Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-05-22
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eas,c.n and Middle States,

GOVERNOR HILL, of New Y ork, appointed
ex-Attorney-General Ward Justice of tho
Supreme Court, in place Of Judge Corlette
deceased.
AT the Bessemer Steel Works, Troy, n.
Y, huge ladle in the converter upset and
the molten metal fell on the three men. John
Berry and Frank Van Breski were fatally
burned. Charles Yarwood had both hands
burned off.
BY swift AMI terrible fire at the fire.
works factory of George Kraemer, New
York City, three young girls were burned
that she died few hours afterward. The
proprietor OF the factory was also seriously
burned.
A HEAVY fall of rain, lasting two hours
extinguished the forest fires on the Blue
Mountains of nnstivania, after they had
burned three days and devastated over 1000
acres of timber land.
Two fires in Altoona, PENN destroyed
the Bohm and Rising Sun Hotels, the hard
ware store of the Altoona Hardware Com
pany, and the large exchange stables at
tached TO the Whitehall Hotel. The stock
of William Murray & Son, dry goods, was
also partially damaged by smoke and water.
The fires were of incendiary origin, and the
loss will amount to $75, 600.
EDWARD E. GEDNEY, late President of
the wrecked North River Bank and Frank
Il. lngersoll, its late Cashier, were arrested
in New York City charged with perjury in
swearing to false statements OF che banks
condition.
JESSE H. LIPPINCoTT, President of the
North American Photograph Company,
made an individual assignment in New York
City, with liabilities of 100000.
THE Polish colony Of New York City ceie-
brated the centennial anniversary of the pro-
mitigation of their constitution.
A FIRE in the Steel Works at Breaker ISL
and, near Troy, n. Y, caused loss of
$4O0 900. Seven Westinghouse engines were
destroyed. Nearly 1000 people will be de
prived of work.
CHARLES PRATT, the millionaire oil mer-
chant, Vice-President of the Standard Oil
Company and founder of the great indus
trial school known as the Pratt Institute,
in Brooklyn. died suddenly at his Office in
New York City of heart disease.
DEPUTY SHERIFFs and mine officials fired
on strikers in the ConnelIsvllle PENN coke
region, and one striker, John NOLAN, a
Slav, was killed. Three mine officials were
arrested.
NOEL SoUCI, Theodore Forbes and John
Forbes were drowned at Braddock's Bay
Outlet n. Y, while working on the new
Manitou Beach Railroad drawbridge.
CoAL-BREAKERs Nos. 1 and of the
Kingston Coal Company, at Edwardsville,
Penn, with several boiler and machine
houses, were destroyed by fire. The loss
will reach $3.50, 900. About 500 men and bows
are thrown out of employment.
The United States Senate committee on
trade relations with Canada began an inves-
tigation at Buffalo, N. Y. There were pres
emit Senators Hoar Gray, Dolph and Hale
In the Excelsior Concert Hail. on the
Bowery, New York City, Ida E. Brevoort.
a singer, and one of the leading attractions !
of the place, was shot and killed by C. S. |
Wilbur, former lover. Then Wilbur sent
a bullet into his own brain and fell dead by
the side OF the woman he had murdered.
Music HALL, the magnificent gift of An
drew Carnegie to the city of New York, was
formally opened to the public.
The Arbuckle Building, the Pittsburg
Female College, and Christ Methodist Epis.
copal Church at Pittsburg, Penn, were de.
Stroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50 900.