Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
LATER NEWS.

ALvAN HUMwELI, OF Norridgenock, Me-,
who was recently arrested for poisoning his
wife, has committed suicide in jail by shoot
ing.
Two well defined earthquake shocks, pre-
coded by reports similar TO the discharge OF a
cannon. were felt at New Bedford, Mass.
The shock was also felt across the Acushnet
in Fair Haven
THE surface of Curry Hill mine at Plym-
outh, Penn, has caved in, carrying down
fifty houses. The residence of John Fox was
totally demolished, and several Of the in
mates were seriously INJURED One hundred
persons were left homeless
LEE YU Doc, a famous Chinese General,
who led the Black Flag rebellion in Tonquin
several years ago, recently died in Mott
street, New York City, and was buried in
Evergreen Cemetery with elaborate funeral
ceremonies A large procession of China
men participated in the obsequies.
NATHANIEL WATTS, the last of the old de-
Tenders who repulsed the British attack on
Baltimore, September II, 1914. has just died
there, aged ninety-three.
A RANDCAR was run down by a special
train OF the Burlington road, near Dubuque,
Iowa, and three of its riders were killed
THE little town of Hale, Mo-, has been
wiped out by fire.
JUSTICE BRADLEY, of the Supreme Court
of the United States has declared unconsti-
tutional all State laws imposing a license
tax upon commercial travellers not residents
of the State imposing the tax.
SAMUEL H. ALBRo, of New York, whose
nomination as Superintendent of Indian
Schools failed of confirmation by the Senate,
has been appointed to that Office by the Presi-
dent.
THE United States Court of Claims has
reasse nbled for the winter session.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed
Spencer B. Newbury and Rush c. Hawkins,
of New York, to be assistants to the United
States Commissioners General to the Paris
Exposition.
A FIRE ragged for two days at Huenfeld.
near Cassel, Germany, but finally con-
quered. Two hundred houses are in ashes
and 1900 persons are homeless and destitute.
Great distress prevails.
THE President of the Geographical Society
of Lille, France, asserts that he has received
news from Africa that Henry M. Stanley,
the great explorer, has been murdered with
all his expedition, excepting two men.
IHE George Westin ghouse's electric COM
pany, of Pittsburg, Penn, has been awarded
the contract for a plant to light the City of
London, England, to cost about $500, 000
1t will be the largest plant in the world.
A GANG of men repairing bridge at Du
Quin, ILL.,, threw a girder, which was its
ont Of Tl1I1 no
bridge into the river In the wreck VIM.
Thompson was instantly killed, and Arthur
McRea, James Campbell, D. Maffeld, John
Edmunds and Theodore Harris were fatally
injured. Four others sustained serious in
juries.
MISS BOLTON, of Raleigh N c., an elderly
maiden, fell in fire in her house and was
burned to death.
An explosion of natural gas in Schulthes's
tannery at Lima, Ohio, killed John Schulz
theis Peter Klein and James Hubbard.
REV. ADRIAN Derente, a Catholic clergy
man, has committed suicide at Dallas, Texas,
by shooting himself with pistol He was
native of France, 45 years old.
A SENSATION was created in the Criminal
Court room at Kansas City, Mo-, by the sui
eide of Jack Fleming, the Deputy Marshal,
who drew revolver and blew his brains out
while the Court was in session.
THE boiler of the tug Lawrence burst at
Milwaukee, Wis, and four men were killed.
THE President has sent for Commodore
Harmony, acting Secretary of the Navy. and
instructed him to take immediate steps for
the relief of the thirteen whalers now hemmed
in by ice in the Arctic Ocean. A revenue
cruiser will be sent there Immediately.
TIE situation of affairs in Hayti has as
sumed so serious phase that it has been de-
cided to send the naval cruiser Boston to that
country for the protection of American in
terestS.
REPRESENTATIVES, of all the European
powers have signed the Suez Convention.
IT is reported that an accident to the Cars
train, near Moscow, Russia, resulted in the
killing of twenty one persons. The Minister
of War and the commander of the body
guard were injured.
A S1UTINY occurred among the convicts III
a prison at Orbitello, Italy. Thirty prison
ers and several jailers were killed or wounded