Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-24
LATER NEWS,

JOHN Quincy ADAMS, the greatgraudson OF
President John Adams. twice Democratic
candidate for Governor Of Massachusetts,
died at his summer residence In Mount
Wollaston. Mass, aged sixty-one years.
PROMINENT Pittsburgcrs have called con-
vention, to be cid at Braddock, Penn, Tor
the organization of a new national party.
BLUEFIELDs has been retaken by 1000
;Iicaraguans who arrived from Rama and
Greytown on board transports flying tho
United States flag. The American marines
re-embarked on their approach. The British
cruiser Mohawk has arrived at Port Limon.
Costa Rca, with Chief Clarence and 112
CoPIoUs rains in the corn belt have done
much good to the crop.
cd PARTRIDGE, the noted Chicago grain
speculator, accounted multi-milIionare
and proprietor of one of the largest dry
goods stores in the city, became crazy and
violent from drink, and was forcibly removed
tc an inebriate asylum by his son.
Two colored men were lynched near Mae
alpin, Fla. for assaulting Il fourteen-year-
old girl, and for similar offense, the victim
being a farmers wife, Marshall Boston, also
colored, was taken from the Frankfort CKy.)
jail by $50 men and hanged.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote an encour-
aging and sympathetic letter to Chairman
Wilson Immediately after the passage of tho
Tariff bill, admonishing him to guard his
health in order to continue the fight for
tariff reform.
GOVERNMENT receipts are expected to
amount to 1892. PSI, ,142 under the new tariff
law.
THE President has approved the act to sub
ject to State taxation national bank notes
and United States Treasury notes.
THE British House of Lords rejected the
Evicted Tenants bill.
MORE than 400 Anarchists have arrived in
London within the last few days.
SoLAREs, the Peruvian rebel commander,
is marching upon Lima and says he will
shoot President Caceres.i
SEVEN Anarchists, said to have plotted to
blow up Premier Crispi, were arrested in
Rome, Italy.
IT is estimated that when the Tariff bill
passed Congress the 125 bonded warehouses
in New York CITY contained 500 900 pack
ages Of goods valued at $40, ,0000 900, upon
which duties to the amount OF about ;33O,-
900, 900 remained unpaid.
COMPTROLLER ECKELs said to bankers at
Saratoga, N. Y, that the powers possessed
by every business man are denied the first
financial officer of the Unttei States. II
predicted speedy return to gool times
A THOUSAND barrels Of sugar. with n largo
quantity of other groceries, werc destroyed
in a fire in r. c. Williams & Co building
in the wholesale grocery district, New York
City.
THE strike commission appointed by
President Cleveland to investigate the Pull
man and railroad strikes began its work IN
Chicago.
THE United States cruiser bennington, with
the Salvadorian refugees on borri was
stopped by a Government tug outside tho
three-mile limit off San Francisco, Cal.
DEMoCRAr1C State Conventions met in In
diana and Tennessee. Tho Missouri Rapub-
lican Convention met at Excelsior Springs,
Mo.
SECRETARY CARLISLE wrote n letter saying
that free sugar meant deficit of S3O, 900. 900.
THE Kaffirs in the Transvaal Republic,
South Africa are said to have mur Tered
Boer farmers BY the score and committed
atrocious crueties