Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-06
LATER NEWS.

LA In IN IL w d
THE cigar mandatory OF Foster & Hilson,
n New York, was destroyed by fire The
.oss was estimated at 500, CO.,
CHARLES a. PITCHER. teller OF the Union
Bank OF Providence, R l., has fled to parts
unknown, taking with him the entire funds
Of the institution, some 500. 900.
CHARLES GROSS, a wealthy farmer OF Bel
ask county, No. was dragged from his
house and whipped to death by members Of
an organization whose secrets he had di-
vulged. The victim was actually fayed
alive.
JUDGE TRUNKEY, of the Supreme Court OF
Pennsylvania, died on Sunday in London Of
fever.
DR. BENJAMIN KING, one of the oldest
officers on the retired lists of the United
States Army, died recently at his country
residence in Anne Arundel County, Md, age
ninety-two. He was a graduate Of West
Point in the class of 1907, and served through
the War of 1912, the Seminole War and the
Mexican War
JOHN F. PHILLIPS, of st. Louis, has been
nominated for Judge of the United States
Court for the Western District of Missouri.
A THIEF entered the Crown Prince Of
Sweden's apartments in the hotel at Fran
zensbad, Germany, and secured jewelry
worth $780, 900, with which he escaped.
THE German Reichstag has been opened
by Emperor Wilhelm with great pomp and
ceremony. His address was of a peaceful
nature. While reading his speech he was
supported on either side by the King Of
Saxony and the Prince Regent of Bavaria
DURING the voyage of the bark Don
Enrique from Italy to Quebec, Canada, the
carpenter put all his tools together tied the
bag around his neck, and committed suicide
by jumping into the sea.
A RAILROAD wreck at Gable City, Penn,
resulted in the death OF six men and the fatal
injury of five others. The names of the vic
tins will never be known as they all were
Hungarian laborers who were designated
only by numbers.
A JEALOUS hall-boy in New York hotel
shot to death a cook who had refused to
marry him, and then killed himself.
A BROKEN rope in coal mine at Belleville,
Ill, precipitated three men eighty feet, kill
ing them instantly.
and CHAIR Cignarali, the Italian woman
who murdered her husband, have been
sentenced to be hung in the New York
Tombs on August II.
GRANT JOHNSON, a boy eight years old,
deliberately murdered his twin brother, Gar
field, at Fredericksburg, Va.
INDIANAPOLIS, the home of General Har-
rison was bedecked in flags and bunting in
honor Of his nomination for President.
Mrs. Folsom, mother of the Presidents
wife, has arrived in New York from Europe
and was met at the steamer by Mrs. Cleve-
land.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has approached con-
valescence so near that he has been removed
to his summer cottage at Nanquit, Buzzard's
Bay, on the southeastern coast of Massa-
chusetts
THE motion of the Gladstone party censur-
ing the British Government for its admins
tration of the Irish Crimes Act was rejected
in Parliament by vote of $50 to 273.
TELLER PITCHER, who robbed the Provi-
pence Or. L. Bank of 100000 and fled, has
been captured in Montreal, Canada. The
stolen funds were recovered.
THE towns of Sundsvall and Umea. on the
Gulf of Bothnia, the centre of the timber
trade of Sweden, have been almost destroyed
by fire. The damage will reach s., 900, 900.
Immense tracts of forest land have been
burned over
WHILE service was being held in a church
at Brezezie, Austria, the building was struck
by lightning and almost entirely destroyed.
Three persons were killed and one hundred
injured.
A VESSEL supposed to have been an emil
grant ship foundered in a storm off the
Cape of Good Hope. All hands were lost.
SIX DROWNED.