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

RICH silver quartz deposits discovered in
Ihe blue grass valley of the Palouse River, in
ashlngton Territory, have created a min.
ing excitement in that vicinity. Assay re.
ports give seventy-eight ounces of silver to
the ton.
A VIOLENT hail and wind storm which Wis
ted McDonough, Ca, wrecked a Methodist
Church, crushing three people to death and
lnJul1ng several Others
The Minnesota State Prohibition Conven-
ton, in session at st. Paul, adopted a plat.
form which includes a demand that Con.
greSs make it a crime to ship LIQUOR into g
prohibit State Hugh Harrison a whole.
sale grocer of Minneapolis and recent con.
vert was nominated for Governor
Ex-SHERIFF CHARLES JANSEN committed
suicide at Los Angeles, Cal, in an extraOr.
binary way. He tied handkerchief from
the toes of his right foot to the triggers of a
double-barreled shot gun. Both barrels were
discharged, carrying away half his head anG
spIashlng the ceiling with brains.
THREE boys were drowned while bathing
IN lake near Omaha Nebraska.
NEAR Yutan, Nebraska, a Wabash car
lOaded With Shelled corn, was ditched. While
the train men were transferring the corn
about an hour afterward they discovered the
bodies of six dead tramps in the car. They
had been stealing a ride, and the ditchinr OF
the car caused them to be smOthered to death
In the corn, which buried them completely.
WILLIAM PROSSER, his son, John Prosser
to death in a burning building at Maynard, a
small mining town in Belmont County, Ohio
JOHN MOORE killed his sister-in-law in De.
trolt because she asked HIM to pay his board
He then fatally shot her daughter and him,
self.
NEAR Bentonia Miss, the young daughter
OF Dolph Miles (colOred) poisoned her father
and three brothers, all of whom died in her
presence in great agony.
EUGENE ZlNNIR, of indianapolis COM
united suicide at a prayer meeting in church
by drinking a bottle of carbOlic acid His
aged father and mother killed themselves
two weeks ago.
DEPUTY SHERIFF L. S. ELMER, of Wah-
peton, Dakota, murdered pretty Miss Mollie
Kerbell under circumstances of peculiar
atroclty. On the following day masked
mob of one hundred determined men over
powered Sheriff Miller, who had him under
arrest, and took the murderer out, and hanged
him to bridge over the Bots de Sioux River
EX-GOvERNOR CARNEY, the war Governor
of Kansas, died few days ago of apoplexy
at LeavenwOrth.
A. KLESHAR cut his wife's throat at Fern
dale, Cal, and took poison himself. Both
died.
THE Indians who have been in council at
Standing Rock Agency, celebrating the prop.
osltion of the Government to throw open
their reservation to settlers, finally after
much speech making, decided unanimously
not to sign any treaty to that effect.
A DAYBREAK duel occurred at Norfolk,
Va, on Saturday between John F. Evans, a
prominent saloon keeper, and Peter Mclean
popular sporting man. Mclean was in
stantly killed, and was carried home with
four bullets in his body.
WILLIAM ST. CLAIR and Bob Ashley
crossed the river on ferryboat at Alton, III.
and after landing on Missouri Point quar-,
relied. Ashley ran at st. Clair with bowie
knife and drove him into the river ST. Clair
could not swim. Ashley prevented him
from regaining the shore and he was
drowned.
SENATOR PALMER. of Michigan, has pub
licly notified his Michigan constituents that
he would not be a candidate for reelection.
His term expires March 18th, 1889, and he in
tends to retire to private life.