Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
WaShinpfOn.


THE Senate confirmed the nomination of
John A. Sullivan to be Int rnal Revenue
Collector for the Second New York District.
The United States cruiser Columbia
scraped the river bottom on her recent final
acceptance trial and received some INJURIES.
THE National Lutheran Home for the Aged
at Montello. near Winthrop Heights, Wash
lngton, was inaugurated. The house is sur
rounded by tract Of thirty acres, the gift
Of Mrs. Sarah Untermehle, of Washington.
The cottage plan has been followed.
AN official statement of sec;e airy Carlisle's
connection with the sugar trust schedule Of
The Tariff bill was issued. He helped the
Finance Committee put it in proper form,
correct blunder and write a provision re-
lating to the reciprocity treaty with Hawaii.
Senator Mcpherson explained that careless
servant was the cause of his buying 500
shares of Sugar.
THE Korean Legation in Washin Ston re-
ceived q cablegram from the Kings palace at
Seoul, saying that the rebels had gained pas
session of Chunlato, the southern and chief
of the eight provinces Of the kingdom, that
the lives Of all foreigners were in danger and
that the presence of a United States war
ship at Chemulpo without delay to protect
Americans was urgently requested.
SECRETARY HERBERT returned from his
trip to the Pacific coast.
SUPERINTENDENT STUMP, of the Immigra-
ton Bureau, Treasury Department, took
steps to prevent alien contract laborers from
taking the place of striking miners in the
coke and coal regions of Clearf1eld and Con-
nellsville, Penn.
The cruiser Baltimore was ordered to
Korea to protect American interests. The
State Department heard that there was dan
ger of an uprising of natives.
THE Second Assistant Postmaster General,
J. Lowrie Bell, resigned to become General
6N~rfE e
New Jersey.
A COURT OF INQUIRY was ordered to fix the
responsibility for the grounding ofthe cruiser
Columbia.
THE President nominated Charles Nelson
of Maryland, to be Second Assistant Post
master-General, vice Lowrie Bell, resigned.
LIEUTENANT HoLcoMBE testified that some
OF the blow holes in the Carnegie armor
plates were six inches in diameter and that
one such, plugged. can be found below the
Montereys water line,
Foreign.
3R1aANDs entered the house of Mgr. CAT
arc, at Acquaviva, province of Bari, Italy.
They murdered the prelate's father, ninety
years old, and the coachman, who tried to
defend the household, and wounded o maid
servant.
AT Sofia the military f1rod three times on
the mops, wounding many persons. i
DR.. WEKERLE, the Prime Minister of
Hungary. has rendered his resignation to {
the Emperor Francis Joseph.
OWL war has broken out in Bulgaria.
Two battalions Of troops have rebelled and
demanded the reinstatement OF NJ. Stambu.
LOFT. They have been joined by the gen.
darmes in an attack on the troops who have
declared for Prince Ferdinand.
ADvIcEs have reached London of a serious
rebellion in Manchooria.
AT London, United States Ambassador
Bayard gave dinner to the officers of the
cruiser Chicago.
THE River Sagre, in the Province of Ler
Ida, Spain. swollen by recent heavy rains,
suddenly swept over the SEQ de Urgel road,
destroying an inn and a warehouse. FIT
teen bodies have been recovered. 1t is be-
Heved that fifty people were drowned.
THOUSANDS have been made homeless by
the floods in British Columbia. The property
loss in Fraser Valley alone is estimated at
$4,000, 900.
The thirteenth International Y. N. c. A.
conference opened with a service In west
minister Abbey, London.
THE Government forces of Salvador were
defeated, General Ezeta AMI 600 troops BE-
ing killed. President Ezeta has resigned.
HAWAII sent 4 steamer to Neckar Island to
post her flag and assert her authority.
SOME peasants found she'll on the Glenn
bigh Artillery range, at Tralee, County
Kerry, Ireland, and tried to open it. The
she'll exploded, killing three and seriously
wounding four.
JUBILEE sermons in connection with the
Y. N. c. A Conference were held in 1400
churches in London and its suburbs, and
also throughout Great Britain. The Confer
ence elected Sir George Williams the founder
OF the association, its permanent President.
THE Salvadorean revolutionists have sueA
ceeded in their struggle with the Ezota Gov
eminent President Ezeta has he'd the
country, and his brother, the General, is
dead.
CHOLERA has infected the river Vistula,
one of the important trade channels in East.
ern Europe. Baths have been ordered