Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-25
South and West


THE Georgia Democratic State Convention
met at Atlanta and elected delegation to
the st. Louis Presidential Convention which
is instructed to support Cleveland and tariff
reform.
w. GRINNELL got drunk at WiIIiston. Da-
kota, and began beating his wife with
pistol, when she threw him down and choked
him TO death
WILLIAM WRIGHT and James Turner,
assailed by four highwaymen near Mexia,
Texas, resisted, and in the fight two of the
robbers were killed.
THE Alabama Democratic State Conven-
ton met at Montgomery and elected dele
cation to the st. Louis Presidential Conven-
ton pledged to support Cleveland for re-
nomination. Thomas Seary was renOmi-
mated for Governor by reclamation.
THE Wisconsin Republican State Conven-
ton met at Madison and elected delegates to
the Chicago Presidential Convention. The
Convention adopted a resolution favOring
Governor jeremiah NJ RuSk as a candidate
for the Presidency of the United States.
THE Maryland Democracy convened at
Baltimore, and the delegation which was
elected to the Presidential Convention was
instructed to support Cleveland for re-
nomination
THE Democrats of Michigan assembled in
convention at Grand Rapids and selected
delegation to the st. Louis Convention,
which will not only be unanimous in its sup
port of President Cleveland but it will b q
prepared to give full adherence to his policy
of tariff reform.
RECENT heavy rains have averted the
threatened drought in South Carolina and
saved many thousands Of dollars to truck
farmers
THE State Convention of the Tennessee
Democracy was held at Nashville, and solid
Cleveland delegation was elected to the st.
Louis Presidential Convention.
THE Democrats of Alabama met in State
Convention at Montgomery, and adopted re-
colin foX grin nrIF T-nfnr TNNa
delegates to the National Presidential Con-
vention were instructed to vote for Cleve-
lands denomination.
COMMODORE" NORMAN W. KITTsoN, of
st. Paul, Mimi, died on the Northern bound
Omaha train while en-route home Com
modore'' Kittson, whose wealth was esti-
mated at $4,000 900 to 5000, OOO was
probably the richest man in the Northwest
THE Kansas Republican State Convention
to nominate delegates to Chicago met at
Wichita and adopted resolutions indorsing
Plumb and Ingalls, The sentiment of the
convention was decidedly in favor of Blaine,
though the delegation is uninstructed.
A HOSPITAL for the treatment of hydro
phobia after the Pasteur method is about to
be established in San Antonio Texas.
Mrs. ROBERT MULLIGAN, of Wheeling,
W. Va, gave birth to her twenty-ffth child
few days ago.
A CROWD of about one hundred men
hanged a colored farm hand near Bowling
Green, NY. "A farmer mas naQ ABOUT twenty
horses poisoned during the past year, and the
colored man was supposed to be the guilty
party.
AT Vandalia, H., Henry Miller murdered
L. G. Kinsey and killed his horse. Then he
shot at William Aderholt, killing him in
stantly. Miller after that went TO his own
house, set it on fire, and shot himself. He
had been beaten in suit against AderhOlt
in which kinseY was witness
GREAT damage has been done by freshets
along the courses of the Mississippi and Red
Rivers in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Ar
kansas.
Mrs IDA JORDON, wife of wealthy grain
dealer at Indianapolis, Ind, administered a
fatal dose of poison to her four year old
child, and then cut her own throat with a
razor.
j. LUsKE & Co., of San Francisco, Cal. -,
operating the largest establishment for cam
ming fruits and vegetables in the world have
made assignment, with liabilities esti-
mated to be $500, 900.
ZEPH DAVIS has been hanged at Chicago
for numbering little child with a Ratchet
He the first cOlored man ever executed
in Illinois.