Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-08-08
LATER NEWS.

United States. Charles Fl. Cramp, senior
member CT the firm of William Cramp &
Sons, made the presentation speech and the
vessel was received in the name Of the Gov
srnment by Captain Robert L. Bradford,
DER commander.
CHARLES T. THOMPSON, aged seventeen,
was killed with tablefork, in Philadelphia,
Penn, by his fourteen-year-old brother
whom he was teasing.
THE village OF Bairdstown, Ohio, has been
almost wiped out by incendiary fires.
ST.. PAUL is indignant, while Minneapolis
is delighted. over the order for recount of
the two cities.
THE Monitor Plow works ut Minneapolis.
Mimi. were totally destroyed by fire. Loss,
800, 900.
THE crops of South Dakota were reported
to be withered by excessive heat, and it was
feared the sufferings of last year would be
repeated.
TEE Louisville and Nashville Rp;lroad
Company has mortgaged the sntire system
to the Central Trust of New York for
SIS, 600, 900.
A FREIGHr train on the Southern Pacific
was wrecked at Willsburg, Oregon. Awo-
man and her two children were killed.
THE business portion of Creighton. Neb.,
has been destroyed by fire.
THE Senate will meet hereafter daily at II
A. n and adjourn about 6 p. NJ, a resolution
to that effect having been adopted without
opposition.
SUPERINTENDENT OF CENSUS PORTER said
that he hoped to be able to announce officially
within three weeks the total population OF
the United States. The count is being made
at the rate of three and quarter millions
every twenty-four hours.
An attempt was made to assassnats Presi-
dent Barillas Of Guatemala.
GENERAL RIvAs, with 6OOO Indians, has
Joined the Salvadorian army.
Two local trains conveying men to work
on the Manchester England Canal came
into collision, and number Of wagons were
thrown over the canal bank. Four men
were killed and fifty injured.
THE village of Brac, in Switzerland, hai
been visited by very disastrous fire. Many
buildings were destroyed and four women
were killed and many persons were injured
vt war vessels ever sent by the United States
Government to the ports of the principal ma
tions, returned home and anchored in the
harbor of New York. They were the Chi
cago, Boston and Atlanta. The Yorktown
had returned alone some time ago. The last
run of the feet was from Brazil.
THE United States steamer Despatch ar
rived at New London, Conn. with Secre-
tary Tracy on board, who is making tour
Of inspection along the coast.
). E. TYGERLo & Co., manufacturers Of
fertilizers in Philadelphia, Penn, have
failed. An estimate places the assets at
$348, 900 and liabilities at 1917, 900.
A MAN dressed as workingman appeared
at the rear window of the postoffice in Law
renee, Mass, where an addition is building,
and asked the clerk there to hold one end of
tape line while he made some measure
ments. The clerk complied with the re-
quest, and a companion of the man entered
the money order Office and stole 1925.
CITY CLERK ALBERT GEoHEGAN, of Paris,
Ill, is missing and his accounts are short
between 5000 and $4,000 This amount
was taken from the City Treasury and the
bank with which the city account was kept
He has been living extravagantly.
FIRES along the line of the Santa Fe Rail-
road, between Dodge and Great Bend, in
Kansas, have destroyed thousands Of acres
of grass and corn.
THE Peoples Independent Party of Ne
braska, met in State Convention at Lincoln.
The gathering comprised over 900 delegates
j. III. Powers of Hitchcock County, was nom-
mated for Governor
THE President sent message to Congress,
urging legislation that would enable the
Postofice Department to close the mails &c
lottery companies.
THE number of applications for pension
under the act of June 81 which, up to a re-
cent date, had been received at the Pension
Office Appropriated 260, 600.
THE United States Consul at Palermo,
Sicily, warns Americans against visiting
there, owing W JIG oStluuPCAoA Oh III ASohuoSO
in that country.
Four hundred Armenians were arrested at
Constantinople, Turkey, for completely in
the recent demonstration against the Patri-
arch.
CHOLERA is epidemic in Mecca, Arabia.
There have been thirteen cases, seven OF
which were fatal.
An explosion of fire damp occurred in the