Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-06
South and West.

FRANK MORRIS, John He'll James O'Brien
and Brodie Norris miners, of Charleston, W.
Va, were caught beneath fall of slate in
the mines of the Connellton Coal Company
in Fayette County and killed.
DIR. E. PARSONS, said to be the oldest prac-
ticing dentist in the United States, died a few
days ago at Savannah, Ga. He was born in
Northampton Mass, in 1906.
THE fourishing city of Colfax, ILL., on the
Illinois Central, has been almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire
THE President was enthusiastically received
and entertained by the city of Cincinnati,
after which he resumed his journey to In
dianapOlis.
AT a session of the Grand Lodge Of Odd
Fellows at Rome, Ga, Colonel Adolph
Brandt, while opposing g resolution, fell
dead in the hall from an attack of apoplezly:
He was prominent lawyer of Atlanta, and
widely known throughout the State.
WHILE out hunting near Eldora Iowa,
Banker L. F. Wisner was accidentally shot
and killed by his only son George, aged about
| tWenty-three. Mr. Wisner was President
and principal owner of the Hardin County
! QOWa) Bank.
BUD RENAUD has been found guilty, at
| Purvis, Miss, of participation in the Sulli-
van-kilrain prize-fght, and sentenced to 500
! fine.
THE Republican State Convention Of North
| Dakota has nominated E. S. Tyler of Fargo
for Auditor; Booker, of Pembina, for Treas
urer: Flittie, of Trail, for State Secretary,
and Corliss, of Grand Forks, for one of the
| Supreme Judges.
THE United States gunboat Petrol did not
! quite develop the required horsepower dur
ing the official trial at Baltimore. She de-
veloped 1880 horsepower, just twenty less
than the contract requirement.
'WHITE HORSE the Chief of the Crow
Indian tribe has been murdered by an IN
| known assassin. His remains were thrown
| into the Yellowstone River, in Montana.
GENERAL WILLIAM MALONE was nomina-
ted by reclamation to be the candidate for
Governor of the Republicans Of Virginia. in
! State ConventiD assembled at Norfolk, Va.
JIM Mccoy the noted desperate of south
western Texas, has been hanged at San An
! tonic, Texas for the murder of Sheriff Nc
| Kinney
THE wes5 side of the town of Fair
mont Vermilion County, Ill, was entirely
destroyed by fire. The loss is $50, 900.
TIE Montana Republicans met in State
Convention at Anaconda and nominated T.
| c. Power of Helena for Governor.
FOUR more men have been killed as a result
of the Howard-Turner feud in Harlan
County. in the mountains of southeastern
| Kentucky.
GOVERNOR COOPER, of Colorado, has called
the Presidents attention to the depredatiOrs
of the Ute Indians in Colorado. He wants
troops sent there.
AFTER tour in the Western and Pacific
States the Senate Committee on Reclama-
ton and Irrigation have arrived at San
Francisco where they will take testimony.
HENRY SHAW. the millionaire philanthro-
phist, of st. Louis, and founder Of Shaw's
Garden, is dead
HENRY ROBERTS was hanged at Butte,
Montana, for the murder Of j. w. Crawford,
one of his employees.
IN a quarrel at a primary election at
Newmen's Grove, Miss, W. H. Bradston
was killed, and his cousin, W. F. Bradston,
mortally wounded Four others were badly
wounded.
PERRY THRALL, a bad character, of Mexi-
co, No. on his deathbed the other day con-
fessed to the killing of William Van Deven-
ter and his wife, for whose murder Bill
Dudy, colored man. was hanged.
S. L. ENsLEY and S. T. Fowler, while en-
gagged in the Buckeye coal mine, in Mercer
County W. Va, were killed by large cut OF
coal and slate falling on them. The men
leave large families.
Q. E. LYBARGER, Postmaster at Milwood,
Knox County, Ohio, shot at his daughter
Daisy but missed her, the ball striking Mrs.
Lybarger and fatally wounding her. Ly-
barger then blew Outhis brains.
| WaShiu 0tOn.