Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
LATER NEWS.

train were hurt fatally, at Devon, Penn, in
a wreck caused by the train breaking in two.
CONGRESSMAN w L. SCOTT, of Erie
Penn, has declined denomination on the
ground of i'll health.
AMBROSE NULTER, was xii &c By a train
while walking on the track at Darien, Conn.
Ex-STATE REPRESENTATIVE "JACK' Nc
CULLoUGH, a well known politician of Phila-
phia, has committed suicide by shooting him
self in the head at mis- residence.
CHARLES W. WALDRON, one of the own
ers and manager of the Waldron Bank of
Hillsdale, Mich, has absconded, taking with
him money and securities estimated at from
$50, 900 to $4,000.
A MOB took John Graves a sixteen-year-
old colored boy from Jail at BrownStown,
Ark, and Iynched him for an unprovoked
murder he had committed.
The report of the Secretary of the Interior
shows that under the acts of Congress- IS
253 3i7 acres of railroad lands have been for
feited: u, 333, 600 acres railroad indemnity
restored and %, 500, ~ acres restored under
illegal entries. The total acreage restored to
the public domain is IS, lbs, 800 The Secre-
tary recommends that AS, 49, 2S acres in
addition be recovered
THE President has approved the act for the
erection of "A marine hospital at Evansville,
Ind; the act to provide aid to State or Ter
ritorial homes for the support of disabled
soldiers and sailors of the United States, and
the act authorizing an Increase in pensions
for deafness.
SEVEN old wooden warehouses at Stein
r6a
sugar and saltpetre, valued at 81, 80, 900, have
been destroyed by fire. Six persons persisted
iii the flames Most of the property was
insured in England
DURING a Harrison and Morton pole raising
near Morris n. Y, a cannon discharged
prematurely, killing John Dickson, Albert
Sergeant and Fred Sage.
A PARTY of seven persons sailing in the
harbor of Hyannis, Mass, were thrown into
the water by their boat capsiZ1ng, and three
children, about twelve years old, were
drowned.
THE Republicans of New York assembled
in Convention at Saratoga and nominated
ex-senator Warner Miller for Governor,
Stephen V. r. Cruger for Lieutenant Cover
nor, and William Rumsey for Judge of the
Court of Appeals. high license clause was
Incorporated in the platform.
By reason of a fagmau's carelessness
collision occurred at Krum, Iowa, in which
three railroad employees were killed and six
wounded.
IKE DUNCAN, colored while in court at
Birmingham, Ala, being tried for an at
tempt to murder, dropped dead in the crimi-
nails dock.
MRS. ELI CARTWRIGHT and her baby were
killed at Norfolk Va, by the explosion of
kerosene lamp.
WILLIAM HENRY MILLER, of Columbus,
Ohio, son of the late John Miller, a pro-
minent citizen and banker, while showing
revolver to one of his children in front of his
residence, accidentally discharged it, and the
ball struck his mother, standing a few steps
away, and instantly killed her.
THE cholera is raging in Pressure Isle
county, Mich, and nine persons died IN one
day There are no doctors in the vicinity.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Colonel La
! mont, accompanied by InternalRevenue
Commissioner Miller, recently went {,
fishing excursion of two or three days in the
vicinity of Clifton Forge, in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia.
BY the inundation of the Miniano Prov
ince, in China, 500 houses were demolished
at hi Gamin, and $50 were fioated away
Fifty people persisted.
A CONFLICT took place between Gardeners
and smugglers on the Bidassoa River, which
forms part of the boundary between France
and Spain. Two of the smugglerS were shot
dead. two were drowned, several were
wounded and ten were captured.
The Canadian Minister of Justice, j. S. D.
Thompson, has been created Knight of St.
Michael and St George in recognition OF his
services on the Fishery Commission. He will
now be Sir John Sparrow David Thompson.