Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
South and West

South ana west
THE Maryland Republican State Central
Committee has fixed May II as the date and
EastOn as the place for holding the conven-
ton to nominate delegates to the Chicago
convention.
ALBERT DUMKEE, of Columbus Nebraska
in drunken frenzy murdered his aged wife
with club and then assaulted his daughter
but he was overpowered before inJuring her
seriously.
SILAs BANKS killed three brothers named
Monroe at Parkersburg, w Va, as the result
of an old feud. He himself was wounded four
tir1eS.
THE Kootenai Indians, in Montana, are
getting ugly and threaten to avenge the
hanging of three of their number for murder
by the white people. The Governor has been
called on for troops
FIRE destroyed eighteen buildings in Mas
sey. Md, including the principal stores and
hotels.
The Kentucky Prohibitionists, in conven-
ton at Lou svlle indorsed Rev. Green Clay
Smith, Of Kentucky, for President, and made
Clinton j. Flske, of New Jersey, the second
choice
WILLIAM ANsoN's extensive Wood Mower
and Reaper Works at YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio,
have been destroyed by fire. The loss is esti
mated at $3.50, 900. Five hundred employees
were thrown out of employment.
j. S. SIMON, defaulting Treasurer of Darke
County, Ohio, has been sentenced to six years
IN the penltentlary and to pay a fine of S4S,-
600 and costs.
ALL the union maltsters and brewers in
Chicago have gone on a strike, and there is
complete shut down of the breweries in that
city.
THE body of boy, age six, was found in
the woods short distance from his home in
Georgetown County, S. G.. An inquest
brought to light the fact Jnat the father had
beaten him until he was unable to walk The
child had crawled into the woods and died
The five year-old daughter of Thomas
Baker, living near Wellsville, Ohio, fell
into burning brush pile. Mrs. Baker went
to the ch1ld's assistance, and both were
fatally burned. Mr.. Baker also received
serious burns while extinguishing the flames
on his wife and child's clothing.
WILLIE GRADY, six years old, accidentally
shot and killed his sister Ella, three years
old, at his parents home in Chicago, while
at play with pistol.
A CHICAGO paper figures up the loss of the
Burlington strike to the Brotherhood and
switchmen at 1901, $50. The loss to the COM
pany is s., 1O1,000
A MAN on the Muerto ranch, near Browns
vile, Texas, was bitten by a mad wolf, from
the effects of which he became wild and fled
to the woods. He entered the Asadore ranch
and sci ing a six-year-old child of Manuel
Cantu, bit and tore it to pieces.
CITY MARSHAL HOWARD shot and killed
E. L. Little, colored preacher, at Conway,
Ark, because the preacher had knocked him
down with can of peaches for some I'M
known reason.
Two white men, j. T. Halsey and J. c.
Hulist, were returning home from Fort
Smith, Ark, drunk, and as they passed a
cabin by the roadside one of them said,
Wv atch me kill that kid, whereupOn he put
bullet through the breast of four year-od
colored boy, killing him instantly.
MAJOR w. Z. LEITNER, Secretary of State
of South Carolina, died suddenly of heart dis
ease in Columbia.
The bakers and brewers of Chicago are on
a strike.
MAX MOLLER, OF Tribune, Kan. has died
of hydrOphObia, contracted from mad dog
bite received two weeks ago.
WILLIAM POLK, an insane colOred convict
in the Tennessee State Penitentiary, at Nash
vile. committed suicide by biting his tongue
off, thus bleeding to death.