Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-20
LATER NEWS.
persons.


JosEPHUs SooY, ex-State Treasurer of
New Jersey, who was convicted of defalca-
ton and pardoned out of State Prison after
his embezzement had been made good,
dropped dead in Camden, y. J.
THE entire business portion Of the city OF
Cherokee. Kan. has been burned.
THE inhabitants of the Wabash Valley in
Indiana are suffering from measles. At Craw
fords vile there have been over eight hun
dred cases, many of them proving fatal.
THE Indiana State Normal School at Terre
Haute has been totally destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of s275,O The building was
the finest in the State, and was uninsured.
THE town of Tavares, Fla, has been almost
entirely burned to the ground. Fifteen bust
ness houses and all the residences in the place
were destroyed.
A CROWD of strikers in Chicago hurled
stones through the cab window at Charles
Sommers, a Burlington engineer, when he
fired into the mob, killing one man and
seriously in juring another.
FORTY Kansas farmers made raid on a
den of horse thieves in No Mans Land.
Four of the thieves were captured and
hanged to the limbs of the nearest trees.
Nine others were chased into the sand hills
and surrounded in q cave.
THE United States Supreme Court has
rendered decision sustaining the Pennsyl-
vania law regulating the sale of cleo
margarine.
The United States Supreme Court has
adopted resolutions presented by Attorney
General Garland eulogistic of the late Chief
Justice Waite
THE President has nominated Jasper n.
Hammond to be Postmaster at Seneca Falls
n. Y.
GENERAL BOULANGER has been elected by
a majority of "a. 900 votes to represent De
partment in the French Chamber of Deputies,
but he has declined to accept the seat.
JOHN AND DAVID BowMANs, farmers, aged
eighty-two and eighty-fOur years, living
alone a few miles from Barrie, Canada, were
burned to death in their house.
PRINCE BISMARCK has abandoned his oppo-
sition to the marriage of Prince Alexandez,
of Battenberg, and the Princess Victoria,
having gained certain other concessions, and
all the differences between the Emperor and
Prince Bismarck have been settled.
THE New York Court of Appeals has af
firmed the conviction and sentence of
ONeil, the Doodle Alderman. There was a
minority decision by Judge Andrews.
The local elections in Albany, n Y, and
at Jersey City, n. j., resulted in favor of the
Democrats, and at Lockport, n. Y, in favor
of the Republicans
VERY heavy rains in the vicinity of Nash
vile, Tenn, caused floods which swept away
fences, crops and stock in large amounts and
delayed railroad trains.
TREASURER WEIR, of New Albany, Ind,
is defaulter to the extent of $4,000. He
has fed to Canada
GEORGE BAURLA, the thirteen-year-old
son of a wealthy resident of Jeffersonville,
Ind, committed suicide by hanging be-
cause his father forced him to attend school,
THE Arkansas Republican Convention met
at Little Rock and nominated delegates to
the Chicago National Convention None Of
the delegates has preference in the matter
of choice for President The delegation
will go uninstructed and will vote as a unit
and tor the candidate developing the most
strength in the convention
THE President has approved the act au-
thoriZing the construction of bridges over the
rivers st. Mary's, Satilla, Little Satilla, and
Crooked, in Georgia and Florida; the act for
the erection of public building at Lowell,
A. Curtice, OF Hampshire, and several other
persons.
THE President has nominated Henry 3.
Lowering, of Massachusetts,, to succeed Gen
eral Banks Marshal of the United States
for the District of Massachusetts.
A FIRE broke out on the steamer Hyakkan
Morn, on Haumanada, an inland sea in Japan
Out Of sixty seven passengers on the vessel
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several firenen were severely injured.
AN explosion occurred in a dynamite fac
tory at Grenoble, France. Nine persons were
killed and others were seriously injured
WILLIAM MILLMAN has been hanged in
Prince Edward Island for the murder of
Mary Tuplen-
THE late Emperor William of Germany
left the sum of thirty marks about $40 to
every invalid soldier of the war of 1870.
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