Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-12-21
LATER NEWS.

| New ork city, OF paralysis. Except rear
Admiral Rogers, Admiral Leroy had seen
more sea service than any other admiral in
the navy, having served his country at sea
twenty eight years and one month.
THE Maryland Central Railroad, running
from Baltimore to Delta Penn, forty miles,
has been sold under foreclosure for $500, 900.
| The company will be reOrganized with a
capital stock of s4O0 900 and funded debt
| of $780, O0
JOHN MARTIN, of Chicago shot and killed
Mrs. Memie, a married woman with whom
he was infatuated, and then killed himself.
SHERIFF ROBERT JONES, OF Wabash, Ind,
was killed by John Fleming, an escaped con-
vict, whom he attempted to capture.
A vER1TABLE volcano, ejecting fire, ashes
and lava, has burst out with activity at
Charles, Mix County Oak, within a few
miles of Hot Springs, which discharges into
the Missouri River near Fort Randall.
GOVERNOR MoRfHoUsE, of Missouri, has
sent State troops to Bevier on account of in
cendiary acts done by striking coal miners
| there.
! ORDER has been restored in Birmingham,
! Ala. The jail is under military guard. Gov
ernor Seay approves the action of Sheriff
| Smith in defending murderer Halves against
the mob Six more victims are dead, max
ing fifteen in all.
FRANK H. THOMAS has been appointed by
President Cleveland Discussing Clerk and
Superintendent of postoffice buildings.
THE President has appointed Howard Ellis,
of New Jersey, to be Consul of the United
States at Rotterdam.
IT has just been discovered that S240, 900
has been stolen from the Spanish govern
ment's deposit bank in Madrid. The robbers
are unknown.
THIRTY persons have been bitten by mad
wolves near villages in the neighborhood OF
Arsova, Austria A majority of them have
already died after suffering great agony.
A BATTLE has taken place between the
British and Arabs at Suakim, Egypt. The
artillery began the work. The enemy's right
redoubt was nearly destroyed by the heavy
combined fire of the ships and forts. The
Arabs replied. wounding one Egyptian.
THOMAS & Sons tack works, at Norris
town, Penn, has been burned. Loss, 1000.
THOMAS N HART, Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Boston, defeating Hugh
O'Brien, Democrat, by 20O0 ma jority. Owing
to the school book question. about $4,000
women voted for School Board candidates.
Miss MATTE Ross an aged woman living
near Amontown, Penn, was bound, burned
and tortured by three masked men until she
revealed the hiding place of her money. The
thieves got but 81.
Two boys named Ollie Redman and John
Wright were drowned in the river at Gin
cinnati.
UNITED STATES SENATOR BUTLER, of
South Carolina, has been reelected.
The seventy third birthday of Indiana
was celebrated in various ways by the chill
dren Of that State, a State holiday having
been made therefor.
Noah TAYLOR, colored, charged with the
murder of man named Stegall at Har-
risonburg, Miss, was taken from Jail by
a mob and hanged.
AS Stroll & Hamans's feed mill at Trow-
bridge, Ohio, about to start, Henry
Humans stopped the steam, when the boiler
exploded, killing him and a customer who
was standing near by. Wallace Stroll and |
one boy were fatally injured and another boy !
slightly. Everything is a total wreck, ex-
cept the grinder.
BY an explosion of gas in coal mine near
Canyon City, Col, while workmen were
engaged in extinguishing a fire that had
previously broken out, two men were killed,
two mortaliy injured and eight more seriously
hurt
JOSEPH LAMP, eighteen years old, caused
the death Of Jonathan Mason, lad of the
same age, at Martinsburg. w. Va, by
slapoing MIN on the jugular vein.
THE Stone and Lumber Company, of
Columbus, Ind, has assigned with liabilities
of 500, 900. The assets are 1886, 900
THE case of ex-Messenger David B.
against the Adams Express
Company, at ST. Louis, Mo-, for false i'm
prisonment in connection with the celebrated
Jim Cummings robbery, has been settled at
st. Louis, the company paying him 5000.
THE United States Treasury Department
decides that Canadian dredgers having
machinery entered at an American
port are dutiable on both dredges and ma
chinery.
THE Engineer Commissioner of the United
States reports that 1911 miles of telegraph
and telephone wires in the city of Washing
ton out of 1850 are under ground He rec
that each company be required to
place its wires under ground in its own
conduitS
THE Pope has declared IN an official docu-
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