Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
South and West.

THE Hon. John T. Clarke, Judge Of the
Georgia Court, stepped off the train at
Snithville, Ga, and was killed.
TOMMY WILLIAMS, aged five, and his sister
coal oil at Columbus, Ohio. The children
were so badly burned that they died in an
hour.
WHITE GHOST, head chief Of the Grow
Creeks, has signed the Sioux bill. He was
the bitterest opponent Of the bill.
PRESIDENT FRANK Brown, of the Denver,
Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad, and
two of his assistants, have lost their lives in
attempting to make a survey for that road
through the canyons Of the Colorado River.
SCOTT TODD and Charlie Rosier, two
boys, were drowned in White River at
Anderson, Ind, and Stephen Billy met a
like fate while trying to recover their bodies
NEARLY all the business part Of Little
Rock, H., has been destroyed by fire.
GEORGE LEWIS, colored living near
Beiden, Texas, has been lynched for poison
ing the well of William Shaw.
CARBON & JOHNSON, big builders at Ishpe-
ming, Mich, have failed; liabilities, $50, 900.
THE entire Chinatown district of Sacra-
mento, Cal, consisting Of forty wooden
buildings, mainly rookeries, has been des-
troyed by fire.
The bodies of three unknown men, two
white and one cclored were found at Pine,
Ind All three Of the mems heads were
crushed, and it is supposed they were MUIR
dered while asleep and that the deed was
committed by tramps.
THE yield of spring wheat in Minnesota
and Dakota is placed at 0,000,O 900 bushels.
JESS COLEMAN, a young man, shot and
killed his sweetheart, Miss Madge Smith at
Xenia, Ind, and then killed himself.
JOE Cook and Sol Dorsey, two colored men
of Trenton, La. quarreled after a church
meeting and killed each other
THE Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. J. B. Helwig, Of Springfield, for Gov
ernOr.
TIE North Dakota Constitutional Conven-
ton decided to submit the prohibition ques-
ton to popular vote, and the Constitutional
Convention at Olympia, Washington, has
approved the taxation Of churches, private
schools and charitable institutions.
Two little sons of Fred. Droenke were
killed while playing on the railroad tracks
at Elmhurst III.
JAAIES KELLY, (coloredD, who assaulted Mrs.
Peter Grow, wife of g section boss was taken
from Jail and hanged to bridge at Paris
KY. by a mob.
W. T DAVIS who for three years has been
the Secretary Of the Tennessee State Wheel
a farmers association, mysteriOusly left
Nashville after confessing in a letter to Off
GERS OF the organization that he was short
$1,000 in his accounts and intended to commit
suicide.
AN English syndicate has purchased sew
enty-eight grain elevators in the Van Deu-
sen system in the Northwest.
MUCH damage was caused by storms in the
Northwest; excessive rains threatened to
ruin the wheat in shock.
Ton BOWLING (colored) was hanged in
the jail at Baton Rouge, La, for the murder
of Philip Walsh (white). Charles Sellars,
who murdered Bunyan Adams In Richland
Parish, La, was hanged at Raville, La.
and Frank Blunt, a colored desperate, was
hanged at Valdosta, Ga. for the murder Of
Willis Miller, also colored.
COLONEL E. A. JONES, Surgeon-General of
Ohio and a prominent resident of Cincinnati
was found in manhole, murdered. His col
ored servant has confessed to the murder.
CHARLES s. CRTsLER, { prominent law
yer of Independence. Mo, is a defaulter to
the amount OF $50, coo. He has fed.
TIE joint cozn1iz1io-, between the two
Dakotas ct 8isnarc1E-, has reached an agree