Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-10
LATER NEWS.

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clusively.
REPORTS from New Bedford, Mass, of late
date, were to the effect that General Sheri-
dan was steadily improving.
CHARLES CUMMINGS, second steward of the
| Brighton Hotel, at Atlantic City, n. j., and
Henry Boyd, an employe Of the hotel, got
/ beyond their depth while bathing and were
J drowned.
BARLEY CAMPBELL, the actor and play
wright, has died at the State Homeopathic
! Asylum for the Insane in Mddletown, n. Y.
! He was admitted to the asylum November
! so, 1886.
| CATHARINE Gaffney, who is one Of the
three heirs to fortune of about $50, 600 left
by her brother, Patrick 81. Gaffney, has been
found in the almshouse on BlackwelPs Isl
and, New York.
! AT a Scandinavian gathering at Lake
| Vadnais, Mimi, Ole Oleson was struck on
the back of the neck with club by one of a
gang of 'fakirs' and instantly killed An
| other of the gang disemboweled carpenter
named Johnson with a dirk and fatally
stabbed two other Scandinavians.
A PARTY of boys of Somerset, KY, were
playing Indian and engaged in a fight.
Virgie Hamilton, whose side was getting
worsted, seized his fathers gun and fired,
killing Willie Haines instantly and fatally
wounding his brother Lee.
JULES BOUCHER, an official in the Quebec
(Canada) City Government, tied his wife's
thumbs together and hung her to hooks in
closet. Then he fiogged her terribly.
Next day she committed suicide.
Mr.. JAMESON, the naturalist, writes
from Kasongo, Africa, on the Congo River,
that he is making preparations to leave with
Major Barttelot, Tippu lib, and 900 men to
search for Henry M. Stanley.
TIE New Jersey Court of Errors and APP
peals has sustained in recent test case, the
ronstitutionalitY of the High License County
Option law.
CHRISTOPHER MEYER, the New York
millionaire manufacturer and railway
magnate, died suddenly at his Fifth avenue
home.
THE six thousand river miners who have
been at work near Pittsburgh since January
l, and have mined over 30, 900, 0OO bushels of
COAL have begun a strike against reduction
in wages from three cents per bushel to two
and half cents.
COAL TRAIN ENGINE exploded at Scran
ton, Penn, and the engineer Irwin Stern,
and the fireman, Oscar Kriedler, were killed.
FREMONT EfMoNs, who murdered Bertha
Schultz because she refused to marry him.
was taken from jail at Pawnee City, Neb.,
and lynched. He was led through the public
square in broad day light with the rope
around his neck and made to hang himself
by jumping off high railway trestle.
DR.. ROBERT NORRIS, a Presbyterian
minister the Poet Laul cate of Masonry, and
recognized as the most distinguished Mason
in America, has died at his home in Lagrange,
KY.
THE first State Convention of the Prohibi-
ton party of West Virginia has been held in
Parkersburg A full State ticket an cleo
tOral ticket and a Congressman for the First
district were placed in nomination. Thomas
r. CarskadOn for Governor heads the ticket
While indorsing the national ticket the plat
form does not indOrse the national platform,
with its womens rights and tariff reform
clauses.
CABLE dispatches received from Rome
announce the appointment of the Rev. DR..
John S. Foley, for the last twenty years pas
ior of st. Martins Church. Baltimore, to be
1OlSuOp VI Vie uIOC0S0 OIL D6CrOlG, anu UQo
Rev. J. j. Hennessy, of st. Johns Church,
st. Louis, to be Bishop of Wichita, Kan.
V. j. SHIPMAN, a wealthy resident of
Pensacola has been nominated for Governor
by the Republicans of Florida.
THE President returned to Washington
from his fishing jaunt off the coast of Fire
Island, and had interview with Chief
Justice Fuller.
DURING the celebration in Munich of the |
Tooth anniversary of the birth of Ludwig |
l., of Bavaria, frightened elephants rushed |
among the spectators and killed twenty per
sons.
JOHN HAGGERT has been appointed Pay
master-General of Canada, and the Hon. |
Edgar Demdney, Minister of the Interior
and Superintendent General of Indian |
Affairs.
GARRETT Roach, aged fifty, his only son
and nephew were drowned while sailing at |
Halifax, Nova Scotia, their boat having been |
capsized in a squan
THERE were produced in the United States |