Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-04
LATER NEWS.

TREASURER WELLS, of the Seneca Falls
O.. " Savings Bank, is defaulter in the
sum of $4,000 and has been arrested. His
populations extend through period of ten
years
The village of Branchville, Va, has been
totally destroyed by fire.
p A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone visited Duuuoin
Ill, demolishing numerous barns and
dwellings, and injuring a large number of
people.
Two men were killed, one fatally injured
and a number hurt by an explosion of dyna-
mite in lumber camp near Baraga, Mich.
JOHN PARsoNs wife and child were killed
by lightning, at Centrevlle KY.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of Thomas L. Turnstall, of Alabama, to be
Consul at San Salvador
In response to Secretary Fairchilds propo-
sition to buy Government bonds, 81 ,S24, 500
were offered him, but he only purchased 49,,
600, at prices ranging from IA to 125.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has promised to
attend the reunion of the French Canadian
societies in Nashua, n. H, on June q.
The President has vetoed three more
Pension bills, among them House Bill No.
S23, granting a pension to Hannah G. De-
witt on the ground that he had already ap-
proved an act the precise duplicate of it,
which was passed by Congress earlier in the
session. and because, in consequence there
OF, the name of the beneficiary, in both
cases, is already on the pension rolls
A PARTY of students held an ant-Bou-
1angerist meeting in Paris and General Bou.
LANCER was burned in efffgy.
AN affray has occurred between Turks and
Christians at Khania, Turkey. One Chris.
tian was killed and his body mutilated and
one Turk wounded. Five hundred
Mussulmans threatened the Governor and the
Christian inhabitants but ten of the ring
leaders were arrested and quiet was restrrad
J. T. BOUTWELL,, Treasurer of Orang~
County, Ind, has disappeared, leaving his
accounts short $4,000.
GEORGIA Drohibitionists in convention al
ATLANTA, elected delegates to the National
Prohibition Convention who were instructed
to vote for General Clinton B. Fisk, of New
Jersey, for President, and George Balm, of
Kentucky, for Vice-President
B. F. BOYDSTON shot Miss Lulu Frazier at
Cooper, Texas, anG then blew out his brains.
They were engaged to be married last Satur-
day, when the young lady incensed him by
postponing the wedding.
FREDERICK RAINE, United States Consul
General at Berlin, has given notice of his in
tended resignation. 1t is his intention to re-
turn to Baltimore and assume control of the
German Correspondent, daily newspaper
owned by BIN in that city.
DR. L. II. BRYAN, the American Consul at
Lyons, France, has resigned. and will be
succeeded by Lauson V. Moore, the present
Vice Consul.
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: w. T. Walthall, eff Mississippi,
Consul at Demarara; James 3. Coffin, of
Massachusetts,, Consul at st. Helena; James
B. Chess, of Indiana, Consul at Durango;
Ezekiel E. Smith, of North Carolina, Minis
ter Resident and Consul-General to Liberia.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK has been ap-
pointed German Minister of Foreign At
fairs.
AT Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Captain
Ramon Arguelles, of the Mexican Army, be-
coming enraged during dinner with Adolfo
Torres, a railway clerk, threw wine glass
in his face. Later in the day, the two meet
ing Arguelles fired upon Torres, wonnding
him fatally. After falling the wounded
inan fired twice, instantly killing Arguelles