Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-28
LATER NEWS.

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torn off from his hips by being caught in
volving machinery. Death was instantane-
Gus.
JOHN FIRTH, of Railway, n. j., and his
brother Simon, of Paterson, n. J., who was
visiting him, were both struck and instantly
killed by the Chicago limited express in Rah-
way. Both had been drinking freely all
day. and John had taken his brother to the
station to see him start for home.
A MAN named Iverson, who lived at
Steiners Flat, Northern California, shot and
killed his wife and himself while in bed.
When found their babe,s which was in bed
with them, was covered with their blood.
HOsTILITIEs have begun afresh between
the Hatfield and Mccoy factions in the Ken
lucky Mountains. The Kentuckians came
upon the West Virginians at Pawpaw Noun
tain, where a lively battle took place In
the melee two Of the West Virginians were
killed and two more badly wounded. None
of the kentuckians was hurt.
GEORGE MCCURDY. of Canton Ohio, aged
twenty-eight, while walking along the street
with his betrothed, Miss Lucinda Gender,
dropped dead on the sidewalk dragging Miss
Gender down with him. They were to have
been married the next week.
AT Devine station, Texas, Calli9 Smith,
fourteen ear-old girl, attempted to start
fire with kerosene when the can exploded,
scattering the burning oil over the girl and
her two sisters, Della and Dosia, and her
only brother, all of whom were standing
around the stove watching her, and the
four children were burned to death in sight
of their mother.
hi oil
joining buildings, Paducah, KY, were de-
stroyed by fire Loss, $500, 000
THE rice crop in Georgia has been almost
destroyed by the floods in the Savannah dis
trict.
ELIJAH FUILT, a veteran Of the Civil War,
was placed on trial at Kol1omo Ind, to
make him divide pension he recently
received, with his wife. During the
progress of the case he killed his wife and j.
c. BIocklidge her attorney, in the crowded
court room.
THE President has approved the act for the
erection of an appraisers warehouse in New
York City.
Hon. S. S. Cox, of New York, on motion
of Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee, was elected
temporary Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives to preside during the absence of
Speaker Carlisle in Kentucky.
TWENTY-EIGHT persons have been drowned
by the floods in the Tyrol, Austria Many
others are missing.
THE British Parliamentary Commission to
examine into the charges made by the Lon
don Times against Charles Stewart Parnell
has begun its Investigations, the initial pro-
ceedings resulting favorably to the Irish
leader
THE Democrats of the Twenty sixth Con
Eressional District of Pennsylvania have
nominated James R. Burns for Congress,
William L. Scott having declined a renomina-
ton.
WILLIAM FoGARTY, a New York job
printer, has been arrested as the murderer of
his brother James, who was killed by a
thrust in the eye from the point of his
umbrella.
Mr. JAMES LANGDoN CURTIS, of New York,
the candidate chosen for the Presidency of
the United States by the National American
party, is out with his formal letter of accep-
lance.
REV DR.. TRAvELLI, of SeEickley, Penn. has
died, aged eighty years. He was the first to
introduce the kindergarten system of eiuca-
ton in America, and also prominently
connected with the prison reform idea of the
past two decades.
SPEAKER JOHN G.. CARLISLE has been re-
nominated by reclamation for Congress by
the Democrats of the Sixth Kentucky Dis
tTict.
MRS c. j. De LEON, an elderly widow
committed suicide in Chicago by attaching a
rubber tube TO an Unlighted gas jet, which
turned on. and inserting the other end
beneath the bed-c,othes, which she tucked
closely over her head and body.
THE Treasury Department sent to the
Senate a communication recommending an
appropriation OF 5000 as the share Of the
United States for the expenses of the publ
cation at Brussels of the tariffs of the word.
NJ SALoMON, the deposed President of
Hayti, has just undergone the operation of
cystotomy in Paris, which left him in a criti-
cal condition.
JOHN DILLON, the Irish member of the
British Parliament, who was serving SEN
tence in Dundalk jail for agitation, has been
released on account of the alarming conli-
ton of his health. His term OF imprison-
ment would not have expired until January
A GREEK fleet has been ordered to the
1Egean Sea to protect the Greek sponge fish
AGAINST the iniuSticaS 70 which they ara