Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-20
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Faster~ and Middle States

WHILE q gang OF Italians were blasting
on q railroad near Laurel Run. Penn.
premature ex losion Of giant powder killed
four men and wounded twelve
CONSTANTINE STIGER, of Brooklyn. as
saulted his benefactors. Mr. and Mrs. Leon
ard Colbert, ami fatally wounded them. His
instrument was a heavy iron bar, and his
object robbery.
Mrs. SUSAN BEACH, aged 100 years, died
near Auburn, y. Y. She came to this coun.
try from Eng and. in 1872 and had been
blind for the last twenty years
A CALL has been issued for the sixth an
nual meeting of the National Law and Order
League at Philadelphia, February q and p
THE belief is current among the politicians
at Albany that the Demo ratio National con-
vention will be held in New York City.
FIRE in the Navigation Building at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. four-story structure
used for the construction of ordnance, de-
stroyed Government property valued at $780,
600
AT Wilkesbarre Penn, w. Howells,
mining boss, entered the compartment where
a miner was at work and ordered him to prop
a defective part of the roof AS Howe Is
spoke the loosened mass OF coal fell crushing
him to death.
AT Cumberland Mills Me, burglars
tered the apartment Of Mrs Tnom IS Stacks
and IN ordered her before the eyes OF her in
vail and helpless husband, whom she was
nursing.
ARNOLD G. HARRIS, whose thrilling and
remarkable adventures as Unto a spy during
the Civil War made him famous dropped
dead from heart disease at Buffalo, n. Y.
REV DR. LYMAN ABBOTT has been chosen
temporary pastor of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn. at a salary of 800 a week.
E. B. WILBUR, a prominent grain mer-
chant of Buffalo, N Y, has absconded to
Canada w tn $4,000 b longing to confding
business men OF that place.
WIN. FINK farmer near jersey City, n.
J.. was arrested while endeavor ng to sell in
New York city thousand pounds of meat
infected with pleuro-pneumonia
DR. JAMES NJ. GAssAwAY, United States
Marine Surgeon, at Portland Me, and his
eleven-year- son were passing from the
dra wing-room car to the sleeper, on the Erie
road, when a gale of wind dashed them of
the platform, blowing them some distance
and instantly killing the boy.
MAJOR JOSEPH r. WELLES, Of Millville, N.
j., a veteran Of the Civil War, was killed on
the Reading Railroad.
OBEDIAH PERKINS, Register OF Wills at
Allentown, Penn, has disappeared, being
short in his accounts S5.OOO.
ISAAC MERRICK, of Camden, N. j.. shot
and killed his foSter-da lighter, SallIe Harrl-
gan, and then committed suicide.
ASA w. W1CKEs, cashier of the Central
National Bank of Troy. n. Y, played poker,
and hence is a defaulter for SS.OOl
A PATTY of toboggauers at Torrington,
Conn, lost control of The steering apparatus.
tree. killing Miss Kittie Miller and seriously
injuring two of the party.
DR. WESLEY M. CARPENTER. OF New
York, the well-known medical writer, IS
dead.
"AUNTr EUNIcE CorTRELL. great-grand-
child of King Philip, the Pequot sacehm,
has just died on the Indian re@ervat' on,
near Norwich, Conn, at the age Of ll5
years.
CAPTAIN RICHARD THOMPSON, of the Eng
lish steamship Newcastle City. and crew OF
twenty-six men were shipwrecked off Nan
tucket Shoals. and after enduring great hard
shi-s were rescued by the United States
lighthouse ship Verbena-
LAST September Julius Feuret: young
German convict, escaped from Sing Sing,
and after marrying French Canadian girl.
settled down as drug clerk in Williams;
burg, N Y. Several days ago an old pal or
his revealed his identity to the police, who
arrested and returned him to prison
HEAVY freshets are reported from the VI.
cinitv of Lock Haven, Penn. Barns and
d inns have given way, and millions of feet OF
logs have broken loose