Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-05-08
Foreign.

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| THE British ship st. Catherine was
wrecked off the Caroline Islands, and ninety
! persons drowned.
A SECOND ballot will be necessary between
| Prince Bismarck and his Socialist opponent
for the Reichstag from Geestemunde.
MR. CALHOUN, an ornithologist connected
| with the Smithsonian Institution, Washing
ton, was killed near Placentia, New Found
land, by falling over a precipice. He was
collecting sea birds at the time.
THE meeting of the National Academy of
Science began at the National Museum,
| Washington.
AN outline of the new reciprocity treaty
concluded by General Foster and the Spanish
Premier was made public.
| MAJoR-GENERAL SCHoF1ELD issued a GEN
eral order making honorable mention of Off
GERS and soldiers who distinguished them
selves during the year 1885 continuing the
list which began with the year 1889.
COLONEL AUGUSTUS VALENTINE KAUrz
Eighth Infantry, was appointed Brigadier-
General in place of General John Gibbon
who retired at the age of sixty four years.
A TERRIBLE explosionof fire darap occurred
in the Hugo pit, near Kattowitz, Prussia, re-
suting in the instant killing of ten miners
and the injury OF number OF others.
THERE was serious rioting in Benares. In
| dia, caused by the anger of the natives at the
tearing down of a temple IN the Holy City.
| SIGNOR IMBRIANI has given notice in the
| Italian Chamber of Deputies that he intends
to question Premier Rudini in regard to the
refusal Of Inspector Byrnes, of New York
| City. to accept the decoration sent to him
| by King Humbert.
ernor OF the Congo Free State, Africa, died
at Bona, the capital. of dysentery after
short illness. Coquilhat was one of the most
promin7nt men in the work of founding the
new State.
THE annual re1or5 of Governor Kerr, of
IN" FauIkland Islands, which lie of the coast
OF Patagonia, shows that during 1889 there
was not single case either civil or criminal
in the courts of the colony. All the courts
have been practically closed since 1897
| TaE strike at Essen. Germany, affects fif-
teen colllerles, employing two thousand
men.
TEE Newfoundland delegates were not in
| v1ted to Lord Knutsford's reception at Mon
| treal, Canada, although the newspapers
stated that they were. This deliberate slight
by member OF the Cabinet has greatly en-
FILTERED the Observation-Disclosures.
NOSES WILLIAMS, one of the gallant 600
| OF Balac!ava fame, committed suicide few
days ago IN a quarry near Cardiff, Wales.
| HE efforts of the Italian Government to
| dlVert emigration from America to Sardinia
! have so far been without success.
| CONSIDERABLE alarm prevails among the
small farmers and poor people of the Skib-
bereen district of Ireland by the discovery
that the seed potatoes recently distributed
as one of the relief measures of the Govern
ment have practically proved a failure.
FoUR-F1FTHs of the Welsh tin plate manu-
facturers have met and agreed to close their
works for a month.
MRS. ELIZABETH ORRBELL. who died in
Glasgow, April IL, leaves 1850, 600 TO Gen
eral Booth for the benefit OF the Salvation
| Army.
The natives of Portuguese Guinea have
revolted and raised the French flag: they
have defeated the Portuguese in two bat
| ties.
PART of the Third Battalion of Grenadier
| Guards, quartered at Wellington Barracks,
| London, made a mutinous demonstration.
A GARDNER named Damn, living in the
| village of Albrechtshain, Germany muir
dered his wife and four children with
hatchet and then hanged himself He is sup
! posed to have become insane through worry
| over financial troubles.