Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

MISSOURI has 1918 miles of railroad.
THE lead corner has completely failed.
THE CITY of Bremen has entered into the
German ZolIverein
THE GEAR is expected at Berlin about the
middle of November.
THE wife of a Kansas farmer cut off her
babys head while insane.
THE Chicago street-car companies lost
5000 day by the strike.
THE steam engines OF the world have total
of 40. 900, 90 horse power.
ENGLAND and Germany are negotiating for
Joint action in East Africa
THERE are close to 2OOO music teachers in
New York and its suburbs
President CARXoT's tour through France
will cost the Nation about $4,000.
THE proposal to have a London beauty
show is being put into business form.
BosToNIANs have already contributed
nearly SSl6, 900 to the yellow fever fund.
PRAIRIE fires in Dakota have caused heavy
losses to farmers over wide extent OF coun-
try
4 KANSAS CITY girl has committed sui
live.
SINCE the war of 20 France has spent
81, 542, OOO, 900 besides the ordinary esti-
mates. u
THE last census of India indicates a popu-
lation of 63, 1872, 90. There are o. OOO, 900 more
males than females.
j. r. RAMBO, ex-Register of Wills at
Norrstown, Penn, is defaulter in the sum
of $4,000 He has disappeared.
A CHARTER has been granted to the Dodge
City and Denver Railroad at Topeka, kan,
with capita! stock Of $4,000, OOO.
THE new embankment, erected at a cost of
50, 900, 600, to cOnfine the waters of the Yellow
River, in China, was swept away by a recent
food.
A MINNESOTA County Treasurer was
hXyf iThx
near Duluth and robbed of $4,000 in school
funds.
MoLLIE LESTER, of Harrodsburg, KY,
discovered that her lover was sworn to marry
another girl. Miss Lester took strychnlne
and died
THE cost of one of the Navy's new six-inch
guns weighing Il, 900 pounds, is about $500;
that of ten-inch, weighing $500 pounds, Is
about $40, 800
THE Eastern Minnesota Railway has petit
toned for the condemnation of S25O, 600
worth of land in the heart of Duluth, to be
used for terminal purposes.
The chalk pond in Newbury, n. H.,
claimed to be the only one of the kind IN the
United States. has been bought and Will De
operated by a stock company.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER has delivered his
first decision. He decided that State may
only tax a telegraph company for messages
between points within the borders OF the
State.
is about to exhibit fifty paintings in New
Haven. His name is William H. r. Jackson.
He has studied three years at the Art School
of Yale University.
STARVATION and restitution are reported
among the Indians in the Athabasca and
Peace River Country in Manitoba. Can
nibalism has been resorted to on several
occasions to sustain life.
AN unknown rascal entered a stable at
Troy, Ca. and administered strychnine to
twelve valuable horses. When the dastardly
act was discovered most of the horses jaws
were locked and they were writhing in
agony.
AN oil well has been struck near Findlay,
Ohio, which eclipses anything in the history
of the Ohio yield. 1t is estimated to flow
5000 barrels per day and has been visited by
thousands of people. The ground in all
with grease.
MELVIN MILLER, aged sixteen years, while
hunting near Cooperstown, Dakota, acct
dentally shot his seven-year-old brother,
Edward, in the stomach; The boy ran to
him, saying: II am shot; am dying; you
didn't go to shoot me, did you Mel!" He
then expired in his brothers arms.