottery bill was
passed. The conference report on the bill
to establish national park at the battlefield
of Chckamauga, was agreed to. The House,
after three days contest passed the bill
for the relief of the executors of the estate of
Donald Mckay. 1t gives them the right to
proceed in the Court of Claims for losses
incurred in the building Of monitors of the
United States Navy. The vote on the bill
was eighty-three to sixty-hve. The Speaker
found it necessary to count a quorum.
f95TH DAY The majority report Of the
Elections Committee in the Chalmers Nor
gan contest, in favor of Mr.. Morgan, the
sitting member, was agree to; Mr.. Chalmers
argued in his own behalf.
10TH DAY.-The Agricultural College bill
was passed. :. Mr.. Thomas moved to lay
upon the table the motion TO consider the
motion by which the House passed the Ma
thaniel Mckay bill. It was agreed to-yeas,
80; nays %. This finally passes the bill 80.
The Alien Land Law bill was discussed dur
ing the balance Of the day.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
FIETy-FIRST CONGRESS,
In the Senate

IsisT pAT.-No progress was made On IN,
Iarln BAL, which was discussed for s.avm-~I
bours- The resolution offered the dav -
lore oT Mr.. quay was referred 20 the Com
niteee on hnles. The House bin making
an appropriation for an increased clerical
force in the Pension Bureau WAS passod
Mr. Teller introduced o new silver bin I'm
the shape OF an Amendment to dis,1DtiunS
the coinage Of the s. and 81 gold pieoeS, and
tnree-cent nickel pieces A Conferences
was ordered on the senate bill in regard 10
COLLISIONS at sea, and MeSrs. Frye, Wash
burn and German were appointed conferess
on the part OF the Seuate
1S2D DAT.-Mr Vests amendfnen, -
ducing the rate Of duty fixed by the Financa
COMMITTEES in the Tin Plate paragraph OF TIE
1ar7n OIL was rejected; the bill WAS dis
cuSsed by aesSrS Mitchell Bate, Higgins
and others.
1S3D DAY.-The River and Hnrbor bill was
discussed. Among other amendments re-
ported by the COMMITTEES on Authorizations
and agreed TO by the Senate was one in
creasing the appropriation for the Potosnaa
$500, 600.
18TH DAY.-THE River and Harbor hi
was passed; conference upon ii will be had.
There was a vote on requiring solid bridges
across the Harlem; but the proposition was
defeated by twenty-six TO twenty-five, aad
the whole subject was then droppsl
lSJrH DAY.-The General Deficiency hIl
was passed. Mr.. Piumbs amendment to
the tin plate paragraph Of the Tariff bill
was discussed, but no vote was reached upon
it. MIR. Quay introduced his order Of
business"
1S6TH DAY.-Twenty-one paragraphs of
the metal schedule of the Tariff bill were dis
posed of. Mr. Hoar gave notice OF two
amendments to Mr.. Quay's resolution pre-
v1ding that the Senate ad journ after dispos-
ing Of the Tariff bill.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
South and West.

0"AOAA ~SAAAA w OSS~
THE California State Republican Conven-
ton, at Sacramento, nominated Henry s.
Markham for Governor.
In the Tennessee Pass ICol.) Tunnel scat
fold upon which six men vera working fell,
killing Edward Morlitz instantly and SER
iously injur1ng four others. An explosion
occurred. in which three men were killed.
AT the Shelby Iron Works in Shelby
County, Ala, a bloody fight occurred be-
tween the colored laborers and a crowd Of
colored gamblers. Three men and one woman
were killed, and eight or ten persons were
wounded.
Two HUNDRED farmers Of Huron County,
Mich, have asked for public aid because
their crops were totally destroyed by the
storm which swept over the eastern portion
of the county at harvest time.
THE West Virginia State Democratic
Convention in session at Grafton renomi-
mated Judge D. J. Lucas for the Supreme
Bench. There was no fight in the Conven-
ton and Lucas's nomination was by accla
nation.
HENRY E. WALDO, of Minneapolis, MINI,
and Miss Gussie Hoffman, of Kansas City,
Mo-, were drowned at Tacoma, Wash, while
fishing.
THE Straightout Democratic Executive
Committee Of South Carolina was deposed
by the Tillmanites at the Columbia Conven-
ton: the Straightouts organized to put
ticket in the field against Tillman and the
Farmers Alliance.
NEAR Bonneville, Owsley County, KY,
John Bowman knocked his cousin, Henry
Topsy, cut Henry's heart out with bowie
knife. The girl claimed that Henry had
insulted her.
Two brothers. named Nate and Joe VIII
son, residing near Kahoka, Mo-, became in
volved in a quarrel, and Joe drew knife
and disemboweled the other, killing him.
ENGINEER LON SIMPSON and an unknown
tramp were killed by collision on the Gin
cinnati Southern road at Danville, KY.
Two daughters of Samuel McLeary were
fatally injured at Columbus, Ind, in a runa-
way.
HARRIS, WOLF & DAVIS recently drilled
an oil we'll north of Findlay, Ohio which is
without doubt, the greatest producer ever
struck. It flowed over 1000 barrels the first
hour.
The Nebraska State Democratic Conven-
ton convened at Omaha and placed James
E. Boyd in nomination for Governor.
AT North Platte, Neb, Edward Newman
shot his wife and then himself. Both were in
stantly killed. The only cause known is that
the wife disobeyed the orders of her hus-
band.
ALL the switchmen employed in the
freight yards of the Wabash Railroad at
Chicago, ILL.,, to the number Of 200 struck,
and freight traffic on the road is at a COM
plete standstil.
JOHN PHILLIPS, colored, was hanged at
Boydton, Va, for the murder of Captain r.
G. OVERLY, a prominent citizen and planter.
A VERY poor counterfeit on the twenty
dollar silver certificate has made its appear
ance in the South. It Is of the act of 1878,
series 1880, check letter c., B. z. Bruce,
Register, with Decaturs portrait. The en-
tire impression is very indistinct.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
Washington.

ATToRNEY-GENERAL MILLER has ap-
pointed John o Mott to be Assistant United
States Attorney for the Southern District of
New York.
THE Senate, in executive session, confirmed
the following nominations: S. B. Horne, to
be United States Consul at st. Thomas.
West Indies; D. F. Roger, Indian Agent at
Pine Ridge, South Dakota; A. 7. Pierce,
United States Marshal for the District of
New Hampshire; W. E. Blunt, Surveyor of
Customs, Boston and Charlestown, Mass.
THE President and party returned to
Washington from the 6. A. r. reunion in
Boston.
A REPUBLICAN Senatorial conference was
held; the propositions for limiting debate
were discussed, but no agreement was
reached.
The President nominated Abraham x.
Parker, of New York, to be an Assistant
Attorney General; John A. Williams, of Ar
kansas. to be United States District Judge
for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and
William Grimes, of Oklahoma, to be Marshal
of the United States for the Territory Of
Oklahoma.
SUPERINTENDENT JOHN MOORE, United
States Army, has been placed on the retired
list, by operation of law, on account Of age.
The Acting Secretary of State transmitted
to Congress the correspondence between the
American and French Governments on the
pork restriction policy of France.
The President maaa che following nomi
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.



THE large tannery OF Mesrs. Rockwell &
Co., at Nsrth Clarendon, Penn, was dam
aged 800. 900 by fire.
THE Teutonic arrived at New York city
after having lowered the Transatlantic rec
cord to five days. nineteen hours and five
minutes, thus making her the fastest passen-
ger steamship adoat.
JOSEPH A, SARGENT, seventy-ive years
old, and his grandson, four years. of Orange,
Mass. were struck by a train on the Fitch
burg Railroad, and instantly killed
The Grand Army Encampment at Boston,
Mass, installed the new officers and then ad-
journed.
MISS FLORENCE SULLIVAN. of New York
city, and F. L. Huribut, of Buffalo, n. Y,
were drowned at Spring Lake n. j. Four
would-be rescuers were saved with much diff
fculty.
DR. CHARLES STEELE THOMPSON, the old
est living graduate of Yale Medical School,
died at Hartford, Conn. He was ninety
years old.
A HAIL storm did a great deal of damage
to the tobacco crop in the vicinity of Ian
usually fine. Many acres OF the crop in the
southern part of the county were cut to
pieces. The loss will be very large.
THE North Atlantic Squadron executed
many evolutions for the benefit of the G.. A
r. spectators Off Boston Mass Harbor after
which the Atlanta, Kearsage, Yorktown,
Dolphin, Petrol and Gushing sailed for New
York
JOSEPH A. JAMESON, banker, of the firm
ofJameson, Smith s. Co.. of New York city,
hanged himself. He was sixty-seven years
old and very wealthy.
THE Dunnell print works ct Pawtucket,
r. l., were partially destroyed by fire. The
loss was estimated at from $780, 900 to $780,
0OO
THERE were several collisions between the
Pinkerton men, who are guarding the New
York Centrals property at Albany, n. Y,
and citizens. Three citizens were wounded
and fifteen Pinkertons had to be placed UNI
der the care OF surgeons. Three hundred
switchucen went on strike from the West
Shofe and New York Central Railroads
yards in Buffalo, N. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
DEATH IN ITS TRACK.
A Cyclones Awful Work In and
Around Wilkesbarre, Penn

A most disastrous tornado struck Wilkes
barre, Penn, during a recent afternoon,
killing, as nearly as could be learned on the
day afterward, some twenty persons, and
destroying about 100000 worth of prop
erty.
It came from up the river, the sky was
black as night and the wind blew with great
velocity. Trees were blown down and hun
dreds of houses were unrooted1 and many
houses completely demolished.
Four men were killed in the Hazard Wire
Rope Works, and the total number killed
in the city was twelve. Three min
ers were killed by the falling in of
a house in Scott street. The miners
had returned from work but a short time
in the ruins A little colored girl was killed
by falling building on South Main street. A
man and two horses were killed by the falling
of lumber at Kytle's planning mill: Two men
were killed by the fall of portion OF Steg-
maier's brewery. Another was killed in s.
S. Browns brick building on East Market
street, which was demolished.
The duration of the cyclone was only three
minutes, but during that time it wrought
fearful havoc, and caused Undesirable ter
ror throughout the city.
The cyclone cut clean path half mile
broad by three miles long through the most
densely populated district.
Every wire in the city--telegraph, electric
light and telephone-was blown down
Trains and locomotives which were at the
depot were blown over and wrecked. The
streets are blocked with fallen trees and
buildings.
Fully two hundred buildings were wholly
or partially wrecked.
Coal breakers in all directions have been
more or less damaged at Parsons and Mill
Greek, four miles from Wilkesbarre, Penn,
and ten men were reported to have been
killed.
Reports come from Sugar Notch, Penn
sylvania mining town, that the destruction
Of property there is terrible, and that fifteen
persons were killed.
The cyclone passed through the little town
of Summerville, Penn, near New Milford,
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, blowing down houses and tearing
up trees in its path.
A special from Harveysville, a farming
town ten miles from Plymouth, Penn, says:
"a terrible cyclone visited this place this
afternoon. The Methodist Episcopal Church
and parsonage have been blown to atoms.
Harvey's large store is totally wrecked.
Nearly all the residences have been I'M
rooted and rendered uninhabitabie. Farm
houses and crops are entirely destroyed.
Elijah Tohringer, a wellto-do farmer, was
killed and several are fatally injured"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
HUNDREDS MADE HOMELESS
The Town of Austin, Penn, Nearly
Wiped Out by Fire.

A fire started on Main street, Penn, a few
nights ago and burned with great ferceness
until o'clock next morning, wiping out the
business portion of the town, including the
Buffalo Hardware Company's establishment
and the Ellsworth House.
Forty-two business houses were burned and
a large number of dwellings. Hundreds of
people were made homeless.
The loss is estimated at half million dol
lar. The town will be rebuilt.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29

SIX new gui1lotines have been ordered by
the french Government for Algeria, Tunk>
colonlsts have been for some time clamoring
Tor new machines and III. Deibler. the pub
lie executioner, is now experimenting their
construction at the guilletine factory in
Paris.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29
THREE INSTANTLY KILLED,
A Frightful Accident On the Rome,
Watertown and Ogdenshuro.

Mr. Boynton, aged seventy-ive years of
Lakevile, n. Y; Mrs. Frank Talwer, of
Webster, n. Y, and her infant son were
killed at Webster Station, Y. Y, in rail-
road accident
Boynton was driving across the track in
buggy, and did not heed the approach OF the
Rsame, WATERFOWL and Ogdensburg passen-
ger tNain, bound for Ontario Beach.
The Nuggy was smashed into atoms. and
Is three Sccupants were instantly killed.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-29

A COMMITTEE of experts has been ap-
pointed by the English Commissioner of Ag.
riculture, Mr.. Chaplin, to inquire into the
live cattle trade with the United States.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-08

camp Of the Pennsylvania National Guarf
at Mount Gretna where he reviewed the
5000 troops including the United States
Army detachment. He returned to Wash
ington in the afternoon.
THE Treasury Department has decided tina
natives of Alaska have no rigat to kill Dur
fur seals for food and clothing.
The Federal Election bill has been referred
to the Senate Committee on Privileges anf
Elections.
A FIRE in Washington completely gutted
the carriage mandatory OF William Wal
ter's Son. Loss, $50, 900.
THE Secretary Of the Interior ordered
recount of the population OF the cities of St
Paul and Minneapolis.
The President made the following nomt
nations: To be United States Cons uls-John
S. Bradford, of Pennsylvania, at Antigua,
West Indies: and William g. Riley, of Vir.
ginia, at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-08
RIOT IN CONsTANTINOPLE.
The Greek Patriarch Maltreated, and
Soldiers and Rioters Killed.

A large crowd of Armenians gathered in
the Armenian cathedral in Constantinople,
Turkey, for the purpose Of demonstrating
with the Patriarch of the church for his
weak action toward the Porte regarding the
outrages peFpetrated by Turks in Armenia,
and to demand his resignation. One Of the
crowd mounted a chair in the cathedral and
demanded that the Patriarch explain the
events that had occurred at Erzeroum and
the position of affairs in Armenia.
The Patriarch protested against the action
of the mob and declared that the sacred edi-
fee was not a place for such demonstration.
This answer to their demand exasperated the
mob and they rushed upon the Patriarch,
dragged him from the pulpit and otherwise
maltreated him.
Military assistance was asked for to queE
the disturbance. A body Of Turkish troops
was sent to restore order, but when they en-
tered the cathedral and tried to clear the
building they met with desperate resistance.
The mob was armed with revolvers and
spiked slaves, and bloody conflict ensued
between them and the troops.
Four OF the soldiers and three of the riot
ers were killed and others were injured be-
fore the mob were driven from the building.
Martial law has been proclaimed in the
Kroom quarter, which is patroled by
cavalry.
There is good reason for believing that
the present disturbanc among the Armon-
ians Of Constantinople has been fomented by
Russian agents and is part of a general plan
in order to bring on war.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-08
washington.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
issued an order to the Indian Agent of the
five civilized tribes in the Indian Territory
which requires all persons not members of
these tribes, pursuing any business in the
Territory, to procure license from the In
dian Bureau.
PROFESSOR SoLEY, the new Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy, formally assumed that
office. Colonel Tichenor also relinquished
mis- position as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, and qualified as a member Of the
Board of Customs Appraisers.
THE President sent to the House of Repre-
sentatives in answer to the resolution intro
duced by Representative HIT the official
Government of Great Britain touching the
seal fisheries Of the Behring Sea.
THE President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate To be ENJOYS Extraor-
binary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the
United States-Thomas II. Anderson, of
Ohio, to Bolivia; Clark Z. Carr, Of Illinois,
to Denmark; John w. Washburn, of Massa-
chusetts, to Switzerland; John l.. Stevens
of Maine, to the Hawaiian Islands; George
Nancy, of Tennessee, to Paraguay and Uru-
quay.
THE Board of Customs Appraisers held a
meeting at the Treasury Department and or
gained by unanimously electing Colonel
Ilchenor President of the Board.
PRESIDENT HARRISON accompanied by
Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Secretary
Proctor, Acknowledgement Miller, of his
Cabinet, and General Schofeld, visited the
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-08
South and w est.

A GREAT storm struck the northern cor.
ner county, in the neighborhood of Sydney,
North Dakota, and destroyed three thousand
acres Of grain.
Beaver Brook, IN Colorado, were swept
away in a waterspout and drowned. One
hundred cattle were drowned in the Grand
Canyon.
The Touring mill of Mead Bros, at North
jackson. Ohio, was completely wrecked by
the explosion of boiler. George Mead, the
engineer and William Thomas, an emplOYe,
were killed instantly, and William Mikesell
fatally injured.
VIDoLA MELENA, Mexican, his wife and
fve-year-old daughter, were shot and killed
at Hutton, Texas. James Gibbs and Andrew
Sutton, neighbors, charged with the crime,
have been arrested. The motive was sup
posed to be revenge.
In yacht race al Duluth, Mimi, two
boats were struck by a squall. One went to
the bottom. Clark and Lintler were drowned.
Purcell was rescued in a dying condition.
AMID great cheering the ordinance asked
by the directors Of the worlds fair, granting
the use of the lake front as a part site for
the exposition, was adopted by the Chicago
Gll.l City Council. The city will furnish
So, OOO 600 to fill $50 acres of the disputed
part of the site-lake front-the property to
revert to the city for park purposes after
the fair.
The loss by the washout on the Colorado
Central Railroad is estimated at $3.50 600.
The track washed out covers altogether q
distance Of twenty miles. The iron bridge
at the forks of the creek looks like bundle
of wire, it has been so tangled up.
THE Colorado Midland Railroad has let
contract to Michael 81. Keefe, of Butte,
Montana, for the construction of tunnel.
1t will be $3.50 feet long, the third longest in
the United States, and will cost 81, 100000.
MINNESOTA Republicans, in convention at
st. Paul, renominated Governor Merriam;
the Republicans of Nebraska, in session at
Lincoln, nominated l.. D. Richards for
Governor.
A FIRE in Spokane Falls, Washington, de-
stroyed property valued at $148, 900.
w. J. BILLIARDS clearinghouse at Sa-
vannah, GA, a threc-story brick dwelling,
was blown up in mysterious way. Three
persons were killed and six injured.
THOMAS WILSON, colored, was hanged at
Martinsville, Va, for the murder of Jim
Davis. He and Davis quarreled about a
woman.
AT Ripon, Cal, the seven-year-old son of
q. w. Masters, while playing with matches
set fire to some coal oil and the house was
destroyed George and Warren, Masters's
sons, and baby girl persisted in the flames.
THE South Carolina Farmers Alliance
Convention at Columbia declared in favor Of
the Sub-Treasury scheme.
AT Magazine, Logan County, Ark, Cap
tain William Ellington and his son, w. E.
Ellington, were killed by W. McInturf, a
we'll known detective.
JAMES M. DAMsoN, member of the Cali
fornia State Assembly from Los Angeles, has
been arrested on several charges of forgery.
STATE SENATOR BENJAMIN SILVER, of
Baltimore, the son-in-law of the defaulting
treasurer Archer died at his home in Belair,
Nd, of peritonitis. Mr.. Silver was thirty
Years of aGa.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-08
EXCURSIONISTS PERISH.
Eight Persons Drowned and a Score
Injured Near Baltimore, Md.

The steamer Virginia collided with the
steamer Louise between Steelton and Fort
Carroll, near Baltimore, Md, and at least
eight of the Louises passengers were killed
while a number of others were seriously in
jured
The Virginia is blamed by the passengers
on the Louise. The latter is an excursion boat
and was on her way Up from Colchester with
about fifteen hundred people. Just after
passing Fort Carroll she met the Virginia on
her way from the city to Norfolk.
The Virginia was expected TO
pass the Louise, but instead the big
vessel came along head on and struck
the excursion boat near the wheel
house, tearing out the entire side leaving
hole eight feet deep. through which the
water poured as the Virginia pulled out. 10
was reported that number fell overheard
The greater number wtre hurt by the flying
sDlinters.