Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-31
LATER NEWS.

THOMAS LEONARD, Thomas E McGrath,
and II. Peeer, residing in Fonda, y. Y.
were capsized while attempting to cross the
Mohawk River in a rowboat Leonard and
McGrath were drowned, Teeler was rescued.
A LABoRER on the New York equeduct
was killed by receiving a shock from an
electric light wire, against which he care
lessly leaned.
EDWARD MAILER, the Superintendent
and Robert Otz, brother of the owner, were
killed by the falling Of iron arch in a
Hoboken, q. j silk mill
BILLY COLE, the desperate who recently
emptied revolver into a dancing party at
Guiding Rock. Neb., woundmg two persons,
has been lynched.
GREAT damage has been done in New Or
leans along the river front by a gale, accom-
panied by heavy rains. Several buildings
were unroofed, trees were uprooted, and the
coal fleet of the Pittsburg and Southern
combine suffered severely. Fifty boats are
known to have been lost They were valued
at $1,000 each. Great damage has been done
to the rice and sugar cane crop. Telegraph
wires were Frustrated in every direction.
TORNADO demolished many buildings III
Marquette, Mich
JUST before Professor Bartholomew was to
ascend in his balloon and make parachute
jump at La Grange, Mich, the pole twenty
five feet high, fell into the crowd, killing
two boys, Charles Graftmller, age1 nine
years, and Gilbert Appleman, aged fifteen
years.
COLONEL ROGER JONES has been nomi-
General Absolom Baird, who has just been
retired, as Inspector General of the United
States Army.
THE President has nominated J. Russell
Parsons, of New York, to be Consul at AK
la-Chapelle, and l.. Austin Spalding, of New
York, to be Consul at Brunswick.
A THUNDERSTORM a Kornenburg, Austria,
destroyed thirty five houses Other villages
were submerged. Three persons were killed
at Aspern and twelve at other places. Many
head of cattle and immense stocks of corn
were destroyed.
SALoMON has been forced to retire from
the Presidency of Hayti by a revolutionary
party and has taken refuye on board Her
Majesty's steamer Canada, and General
Legitime has been elected to succeed him.
jected in the United States Senate by strict
party vote of thirty to twenty-seven, the
Republicans voting against ratification.
CAPTAIN n. KINNEY, the founder and chief
of the Infamous Bald Knobbers, has been
shot and killed at Ozark, No, by Bill Miles,
an anti Bald Knobber.
II attempting to get down from a load of
hay farmer near GAINESVILLE, Ohio, slipped
and fell on a four-pronged fork, three of
which entered his breast. He pulled the
prongs out, walked around the wagon to
where his wife was standing, fell into her
arms and died.
CATHERINE WILLEM, of Cincinnati, aged
thirty one, assisted to prepare the wedding
feast for her young sisters marriage, and then
went upstairs and committed suicide by cut
ting her throat. She declared that she killed
herself because she feared she was doomed 10
lead the life of an old maid
DANIEL LYONS, the murderer of Athlete
Quinn. has been executed for that crime in
the New York Tombs.
ARTHUR ADAMS, aged twenty, has commit
ted suicide at StaffordsviIe, Conn, because
his sweetheart refused to marry him.
AT the Paris Academy of Sciences NJ.
Pasteur read a letter from DR.. Gamula of
Odessa announcing the discovery of a virus
which viii cure cholera.
THE Right Rev. Samuel S. Harris, Bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Michi
gan, who was recently stricken with apoplexy
while preaching in Winchester England
Cathedral, has died suddenly at London.
JUDGE REITz has been nominated for Pres
ident of the Orange Free State, in Africa, to
succeed Sir John Brand, deceased
A FAMILY of six persons was dining i'll the
City of Mexico on roast fowl. when they were
taken suddenly i'll and died before medical
assistance could be procured. A physician
on arriving examined the chicken, and found
it to contain deadly poison.