Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-07
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

at meeting of the paper makers OF the
| United States, held in New York, 1t was
resolved that owing to the shortage in ma
| teriels entering into the manufacture OF pa
per the prices of all kinds of paper would
| have to be advanced. The cholera scare has
| caused a great decrease in the importation
of raw materials from foreign countries
MINISTER BoLzr-PERAzA. of Venezuela,
| abandoned his intention OF sending from
| New York vessel in pursuit OF the steamer
! South Portland, supposed to contain NUM-
tons OF war for the Venezuelan revolution
lists
TRUE bills were found by the Grand Jury
at Pittsbnrg, Penn, against Colonel
Hawkins, Lieutenapt-Colonel Streator and
Surgeon Gimm, of the Tenth Regiment.
National Guard of Pennsylvania, for assault
and battery in the Private 1ams case.
MONUMENTS were dedicatd at Gettysburg.
Penn, by the Sixteenth Vermont and the
Twenty-second Massachusetts, Regiments
john SHAvoR, aged seventy-fve, while
sitting at window in Schenectady, y. Y.
was struck by lightning a few weeks
ago. partially paralyzed and marked
below the eye. a few nights ago
there was a terrific crash OF thunder, and
Mr.. Shavor's daughter ran into his room,
where she found him dead on almost the
same spot where he was strucd before,
HUGH ODONNELL, the Homestead tPenn)
a charge of murder.
Ex-SPEAKER JAMES w. Hustled, of the
New York Legislature, died at his home In
Peekskill few days ago, aged fifty nine
JUDGE GEORGE F. WERTs has formally
accepted the Democratic nomination Tor
Governor of New Jersey.
THE three-nasted schooner John Burt,
laden with %. 900 bushels of corn, bound for
Oswego, n. Y. was wrecked near the mouth
ID T oIxo.H o.,
of the crew and the woman cook were
drowned
A CYCLONE swept over the Eastern Dis
trict of Brooklyn, East New York and
Long Island City. In the Eastern District
Of Brooklyn six houses in course of erection
were blown down. Two boys were killed
and one lad and workman were
severely injured. A four story building IN
course of erection in Long Island City was
demolished. One wan was killed and three
sustained probably fatal injuries.
TERRIFIC wind ard snow storm prevailed
on Mount Washington, New Hampshire,
the wind reaching a velocity of 100 miles
Wire communication with the Glen House
and the Summit was cut Off and trains could
not get down the mountain on account of
snow and ice.
AS the result of quarrel about SIS Fred
crick MellenOurg, a septuagenarian, MUIR
dered his wife, seriously shot his stepdaugh-
ter and committed suicide at Paterson,
n. J.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL was renominated at
the Massachusetts, Democratic State Con-
vention at Boston.
THE New York Peoples Party State Con-
vention was called to order at Syracuse.
Nominations were made as follows: For
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Law
renee J. McParlin, of Lockport; for the
electoral delegates at large-Thaddeus B.
w akeman, of New York City, and I. E.
Dean, Of Honeoye Falls.
CHIEF POSTAL INSPECTOR EDGARroN ar
rested at Philadelphia, Penn, six conspira- |
tors who have succeeded in robbing the mails |
Of over SIC, 900 worth of articles of all sorts |
The men were drivers in the employment OF
the Union Transfer Company, engaged in
driving the mail wagons between the Post |
office and the railroad stations.