Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-24
LATER NEWS.

IN an ARRAY among Hungarians at Mount
Pleasant, Penn, two men were shot, one
fatally. When Constable Staaffer sought to
arrest the offenders he was set upon, badly
cut and carried home unconscious.
THE Town Hospital at ST. Adams, Yer
mont, was destroyed by fire. and two patients
Charles Chandler, paralytic, and Susan
Gates, eghty-three years old-were sutfo-
Gated in bed, being unable to help themselves.
A HEAVILY loaded cattle train was
brought to a sudden stop by broken axle
in Stroudsburg, Penn, and 400 cattle were
instantly killed.
d. G.. HILL, Treasurer of Pamela county,
Texas, was killed in his office at Carthage, his
head being cut off and his safe robbed OF
$4,000.
AN overladen skiff was swamped near
New Orleans on the Mississippi River, and
seven shrimp fishers who were at work in it
were drowned.
AN old colored woman of Grant parish,
La, by mistake put rat poison in dish or
cabbage Her family, consisting OF herself,
her daughter Grace, two grandchildren and
another child named Nelson partook freely
of the cabbage In few hours all were in
violent commissions. The grandmother,
mother and one child soon died. The other
two children fingered until next day, when
they also died.
ARCHBISHOP JEAN BAPTISTE LARNY, Of
the Catholic Church, died at his home at
Santa Fe, New Mexico, in his seventy fourth
year.
Mr. BLAINE's letter withdrawing a can
didate for the Presidential nomination has
been the leading topic Of discussion among
the Washington politicians.
THE President has sent to the Senate the
nomination of Fernando j. Moreno, OF
Florida, to be United States Marshal for the
Southern District Of Florida.
Ex-MAYoR of Dublin, Sullivan, who has
Just been released from prison, was given
grand reception in London, more than forty
thousand turning out to do him honor.
THE Russian Ambassador, in an interview
lasting an hour with Prince Bismarck, ex-
pressed the Cars high appreciation of the
Princes recent speech in the Reichstag.
A MOB in Guayaquil, Ecuador, surrounded
the house of the Bishop, crying: Down with
the Priests" and a battle with stones fol-
lowed, in which several persons were killed
and quite a number injured.
CHESTER EvEY killed his daughter, aged
seventeen at Altoona, Penn, and then COM
mitted suicide.
A DOUBLE explosion in the Wyoming col
liery at WilIIesbarre, Penn, killed two
miners and severely burned three others.
TwENTY-O ONE families were evicted in New
York city, from the tenement houses
of Jacoby & Bookman manufacturers of
cigars who took this method of forcing their
striking worllmen to return to work.
IN a riot at Pinckneyville, Tenn, Reuben
Field was killed by a boy named Smithers.
STEPHEN n. WILSON, a colored editor of
ST. Louis, Mo-, killed in quarrel a saloon
keeper named Archie Irwin
BRIGHT CORNETT, who has led all the
recent Texas train robberies, was killed by
Alfred Alice on his ranch in Frio County,
Texas.
THE House Judiciary Committee agreed
to favorably re port without amendment the
constitutional amendment of Mr. Hoar to
change the time for Inauguration to April
80, and to extend the Presidential term to
that date.
THE Secretary of State has directed the
establishment of a United States Consular
Agency at Nanaimo, Vancouver's Island, for
the benefit of American commerce. which is
growing in that vicinity.
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
of B. F. Wade to be Marshal of Northern
Ohio and Alexander McCue to be Assistant
Treasurer at New York.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has trans
mitted to the House estimates for deficiency
appropriation of $4,000 for the support OF
United States prisoners duriug this fiscal
year.
SMALLPOX in its most malignant form is
raging in Cuba, and thousands have died
from the disease.
THE Mayor of Cork, ireland, has been con-
victed OF the charge OF assaulting police
sergeant at plan of campaign meeting, and
sentenced to fourteen days Imprisonment
without hard labor.
RIDDLED WITH BULLETS,