Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-11
South and West.


THE fOur-year son of E. T. Leidol was
burned to death at Milwaukee, Wis, while
lighting candles on Christmas tree.
WHITE CAP outrages are reported from
Martins Ferry, Ohio.
The banking house of w. r. Morse, at
Clarks, Neb. has closed it's doors. The
liabilities are placed at $50, 900; no assets.
JOHN PEABODY, JR, teller in the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Bank of Columbia,
Ga, has committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head.
THE Denver Gas Company had 100 men
employed in excavating a ditch. six feet
deep, along the side of and underneath the
track of the cable car line, when suddenly
the track for an entire block fell, crushing
the life out Of four men and badly wound
ing two more.
JOHN BRYAN, the little son of a farmer,
died like a hero near Nebraska City, Neb.
The house caught fire. The father, mother
and five of the children escaped One little
girl was left in the house. The brave boy
went into the burning house and brought her
out safely. Then he rushed back to secure
some clothing for his mother and the chill
dren who were standing almost naked in the
snow. He was overcome by the flames and
died.
BOAT containing a party of holiday
merry makers was capsiZed in San Fran
Disco Call Bay, and three men and three
women were drowned.
in prison at Columbus, Ohio, has SO far re-
covered his mind that he has been placed at
work again.
WESTON LEACH prominent citizen of
At anita, Ca, and little boy, Bijah Gravett,
were killed while king on trestle. They
were walking hand in hand in the middle of
the trestle 200 feet high, when a passenger
train caught them
The town Of Auburn, Dakota, has been al
most wiped out by fire.
JOHN T. YATES, ex-Justice of the Peace
of Seneca, Kan, persisted in the snow while
on his way home in a buggy.
THE Merchants and Manufacturers Ex-
change, of Norfolk, Va. has been merged
into the Chamber of Commerce. with 1870 new
members.
NIKE O'GARA, aged thirteen, killed his
elev, n-year-old brother Robert while hunt
ing, near Flemingsburg, KY. In attempting
to shoot a rabbit Mike tripped and fell, both
barrels being discharged, and tearing off
half Of Roberts head.
THE City Gas Works at Big Rapids, Mich
We're destroyed by fire, leaving the city in
darkness.
THE ducking tub and hanging by the
wrist modes of punishment, long in vogue at
the Ohio PenitentiarY, at Columbus, have
been abolished by Warden Coffin as too
severe and inhuman, and the dark dungeon
will be substituted for them.
A CHILD of Joseph Croft, aged sixteen
months was b >rned to death at Westminster,
Md, a three-year- old brother setting its
clothing on fire during the mothers absence.
A DYNAMITE cartridge placed under the
corner of house near McGaheysville Va,
in which party of co!ored people were hav-
ing a dance exploded and almost totally de-
stroyed the building, fatally injuring Amos
Moore and two women.
MARTHA HIGDON, a girl eighteen years
old, of Jellico, Tenn, killed Pete Morris,
who was trying to murder her father.
PET OVERTON was hanged at Bastrop,
La, for the murder of Frank Hearsey in
April last and Ling Sing, Chinaman, was
hanged at San Francisco, Cal, for the MUIR
der of his uncle.
FIRE originating in Macarthur Brothers
drug store at BOttineaux, Dakota, destroyed
the business portion of that town.
WILLIAM WEST and John Darcy, after a
wordv quarrel at the residence of the latter in
Craighead County, Ark. .resOrted to shooting
irons with fatal results to both.
AMOS J. STILLWELL, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Hannibal, No.. was
murdered in his bedroom in a struggle with
a burglar The weapon used was an ak.
THOMAS VINES, assistant timekeeper of the
Adams & Westlake Manufacturing Com
panv of Chicago, disappeared, taking with
him the weeks salary OF 200 men and boys.
The amount was about $4,000 done up in