Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-22
LATER NEWS.

arrested at CrimmitZschau Saxony for the
murder of banker in Watertown, n. Y, in
August, 1886.
A G.. SELLoN, the chief clerk on tn,
postal in which Clerk Jere. G.. Sinclair
was murdered at Bangor, Me-, has confessed
the deed, pleading self-defence.
FOUR men were drowned by the capsizing
Of their boat near Rockland, Me.
THE Thirty-sixth Annual Convention OF
the international Typographical Union has
been held at the Board of Trade Hail. Kansas
City, William Amison, the International
President, presiding Mayor Kumpf made a
speech of welcome to the visiting delegates.
JAMES FOSTER (colored) was taken from
Jail at Henderson, KY, by mob and hanged
for brutal crime which he had confessed.
In a difficulty over trile at Longview,
Texas, Watson Rosson, aged eighteen years.
shot and killed Fletcher WEIGH, old man
ROBERTSON, a colored soldier at Fort Shaw,
Montana, quarreled with another man and.
shooting, killed a bystander At night he
was lynched by fifty masked men,
THE Department of Agriculture has issued
a crop report showing reduction in the
area of winter wheat, and an increase in
spring. The acreage of rye and barley is the
same as last year, but there is an increased
cotton area in every State except Florida.
The Postmaster General has sent to Con,
Eress an additional estimate of appropriation
for the free delivery service for the next ifs
cal year of 81 ,O21 200. 1t will be necessary
to employ 600 more carriers-an increase
of twenty-five per cent.-to bring the hours
of letter carriers within the provisions of the
law
LORD STANLEY, of Preston, has been
sworn in at Ottawa as Governor-General of
Canada.
AT last reports the locusts were advancing
in Algiers in compact mass over twelve
miles long by six in breadth A panic pre-
vailed in the province of Constantine. The
valley of Guelma has been devastated by
them.
IN the Rhode Island General Assembly
Jonathan A. Chace has been reelected
United States Senator by a majority of both
houses. The Legislature adjourned until
January, 1889.
AT the village of Glasgow, Penn, Ellis
Wingert, farmer, was shot and killed by
wOodsman named Mr.. Kee, who Immediately
committed suicide without assigning any
cause for the tragedy.
THE Union Labor State Convention of
Maine in session at WaterviIe nominated
W. II. Simmons for Governor. Resolutions
were adopted favoring greenback postal
banks government teIegraphs and railroads,
service pensions, an income tax, a secret
ballot and homestead laws, and denouncing
the importation of labor and fusion with
other parties.
The Vermont Prohibitionists assembled
at Montpelier and nominated Professor See
ly, of Middlebury College, for Governor.
THE Maine Republican State Convention
was held at Portland, and State treasure
Burleigh was nominated for Governor. Reso-
buttons were adopted condemning the Mills
bill, but declaring that 1T is the duty of
Congress to reduce National revenues to an
amount which shall equal as nearly as posi-
BILE the annual expenditures of the Govern
ment"
Four persons were fatally burned and
seven injured by a tenement house fire at 81
Second avenue, New York
THE Prohibition Convention of Missouri
was held at Kansas City and a State ticket
was nominated headed by j. NJ. Lowe for
Governor.
PETER ALT, proprietor of the Arlington
House, Baltimore, while drunk made muir
derous assault upon his wife, when his fifteen
year-old son shot him dead.
EIGHTEEN State convicts employed in
railroad construction near Georgetown, KY,
overpowered the guards and escaped
THE mother of General Philip H Sheridan
has died of old age at Somerset, Ohio.
DENNIS WILLIAMS (coloredD who shot and
seriously wounded Superintendent McCor-
mack at Ellersvile, Fla, was taken to the
woods by mob and lynched. His body was
afterward found in the river.
THE recent severe rains have caused the
greatest flood ever known in Northern Mime
sofa. At the village of Cloquet the portion
of the town the island was engulfed, only
the tops of the houses being visible. All the
sawmills being flooded were abandoned, |
and in the booms 2OO,OOO,OOO logs were
damned All county bridges have been |
carried away.
GENERAL J. d. c. ATKINS, Commissioner |
of Indian Affairs, has resigned.
THE President has nominated Varnum NJ |
Babcock, of Wisconsin, to be Receiver of !
Public Moneys at ST. Croix Falls, Wis
TENANTS on the Island of Arran, Ireland
have been threatened with dynamite if they
pay their rent