Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
South and West.

| South and West.
JOHN f. BARTON, known as the Gogebic
Iron King during the Wisconsin mining craze
two years ago, has made an assignment;
liabilities, 1926, 900.
! SHELL Rock, Iowa, has been totally de-
| stroyed by fire
THE cotton crop in the vicinity of Column
! bus Texas, has been damaged to the extent
| Of $500, 900 by freshet along the Colorado
| River
AT Brewton, Ala, man named CASTOR
committed suicide by throwing himself on a
| circular saw. He was cut in twain.
THE Virginia State Prohibition Conven-
! ton in session at Lynchburg nominated a
! ticket as follows: For Governor Thomas E.
| Taylor; Lieutenant-G Governor, W. j. Shell
; burn; Acknowledgement Judge j. NJ. Quar-
! les.
THREE farmers have been killed by light
ming at Grand Forks Dakota.
AT Butler, Ind, fire almost entirely de-
stroyed the extensive car shops of the Eel
| River Division of the Wabash road. Loss
| 100000. Over 100 men are thrown out of
work.
JEFFERSON KING, Albert Doltar and Fred
| Beiff1e, were killed and about dozen in ured
! by boiler explosion at a planning mill in
| Chicago.
ARSENIC was placed in the food of the four
/ children of Joseph Hunter, planter, living
near Star City Ark, and three Of them have
died The criminal and his motive are I'M
known.
HALF of a four-story stone business block
in Columbus, Ohio, owned by the heirs of the
BreyfOgle estate, was destroyed by fire, caus-
ing a loss of over $500, 900.
The accounts of Auditor Graham, of Leb-
anon Ohio, who was supposed to have
skipped to Canada were said to be $50, 900
short.
The United States gunboat Petrol, on her
second official trial trip off Baltimore, failed
to develop for four hours the 100 horse power
required by the contract. A new test viii be
made
DR.. mellow, the slayer of Captain Daw-
son, editor of the Charleston IS. c. NeoUs
and Courier has been expelled from the
| South Carolina Medical Society, and the
honorary members of the military company
of which he is surgeon are moving to with
draw from it.
WARRANTS were issued at Denver, Col,
for the arrest Of Secretary of State James
Rice, Sheriff Weber and his partner in the
furniture firm of Graham & Weber; NJ. H.
Lawrence & Co., who supplied the Assembly
with stationery and State Printers Collier &
Cleveland. All are charged with conspiracy to
defraud the State in the purchasing of sup
plies.
THE bodies of Mrs John McGregor and two
children were discovered in ten inches Of
water in a small creek near Youngstown,
Ohio. The woman had first drowned her
children and then herself. Her husband had
left her in destitute circumstances and she
was seen begging for food the day before.
MARTIN PIPHER and William BolIe were
suffocated in a fermenting tank at Santa
Rosa (Cal,) winery.
ALBERT BULow has been hanged at Little
Falls, Mimi, for the murder of Franklin
Eich This is the first execution to take
Mo loU IA
criminals shall be executed in the strictest
privacy and that no newspaper men shall be
present. Thirteen persons witnessed the exc
cutlOn
ANITA AND MIRIAM BoGGs, maiden sisters
living in Jackson County, Va, committed
suicide by taking arsenic. They left letter
signed jointly, saying that there was moth
ing in life for old maids, and they were tired
of it. They were in good circumstances
Tom SIMPSON, Deputy Sheriff Morgan and
J. B. Howton were killed near Birmingham
Ala, during family feud.
THE Oklahoma Territorial Convention de-
cided to partition the Territory into twelve
counties. The names recommended for two
of the counties were Harrison and Cleve-
land
THREE of the five coiored men who muir
dered Pratorion, at Red River Junction
Ark, a few months ago, were lynched at the
scene of the murder.
RICHARD LYMAN, aged tWenty-three, and
Bertha Head, aged twenty, were drowned at
Kenosha, Wis, while going bathing.
Ex-Governor NELSON DEWEY, one Of
Wiscopsins early Governors, has just died at
Cassville, Wis, aged seventy-1ve years.
A PACKAGE of forty registered letters, con.
tanning about $1,000 was stolen from the
registry department Of the Milwaukee (Wis)
postofhce.
THE steamer st. Nicholas with 500 col
ored excursionists ran into the closed draw
bridge over ST. Augustine Greek, four miles
south of Savannah, Ga, demolishing the for
ward part of the steamer, killing two women
and injuring twenty-eight men and women,
some of them fatally.
J. P. SUssMILCH and wife, of Rockford,
H., committed suicide together by drowning.
They were both seventy years Of age. and in
good circumstances
Washington.