Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-20
South and West .

ABOUT 5000 delegates coming from all sec
tons of the country, participated in the con-
ventlon at Baltimore, called for the purpose
of forming National Association of Demo
cratic clubs. Chauncey F. Black, of Penn
sylvania, was elected President of the Asso-
citation, which comprises 496 clubs
MASKED men stopped stage in California
and robbed the express messenger of $4,000
in silver bullion
AT least six lives were lost and numerous
houses were struck by lightning during an
electrical stor IN in the Northwest
FOUR passengers were killed and fifteen in
jured by railroad accident near Helena,
Montana.
CINCINNATI had a grand celebration Of
her municipal centennial and of the national
holiday, all in one, opening big exposition
with the aid of the venerable Mrs. James K.
Polk, who, from her home in Nashville, gave
the signal by telegraph for starting the
machinery.
SAMUEL NJ. HENDERSON, sixty years DID,
of Trafalgar, Ind. shot and killed his dis
vorced wife and then killed himself.
Two of Francis Scott Keys grandchildren
unveiled at San Francisco on Wednesday the
bronze monument to the memory of the
author of "The Star Spangled Banner" 1t
is the gift of the late James Lick.
FIRE swept through the best business block
in Marysville, Cal, causing damage esti-
mated at $500, 600.
STORM of hail and rain caused wide
Iowa and Minnesota.
INDEPENDENCE DAY ceremonies were in
progress on the grounds of the Yallabu-
sha Fair Association at Water Valley, Miss,
when the grand stand, in which 400 spectators
were seated, fell without warming Fifty
persons were seriously injured.
Boys threw frecrackers under carriage
containing two ladies, at Chicago, and the
explosion SO frightened the horse that he up
set the vehicle, killing the two occupants
MAYOR KENYON, of Gueda Springs, Kan,
was murdered by the proprietors of an
Illicit whisky saloon he was endeavoring to
suppress.
SIX drunken farmers engaged in free
fight at Mansfield, Mo-, and five of them
were killed.
DELAWARE peach growers in convention
recently at Dover, estimated their crop at
100000 baskets of which the Pennsylvania
railroad can transport $500, 900 baskets
COUNTY JUDGE PULLIAM, of Rardinsburg
KY, shot and killed man engaged in Iitiga-
ton before him who took exception to some
of his rulings.
Gus BoGLEs, a bootblack of Denison.
Texas, nineteen years old, who murdered
William Morgan in the Greek Nation year
ago, has been hanged at Fort Smith, Ark
THE entire business portion of Lake City,
the county seat of Missaukee County, Mich,
has been destroyed by fire.
CITIZENS of Joliet, Ill, placed obstruc-
lions on the track of a railroad, to the build
ing of which they objected, thereby derail-
ing the construction train and killing the
engineer and three Italian laborers.
FOUR persons-two men and two children
lost their lives in the burning of a farm
house near Sault Ste Marie, Mich.
WILLIAM LAMBETH has been hanged at
Dallas, Oregon. for the murder of his step
daughter, Simunie Ellis Antle last January,
under circumstances of peculiar atrocity.
A TRAIN ran into land slide near Lafay-
cite, Ind, and killed three train men.
AT Henderson, KY, Robert Ryan, colored
man, sixteen years old, stabbed and killed
Riley Hancock, white, sixteen years old.
Three men started with Ryan for the jail,
when they were overpowered by mob, who
hanged the murderer.