Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-03
LATER NEWS.

JOHN F. KELLY has succeeded John G..
Gopsill as Postmaster at Jersey City, y. j.
FIRE at Philadelphia destroyed the milf
merry establishments Of Marks Brothers and
Adolph Heller, causing a loss of 81, 900, 0OO-
AT Baskerville \. Y, two passenger
coaches were derailed and rolled down an
embankment, fatally injuring four persons.
IN many parts of New England and the
Middle States the weather has been the cold
est experienced in years the thermometer reg
istering all the way from ten to thirty degrees
below zero.
PRESIDENT CoRBIN, OF the Reading Road,
and the striking unions have issued state
ments defining their position. Each side re-
fused to yield.
THE doors of the First National Bank, of
Auburn, N Y, were closed on Monday,
pending an examination of its affairs. Cash
Ter Charles O'Brien and the bookkeeper, Elmer
E. Moore had fed, and there were rumors OF
a heavy deficit caused by lending funds on
insufficient security.
OLIVER SEWARD a steamboat engineer at
Covington, KY, killed his stepson, Garrett
Spaulding.
THE United States Supreme Court denied
the appeal of Maxwell, the murderer Of
FREEZER at LOUIS, anu ue lIluSO HdAS. 1'OCA
murderer and his victim are Englishmen-
THE Senate in secret session ratified
commercial treaty with Guatemala
THE President has nominated Marshall
Mcdonald of the District of Columbia to be
Commissioner Of Fish and Fisheries; John
w. Ross to be Postmaster at Washington,
and John Blair Hoge to be United States
Attorney for the District of Columbia.
LOUISE MICHEL, the notorious French
Communist, was fired upon and wounded
twice while speaking at an Anarchist meeting
in Havre Her assailant was arrested.
WILLIAM w. LAWSON, prominent poIiti-
clan of Buffalo, N. Y, fell off a ladder and
was killed.
EDWARD CoFFEY died from self-inficted
wounds while confined at Pittsburg Penn.
for murder.
CHARLES G. GARRISON is appointed to
succeed the late Joel Parker on the New Jersey
Supreme Court bench.
GEORGE w. KNOOR, a wealthy miser of
Philadelphia, Penn, died of starvation.
FIFTEEN citizens of Crawford County, In
diana, engaged in general fight, in which
w. E. Moore was fatally and William Gun
ningham seriously shot Bert Browns skull
was crushed
THE main which supplies Lima, Ohio with
natural gas has burst, entailing great suffer
ing from cold on the citizens.
JOHN 7. ALLEN, ex-State Treasurer Of
Texas is dead. He left 100000 to found an
industrial school for boys at Austin.
A SKATING party consisting of Count
Greggor, of the Russian Legation, DR.. Dick
son, of the Navy, Richard Peters, and three
ladies, all prominent Washington society
People, fell through the ice on the Potomac
and were with difficulty rescued from drown
ing by the Navy Yard Patrol.
VIsCoUNT DAs NOGUIERAs, the Portuguese
Minister at Washington, is dead.
JOHN BRIGHT has written letter de
nouncing Gladstone and his latteriay
methods
THERE is deficit of $780, 900 in the Mani
toba Treasury.
HAVANA, Cuba, is in a state Of turmoil,
! owing to the incompetency and tyranny Of
Captain General Marin and his officials. On
Sunday there were twelve murders, one sui
eide, eight highway rObberies, and four
stabbing ARRAYS in Havana and C1rdenas.