Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-06
LATER NEWS.

Mas ANNIE ONEILL, q widow, was TO
/ Stunning home from work with two OF hsr
three children when they were struck by an
express train near RhinecliR, y. \. All
three were instantly killed
JOHN Silly, q former brakeman on the
New York Central Railway, who lost both
legs by an accident. has had q verdict Of
$4,000 damages affirmed by the Court of
Appeals.
THE big raft which was lost while being
towed from Nova Scotia TO New York has
gone to pieces A United States steamer
sent TO search for it found herself in the
midst of a vast number OF floating timberx
evidently the remnants Of the great raft,
which had broken up and was no longer Q
menace 10 commerce.
THE schooner Mary G. Collins, OF PhilS
delphia, has gone to the bottom with hea
Captain and three Of her four seamen-
JOHN J. LITTLEroN, editor OF the National
Rerietc, the leading Republican Newspaper In
Tennessee, was shot near his home in Nash
vile by John R Banks, a prominent Repub-
ican. and seriously, il not fatally, wounded
The two men belonged 10 the opposing fac
tons of the Republican party in Tennessee.
EIGHT men were frozen to death at Pan
spell.
SEVEN victims Of family named Kelly,
who murdered wayfarers stopping at their
house IN that portion Of the Southwest known
as No Mans Land, have been unearthed
The Kellys have fed with their plumber.
TRAIN robbers stopped a train in the Indian
Territory, but were foiled by brave
press messenger, who barricaded the doors OF
his car and refused them admittance. Ths
robbers left after firing many shots into the
car.
w. W. CoRCoRAN, the Washington philan-
thropist has just celebrated his nineGeth
birthday.
ACCORDING to press dispatches, prepare
tions for war are actively going on In
Russia
A BAND Of Mexican robbers have been
sacking towns in Mexico and committing
terrible outrages. After a skIrmish with
troops the bandits retreated to the noun
tains.
president CLEvELAND's Jubilee present
to the Pope, consisting OF a beautifully en-
crossed copy of the United States Constitu'
ton, has arrived in Rome, with a letter of
congratulations.
KING KALAKAUA, of the Sandwich Islands,
has quarreled with his Legislature, and ths
people are reported on the eve Of another
revolution at Hawaii.
A REVOLUTION has broken out In Guate
mala The revolutionists, under x-Presi-
dent Castana, have been badly defeated
THE Philadelphia schooner Samuel Nc
Manemy has been given up for lost, and
there is no longer any doubt that she has
foundered at sea with all hands-eight in
number.
Two passenger trains on the Long Island
Railroad collided with terrific force in Brook
lyn Seven persons were seriously. injured,
one or two perhaps fatally, and many more
slightly hurt.
A CONTEMPLATED great strike Of the Read
ing Railroad employees was given up after a
portion Of the men had gone out, and work
was resumed everywhere along the road.
Mrs. SARAH G. EWING was mangled to
death by hogs in her barnyard at Shelby
VILE Ind.
MONKEY overturned a lamp in the
Coliseum Theatre at Iron Wood, Wis. The
fire that followed laid nearly the whole town
in ashes.
WILLIAM STANCE, Sergeant Ninth United
States Cavalry, and very strict disciplin
arian, was ambushed by soldiers and killed
near Crawford, Neb.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN in a letter TO the
Buckeye Club, of Springfield, Ohio, an
nounced his intention of voting against the
confirmation Of Mr.. Lamar as Supreme Court
Justice.
PRESIDENT DELANo, OF the National Wool
Growers Association, has issued a.circular TO
the wool growers of the United States calling
for organization to resist any proposed abo-
Htion of the tariff on wool.
A VERGE storm has ragged over the whole OF
Greece Twenty-fiv vessels were driven
ashore and wrecked in the Gulf OF Patras.