Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-31
South and West.

A VERY light vote was pOlIed IN the cleo
ton for the ratification of the Sioux Falls
Constitution of 1885 throughout South
Dakota. At least eighty-fve per cent of the
total vote favored the ratification.
THE entire Wabash Railway system was
sold to the committee representing the ma
jority Of the bOndholders for SIS, $4,000.
REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD DONALDSON,
United States Navy, died of old age at his
home in Baltimore in the sixty-eighth year
of his age. He was born in Maryland.
AN English syndicate has consummated
the purchase of five large Detroit breweries.
The consideration was 800, 600
FOUR laborers were unloading carload of
iron at Detroit, Mich, when some part of the
brace holding the load broke and several tons
of iron fell on the men. Joe Benscotte was
killed and his three companions mortally in
jured.
A STORM of wind and rain swept over Bur-
lingtOn, Iowa, and surrounding country, de-
ing considerable damage to buildings. Snow
fell in Northern Michigan and Wisconsin to
a depth Of from three to five inches.
SEvENTEEN-YEAR locusts have made their
appearance in Tennessee
CHEF ENGINEER r. L. HARRIS, United
States Navy, who was on the Naval Examin-
ing Board to test the cruiser Charleston. at
San Francisco, died suddenly at Santa Bar
bara, Cal.
WHILE Mrs. Louis Palmer was cooking
supper at her home, five miles from Rockdale,
Texas. she dropped kerosene lamp, which
exploded and she was burned to death Her
husband discovered the house to be in flames,
and his attempts to save the two small
children asleepin the building were futile.
The American steamer Alaskan broke in
two during a storm, off Cape Blanco, Oregon.
Two sailors were drowned and several were
missing.
THREE of the persons implicated in the
robbery of United States Paymaster Wham
in Arizona have been aptured.
LIGHTNING has done much damage in many
places. At Leonard own, Md, Judge John
L. Milburn was struck and instantly killed
The ten-year-old son of NJ. Dorsey met SINH
lar fate near Chamberlain, Dakota. At FL
dora, Ia, ten valuable horses were killed.
RY THOMAS, editor of the Caseyville (Ky.)
Herald, shot and killed George EImore, and
himself received wounds in the stomach and
side. The shooting grew out of a reference to
ElmOre in Thomas's paper.
NELSON COLBERT (coloredD, who murdered
Philip Wentzen the Superintendent of the
Columbia street car stables in October last
was hanged at the District Jail
DELEGATES from fifteen of the principal
block coal mines of Indiana, representing
over 1000 men, met at Brazil, Ind, rejected
the operators demand for twenty cents re-
duction, and declared a strike by a two
thirds vote.
THE business portion Of Huntinburg, Ind,
was destroyed by fire. Loss S175,000.
AN eight-year-old girl and an eleven-year-
old boy, children of Gabriel Steadman, MUIR
dered their baby sister in Columbia S. c.,
because she cried.
A PARTY of colored men were returning to
Vicksburg, Miss, from the Louisiana shore
in two skitfs, and when near the foot of West
Pass the passengers iii one of them, frightened
by the wind and waves capsized the boat.
Nine of them were drowned, one little girl
alone escaping.
BITTER feeling, engendered by an election
for School Directors in Forest City Ark, re-
suited in the killing of three white and one
cOlored man. Marshal Frank Folbre was
shot down first, but before he died he killed
Sheriff D. NJ. Wilson and Thomas Parham
horood 1ei i4 prGr4fnC + cOiIIeu + pCEUaia
in newspaper Office. but was hunted down
and riddled with bullets.