Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-26
LATER NEWS.

JOHN WATERS was stoned to death as
Pittsfeld, Mass, by party Of drunken men
whose orgies he and his wife had inter
rupted.
WHILE Mrs. William Morgan. of Donald
son, Penn, was sitting in her dinin groom
nursing her infant her six-year-old son
picked UP a shotgun and discharged it. The
entire charge entered the head, face, breast
and shoulders of the unfortunate woman and
the back and head OF the infant, fatally
wounding them.
THE non-fulfilment of the full terms of his
agreement by Yerkes, the Chicago street
railroad man. has led to a renewal OF the
street disturbances and of the strike.
ADHESION has been rendered by Judge
Sawyer in the United States Circuit Court,
San Francisco, upon two test cases under the
recent Chinese Exclusion act. The Court at
firms the constitutionality of the act, and
holds that all Chinese now in the San
Francisco harbor, as well as those on the way
from China, must be sent back.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has approved the
act authorizing the establishment of life
saving stations along the coast.
MRS ADA NJ. BETTINGER, of Lincoln,
Neb, has been admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court, being the
third woman accorded this privilege.
A CONSPIRACY against the Dutch residents
III Java has been discovered at Madion.
FOrty-two of the ringleaders IN the move
ment were arrested, and eleven others who
refused to surrender were killed.
Al Of Tr. o0I-aT1 zip,S
book on Emperor Frederick's case have been
seized at Leipsic by the police. The book Is
not allowed to be sold in Berlin. The police
have seized copies exposed for sale at book
stores in Berlin.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
assembled, and Premier Floquet introduced
his bill to revise the Constitution.
FIRE resulting from an explosion of gas
destroyed the Cameron Colliery at Shame
kin, Penn, entailing a loss of SIS, 900.
A FREsHEr in the Penobscot River has
caused great damage to pulp mills and paper
factories. Bangor, Me-, has been partially
under water and the damage to machinery
and buildings is enormous.
JOSEPH JOINER was lynched by citizens.
indignant at his career of crime, on his way
to jail at Hulto, Texas.
LEWIS EDWARDS, a colored murderer, was
shot dead by party of masked men who
broke into the Jail at Jessup, Ga
Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH better known as
Long john" a wealthy citizen and a
amous pioneer of Chicago, has died of old
age.
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Harry E. Shields, to be Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys at Seattle, Washing
ton Territory; George S. Duryee, to be
United States Attorney for the District of
New Jersey, and James A. Moore, to be
United States Marshal for Nevada.
LORD MOUNT TEMPLE, a wealthy and IA
nous Englishman, is dead. He was seventy
seven years of age and leaves no heir.
THE German Emperor, accompanied by
King Humbert of Italy and the Duke d. Aosta
visited Naples, and was enthusiastically re-
ceived by the populace.
A COURIER has arrived from the Congo
(Africa) Free State bringing details of the
death of Major Barttelot who was killed by
a porter in the Stanley relief expedition in
revenge for Entertainment The murderer
was placed under arrest and has since been
hanged.