Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-07-26
South and West.

| ROBERT REDBERRY, aged eighteen years,
| and Willie Wise, aged seventeen years, were
! drowned while bathing at Alton, Ill. The
father Of young Wise met with similar fate
| about week ago.
THE election of delegates to the Con-
stitutional Convention of Wyoming re-
suited in the choice Of thirty-six Republicans
sixteen Democrats and three Independents.
The Convention will meet September 2. The
desire for State government is general.
GUsTAvE John and Emil Plettig, of
Chicago, were drowned at Kilbourn, Wis,
while trying to run the dam in a rowboat
A SLIGHT shock Of earthquake was felt in
Charleston, S. G.
THE prizefghter John L. Sullivan was
arrested at Nashville, Tenn, Oh a telegraphic
requisition from Governor Lowry, of
Mississippi, but Immediately released on
writ of hebeas corpus
A CLOUDBURsT occurred on the Sante Fe
road a few miles above Albuquerque, New
Mexico. The tracks for several miles were
washed away and two bridges are gone.
Steel rails were twisted into all kinds of
shapes.
WM.WEDD1NGroN, colored has been hanged
at Charlotte, n. c., for the murder of PO-
iceman John Pierce. The eight-year old
son of Pierce witnessed the execution of his
fathers murderer.
EDMUND RICE, Congressman from the
Fourth District of Minnesota died recently
at White Bear, MINI. He was seventy.one
years old.
THE Chippewa commission was successful
at Red Lake and the Indians cede the greater
portion of their reservation.
THE ''green nudge" has appeared in myri-
ads around Palmyra, Wis, destroying every
thing infested by the insect. Whole acres of
potato vines are dead from their ravages, and
farmers are burning their grain fields
ACTING SECRETARY OF STATE WYATT, of
TN~Jo
for ten days for having refused to comply
with an order Of court.
FIRE at Fresno, Cal, destroyed half a block
of brick buildings. Loss, $500, 600.
THE funeral of Mrs John Tyler took place
in st. Peters Cathedral Richmond, Va At
the conclusion Of the services the remains
were taken to Hollywood and inferred by the
side Of her husband, the ex-President.
JOSEPH n. MOODY. of Ansley, Neb shot
and instantly killed his wife. He then fed,
but his body was found some distance away
with a bullet hole in his head.
HEAVY rains have seriously injured crops
in Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, the colored murderer,
has been hanged at Memphis, Tenn.
The Otis Iron and Steel Works in Cleve-
land, Ohio have been bought by English
capitalists for s., 100000.
SEVERAL lives are reported lost, cattle
drowned ana IarIn buildings and crops de-
stoyed by the storm that swept over BaIti
more, Hartford and Carroll Counties in
Maryland. The rainfall was the heaviest on
record In few minutes fifteen bridges in
the flooded district were destroyed. The
losses in Baltimore County are estimated at
over $4,000.
NEWTON Cook, aged fifty-six: Henry
Hoover, aged fifty give, and Frank Warner,
aged nineteen, were burned to death in the
jail at jacksonville, Oregon.
a CLoUDBURsT occurred in the mountains
just north of Fort Robinson, Neb. Marsh
Duncan, woodchopper, and three of his
children were drowned.
PRINCETON, Ohio, has been blown away by
a terrific wind-storm. There were about
thirty houses, including a sawmin and
school-house. All are gone.