Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-23
LATER NEWS.

decision on his application for a writ of
] habeas corpus, in which the decision Of the
Court for the Southern District of New York
is affirmed.
AFTER travelling abroad for sixteen
months Mr.. Carter Harrison, ex-Mayor Of
Chicago, has returned to New York by the
steamship Alaska
Mrs. SARAH ]. ROBINSON. who was to
have been hanged at Boston for the murder
of her brother, has had her sentence COM
muted to imprisonment for life
GEORGE COOPER, of Portland. Conn, muir
dered his wife as she lay asleep in her bed The
crime was committed with an axe the woman
being struck three fearful blows over the
head.
News has been received from Tishomingo,
Capital of the Chickasaw Nation, that Gov
ernor Guy has been assassinated-
PETER HOWE, senior member of the bank
ing firm of Howe & Son, and his wife, the
former aged seventy-three years and the lat
ter sixtynine, who lived about half a mile
from the business portion of Wenona, Ill,
have been barbarously murdered with an
axe by domestic in their employ.
THREE Mormon elders who were proselyt-
ing in Marion County, Ala, were seized by
fifty of the best citizens of that neighbor-
hood, and tarred and feathered. The Nor
mons begged for their lives and promised to
leave at once, never to return.
MARIE BERTHUNF, wife of Louis Berth
une, fell senseless as she recognized the
mangled body of her husband as it was
drawn up from the wrecked mine at
Frontenac, Kan. She was taken home a
hat mic caf fro To bar
hut and persisted in the flames, with four of
her children.
THE United States Supreme Court has de-
MED the application for writ of habeas
corpus in the case of David S. Terry of Cali
forn1a, who was convicted of contempt of
court for violent scene in which he and his
wife, Sarah Althea Hill Sharon Terry, both
attacked the officers of the court
THE report of Commissioner Harmony,
Chief of United States Yards and Docks,
shows that s121, 533, $50 was expended last
year. The Naval Asylum at Philadelphia
cost 100000 last year, and the estimated cost
next year is placed at $4,000. He recon-
mends that all yards be lighted by electricity.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, member of the
British Parliament, and negotiator of the
rejected fisheries treaty between England
and this Government, has arrived in Wash
ington for the purpose of marrying Miss
Mary Endicott, daughter of the Secretary of
War.
THE Navy Department has ordered all
work on the Saratoga at the Portsmouth
Navy Yard suspended, and, also, as far as
possible, on the Portsmouth. The Saratoga
will be given to the State of Pennsylvania as
a training ship.
IN consequence of the severe criticism of
the police on their inability to capture the
perpetrator of the Whitechapel atrocities,
Sir Charles Warren, Chief of the Metropolitan
police of London, has resigned, and his resig-
nation has been accepted.
A NIECE of the dowager Empress has been
chosen as consort for the Emperor of China.
CAPTAIN T. H. LOGAN, commanding the
United States troops at Fort Hancock, on
the Rio Grande, some seventy miles below
Ell Paso, Texas, has been arrested and thrown
into prison by Mexican gendarmes who
caught him while on hunting expedition in
Mexico.
A TERRIBLE storm played havoc with ship
ping on the British coast. Two fishermen
were drowned off the Merecombe. The
steamer Akaba was wrecked off Yarmouth
and seven lives lost. Two ships boats
marked Glasgow and seven bodies came
ashore off the Cornish coast
HENRY BETTER, a German residing at
Middletown, Conn, committed suicide by
shooting. Dependency following a pro-
tracted spree caused the act.
A FIRE in Watson's marine stores, at Brook
Ign, caused a loss of over quarter of a mill
ion dollars.
THE bodies Of Eula jones' a chambermaid,
Major White of Atlanta and Thomas Moore
of Bloomington, ILL.,, have been found in the
ruins of Bryant's European Hotel at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, which was burned.
FIVE hundred acres of corn along the
Ohio river below Evansville, Ind, are sub
merged and the crop destroyed, owing tc
the recent heavy rains
UNKNOWN men exploded dynamite under
the Court House at Henrietta, Texas, and it
was destroyed.
An lnsufficiency in the appropriations has
made necessary an order for the general sus-
pension of work at all the United States |
navy yards.
THE United States Treasury Department
has decided that silver powder manufactured
for ornamental purposes must pay duty of |
twenty five per cent.