Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-03
LATER NEWS.

Mrs. MARY SCHooNMAKER and her
nephew, James Berrian, while crossing the
track at Sing Sing, y. Y, were killed by .
train on the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad.
MICHAEL COFFEE, an United States artil-
eryman from West Point, fell overheard
from a rowboat near Cold Spring, n. y, and
was drowned.
A SEVERE storm struck Sandusky, Ohio, q
few days ago. The wind blew a gale, and
rain and hail fell in torrents. Trees were up
rooted, corn and other crops were damaged,
while fruit was literally stripped from the
trees. The damage is estimated at 500, COO.
CHARLES SOONs and William Berry, OF
Little Rock, Ark, went to the cellar of a
friend to get some wine. There were two
kegs, one containing wine and arsenic for fly
poison and the other pure wine They drank
freely from the wrong keg and died within
an hour.
GENERAL WILLIAM G. WICKHAM, vice.
President and Receiver of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, and a distinguished COnfed-
crate General, died suddenly in his office at
Richmond, Va, from heart disease.
THE ninety birthday of Cleveland,
Ohio, was celebrated by the unwilling of
bronze statue nine feet high of General Moses
cleveland, of Connecticut, the surveyor OF
The Western Reserve, and the founder of the
place which bears his name.
THE New York Seventy first Regiment
celebrated the twenty-seventh anniversary of
Bull Run on the battle field, and then visited
Washington, where it was reviewed by Presi-
lent Cleveland
THREE boats loaded with native fugitives,
who left Wady Halfa, Egypt. during the re-
cent attack of the dervishes sank in the river,
and $50 persons were drowned.
DISASTROUS fires have occurred in the lum-
Der regions of Northern Sweden destroying
he town of Sundesvau and two neighboring
villages The loss is estimated at $4,000, 900,
md as the majority of the inhabitants are
very poor, great suffering was thereby en-
tailed
GENERAL BOULANGER was defeated in his
candidacy for a vacancy in the French Cham
Der of Deputies. His opponent, NJ. Taillifer'
.eceived AZ $50 votes, and BouIanger only
t645.
THE body of an infant child of Mr. and
Mrs Charles Blinn, awaiting burial in
f1dV6rulII, Mass, was DutIlou W d CIISE ny
the drapery about the bier taking fire
from candles.
A. LUND, his brother and four friends were
drowned while fishing near San Pedro, Cal
FIRE destroyed the coal mining town Of
Roslyn, Washington Territory, rendering the
entire population Of 800 homeless. Nothing
was saved. The loss is $500, 900.
THE six-story shoe factory of Krippendorf,
Dittman & Co., Cincinnati, has been burned;
loss $50, 900.
WIsCONsIN's Labor party has been in ses-
sion at Oshkosh, and DR.. William Powell, of
La Crosse, better known by his title of
''White Beaver" formerly an Indian scout,
was nominated for Governor.
A DIFFICULTY occurred between Aaron
and David Cunningham, brothers, of Lam
caster County, South Carolina, in which
Aaron was shot dead by David The latter
had been drinking and was trying to shoot a
neighbours dog, when Aaron interfered.
SEVEN THOUSAND Golfers at Pont-y-Pridd,
Wales, have struck for an increase in wages.
SEVEN men have been suffocated by a fire
in coal pit at Montceau les Mines, France.
AN extradition treaty with this country
has been sanctioned by the National Legisla-
tive Council of Colombia, South America.