Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
LATER NEWS.

Prison.
THE election in Rhode Island resulted in
abolishing the property qualification for vot-
ing for general officers.
EVA MITCHELL, a pretty girl nineteen
years old, was mysteriously murdered In
Chicago.
MILE. GoUDERT, a young French govern
ess in Youngstown, Ohio. committed suicide
by jumping from roof.
AT the old concentration of the Boston and
Montana Consolidation Works at Meader-
VILE Montana, a boiler exploded, killing
four men and injuring three.
THE public school building of Carrollton,
ILL.,, has been burned. Loss $4,000.
THE first heavy snow in Indiana, Illinois
and Michigan, of the season, has fallen.
BETWEEN December 1 and the end of
President Cleveland's administration tn
commission of eighty Postmasters appointed
by President Arthur will expire.
UNITED STATES Consul SEYMOUR, at
Canton, China reports that the silk produc-
ton will fall off over fifty per cent. owing to
the foods and that Europe and America will
not get more than 10, 900 bales instead of 21,
900 usually sent. The silk is valued at $500
per bale, representing loss of So, 100000 to
China
THE United States Treasury Department
has issued a circular announcing that no
more deposits to retire circulation will be
received, as the So, 900, 900 monthly limit has
been exhausted
MAJOR HENRY j. FARNswORTH, Assistant
Inspector General United States Army, has
died at Fortress Monroe, where he had gone
from Washington for his health.
PILOT EVANS and his boats crew of four
men were drowned off Nassau Bar, on the
Bahama Islands, by the capsizing of their
boat during squalL
HEAVY and destructive storms are re-
ported at ports in the North and Black seas.
SIR HENRY ARTHUR BLAKE, whose ap-
pointment to the Governorship of Queens
land met with so much opposition, has been
appointed Governor of Mauritius.
A REVOLUTION has occurred in Bolivia to
overthrow President Arco and make General
Comacho President. Several towns have
been occupied by the rebels. In a fight at
Cataquita the government party was sue
cessfuL General Comacho made pris-
oner of war. The rebels, however, are still
active.
THE royal yacht, bearing the Empress
Dowager Victoria, of Germany, her daugh-
ters and the Prince of Wales, reached Port
Victoria, England. Queen Victoria and her
daughters, Princesses Louise and Beatrice,
accompanied by Count Won Hatzfeldt,
ambassador, went to the port to
meet them. The Empress landed at noon,
and was received by the Queen, VINO en-
bor nd ho.
JAMES HOUSEMANN, a wealthy resident of |
New Concord, who has been on a proUracted |
spree, has committed suicide by shooting. He |
was forty years of age. He leaves a wife and |
two children.
JOHN T. MACGoNIGLE, Collector of the /
Ninth Revenue District of Pennsylvania and
for three times Mayor Of Lancaster, has
died, aged fifty eight years In early life he
was telegraph operator and was the first
person to apprise President Buchanan of his
election, carrying the message to Wheat
and.
JOHN w. KEELY, who was sent to Moya-
nensing Prison, Philadelphia, for contempt
II court. in refusing to give to experts ap-
pointed by the Court information regarding
lis mysterious motor, has been released on
pail.
FIRE broke out in one of the cells of the
Natertown, Dakota, Jail. Hans Nelson
rom Webster Dakota, had been in the cell
bout an hour when the alarm was sounded
lie was burned to an unacceptable mass
FORTY passengers were more or less injured
y the wreck of train near Harrison Ohio.
THE house of John Gregg was burned at |
-eesville, KY, and five persons persisted in
be flames
GEORGE II. FOEBEL who dropped" about
40, 900 at the time of Hutchinson's Septem-
er wheat squeeze, killed himself at his
oarding house in Chicago.
THE Georgia Legislature has elected A. H
olquitt United States Senator to succeed
imself. Henry W. Grady declined to be
andidate.
REPORTS received at Washington indicate
lat there will be an unusually large number
contested seats in the next House of Rep
THE United States Department of Justice
as not sufficient funds to pay all the deputv
arshals engaged on Election day and many
Ill have to wait some time for their pay
HE subscriptions to the fund for the Har-
son and Morton inauguration ceremonies
wv reach S2l,3SO, half of the sum re-
Tired.
A SPINNING mill in Poroa T+o11 oOn --oo