Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
LATER NEWS.

A BRIDE and groom, while spending their
honeymoon at New London, n. H, were &C
cidentally drowned in Sunapee Lake.
A CRIPPLE woke up John Gushannon, at
Bennington, Vt, and asked for drink Of
whisky. Failing to get the liquor he muir
dered him with his crutch.
PATRICK KELLY, seaman on the Atlantic
steamer Erin, for New York, stabbed two of
his shipmates to death in the vessels fore
castle while on the high seas.
FIRE destroyed the Brush Westingh ouse
electric light plant in New Orleans. Loss
100000.
A FRoLIC at Axton, Va, ended in the
murder of two young men by drunken ruff
fan.
FRED GLEASON, aged twenty, John Will
hanson, aged eighteen, and Louis Burnam,
aged SIXTEEN were drowned at Wilkes Lake,
Mich, while bathing. Gleason got into
deep water and the other two were drowned
while attempting to save him.
A MEXICAN boy, Pedro Jones' aged Is,
shot and killed George Stevenson, post
master and station agent at Glamis, Arizona.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has appointed special
committee, consisting Of Messrs Ford,
Spinola Oates Morrow and Guenther, to
investigate the subject of contract and
pauper immigration.
THE President has approved the joint reso-
luton extending the provisions of the joint
resolution relating to the disposal of public
lands to the States of Florida and Louisiana.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany. has
agreed that his mother bear the title of
Empress and Queen.
MICHAEL DUNPHY, of Brooklyn, N Y,
while in a drunken rage, murdered his half
brother John and then killed himself.
THE Democratic National Campaign Com
mittee met at the headquarters in New York
city, and elected Colonel Calvin S. Brice, of
Ohio, Chairman.
Two women were burned to death and
three persons injured through the explosion
of an oil lamp at Buffalo, N. Y.
CONRAD JACKSON, colored has been hanged
at Waco, Texas, for the murder of John
Talley, a prominent white planter, one year
ago. Jackson, who was nineteen years DID,
made confession on the gallows.
w A PORTS, who was to have been hanged
at Washington, N. c., escaped the galIows by
committing suicide on the day he was
doomed 10 Ole.
PUTNAM DARDEN, Grand Master of the
National Grange of the United States, died
recently at his residence in Fayette. Miss.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent the fol-
lowing nominations to the Senate: Lambert
Tree, of Illinois, to be Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary Of the United
States to Belgium; Robert r. Roosevelt, OF
New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States to the Netherlands; Rufus Magee, OF
Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary anC
Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to Sweden and Norway; Charles l.. Scott, OF
Alabama to be Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary Of the United
States to Venezuela; John z. Bacon. of South
Carolina, to be Minister Resident of the
United States to Paraguay and Uruguay.
THE President has vetoed four more pri
vate pension bills and signed a number OF
others.
THE Police Department has just completed
a census of the District of Columbia. It's re-
port shows the total population to be 21S, Isl
white population, 145, 635; colored, 70, 522
A STATE of revolution exists in Venezuela
and DR.. Juan 2. r. Paul has assumed the
office of President