Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-13
LATER NEWS.


Logan, Jr., son of the late Senator j. A.
engaged Two or three workmen stood by
him. One shot was fired and an attempt
was made TO stab Logan.
An iron tank containing eight thousand
barrels of oil was struck by lightning and
ignited near Emlenton, Penn. The blazing
fluid threatened to burn the town, but was
finally turned aside by ditch. Two houses
and four oil well rigs were burned
THE body of ex-Lieutenant Governor
Dorsheiner, of New York, has been buried
in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo.
HERBERT JOHNSON. aged thirteen years,
son Of a wealthy farmer at Limeport, Le-
high county, Penn, was reproved by his
school-teacher for defacing school furniture.
He went home and made his will, III which
he disposed of some property he owned to
near friends and then with revolver sent
bullet into his brain
Mas. JOHN GRAY, wife of a victim Of the
Rich Hill mine disaster, has died of broken
heart.
HEAVY rains have done hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars damages to bridges, railroads
and crops in South Carolina.
A CITY ticket composed of women for the
council and a woman for Mayor has been
elected at Oskaloosa, Kan, by 66 majority.
JULIEN S. RODGERS, of Macon, Ga, claims
S., 900, 900 worth of land in South Carolina,
including the famous winter resort Of Aiken.
1t was bought by his grandfather and has
never been sold.
The last debt statement issued by the Sec
rosary of the Treasury shows that the reduc
ton of the public debt during March
amounted to $21, $50, $685.. Total cash in
the Treasury, $3.50, 454. OO3.66
THE President has approved the act to re-
ward the Esqumau natives of the Asiatic
coast of the Arctic Ocean for acts of hui
manity to shipwrecked seamen.
THE President has sent the following NOM
nations to the Senate: George j. Denis, of
California, to be Attorney of the United
States for the Southern District of California; ;
Ezekiel E. Smith, of Fayetteville, n. c., to
be Minister Resident and Consul General of
the United States to Liberia.
THE Mexican Congress has begun its an
nual session.
AT HethraI IS in Hungary 120 houses have
been burned and 700 persons rendered home
less. Mezo-Bereny and HundsdOrf, two vii
lagos, have also been burned.
DR.. EMIL BESSELS, the Arctic explorer,
who was chief of the scientific corps of the
Polaris Expedition, has died at Stuttgart,
Germany, of apoplexy.
M FLOQUET has succeeded in forming a
new French Cabinet which is as follows: NJ.
Floquet. President of the Council and MUS
ter of the Interior; NJ. Goblet, Minister IT
Foreign Affairs; NJ. de Freycinet, Minister
of War; Admiral Krantz, Minister of Marine;
NJ. Picard, Minister of Justice; NJ. Peytral,
Minister of Finance NJ. Lockroy, Minister of
Education; NJ. Loubet, Minister of Public
Works; NJ. Viette Minister of Agriculture;
M. Legrand, Minister of Commerce.
ONE fireman was killed and eleven injured
at the burning of furniture warehouse IN
Philadelphia.
ADAM VOLKAvITCH has been hanged at
WilkeSbarre Penn, for the murder OF John
Bioszi.
CLAUS SPRECKELs, the California sugar
king, has decided to erect in Philadelphia
sugar refinery with a capacity of 2,OOO,OOo
pounds per day. The plant will cost
So, 100000, and the annual product will be
valued at $50, 100000.
THREE white men were murdered by two
drunken colored roughs at Lima, Ohio. The
heart of Hughes, one of the murdered men,
was cut in two with a razor.
AT Chicago riotous Burlington strikers
attacked the armed guards and terrible
fight ensued, one of the armed guards being
shot dead and several wounded. For ten
minutes the firing was incessant, the fire
from the strikers being almost as heavy as
that Of the guards. The police were sum-
moned, and the strikers put to flight.
W. w. HAZELTINE, a prominent lawyer of
Stevens Point, Wis, was assassinated on the
street by John d. Curran The murder was
the outcome of a sensational tragedy which
occurred three years ago, when Hazelt1ne
killed Currans friend
The Abyssinians, under King John, cap
tured the village of Malental, the inhabi-
tants of which were friendly to the Italians,
and massacred all the men, women and
children in the place.
KING HUBERT of Italy has donated
$4,000 to the sufferers by the floods in Ger
many.
SENATOR JOHN HAMILTON, one of the