Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-17
LATER NEWS.


trail section of Missouri Crops were greatly
damaged and the losses on town property are
heavy. In the vicinity of Glasgow crops are
injured fifty per cent, while the damage to
dwellings and business houses will exceed
$4,000. In Saline county the damage will
reach S300,0 The loss at Norbone and
vicinity reaches 100000. At Slater the
Baptist church and two business houses were
destroyed.
IN the Choctaw Nation a family named
Myers-man, wife and two children-were
murdered ten days ago on the Red River,
forty miles above Denison, Texas, by a band
of half breed marauders.
Two hundred imported Italian laborers on
the new railroad at Findlay, Ohio. have been
placed on cars for shipment back to Italy.
Hermann KEMPNER, Otto Bergman and
Edward Hogenbaum, all young boys, were
shot and killed by a man named Roder, at
Quincy, ILL.,, while robbing his apple orchard
CHARLES PERKINS, noted horse thief
and murderer, shot and killed two deputy
marshals and citizen at MarshalPs Ferry,
Indian Territory, while they were attempt
ing to arrest him.
8 =
er Sheridan, widow of General Sheridan, a
pension of $1,000 per annum, introduced in
the Senate by Mr. Farwell, become
law, it will be the only case where this
amount is given to any person except
widow of an ex-Presdent of the United
States
THE question of the successor to General
Sheridan in the command of the army has
been settled by an order directing General
Schofield, the senior Ma jor- General, to take
command.
WORKMEN We're engaged upon a trestle I'M
der bridge at Mapleton, Penn. when a car
loaded with hugh blocks of stone fell on six
of their number and crushed them into the
Juniata river, fifty feet below. Three were
instantly killed and three crippled for life
THE Rev. J. W. Hanford, Indian teacher
and missionary at st. Stephens Mission,
Dakota, was thrown from a moving machine
and so badly mangled that he bled to death
before assistance could be procured.
GEORGE n. MILLER fell into a vat of hot
liquor at Salem, Mass, and was literally
boiled to death.
GEORGE STAMPER, a tenant on the farm of
AeC'' cOlA1I oAOOSuS, III DIdul0y SOuliUJ,
Tenn, had quarrel with his landlord, dur
ing which he fatally cut the preachers
throat
The Sioux Indians who have been holding
a council at Standing Rock Agency to con-
slider the proposition of the Government
TO throw open their reservation to settlers,
have adjourned, after threatening to kill the
hrst one of their number who should sign
the treaty.
RETURNS from the Alabama State election
show that the Democrats have elected their
ticket by majority of 100000. The Legis-
AZURE is overwhelmingly Democratic in both
branches, while Governor Seay and the
Democratic State ticket carried every county |
~ considerable majorities
The President has approved the act for the
erection of an appraisers warehouse in
chicago and the act for the relief of certain
ettlers upon the school lands of Washing
on Territory.
THERE is great deal of yellow fever in
cuba. and fourteen deaths have recently &C.
ured therefrom.
The charter of the American Foresters
las been revoked by the parent organization
n England until discrimination against col
red persons in the order was stopped.
THE Spanish Government has decided to
impose heavy poll tax upon Cinnamon i'm
to the Philippine Islands.
LAWRENCE NJ. DONOVAN, the jumper who
nade himself famous by leaping from the
'rooklyn Bridge, jumped from the Hunger
ord Bridge, London, few days ago, and
as drowned in the Thames, one hundred
eet below. +;