Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-09-05
THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern md Middle States.

ELIZABETH JONES, colcred, thirty-fve
wears old. drowned her eight-months-o!d
child in a tub OF water in the cellar Of her
house in Philadelphia, Tenn. and then
hanged herself.
T.V. PowDERLY, General Master Work
man of the Knights OF Labor, issued from
New York city the official statement of the
Executive Board Of the Orier giving its side
of the controversy with the New York Gen.
trail road and plainly indicating that theirs
would be strike of all the nights on the
whole Vanderbilt system
THE accident on the Old Colony Railroad
at Quincy. Mass, was caused by jack be-
ing left under a rail by workmen who were
repairing the road. Four more of the vic
tins have died making the number OF the
killed twenty-five.
FIRE destro red the Thousand Island Park
Hotel and fifteen cottages, near Clayton,
n. Y. Some Of the guests had narrow es-
capes from the flames.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists, in con-
vention at Harrisburg, nominated State
ticket headed by Charles w. Miller for Gov
ernOr.
GOLD has been discovered on a farm owned
by S. II. Patt on the hill in West Ansonia,
Conn, and furry Of excitement exists in
business circles.
T.V. POWDERLY. Master Workman of the
Knights of Labor, issued e statement from
New York Central strike, his efforts to Sc
cure a settlement and the railroad officials
refusal of arbitration or investigation, and
appealing to organized labor and the public
generally for aid and sympathy in what he
calls fight against monopoly.
WALTER Howe a prominent New York
resident was drowned at Bateman's Beach,
r. I. He was in bathing with number OF
cOttagers.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR attended
the camp of the Vermont National Guard at
Bradford and was received with due honors.
The Secretary took active interest in the
battery practice and personally aimed one OF
the guns.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and the members of
his family took a dip in the surf at Cape May
Point, after which the President went out
for ride. The President and family also
visited Five Mile Beach, n. j., on the invita-
ton of General Seweu.
THE attendance at the American Farmers
Encampment at Mount Gretua, Penn. was
nearly 10000. Colonel l.. L. Polk, of Wash
ington, President of the National Alliance,
addressed the farmers.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at Athens,
Penn, during the sham battle at the SOL
diers' encampment at that place. A cannon
was prematureIy discharged, killing William
Bosom, aged twenty, fatally injuring James
n. Castamore, aged twenty, and tearing OH
the thumb of Gabriel l.. Mullock.
THOMAS ArHLY and G. Buddensick hired
boat at Cranes boat house, Railway, NJ,
to go fishing in the Railway River the other
day. Nothing was heard of until next day
when the bodies of the two men were found
floating near the Staten Island shore.
WILLIAM STONE of North Chippin's Hill,
Conn, eighty-two years old, and bedridden
from rheumatism, had been melancholy for
some time The other morning breakfast
was not brought to him promptly in his room,
and he opened his jacknife and punctured the
radial artery Of the left arm, and slowly bled
to death.
THE President and Mrs. Harrison attended
services at the Presbyterian Church Cold
Spring N j.