Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-01-20
LATER NEWS.

JOIN NEWELL was reelected Prssidsnt OF
the Erie Railroad.
LAST year there were forty-tvo Persous
killed and two hundred aud four injured On
the surface and elevated railroads Ia New
York city.
A COMMITTEE appointed by the New York
Legislature in 1886 has reported in favor oe
the adoption OF electricity as tbs mode OF ex-
ecuting criminals instead OF hanging.
Governor FORAKER was inaugurated fcr
his second term at Columbus, Ohio
NATURAL gas has broken out in the water
fountain at the Leland Hotel. Chicago
THE Detroit Light Infantry Armory. ths
handsonest structure Of that character in tia
country, was destroyed by fire.
The anniversary % the battle OF Now Or
leans was eel sbrared with great ceremony IN
the Crescent City.
THERE was a collision on the Union Pacific
near Fort Steel. Wy. T. in which two chill
dren were burned to death and five peopas
injured.
Two men were killed and several hurt ny
the bursting OF boiler in Brazil, Ind
CONSULAR appointments by the Presidents
j. Harvey Brigham, OF Louisiana, Consul
at K ngston, Jamaica; Wi!lism l. Brad
ford, of Alabama, at Barranquilla; Lebbeus
G. Bennington, West Virginia, mt Rio
Grande do Sui; Jacob l. Doty, OF Brooklyn
", at Tahiti, Society Islands; Thomas
w. Hotchkiss, of New York. sc Ottawa.
Ont Beckford Mackey, of South Carolina, a.
Passo Del Norte; Charles 5. Torck. OF Texas,
at Monterey.
A NEW YORK jury has awarded EiB
Cara Campbell $45,O in her breach-0f-
promise suit for 800. 1000 damages againss
Charles Arbuckle, n wealthy coffee merchant
Defendant will appeal
THREE paupers were burned To death In
the poorhouse at Monroe, Conn an inmate
named Collyer rescuing nine others from .
similar fate.
THE Rev. Frederick Howard, OF jackson,
Tenn has sued sixteen members OF his CON
gregation for SANDER, claiming $4,000 dam
ages.
AT Durham. n. c., Lucial Rowe, a negro.
was sentenced to be hung for burglary.
INDIANS killed two OF party OF prospectors
near Tombstone A. T.
j. D. BARNES fatally shot Lew. Owcns
the weaithiest citizen OF Chattanooga. Tenn
SOME time ago Rev Thos. Z. Ryan, was
murdered and robbsd in Roane county, w.
Va, and Robert and George Duff and Ches-
ter Coon were brutally lynch d for tho
crime Detectives have discovered that thesa
men were innocent, and that the real muir
| derers were Their lynchers.
SENATOR j. B. BECK was re elecSe United
States S, nator by the Kentucky legislature
THE Senate Committee on Territories in
structed its Chairman, Senator Platt. TO TO
port favorably a bill for the division OF
| 81 a. Of
| as State.
| PoSTMASTERS nominated by the Presldente
Lewis r. Norton. We5tfieId, Mass; Henry
| N Pardee. Northfor1. Conn; Charles h
| Edwards, Portland, Conn. Michael u. Muir
ray, JohnStown, N. Y {; Henry K. Boyco.
Fonda, n. Y; Giles NJ. Stoddard, Groton.
N Y; James Garvin, Morristown. N. Y.
| FAVORABLE reports were made by the Sen
ate committees on the confirmation OF Mr.
| Was as Secretary Of the Interior, and OF Mr.
| Dickinson as Postmaster General.
THE Senate Judiciary Committee made u
majority report, signed by all the Repubh
can members against the confirmation OF
Mr.. Lamar as Supreme Court Justice and
a minority report, signed by all the Demo
cratic members, in favor of confirmation
THE value of the jub.les presents received
| by the Pope is 81, OOo,OOC.
NEWS has been received hat Stanley has
succeeded in reaching Emin Boy in Central
| Africa.
DR. PHILLIP Cross, formerly surgeon IN
the British Army, was hangel at Cork, Ire-
land. for poisoning his wife.
An American ship, the Alfred d. Snow on
Maine. was wrecked of Waterford. ireland,
and owing to the cowardice OF the Govern
ment Life Boat Captain, the entire crow I'd
| sixteen men persisted.