Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-04
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Coroners examination reveals traces of
noison. and it is believed that he was drugged
and robbed.
a LOCOMOTIVE was thrown from the track
near Ithaca. and Engineer Orlando Seeley
was instantly killed
JACOB FITZGERALD, OF Cayuga, dropped
dead in Watkins. He was a delegate
10 the Republican State Convention and
went to Watkins to take train for Saratoga.
Ex-MAYoR P. D. WALTER, of Lockport,
has died from the effects of fall
DELEGATES to the Republican State Con-
vention and the meeting of the Republican
State League gathered at Saratoga.
BY the upsetting of boat in Boston Har-
Dor E. G. Hartwen of Waltham and Arthur
Taft of Dedham, Mass, were drowned
THERE have been heavy frosts in Vermont
and Northern New York; heavy snow fell
on Mount Washington.
AN explosion of gas in a coal mine near
Dayton Tenn, has badly injured nine men,
two fatally.
LIGHTNING struck the house OF Mr.. Spauld-
ing, at Winona, Mimi. killing his six-year
daughter, and fatally injuring his wife.
ONE passenger was killed and several in
iured in a collision on the Northwestern
Railroad at Blackberry, Ill
AT cake walk at Culpeper, Va, James
Fitzgerald shot and killed his wife for per
hitting a handsomer man to kiss her
THE Superintendent of the Census has ap-
pointed Richard P. Rothwell, of New York,
chief special agent to take charge of the col
lection of statistics of gold and silver for the
XIth Census.
ANOTHER strike occurred of the stevedores
employed in the East India DOCKS London.
WILKIE COLLINS, the famous novelist, has
died of paralysis of the heart.
THE United States warshp Enterprise
arrived at Inverary, Scotland, and the
vessel at his castle.
THE Boston Board of Aldermen have voted
to erect statues to Generals Grant and
Sheridan and Admiral Farragut
SHERIFF NICHOLAS c.. DEaAREsT, of Ber-
gen County, N. j., was run over by an ex-
press train at Rutherford and instantly
killed.
THE New York Daily Graphic, an illus
trated paper, has ceased publication.
The President and ex-senator Henry G.
Davis made trip into West Virginia from
Deer Park, Nd.
AN extraordinary plague of pleuro- pneu-
monia has broken out among the cattle of
Chester County of the adjoining counties of
Montgomery and Berks, Penn.
THE Corn Palace Exhibition at Sioux CITY,
Iowa, is open.
THE public schools have been closed at
Marion, Ind, owing to the prevalence of
diphtheria.
THE firm of Belford Clarke 6, Co., promi-
nent Chicago book publishers, with branches
at New York and San Francisco, has sus-
pended, and a receiver has been appointed.
WALTER BALL, of West Point, Va, and
his son have been been indicted by the Grand
Jury for compelling B. T. Barham, at the
point of pistol, to marry Mr.. Balls daugh-
ter.
SEVERAL of the South American delegates
to the international Congress have arrived
IN this country.
COLONEL SWITzLER. Chief of the Bureau Of
Satisfies at the request of Secretary Win
dom, has rendered his resignation.
ALTHOUGH General Boulanger has been
personally successful in getting elected to
the French Assembly, his followers have
been Overwhelmingly defeated. The Re
publicans will have majority of almost $50
members in the new Assembly. Boulanger
having been declared ineligible by the High
Court of Justice, his election is useless unless
validated by the future Chamber.
A CHEST of dynamite exploded at the sta
stion in st. Petersburg just before the Gar
of Russia departed for Copenhagen.