Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-10
LATER NEWS.

NAuScII9 uTI1IuTe was thrown down ana
window glass broken in Newport, r l., and
New Bedford, Mass, but no further damage
was done.
EDWARD WESTwoTH, of Sidney Centre,
Me-, attempted to kill his wife and thirteen
small children, when one of his sons grabbed
the revolver and shot him dead.
THE Retail Grocers of the United States
will hold pure food exhibition at Albany,
n. Y, in June.
THE snow blockade made sad havoc with
the live stock en- route to Eastern markets
from the West. The animals were made
furious from hunger, and tore each other like
wolves. Thousands of them persisted.
THE steamship Alexandria has arrived in
New York Harbor badly battered by hurri-
cane, which carried away the life boats, the
shrOuds and the rigging. She was sixty days
at the mercy of the waves, and, added to
this, smallpox broke out on board and many
were taken i'll with it.
PROFESSOR ASA GRAY, the eminent botan-
ist of Harvard College, died at his home in
Cambridge, Mass, at the age Of seventy
seven
THE s:Iits for eviction against the miners
who are on strike in the Lehigh region,
were decided in favor of the strikers, by
Judge Woodward
INDIANA is to have a soldiers monument
which will be $50 feet high and will cost
5000
SPEAKER CARLISLE and wife visited For
tress Monroe and were received with salute
of seventeen guns.
WILLIAM BOWEN, twenty years old, died
in great agony at Atlanta, Ga, of hydro
phobia brought on by a dog bite received two
months ago.
The President has nominated Commodore
Bancroft Gherardi to be a Rear Admiral
Capt. William E. Fitzhugh to be a Commo-
dore, and Commander Henry B. Robson to
be Captain.
THE Senate has confirmed as Postmasters:
John II. Curry at Nashville and John w.
Ross at Washington, and as Consul at Rio
Grande do Sui, L. @. Bennington, of West
Virginia
ALL the physicians of the German Crown
Prince have met for consultation, and it is
said an operation will be performed on him.
FATHER MCFADDEN, of Gweedore, Ire
land was arrested for holding anti-landlord
meetings and sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment. Father Stevens, another priest,
has been arrested under the Coercion Act
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toria, British Columbia, for the murder of
Chinese woman.
AN army officer committed suicide at st.
Petersburg, in order to avoid the necessity of
assassinating the Gar He belonged to
secret society whose object was to kill the
Gar. and he had been chosen by ballot for
that purpose.
by the uera1ImenU or a train at Somerset,
N. Y, two people we're killed, and thirty
more or less injured.
THE Paymaster of New York City lost
satchel containing 1922, 900, but it was found
by stranger, who turned it over to the
authorities.
JOSEPH W. LoCHER, of New York City,
was convicted of stealing letters from the
Postoffice, and when his mother heard the
sentence she fell dead.
AN ice gorge swept down the Mississippi
River and damaged property at st. Louis,
Mo-, to the extent of 81, 100000.
GOVERNOR WILSON of West Virginia. Of
icially announces that the famous Hatfield
Mccoy war has ended and that there is no
necessity of sending militia to suppress it.
THE shoe shops in the Virginia State Peni-
Tertiary were burned, with loss Of $500, 900.
The militia was called into requistion to
prevent a wholesale escape Of convicts.
THE Supreme Court of California has
affirmed the decision in the famous Sharon
Hill case, granting Sarah Althea Sharon
divorce from the late Senator Sharon, and
allowing large counsel fees.
FIRST CONTROLLER DURHAM has decided
that per diem employees are the only class of
public employees who are entitled to extra
compensation for work performed on legal
holidays.
Two more Cabinet dinners are to be
given to the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
which will close the series for this season.
OF ten persons injured at Matanzas, Cuba,
by the explosion of boiler, three have died.
Mr.. BLAME, member of Parliament for
South Armagh, Ireland, has been sentenced
to four months Imprisonment for melting
tenants to resist the authorities
THE seven Nihilists who were sentenced to
death for an attempt on tho Cars life have
had their sentences committed TO various
terms of imprisonment