Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-02-09

FIFTEEN THOUSAND unemployed working
ingmen met in Madison Square Garden. New
York City. and adopted resolutions urging:
the State AMI city governments TO provide
work
LEMUEL ELY QuIGG CRepubhcan) and
1sidor Straus (Democrat) werc elected 10
Congress from the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Districts in New York City.
THERE was a severe snowstorm. with high
winds, all over New England and New York
State a gale did damage in New Jersey
THE boiler in the mill of J. n. Mercer at
Crow Hickman, KY. exploded and five men
were killed and one severely wounded. Tho
explosion was caused by running cold water
into the boiler
CHARLES DREHER killed Miss Bertha
Huneke in st. Louis Mo. She would not
marry him.
JUDGE Cox. of the District Court, refused
to issue an injunction asked for by Grand
Master Workman Sovereign, of the knights
of Labor, restraining Secretary Carlisle from
issuing bonds.
The Bell telephone patent has expired. and
up-to-date instruments are already on sale
at 32. so each.
The Swedish bark Wilhelm, bound with
a cargo of coal for Alicante, has been
wrecked on the coast of Cornwall, England.
The captain of the bark and five of her crew
were drowned
The outrage at tho American Legation
quarters in Rome, Italy, IS believed to have
been aimed at Minister Potter personally.
RUSSIA has yielded to England in the
Pamtr dispute.
THE Federal troops have crushed tho in
surrection in the northern part of Mexico
litter eleven hours lighting The insurgents
lost thirty men killed and the Federal troops
seven killed.
WILLIAM InrNNEE. mauuGarturr
mmped or was thrown from tho Wa7hin,
ton Bridge, New York City, and was instantly
killed.
GANG of ru1lians made IN attack upon
the private ear OF Mrs. Leland stanford at
Nina, Cal.
A LoNG-srANDING quarrel between Patrol
man Bacon and Louis Arado was removed in
a saloon at Chicago, iii. Policeman Charles
AradO joined his brother in the fight md
was shot and killed by Bacon.
A BREAK in the lcvee at Sacramento. Cad
caused the inundation of about 500 acres OF
the finest land, some Of it being hop lands.
1t is valued at 5000 an acre. All Of this will
be covered with slick, rs washinSs from
the mines in the mountains and thus be rcn-
dered yaueless.
The Kentucky Legislature adopted res
olution instructing Senators Blackburn an
Lindsay tc vote to reject tn" nomination OF
Pcckham to be Associate Justice OF the Su
preme Court.
sMALLpox epidemics have broken out in
Council Bluffs and New Hampton, Iowa.
The President sent TO the Senat" the nam"
of Thomas f. Ferguson. OF Maryland, 20 be
Envoy Extraordinary and Miri Pienipo-
tentiarv of the United States TO Sweden AMI
Norway.
ASSISTANT ArToR<EY-G -G;ENLRAL THOMAS has
decided that letter carriers are exempt from
militia duty.
PRIME MINISTER GLADSTONE denied a
statement published in London that he in
tended to resign Immediately, but said that
his age and failing sight and hearing might
compel him to retire from offic" at any mo-
ment.
FOUR sailors OF tn" American fishing
schooner Gcrtie I. Foster were drowned by
the stranding of that vessel at Liverpool,
Novia Scotia The schooner went TO pieces.
ANTI-ToBAcco monopoly riots have taken
place in Bogota, the capital of the republic
of Colombia Seven thousand men attacked
the Government Offices and were charged by
the troops. Many were killed.