Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-08
South and West.

AN important convention of wheat grow
ers of the Mississippi Valley opened at st.
Louis, No, in response to a call by the
Farmers Federation.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio, who has
been seriously i'll, has gradually improved
until his condition is now favorable to rapid
recovery.
THE large Touring nail of the L. C. Porter
Milling Company, at @inona, Mimi, has
been destroyed by fire The loss is approx
mated at $780, 600.
No collector has been stationed at the
United States Castom House at OsooyoOs
Lake on the British Columbia border. and
now the Indians have taken possession of the
structure formerly occupied by representa-
tives of this Government. Opium is being
Struggled across the line and cattle are being
stolen by border thieves.
The New Orleans Grand Jury have in
dicted ex-State Treasurer Burke, who is now
abroad, for forgery in uttering as true forged
Louisiana bonds.
CHILDREN playing in barn at MuskegOn,
Mich, set the building on fire, and little An
ME Michaels persisted in the flames.
ALLIANCE DAY drew 60, 900 farmers to the
Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta Ga.
A NUMBER of vessels have been driven
ashore by bad weather near Norfolk, Va.
WHILE Hugh Mccullough, the Superintend-
ent of Perkins, cotton gin, near Memphis,
Tenn, was sitting in his Office, an unknown
person shot him through the window and
killed him
The United States war ship Gaiena arrived
at Chesapeake Bay with a number of the
rioters from Navassa Island on board.
FIRE at Port Clinton, Ohio, destroyed
August Spies & CO. lumber yard en- eleva-
tor filed with grain, two dwellings, railroad
cars and docks. Loss, 500, 900.
JOE HAROLD, the colored man who made
an assault on lady of Columbus, Miss, was
captured at Tupel0, and was taken to tho
scene of his attempted outrage, fully identi-
fed and lynched- He confessed.
Two boys of Fultonvile, W, Va. drank a
half gallon of whisky and died
THE steel cruiser San Francisco has been
successfully launched at the Union Iron
Works in San Francisco.
FIRE has destroyed property in Selma
Ala, to the value of nearly a quarter Of
million dollars.
MRS CATHARINE CLIFFORD, a lodging
house keeper in St Paul Mimi, has been
which destroyed her house Chief Engineer
Cook was thrown from his carriage and fa-
| tally in urcd.
Washington.
THE President has appointed Edward T.
Green of New Jersey. United States District
Judge for the District Of New Jersey
IMMIGRANTS who arrived at the ports of the
United States from the principal countries,
except Canada and Mexico, during nine
months ending September 80 numbered 3d9,-
1OS, decrease of 103, 500 as compared with
the same months last year
THE contract for furnishing postage stamps
for four years has been awarded to the
American Bank Note Company of New York
city.
president HARRISON has granted an alb
solute pardon to George c. Wood, convicted
of polygamy in Utah and sentenced to five
years Imprisonment in the. penitenlary and
TO pay fine of $500.
j. HUXLEY ASHTON, of Washington, has
been appointed counsel for the United States
before the Venezuela Claims Commission
IA BIDS for three new 2OOO-ton steel cruisers
Awere opened at the Navy Department. Five
builders rendered bids and all were within
Ehe appropriation.