Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-11
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,


Eastern and Middle States.
IN the case of Henry S. Ives, the young
Napoleon of Finance" charged with an
oVer-issue of the Cincinnati, Ha milton & Day
ton Railroad stock, the Jury at New York
disagreed, ten standing for conviction and
two for acquittal
DEPOSITS of gold said TO be in paying
quantities have just been discovered near
Hanover, Penna.
THE Republican State Convention of Mas
sachusetts has nominated J. 9. A Bracket
for Governor, and other officers
A WILDCAT engine dashed into a train
filled with workmen near Wilmington, Del.
Twelve laborers were severely injured.
The New York Grand Jury have indicted
Sheriff Flack, his son, and three other per
sons for conspiracy and perjury in connec-
Flack
The wedding of Miss Anita Mccormick
and Emrhons Blaine son of the Secretary of
State, was celebrated at the Presbyterian
Church, Richfield Springs, n. Y. The bride
mas fortune of 50 900, 900.
ALICE WETzEL, handsome young woman
of HerndOn, Penn. has been found dead in
the cabin of old bag named Gottshall, in
Purdytown.
ROBBERS riGed the railroad station at
Brighton, Penn, and bound and gagged
Mrs. NJ. c. Salton, the ticket agent, serious
~ lnJurlng hef.
By the capsizing Of rowboat at Fall
River, Mass, five people were drowned.
EPHRAING HAzLETT, a wealthy farmer Of
Allenville, Penn was struck by train
while driving at Huntington and killed >
THE United States cruiser Dolphin has ar.
rived at New York from cruise around the
world, which lasted twenty-one months.
WHILE boating in Pontoosuc Lake at
Pittsfield, Mass, two young men, Alfred
Ford and Firop Champine, were drowned.
South and West.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and Senator Davis
were present at the Centennial celebration
at Cumberland Md.
THE town of Fort Gay, w. Va, is terrorized
by gang Of roughs. A beating they gave
to the Mayor and his marShalS caused these
officials to resign
The Republican State Convention of Mis-
sissippi has nominated General James r.
Chalmers for Governor and w. G.. Mathison
(coloreD for Secretary of State.
THE annual convention of the American
Bankers Association opened III Kansas City,
fully 1000 delegates being present.
Two hundred men entered the Jail at Wi
mona, Miss, captured Sol Purnell, a colored
man, and hanged him to railroad treStle.
GENERAL SHERMAN presided at the meet
ing of the Army Of the Tennessee, in Gin
clnndIl, O1lO. chicago WAS SClecI0Q DIS Uu6
next meeting place.
B. F. CURTIS, a merchant, and John Wal
lace, mail carrier, both of Cairo Ill, quar-
relied over the removal of Commissioner
Tanner, and Wallace was struck over the
head with a molasses jug, receiving an in
jury from which he died all hour later.
THE works of the Emery Candle Company
in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, have beer
destroyed by fire; loss 100000.
HOLzHAY, the train robber, stage robber
murderer burglar and general bandit, who
was captured at Republic, Mich, escaped
from the County Jail there along with sew
eral other prisoners
TWENTY-FIVE large business houses have
been destroyed by fire at Cresco Iowa. The
loss is fully S1O0,O0O
THE Constitutional Convention at Chey-
enne Wyoming, has selected Cheyenne as the
seat of government for ten years. or until a
majority of the people vote change.
HEAVY forest fires have done great damage
in California.
The Socialists have been holding four
days convention in Chicago, with delegates
from all parts of the country in attendance.
A FIRE at Butte, Mont, has destroyed
property to the value of 81, 900, 000
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SIDNEY D. WATERS,
of Spokane Falls, w. T., has been bound
over to await the action of the frand Jury
on a charge of stealing supplies from the
Relief Committee.
A BOY named Egan shot and instantly
killed q colOred man named Joseph Rose, at
Greenbrier White Sui phur Springs, w. Va,
for holding another boy against a red hot
stove.