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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
Foreign.

THE epidemic of suicide continues in Ber-
lin, Germany. \ sensation was created by
the discovery that Major Won Norman, Com
mandant of the Cadets School, had killed
himself by taking poison, To make his worn
doubly sure, after he had swallowed the
poison he opened the arteries in his arms.
A COMMERCIAL panic prevails in Lisbon,
Portugal, where the leading banks are trem-
bling. A crisis was imminent.
ARTHUR BOWER, Charles Mcdonald and
Hugh Roney were drowned in Stony Lake,
Canada, through the upSetting of a sail
boat.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in MunipuE,
India. The Maharajah fed and his brother
assumed control.
AN accident in which FIVE people were
killed and twenty injured occurred on q
street railway between Florence, Italy, and
Fesole, three miles away, on which electric
cars are used.
ORDER has been restored in Manipur, In
dia The Maharajah has abdicated in favor
of his brother.
GENERAL LEszCYNsKI has been appointed
German Minister of War to succeed General
Verdy du Vernois.
THE damage by the floods in the Depart
ment of Ardeche France, alone amounts to
31O,000,0 900.
IN duel at Hatzburg, Germany, between
Lieutenant Blethstasser and Lieutenant Gar
der of the German army, the former was
killed The duel was the result OF q quarrel
in q restaurant.
IT is believed that fifty lives were lost in
the floods in the south of France.
A STORM swept over a large portion Of
Algeria, doing an immense amount Of dam!
age. =
THE Moorish army defeated and routed the
insurgents in the district of Alt Shokhman.
The rebels lost heavily in killed and wounded
and many were made prisoners. All the
leaders who were captured were beheaded.
The victorious troops pursued the insurgents
and destroyed several Of their villages.
The wrecked United States warships
Trenton and Vandalia have been sold by the
Samoan Government to q San Francisco
wrecking firm. .h
EIGHTY lace factories have been closed In
France in consequence of strikes.
THE Brazilian Minister Of Education has
resigned.
THE Spanish Government is placing a cor
don of troops along the frontier Of Portugal
in consequence of apprehensions Of a revolu-
ton in that country.
A MAN committed suicide during service
in st. Pauls Cathedral, London, by shooting
himself twice with a revolver.
ANOTHER unsuccessful attempt has been
made upon the life of the Russian Gar. This
time the conspirators wrecked train by
which it was believed the Car intended to
travel from ST. Petersburg to Warsaw.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States

MRS LIZZIE HALFoRD and Miss Lizzie
Weaver, OF Brooklyn, n. Y, committed
suicide by taking poison
AT Circleville, N Y, Charles A Thomp-
son and hired man were removing the hide
from COW that had died. when the knife
slipped, entering rhompson's left thigh and
Sever1ng the main artery. Death resulted
before he could be carried to the house. He
was twenty-five years old.
THE Pennsylvania Prohibition State Com
mittee nominated John ID. Gin for Governor
in place Of Charles Miller, who had de-
clined.
AT Mount Pleasant House, n A., all vege-
tation was killed by frost Six inches of
snow Is reported at Mount Washington and
the temperature at eighteen degrees
JOHN JAY, ex-United States Minister TO
injured in front of the Grand Central Depot
New York city, being knocked down by a
cab and sustaining fracture of the neck.
LEVI and George Bryant, of Jonesport
Me-, only sons of Andrew Bryant, were
drowned while tending lobster pots.
JOHN NEW, thirty-fve years old, COM
mitted suicide at Philadelphia, Penn, by
containing the dead body of his wife.
MRS. MILLER, the wife of a farmer, was
murdered in lonely wood near Merchant
vile, n. J.; colored man has been arrested
for the crime.
THE Prouty & Barr Boot and Shoe Com
pany, of Philadelphia, Penn, was seized by
the Sheriff on judgments aggregating $50,
ISL.
THE Barrowsville Mill at Taunton. Mass,
was burned, together with a storehouse and
a two-story tenement house. Loss $75, 900
to 800, 900.
THE Worcester (Mass.) Music Festival
closed with the performance of Mendelssohn's
"Ehjah."
A PECULIAR distemper has broken out
among the horses III the vicinity of Man
chester, y. H, which has D2ff1ed the veterin-
arians. The disease begins in a slight lame
ness and eliminates in swollen limbs and
running sores.
EDWARD TRYAN and George Barnard
were instantly killed by touching an electric
light guy wire which came in contact with
an incandescent circuit in Winchendon,
Mass.
IRA W. SMITHEES, a farmer, while tenn
porary insane hanged himself in his barn,
near Rensselaer, Falls, n. Y. A week before
he tried to poison himself.
A SOUTH bound freight train jumped the
trestle at Sheppervllle. Penn, killing Fire
man Silas Elder and Brakeman Shreckengos
and fatally injuring Engineer Frank Wood
COUNTY CLERK EDWARD F. REILLY die
from pneumonia at his home in New Yorl
city after a short illness.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
A PARENTS VENGEANCE.
A Bride of a Few Hours Murdered
by Her Father

In little cottage in Lacon, H., are the
dead bodies of father and daughter, the
latter a bride Of few hours II MAY last
Charles Seifert and family went to that city.
The father and daughter were EMPLOYED as
weavers in the Lacon wooden mills
A young Englishman named Jos. Baxter was
also employed in the mills, and courted the
daughter, Mary, against the fathers consent.
The young man never called at the house
but managed to see the girl elsewhere. and
the young people finally became engaged.
Seifert met the young couple out walking,
abused Baxter, and threatened to kill both
and shoot himself. Baxter boarded
two doors from Seiferr and on
the night before the tragedy. he
of the Peace. Seifert when he heard of this
went to the house and asked to see the marriage
certificate. This being shown to him he
seemed satisfied, and told the young wife to
come to his house and get her trunk, which
she did. Next morning Seifert sent little
daughter to Baxter with the information that
he wished to become reconciled to his
son-in-iaw and would apologize to him.
Baxter went over, and Seifert treated him
kindly, showed him where he had made a
record of the marriage in the family Bible,
and requested him to let Mary come home.
Baxter consented, and after much persuasion,
Mary, who seemed very much afraid, went.
She passed into the front room with her
father, her stepmother remaining in the
kitchen. Mary had not been in the room
port was heard followed by another,
and the neighbors, attracted by the
screaming of Mrs. Seifert, rushed
over to the house and found father
another. A breechloading shotgun lay at
Seifert's side. The cause of the tragedy is
said to have been Seiferts anger at being
deprived Of his daughters wages.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10

max or hemp. "A bill was passed To r,reven
the dissertation of the United States fiao h,
the printing thereon Of any painting or adj
vertisements. Mr.. Owen introduced q hi
providing that all pensions granted 70 sol
diers upon applications filed after July
1880, and granted in consequence OF wound,
received in the line OF duty. shall begin am
be paid from the date Of honora BILE discharg,
THE conference report on the bill To IN
crease the efficiency of the Signal Corps q
the Army and to transfer the Weather Ser
vice to the Agricultural Department wa,
agreed to. The individual pension bills O.
the calendar were then taken up and passec
(fortv-four LII twenty-five uiEuteSl
232D DAY.-The House concurred in the
resolution designed to MAKE the conclusion
reached by the international Marine Confer.
ence effective. The joint resolution appro-
priating $4,000 to enable the Postmaster
General to test at small towns and villages
the system of free delivery was passed
Mr.. Funson, of Kansas, asked unanimous
consent for the consideration of bill TO estab-
lish uniform standard for wheat, oats. bar
ley and other grains. . Mr.. Breckenridge,
calling for the regular order, the Speaker
laid before the House the bill to define and
regulate the jurisdiction Of the United States
Courts, and it was referred to the Judiciary
Committee. +. . The request of the Senate for
a conference on the bill to promote the ad-
ministration of justice in the United States
Army was granted.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
South and West,

SHERMAN LINES and D L. Lee, of Ottawa
Ohio, quarrelled and shot each other fatally.
HAIL fell to the depth of eight inches in
Huron County, Mich, and literally wiped
$500, 200. Many farmers were in destitute
condition.
IT is estimated that the cotton in the
Memphis Uenn.) District has been damaged
twenty-five per cent. by excessive rains
HOG cholera is raging in Missouri Valley,
Iowa, and adjoining counties.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HARDIN, of Ken
tucky, instructed the State Auditor to refuse
to grant license to the Frankfort and Henry
County lotteries, which are operated in that
State.
CAPTAIN A. R. EGBERT, of the Second In
fantry, United States Army, died suddenly
at Fort Omaha, Neb. Captain Egbert was
appointed to the regular army from New
Jersey in July, 1856.
THE Colorado Democratic State Conven-
ion at Denver nominated Judge Caldwell
Yeaman of Trinidad, for Governor.
THOMAS LEWIS. lineman in the employ
of the Thomson-HoustOn Company, cut into
a live wire at Omaha, Neb., and was in
stantly Silled.
Two cadets at the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, Lexington, Va. Frank w. McConnico,
of Texas, and W. T. Taliaferro, of Glouces-
CSI NOuIIys d.1 SIsdSOA III a POI SOLldl Gil
counter in which fifteen rounds were fought.
Two hours afterward Taliaferro died, it is
presumed, from the punishment he received
at the hands of McConnico.
THR National Prison-Congress began its
business sessions at Cincinnati, Ohio.
WILLIAM PALMER killed his brother Al
fred during a drunken quarrel at East Sagi-
nav, Mich.
jim TATE, who killed Stephen Tate, near
Brierfeld, Ala, has been lynched.
Rev. ANDREW DEMPSEY, candidate for the
Legislature in Cobb County, Ga, dropped
dead while making speech.
COLONEL E. c. BoUDINoT died at Fort
Smith, Ark, of dysentery. He was the most
noted of the Cherokees. He was born i'll
Georgia and went with his tribe to the pres
ent home of the CheroBees in 1885.
MRS. DAVID HERTANN and three children
were fatally poisoned by eating canned fruit
at Galveston, Texas.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
Washington.

UNITED STATES revenue cutters have been
ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury to
take active measures against seal poachers in
Behring Sea.
Mr.. MILLER, of South Carolina, who was,
on the day before, declared to be elected as
Representative from the Seventh South
Carolina District, appeared at the bar Of the
House and took the oath of Office.
THE President and his party returned to
Washington from CressOn, Penn. They
travelled from Cresson in General Superin-
tendent Sheppards private car. Mr.. Har-
rison spent the evening at the White House,
but the ladies went to Mr.. Wanamaker's
residence, to remain while the Executive
Mansion is being repaired. The President
feels much benefited by his sojOurn in the
mountains.
THE House adopted resolution directing
the Commissioners on Accounts to lnvesti-
gate charges that ]. L. Wheat, Postmaster
of the House, let the contract for carrying
the mails to Samuel Culbertson for 5000
year on condition that Culbertson should
pay him $50 month, and that Wheat did
receive that sum for five months.
A COMMISSION has selected the old baseball
park, corner of North Capitol and G streets,
Washington, as the site for the proposed new
Government printing Office authorized by
Congress, the purchase price being fixed at
$143, 600.
THE annual report OF DIR. Purvis, Surgeon
in-Charge of the Freedmen's Hospital, Wash
ington, shows that during the year there
were $3.50 inmates of the hospital; of this
number 2052 were discharged and 2S3 died
The number remaining at the close q the year
was 232 On the Recommendation OF the
Commissioner of Pensions lS ex-sold1ers
were a.auaitted and treated
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
ACRES OF BURNING FAT,
A Great Chicago Packing House
Destroyed by Fire.

Two hundred thousand pounds of sausage
and 1000 dressed hogs were a few of the
things burned in one Of Fowler's big pack
ing houses at the stock yards in Chicago, Ill,
a few days ago. A Waterman who was ma
trolling the district shortly after midniaht
saw flames springing from the engine room.
He tried to extinguish the fire, but the
blaze grew so large that he was forced to
summon the fire engines. This was
at two o'clock. A furious fire ate its wav
through the great building which is bounded
on all sides by similar structures owned by
the same concern. The warerooms, the chifI
rooms, and the ice machines are wrecked.
Twenty-Five fire engines and the fire boat
Chicago worked on the fire all day. The loss
is $3.50, 900.
Three frenen were slightly injured during
the day. The Fowler Brothers plant was
recently sold 20 an English syndicate 1t is
und erstood that the insurance has not vat
beeII exchanged.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10

TIE President signed the bill granting &
pension to Henry A Baruura, Brevet Major.
General Of Volunteers.
AFTER ten days hard work the Conferences
Committee on the Tariff bill completed It'd
work and reported the result 10 the House.
THE report OF the Beard of Visitors 81 the
Government Hospital for the Insane. Wash
ington, shows that the number OF inmates
at the beginning of the year was 1897. OF
this number 1913 were males and 80 females.
ga males and eleven females were admitted
during the year; ninety-seven persons were
discharged, and liz males and twenty-eight
missions during the year. lis were from the
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers
TIE President made the following ncnl.
nations: E Buri Grubb. OF New jersey. 20
be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Tlen-
ipotentiary To Spain; Edwin H CouSer, OF
Iowa, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister PlenipOtentiary to Brazil
THE President and family, VINO have been
the guests Of Postmaster-Ieneral and Mrs.
Wanamaker since their return from Cresson,
Penn, again took up their abode III the
White House. The repairs have been COM
pleted, and the building Is reported TO be in
excellent sanitary condition.
In executive session the Senate co nfirmed
the following nominations: Z. Burd Grubh,
OF New Jersey, Minister co Spain; Edwin II.
Copger Iowa, Minister to Brazil; Fremont
Wood, United States District Attorney for
Idaho
THE Commissioner of Pensions made Isl
promotions in the clerk grades OF his Office.
preparatory to the appointment TO the lower
grades of 4SS clerks provided for under re-
cent act Of Congress.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
THREE TRAINMEN KILLED,
n Frighttul Collision on the Jersey
Central Railroad.

A frightful accident occurred on the Jsr-
sey Central Railroad between Lehighton and
Packerton, near Mauch Chunk, Penn. The
day operator at Lehighton, whose name is
Hefelfinger, had orders to hold coal train
at that place, so that passenger train
No. 9 could pass it. The message
was received just a few minutes before he
gave place to the night operator, and he for
got to tell the latter of the order. The result
was that the coal train was not held. but
kept on its course on the main track until it
was met by passenger train going ut high
rate of speed.
A terrible collision followed. Both en-
gines came together with such force that
they were thrown over the en1bankment on
the Lehigh Valley tracks below. The
passengers were panic stricken, but none of
them was injured beyond a few bruises.
The killed are: Engineer Bigelow, of the
coal train: Fireman Dunlap, of the coal train,
who lives in Mauch Chunk, and Fireman
Mitchell, of the passenger train, who lives in
New Jersey.
TAYLOR Bedford, engineer of the passenger
train, and two brakemen of the coal train
were pinioned in the wreck and were seri-
ously injured.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
TEACHING AT THIRTEEN.
This Girl is Probably the Youngest
"Schoolmarm" on Record.

'SCHOOInAHII OH IOVCUFu1
Probably the youngest school teacher in
Pennsylvania is Miss Clara Greenawald, who
has been engaged as teacher i'll one of
the schools of Penn township Miss
Greenawald is just thirteen years of age.
She looks older than that, and some time
ago when she applied, among a lot of Others,
to be examined by County uparintendent
zechman she led the class and made an aver
certificate she readily obtained school.
Since her age has been learned there is
some doubt among the directors OF the town
ship about al owing her to continue, and
some one has raised the point that the ON
ployment of one Of her years will deprive
the district of it's State appropriation. The
matter has been referred to the school au-
thorities for decision.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
TWO BROTHERS EXECUTED.
Punished for a Particularly Afro
cious Crime in Cuba.

Two brothers, Jose and Carmelo Diaz, have
been executed in Havana, Cuba, for a par
ticularly atrocious crime. They had at
tackled a Turkish woman near Pinar del Rio
and subjected her TO the grossest indignities.
The husband of the woman sought TO avenge
the dishonor Of his wife, but was killed by
the brothers, who also murdered the woman
and then mutilated the bodies Of their vic.
Tins
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10
MURDER, THEN SUICIDE.
Frederick Geahm Shoots His Wife
and browns Himself

Frederick Geahm killed his wife Theresa
at Louisville, KY, and then committed sui
eide. They had trouble over money and she
sued for divorce. He went TO the warehouse
where she worked and shot her twice, killing
her almost instantly. He then ran out upon
the street, trying. as he ran, 70 shoot him,
self. Failing In this, he jumped into the canal
and was drowned.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10

the past quarter of a century has been sue
cessfully cast at foundry in Milwaukee,
Wis, for use on the new Wisconsin Central
Depot in Chicago. 1t weighs. 10, 500 pounds
and is the fourth largest in the United States.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-10

THERE are said to be Is, 900 boarding house
keepers in New York city, and 1000 persons
living in boarding houses who have fov years
lived by paying little or nothing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-03

THO hIot sre"t railroad accident &C
CURED on the Great Western road of
England in 1S41. A train was rushing
along when a mass of earth and stones
fell from the embankment and obstruct-
ed the way. Eight persons were killed
and many wounded. The coroner's jury
returned a verdict Of accidental death
in all cases and deodand of 81 900, an
engine, tender and carriages" The old
common law provided that when any
personal chattel was the cause of death
it should be forfeited to the king. Part
of this act was not enforced in later
years, but heavy fine was imposed on
the owners of any chattel doing personal
injury to the kings subjects. This law
was observed as late as 1917, when par
Lament abolished the practice.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-03

The exception to tf2e rule, if the scrirt-
ul;!l saving tnat -. prophet is not with
oft honor s;lyC y his own country is
really rule. I,G5 j.>yl found, it was dis
covered, thrUi. ! Il young man in the
Booth and Mo =. sd company. His name
is Clarence DuV&l. H..l he was assigned
10 the minor parts in the plays those
great artists presented to the public. In
'Eiohclicu" l., played Francois, and
when the company was at GAINESVILLE, o.,
that happened TO be the play produced.
This town is the young mans native
place. 1t is the place where he was born,
brought up, and where he went out of
nights to steal watermelons with the
other boys.
Young Duval was not exactly propheS,
but he was a member of great company
and the town turned out in great force.
The house was full, and it soon became
apparent that Clarence was tho star at
traction. Every time he came upon the
stage he was greeted with applause, and
for every little speech he made bouquet
of flowers was thrown him. Booth and
Modjesla were terribly sighted that
night. and rs the actors stood bowling
lien the curtain arose, in response to al
cncore after the last act, huge stand of
flowers was handed over the footlights.
II bore card, on which was written
three names in the following order:
Clarence Duval, Edwin Booth, Helena
Nodjeska." Clarence had all the honors
that night. even if he should never be
heard of again.-ChicagO Herald.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-03
About Baking Horses.

Ec-Ses know nothing about baikin,
until they are forced into it by bad
management. When horse balks in har-
ness it is generally from some misman-
agement, excitement, confusion, or from
not knowing how to pull. but seldom
from any unwillingness to perform all
that he understands. A free horse in a
team may be so anxious to go that when
he hears tho word he will start with a
jump which will not move the load, but
give him 80 severe a jerk on the shoul-
ders that he will fly back and stop the
other horse. Next will come the slash
ing and cracking of the whip and hal
looing of the driver, until something is
broken or the driver is through with his
course Of treatment. But what mis-
take the driver makes in whipping his
horse for this act! Reason and common
sense should teach him that the horse
was willing and anxious to go but did
not know how to start the load.-New
York Times.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-03
Indian Lions Dying Out.

The lions Of India appear to be going
the way Of the great bustard and tho
dodo, and the reason is found In the ex-
tension of railways, for the monarch Of
the forest shares with Mr.. Ruskin NOR
tai antipathy to the smoke and screams
of locomotives. Within the memory Of
many persons lions were common enough
in Rajputana. and even now the roar Of
one may be heard occasionally in the
widest parts Of Central India: but the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-07-03
Honesty and Conventionality.


The root meaning of conventiona1ity
Is bringing together of the best forces
of the head and heart to devise methods
by which we may meet subject to COM
mon laws; our social status is MAIN
tanned among our kind by our knowl-
edge and INTERPRETATION Of these laws.
he who secs conflict between conven-
ticnality and honesty bears the same
relation to the social world that the
Anarchist does to the political; he OBJ
jects to obeying laws that trammel his
will.
There is no greater evidence Of crudi-
ty than belief that a declaration Of an
honest opinion is always in order and
that silence is deceit.
Tact is regarded as sixth sense by
some, and if we stop to analyze it we
would say that it was perfect balance
OF honesty and conventionality, for the
ttStful person is Of too high an order to
be untruthful, and of too kindly nature
to be unconventional. 1t is this balance
tAat endows him with that attitude that
Its him above the mass Of men. The
orlan who thinks it necessary to tell
rother that she has gone off five years
one is certainly honest, but she is
=. t conventional, even though she can
iote the written laws Of every book on
-lqUcttc, and accepts all new acquaint-
Ices on the basis of the rules for the
u5e Of cards" We endure her when
for L to meet her, but we do not make
o., rtunities for that privilege, nor
v'Ine her the higher because she is per-
fc y honest.
( intentionally is to society what
Ii criminal law is to the world az large,
"a should be SO applied that the person
va roOs society Of the possibility Of
p--,.sanc intercourse, Of graceful act and
81 -ch. Of the power to meet impvr~yn-
ally. should be kept out by the combined
efforts of those who believe that kindli-
ness is the foundation Of social inter
course.-Christiau Union.