Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-27
LATER NEWS.

GENERAL A B. UNDERWOOD twenty two
years Surveyor of the Port Of Boston, Is
dead
THE premature explosion of charge of
giant powder in an excavation for laying
water pipes at Rox5urY, Mass, blew Robert
Thompson forty feet into the air, killing
him, and fatally injured Walter Grace and
Peter Lyden-
Two cars jumped trestle fifty feet high
near Pittsburgh, Penn, killing two TT ain
men
THE Commissioners appointed to report q
painless method of capital punishment have
presented a bill to the New York Legislature
providing for the use of electricity.
HENRY LIGHTFooT quarreled with his wife
in Chattanooga, Tenn, and for revenge put
arsenic in the cistern and -four barrel, there
by poisoning his wife, his two children and
three boarders.
CROW INDIANS in Montana, having been
told that their Government ration of beef
is but one-fifth that allowed to the Sioux, are
reported to be slaughtering many ranchmen's
cattle
TWELVE persons were injured, one fatally,
by railroad wreck at Willard. Kansas.
AT a conference Of Wool Growers and
Wool Manufacturers in Washington, dele
gates from all parts Of the Union attending,
resolutions were adopted favoring a wool
tariff substantially the same as that Of 1857.
The general effect Of this schedule will
be slight increase in the tariff both on wool
and wooden goods.
GENERAL E. L. BRAGG was confirmed by
the Senate as Minister to Mexico
w. H BIGELow, of Maine, appointed
Postmaster of the Senate.
The New York Court Of Appeals has de-
cided that hotel keepers may serve wine to
their guests on Sundays. A lower Court had
declared otherwise.
FIVE people lost their lives at fire which
destroyed seven houses in Mount Carmel,
Penn.
BOTH branches Of the Washington Terri
tory Legislature have re-enacted the Woman
Suffrage Law, but exempted women from
jury duty.
FREEZING weather has been reported from
various parts of the Southwest. Several per
sons were frozen to death.
Two Mexican murderers in jail at Cald-
well, Texas, were shot dead by lynchers
UNITED STATES SENAToRWILsoN has been
reelected from Iowa.
A YOUNG midshipman was knocked off the
United States training ship Portsmouth n
Hampton Roads, Va, and drowned.
Two snowp!ough engines collided at
HoSkins, Neb., killing Engineer Sawyer and
injuring several other railro al employees.
THIEVES, at Mount Vernon, Ohio, drugged,
bound and robbed Mrs. Oswald of 1900.
Mrs Oswald was fatally frozen.
E. c. WALTHALL was reelected United
States Senator from MisSissiDDi
SPEAKER CARLISLE was taken suddenly
ILL., few days ago, with a congestive chill,
and had to be assisted to his room. This
was followed by a high fever, which brought
on another severe chill, and the Speaker was
unconscious all night. His physician says
that many days of rest must follow before
he resumes his duties.
THE Senate confirmed the nomination Of
the Interstate Commerce Commissioners.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD gave a dinner to
President and Mrs. Cleveland and the Cabi-
net
BULL FIGHTER SALERI, of Puebla Mexico
attempted to jump over bull and was i'm
paed on the brute's horns, dying Instantly.
Another fighter seriously gored.
SCOTTISH crofters resisted the police OF
the Island of Lewis, and routed them.
THE Tories have surrendered to the Liberal
Unionists on the Irish Home-rule question
ODD FELLOWS Hall, Thompson's auction
room and a japanese store burned at Mont
real, Canada. Loss $3.50, 900,
! THE American ship j. T. Berry was
burned in Australian waters, and eleven per-
sons are missing, while fourteen were saved.
TWENTY-FIVE million dollars was sub
scribed in London, Eng. in two hours to build
the Algoma branch of the Canadian Pacific
R. r.