Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-20
LATER NEWS.

caught in the machinery of a grlSt mill and
crushed to death. By some means the child
started the mill.
BY a boiler explosion in the Adelaide sill
mill, at Allentown, Penn, three employees
were killed. Three others were injured
E. J. ICosTA, a young man prominent il
business and social circles of Birmingham
Ala. committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. He was to have been
married the next week to a prominent and
wealthy young lady of Charleston, s. c.
A DISASTROUS rain storm prevailed at
Kansas City, Mo, flooding the streets. A
family of four persons named Williams was
drowned.
SERIOUS floods are reported as the result of
continuous storms in West Virginia. The
loss by damage to buildings, crops, roads
and bridges is estitated at over 500, 600, and
some lives have been lost.
BERNARD KRUGG, a farmer, and his wife
quarreled in a cornfield, near Grafton, Neb.,
about the price of a pair of rubber boots. A
battle with hoes followed in which Krugg
was killed by his wife
THE nomination of Colonel Thomas Lin
coin Casey to be Brigadier General and Chief
of Engineers, vice General Duane, retired, has
been sent to the Senate by the President.
THE President has sent tine following NOM
nations to the Senate: Elliot SANFORD, of
New York, to be Chief Justice of the SUI
preme Court, and John w. Judd, of Tennessee,
to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
of Utah. Hugh W. Weir, of Pennsylvania
to be Chief Justice, and Charles H. Barry,
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Supreme Court of Idaho. Roderick Rose, of
Dakota to be Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court of Dakota. John H. Keatley,
of Iowa, to be United States Judge of the
District CT Alaska.
THE town of Berbera, in Somaliland, has
been burned to the ground. Forty persons,
mostly children, invalids and cripples, per
ished.
ELECTION riots have occurred at Boom,
Belgium. The gendarmes fired upon the mob.
Many persons received bayonet wounds.
Mr.. OBRIEN declared in the British House
of Commons that the death of the late Mr..
Vaudeville, the Irish leader, was caused by
the ill-treatment and deprivation of food
while confined under the Crimes act in the
Tullamore Prison.
THE attempt by Mr.. Parnell to get com
mittee of the House of Commons appointed
to investigate tho charges made against him
by the London Times and Attorney General
Webster was defeated by the Government
THE New York Republican State Commit
tee has decided to hold the State Convention
at Saratoga on August %.
EDWARD A. DEACoNs, convicted of the
murder of Mrs Ada Stone in Rochester, N
Y, on Aug 16, 1887, has been hanged in that
city.
A FEUD between the Rose and Fusion
clans has eliminated in fierce battle inside
the Laurel Fork (Tenn.,) meeting house dur
ing the progress of the sermon. Six men
were killed and dozen more or less seriously
wounded.
SEvEN-EIGHTHs of the town of Suisun,
Cal, have been destroyed by fire.
By the spreading of rails a construction
train was hurled off a ffty-foot trestle at
Cameron, Mo-, and four railroad employees
killed
MISS HATTIE DEBAUN, aged eighteen, has
been murdered at Tecumseh, Ind, by her
aunt, Mrs. Mary Junkins, aged thirty-two.
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orchard to take few apples, when her aunt
killed her with a musket
CHAIRMAN HoGE, of the Grievance Com
mittee of the Brotherhood of Engineers, and
Chairman Murphy, of the Brotherhood of
Firemen, have been arrested at Chicago on
the charge of conspiracy to blow up with
dynamite portions of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Railroad.
Two brothers named Combs, mere chill
dren, were sentenced to imprisonment for
life in Breathitt county, Ky.-one for
numbering younger brother, and the other
for killing his younger sister.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved the
act providing for an International Marine
Conference to secure greater safety for life
and property at sea: the act to affix the
status in the Navy of certain cadet engineers,
and large number of private acts
PORFIRIO DIAz has been reelected Presi-
dent Of Mexico by the Electoral College
without opposition.
BANTAM insurgents plundered Tjelegon,
in the Island of Java and killed the native
chiefs and all the European inhabitants.