Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-07-22
TPE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.

SCRANTON, Penn. was deluged BY tor
rents Of rain. Hundreds Of houses were
hooded with water four and five feet deep
lightning struck in many places, causing
slight fires One man, David Jones, was
Killed while sitting in his home near the
Continental mine, By a thunderbolt. From
every town throughout Lackawana County
came reports OF great damage done.
THE great New York City grocery firm of
Acker, Merrall & Condit has dissolved AMI
William J. Merrall has pure nased the inter
ests of john W. Condit and the Acker
heirs.
THE anniversary of the Battle of Bunker
Hill was celebrated in grand style at Bos-
ton Mass. The day was general holiday
in the city, banks and exchanges being
closed and wholesale business suspended.
The interest, of course, centerS in Charles
town, the scene of the battle. On Bunker
Hill at midnight big bonfire was kindled.
AT meeting in New York City of Typo
graphical Union No. 6 q resolution was
passed regulating the Endorsement of Editor
Whitelaw Reid's candidacy for VIce-Presi-
dent, which was recently made by a commit
tee OF printers at Minneapolis, Minn.
JOHN ANDERSON, aSweish leper, escaped
from the County Aimshouse, Chester, Penn,
and ran amuck through the streets. He was
recaptured after wounding several people.
PARTY of five Erie PENN moders,
who mad been in Buffalo, Y. Y, on frolic,
got into a serious alteration at Angola,
n. Y, on their way home. They had just
been put off a Lake Shore freight Two OF
them. Alto Stablem and Groban Allen were
killed by passenger train. The other three,
of whom one was Edward SOoper, of Erie,
got into an alteration with Lowell A. New
ton, Che brakeman who had driven the five
off the train. One Of the molders fatally
shot Newton.
The ninth Suburban run at the Sleeps
Po IN
Marcus Days bay colt Montana, by Ban
Box out Of Imported Queen, ridden by Gar
rison; w. j. Spiers's Major Domo, ridden
by Lambley, was second. and Brown q
Rogers Lamplighter, ridden by Bergen, was
third: the time for mile and a quarter was
2.07 2-5. There were 30, 900 people present.
The race was worth SIS, 900 to the winner,
$4,000 to the second horse, and $1,000 to the
third.
No 2 DAM of the Mahanoy City PENN
Water Company, situated on the mountain
side about two miles beyond the western
limits of the city, al.d at a point 500 yards
higher than Main street. burst about 10
o'clock at night and flooded the city.
MOB at Belfast, Me-, tarred and feath-
cred Earnest Richards. co.ored, for ln-
proper relations with white girl.
THE creamery building, III by forty five
feet, of the Franklin County tVt.) Creamery
Association has been burne> Fifty tons of
butter ana 1OUU IONS OF Ice were deSCrOyeu.
1t was the largest creamery in the world,
producing 1900 pounds OF butter per day
and using the milk of Is, 900 cows.
HUBBARD WATTS, vino "heId up'' four
women near Guiltord, Conn, shot himself
dead while being pursued by men with dogs.
A CLoUDBURsT did great damage in Ger-
man Valley, Pennsylvania, and one person
was drowned
THE Republican Club held ratification
meeting in Music Hall, New York City;
speeches were made by Governor Mckinley,
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Whitelaw r cid, Con-
gresham DalzelI and James A Blanchard.
The Maine Republican State Convention
at Bangor nominated Henry B. CIeaves for
Governor, and selected candidates for Presi-
Dental electors
FREDERICK BLAICHER, of Newark, one Of
the members of the Joel Parker Assoca ton,
of New Jersey, in attendance on the National
Convention at Chicago, H., fell from a
fourth-story window of the fremont Hotel
to the sidewalk below. He was found alive,
but he died a few moments after.