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

WHILE five men were digging large we'll
at the Victor coal mines, in Colorado, the
walls caved in, killing two white men and
one negro.
PAUL MCBRIDE, son of well-known St.
Louis lawyer, while drunk shot and instant
ly killed Frank Lotus, a fireman, who acct
dentally jostled against him on the street.
LEssING, SOLOMON & ROsENTHAL, whole
sale dealers in dry goods and cotton III
Waco, Texas have suspended with liabilities
of nearly 81 OOO, 900.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, spoke to
large crowd at the Atlanta Exposition.
Two bands of brigands are raiding Came
ron County, Texas. Many murders and rob-
berries are reported, and the people of the
county are in state Of terror.
GREAT restitution prevails among the
farmers of Central Dakota, caused by the al
most total failure of crops. Many are with
out wheat, corn or vegetables. A relief COM
mittee has been organized
JOHN OSLEN and William Draper have
been hanged at Placerville, Cal, for the
murder of John Law. J. Fl. Myers was
hanged for participating in the same crime
some time ago.
MRS. SCHOLL, of Santa Ana, Cal, MUIR
dered her two children to prevent them from
falling into the hands of her husband, from
whom she was divorced. She afterward at
tempted to take her own life.
ONE man has been killed and several fatally
injured in a railroad wreck at Lebanon,
Ind.
F. F. KIMBALL, United States District AT
torney for the Western District of Missouri,
has died in Kansas City.
BY the explosion of boiler in saw-mill
at Marshall, ILL.,, two men were killed, and
three badly injured.
JAMES HICKEY, who had confessed to
being concerned in some brutal murders,
was lynched in Chiffon County, Ala.
R. F. PETTIGREW and Gideon G. Moody
have been elected United States Senators by
the South Dakota Legislature.
THE Presbyterian Synod, which has been
holding its annual session in Baltimore, con-
cluded its labors and adjourned to meet i'll
Wilmington, Del, next year.
A TRAIN struck a broken rail at Howell
Kan, and was ditched. Over twenty people
were injured.
FIVE Apache Indians, convicted of murder
at Florence, Ariz., have been sentenced to be
hanged.
WILLIAM L. JORDAN son of the Postmas
ter of Richmond, Va, has been arrested for
robbing the mails
The police have discovered that the incen-
diary fires which have occurred in Kan SaS
City Mo, were started by band of school
boys. They were regularly organized, and
called themselves ''Captain Kids Pets"
HENRY DEsOBY went to Crosse Tete La,
with the lnCentlOn or killing henry w llDert,
manager Of the ROsendale Lumber Company,
but not finding him he killed the foreman in
the yard.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, and party
visited Knoxville Tenn, and received the at
tention of all classes of people.
THE Texas aud Pacific roundhouse at
Longview, Texas, with six large freight and
one passenger engine, has been destroyed by
fire. The total loss is 1856, 600
POLICE COMMISSIONER RICHARD c. AN
DERsON, leading citizen of Dayton Ohio,
was shot i'll his office by an assassin who
suddenly opened his door and fired at him.
THE village OF Curtiss, Wis. has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss is 100000.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in the
Bryant Switch coal mine near Fort Smith,
Ark. Sixteen men were injured five of
them fatally.
EXTENSIVE forest fires have been raging
III the Northwest. Mrs. Hiram Whittier, Of
Greenbush, Mimi, was burned to death.