Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-24
LATER NEWS.

THE body of Thomas A. Struthers aged
twenty two, a bOok-keeper, was found on
Carroll street, in Buffalo, one night recently
His skull was fractured just above the right
eye and the bridge of the nose crushed evil
IDENTIFY from a severe blow of some weapon.
Struthers died eight minutes after being
found. John Miller, hack driver, ran over
him by accident. Miller confessed and was
held for further examination.
ARTHUR PARKEs, aged fourteen years, son
of Rowland Parkes, of Rochester, has been
drowned in the lake there.
VERY heavy rainfall with high winds and
lightning, in Western and Central Penn
sylvania, Northern New York and Rhode
Island caused serious damage in many places.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., was visited by
deluge, which flooded the buildings on the
principal streets and caused damage to the
amount of $4,000.
AMANDUS and Wilson Heller, brothers,
aged eighteen and twenty years respectively,
were drowned in the Sus1uehanna River at
Wilkesbarre Penn, while bathing.
FIRE started in the cupola of the Convent
of the Sacred Heart in New York City, and
destroyed the main building and the old east
and west wings of the famous institution
LIE loss WIS ABOUT S%UO,UUU
THE people of Utica, Miss, indignant at
the provoked murder OF a physician by
colored man of bad character, took the fel-
low from the magistrates Office and hanged
him to a tree in the village cemetery.
CROP reports from Northwestern Iowa
and Southern Dakota say that all grains
have suffered from recent rains and cold
weather.
THREE constables arrested Andy Hamlin,a
murderer, at Cumberland Falls, KY, and his
friends attempted to rescue him. In the
spirited fusilade that ensued the three con-
stables were killed and the prisoner escaped.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has decided to
place the Inspectors of the Postoffice Depart
ment under the civil-service rules
"A SERVANT attempted to kindle fire with
kerosene in Mrs. McCuskie's house at Mt
Tabor, n j., when the can exploded and the
building was burned together with two
young children.
ANOTHER fight between the HatGelds and
McCoys, in the Kentucky vendetta, has re-
suited in three more killed and five
wounded.
WOMAN suffrage has been adjudged uncon-
stitutional in Washington Territory.
CHARLES CROKER, the famous California,
millionaire, and Vice-President of the South
ern Pacific Railway, is dead.
FREDERICK Won OvERKAMPF and Thomas
j. Mack, by means of duplicate key to the
Chicago Postoffice boxes, have been system
atically robbing the mails for months, the
aggregate of their thefts exceeding $4,000.
FIRE at Stanton, Iowa. destroyed half the
business part of the town.
AT Peoria, III, a fire destroyed grain
elevators and railroad property valued at
100000
AN extradition treaty has been signed be-
tween the United States and Colombia,
Central America.
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations:-J. H. Haynes, Consul to Bag
dad; j. E. Bacon, Minister to Paraguay and
Uruguay; Rufus Magee, Envoy Extraordin-
airy and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden
and Norway; r. B. Roosevelt, Minister to
Netherlands; Lambert Tree Envoy FIX
traordinary and Minister Plenipoteatiary to
Belgium, and 9. L. Scott, Minister to Vene-
zuela.
MARTIN BOsHELL, Vice Consul OF the
United States at Bogota, Colombia, is dead.
THIRTY Russian convicts en- route to Sibe-
ria made a desperate attempt to escape.
Eleven were killed, ten were wounded, and
six escaped.
DURING a family feud in Castillo, Peru,
ten persons lost their lives
THE LABOR WORLD.