Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-23

OUO pS- sons. Inc pTOuGSs WHICH amount 10
s5OOO viii be devoted to securing the arrest
and punishment of the murderers of DR. H.
Cronin, Of Chicago.
DR.. ALEXANDER Brown Morn, one Of the
most noted OF American surgeons, and a son
Of the famous surgeon, Valentine Mott, died
at his country seat near Yonkers, n. z, of
pneumonia Dr. Mott was born in New
York March 81, 1926.
H WEBB, of Wi1kesbarre, Penn, thirty
four years of age, and Herman Newmayer,
of the same place. forty-f1ve, jumped from a
train at Chain Dam, Penn. Webb was in
stantly killed and Newmayer was fatally
hurt
THE returns from the school elections in
Kansas, on the day after the election, showed
that about $4,000 women voted. Many
ladies were elected to Office.
Dr. J. B. WORKMAN, of Winchester, Va,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
THREE brothers, named David, Joe and
Albert Sill, brutally murdered Edward
Stamford, their sisters husband, five miles
north Of Shelbyville, Ind. All were drunk.
FIRST COMPTROLLER MATHEWS has de-
cided that the appropriation of $500 600 made
by the act of March 2, 1889, for agricultural
experiment stations" can be used for the
benefit only of the forty stations for which
estimates were made.
The Superintendent Of Census has ap-
pointed Dr.. J. S. Billings, Professor Henry
Gannett and William c. Hunt to report upon
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tabulating the Eleventh Census returns.
A FIRE at Sachsenberg, Germany, has de-
stroyed one-half Of the town. The losses are
very heavy. The poor are the chief suffer
ers. Many families lost everything, and the
greatest distress prevailed.
of poisoning her husband, was sentenced to be
hanged in London on Monday, August 26.
Mr.. Lincoln the United States Minister, and
many Americans in London signed a petition
for reprieve.
THE Riverside and Oswego mills property
in Rhode Island and New York have assigned
with liabilities of 5000, 600.
THE steamer City of Paris lowered the
ocean record eastward crossing from New
York to Liverpool, England, in five days,
twenty-three hours and forty -four minutes.
JUDGE BooKsTAvER, in the Court of Com
mon Pleas has annulled the decree of di-
vorce granted by him to Mary A. Flack
wife of the Sheriff of New York. TIE an
nulment is on the ground that the divorce
was fraudulently obtained, without Mrs.
Flack's knowledge or consent. Lawyer
e.
the fraud on the shoulders of Mcneil and
Referee Meeks. Meeks was forced to resign
his Office of searcher
THE boiler of Thomas Anderson & Co. S
stave factory at Dawson, KY, exploded.
James jackson was killed and six others
seriously injured. Laton Menser and Dennis
Purdy, who were wounded, have since died.
| DIR. JAMES L. CAH1LI, senior member Of
the faculty of the University of Virginia,
died few days ago at Overton, Va. He was
bora in Nelson County, Va, August 26, 1918,
and graduated from the University of Vir-
! ginia in 1888.
jim" BROOKS, colored was arrested at
| Orange, Texas, for assaulting white woman
nearly eighty years old. He was taken from
the guards next morning by mob of five
hundred men, who hanged him to a tree and
then riddled his body with bullets.
A FIRE at Truckee, Cal, burned all east
| of Bridge street and north of the railroad to
the roundhouse. Forty dwellings were
burned rendering many families homeless.
| The loss is about $75 600.
SECRETARY WINDOW has designated the
name Of LOT M. Morrill," for the new
revenue marine vessel just finished at Balti-
more for the Charleston Is. c. station.
CARRY's brewery, in northeast Washing.
ton, has been sold to New York capitalists.
The price paid is 100000.
THE Duke of Fife declines to permit his
wife, Princess Louise of Wales, to accept any
share of the recent Parliamentary grant to
the royal family
SENIOR SARDINIA, who was recently kid
mapped by banditti in Cuba, has been re-
leased on the payment of a ransom of $12 900
in gold.
INVENTOR THOMAS EDISON assembled the
Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition and
took luncheon at the summit A number OF
artists from the opera were present and
sang into photograph, which aftervard
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