Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-16
EATER NEWS.

JAMES HAYES, Henry Gormley and Will
lam Sellen were drowned in Rochester Bay,
Mass, by their sail boat capsizing.
JUDGE BREWER. of Topeka, Kan, has de-
cided that certain lands granted to the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railway, on which
settlers had located, legally belongs to the
railway. This decision throws 5000 settlers
off large quantity of the most fertile farm
ing lands in the country.
DURING the progress of SANDER suit in the
courtroom at Fresno, Cal, trouble arose be
tween Robert Seconce and a man named
Hardwick over the testimony, and Hardwick
shot and fatally wounded Seconce. The lat
ter's brother in return killed Hsrdwick.
A FREIGHT train struck a cow at Vicks
burg, Miss, and was thrown from the track,
the locomotive and thirteen cars being
wrecked. Four employees of the road and
tramp were instantly killed.
A FIERCE prairie fired ragged in the Sioux
Valley near Jackson, Mimi, and a farmer,
two women and two babies persisted in the
flames.
THERE have been 800 tons of silver dollars,
amounting to $50, OOO, 900, received from the
minis of New Orleans and Philadelphia and
placed in the new vaults.of the Treasury at
Washington.
THE Navy Department has received a dis
patch confirming the news that the ice bound
whalers at Herald Island have been released,
and the order for the relief expedition has
been countermanded.
HERR Won SCHLoEzER, Prussian Minister
to the Vatican at Rome, has been recalled
THE Norwegian bark Nor from New
York, came into collision with and sank the
steamer Saxmundham off Cowes, England,
and twenty two persons were drowned.
YOUNG REMAIN has been found in a shed
in West Manchester, n. H, covered with
blood and with bullet wound near the left
eye. He met his death at the hands of six
teen-old lad named Frank Brown
THE City Hall, a number of extensive
factories and ten residences were destroyed
by fire at Haverhill, Mass
FRITZ GRAVES, wealthy farmer of the
town of Oak Creek, Wis, has died and his
son August is held on the charge of murder
ing his father. The elder Graves was seven
ty-three years old and his son is thirty-seven.
Two brothers named Powell, aged eight
and eighteen years, respectively, quarreled
at their home in the southern part of Van
Zandt County, Texas Bob Powell, the
younger, was shot and instantly killed by his
elder brother.
A FIRE i'll Macon, Ga, destroyed the oil
and paint store of T. C. Burke, the adjoining
stores of Nussbaum, Van Sycl1eI & TindaII,
hardware dealers, of H. D. Adams & Co.,
wholesale groceries, and of Charles Taylor,
furniture dealer The loss is 1925, 600
THE visible supply of grain, according to
the official Chicago Board of Trade report, is
as follows: Wheat, 3, 695, 900 bushels in
crease, 21S,OO0; corn, 10, 763, 900; decrease,
100000; oats, S,555,0 900; increase, $685. 900;
rye, 1,556,OO0 increase, 179, 900; barley, l.
1S6, 1000; increase, 49, 600.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has signified his
intention of attending with his entire Cabi-
net, the centennial celebration of George
town University, to oe held on February %.
The President will deliver the honorary de-
grees to the awarded on the occasion.
BARON Won KRANs, Governor of Bohemia
has resigned on account of i'll health
PRINCE BISMARCK has begged the Emperor
William to relieve him of the greater part of
his duties and transfer them to his son,
Count Herbert.
A RESERVOIR at Montreux, Switzerland,
on the Lake of Geneva used to work an
electric railway, burst, destroying numerous
houses and drowning many persons. Seven
bodies have been recovered.