Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-11
LATER NEWS.

legs of the Connecticut, Merrimac, Kenne-
bee and other New England rivers, and IN
the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota
DAVID n. BURKE, of New York, to be
Consul of the United States at Bahia, and
Francis Gross, of New York, to be Appraiser
of Merchandise in the district of New York,
are the latest appointments by President
Cleveland.
w. G. DUTTENHoFFER, tax-collector OF
Columbia, Penn, having defauted to the
forger as well, his bonds having no genuine
signatures upon them.
Two little children of Emil Faist were
burned to death in New York city by the
explosion of a kerosene lamp in the hands
of their mother.
A PEANUT trust has been formed at Nor
folk, Va, which controls the entire peanut
interest of this country with the exception
of three small factories.
THE bodies of Mrs. Mary J. Kearney, aged
sixty, and James Hand, aged seven, have
been discovered on the ranch where they had
been living, ten miles from Colorado Springs,
Col The boy had a large fortune, which
was held in trust for him. There is no clue
to the murderers.
THE boiler in William Caldwells file fac
tory at Nashville, Ind, exploded, killing
three men and wounding five others.
MEXICAN troops had a sharp battle with
hostile Yaqui Indians on the Tejambpo
Mountains, in which twenty-one redskins
were killed and fourteen taken prisoner.
THE British Government offers to owners
of over twenty horses an annual retainer of
81. 80 for each horse for the option of pur-
chasing them in time of war.
PAUL KRUGER has been reelected Presi-
dent of the Transvaal Republic.
CHARLES A. RICKERD, New York police
man caught in the act of robbing a store on
his beat, was arrested, disgraced by having
the buttons cut from his uniform, indicted,
sentenced to ten years imprisonment, and
taken to Sing Sing, all in less than ten
hours.
DIR. SIMMONS, of New York, who attended
Samuel j. Tilden in his last illness, has sued
the executors of the Tilden estate for S143,-
O0U, the amount of his bill for medical SER
vices,
EX-AsSIsTANT CASHIER De BAUM, of the
National Park Bank, New York, has stolen
$95, 900 of the institutions funds and fled, it
is surmised, to Canada. This does not affect
the stability of the bank, as it has large
surplus.
NEW HAMPSHIRE Democrats held their
State Convention at Concord, and adopted
resolutions approving the Presidents mes
sage on the subject of Tariff reform, and
recommending him to the st. Louis con-
vention for denomination. The delegates
were instructed to so vote in the Presidential
Convention.
HENRY POPE, a colored murderer, was SEN
fenced to be hanged Friday, at Summerville,
Ga, but Governor Gordon respited him for
sixty days. There was such intense feeling
against the culprit, however, that a mob of
citizens took him from jail and lynched him.
THE State Republican Convention met at
Columbia, S. c., and chose delegates to the
Chicago Convention, who go thither unin-
structed on the subject of Presidential
nominee.
Two section men were killed and three
badly hurt near Elko Neb., by an engine
running into hand car.
THE Wisconsin Democracy assembled in
convention at Madison and adopted resolu-
tions demanding Tariff reform and indorsing
the administration of President Cleveland
A delegation was sent to the ST Louis Con-
viz
Presidential nomination. As electOrs-at-large
the Conventio elected Nelson Dewey, who
was the first Governor the State of Wis
conSn ever had, and Thomas Thompson, a
young Norwegian, from Trempealeau county.
GENERAL WRIT ADAMS, postmaster of
Jackson, Miss, and John II. Martin, editor
of the Nelc NissisSippidn. fought a street
duel, in which both were killed. The cause
of animosity was certain articles in Martin s
paper rejecting on the veracity of Adams.
The President has approved the act ma k
ing appropriations for the support OF the Mil
itary Academy: the act to secure the relin-
quishment of the Indian title TO certain por-
tionS of the reservation of the Sioux nation
Of Indians: the act ratifying an agreement
with the Gros Ventre, Piegan, Blood, Black
feet, and River Crow Indians in Montana;
the act for public building at Greenville, s.
c., and the act for the construction OF an ar
senal at Columbia Tenn
SIR ALFRED Phillips RYDER, Admiral
of her British Majesty's fleet, has been
drowned in the Thames at London. Admiral
Ryder suffered from insomnia and the
drowning was the result of an accident.