Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
LATER NEWS.

THE wife of Oliver Wendell Holmes died IL
Boston, of pneumonia, in the sixty ninth
year of her age.
AT Port Murray, n. a., Paul Turner, aged
15 killed his brother, aged 20, witE pitch
fork
MATTHEW BUSCH. OF Chicago, without
moments warning cut his wife's throat IN
the presence of their three children.
THE Metropolitan National Bank, Of Gin
cinnattl, has suspended under suspicious cir
cumstances, and the Vice-President has been
arrested.
AN explosion in dynamite factory st
Hancock, Mich, blew the building to frEg
nents and killed three
WILLIAM SUMMERvILLE, eighteen years
old, touched with a piece Of iron an electric
light wire, at Memphis, Tenn, and was
Instantly killed.
THE old Libby Prison building at Rich
Tnond, Va, has been sold to Chicago 'syndl-
cate and will be moved to that city.
SPEAKER CARLISLE fIas recovered sutti-
GENTLY to resume his duties in the House.
The House passed resolution of thanks to
S. S. Cox for the able manner liz which he
bad presided during the Speakers absence.
GENERAL FREBAULT, a life member of the
French Senate. is dead
FIRE destroyed the residence CT George D.,
Hill. near Bolivar, N Y. Mrs Hill and two
small children persisted in the flames. The
ffather was so badly burned that he was not
expected to recover.
JENNIE BARKER, of Broolzline, Mass, a
girl not quite sixteen. being driven to de-
speration by the brutality of her father and
,stepmother, committed suicide with pistol.
ANunknown old man committed suicide
by jumping in front of train on the Elevated
road in New York City.
J. G. CROWLEY, e prominent lawyer of
Boston, Mass, has abscOnded with $15,OOO
which he held as trustee.
NEAR Stewartsville, No, William Bull,
superintendent of a farm, shot and killed the
daughter of his employer because she refused
to marry him, and then committed suicide.
EXMAYoR MEANS, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has been arrested for misappropriating funds
of the Metropolitan National Bank, of which
he was President.
Miss ANNA UIsEK, OF Columbia S. c., was
standing before an open fire place just before
going to be married when her dress took fire
and she burned to death.
WILLIAM SALONE, a desperate murderer,
while attempting to escape from Jail at
Vicksburg Miss, was shot dead by the
guard.
S. s. ToTMAN, under sentence of eleven
years Imprisonment, choked himself to death
with a handkerchief in the Medina County
Ohio Jail.
BURGLARS stole $50, O3O in money and
jewelry at Norfolk, Va. and escaped from
mounted police officers
SPEAKER CARLISLE has issued an order to
Mr.. Clark, architect of the Capitol, directing
him to remove at once all the private tele
graph lines from the corridors of the House.
THE Diplomatic and Consular ApprOpria
ton bill as reported to the House makes a
total appropriation of 81, 4O3, S65, against
appropriation of S1,419,942 for the past year.
Mr.. DAVID 7. BUNKER, United States Con-
sui at Demerara, British Guiana, died few
days ago of yellow fever.
THE President sent the following nOmina-
tions TO the Senate: James K. Wright, of
St. Louis, to be Register of Land Office at
Grayiing, Mich, and F. r. Falkenstein, of
Maryland, to be Second Assistant Engineer
in the Revenue Service.
A BRILLIANT anniversary celebration was
held in London in commemoratiOn of the
novelist, Charles Dickens.
NEARLY two million people are utterly des-
tituUe in China through the Hoang- HO floods.