Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-03-14


| County 6. c. Court for crininally assault
ing girl of sixteen.
THREE children Of Hunt Bead, of Franklin
County, Ga, were burned &c death in their
fathers house. They were aged respectively
six, four and two years. The skeleton Of the
youngest was found in the arms Of the old
est.
MRS. SANTA BAKER and her eight-year-
old son were burned TO death in stable at
Salina, Kan.
THE bill making General Robert Lees
birthday a Legal holiday has passed the Vir-
ginia House of Representatives.
THE Superior Ice Company's building at
Bayfield,, Wis, collapsed. One man was IA
tally and several others more or less seriously
injured.
CHARLES HANLEY and William Dobson
were found in a round-house at Terre
Haute Ind, the former dead and the latter
unconscious. They had entered through the
windows during the night and became
asphy xiated by escaping gases.
THE President sent to the Senate the fol-
lowing nominations: Joseph A. Wingfeld,
to be Supervisor of Census. Third District
of Virginia, and Albert F. Price United
States Marshal, District of North Dakota.
FIVE HUNDRED of the King of Dahomey's
troops attacked the French posts at Kotonou,
Senegal. The French repulsed them and
killed sixty of their number.
A BARREL of powder exploded at Cienaga
Station, suburb of Havana, Cuba destroy
ing a house and injuring thirty workmen,
seven Of them severely.
WHILE a large number of workmen were
engaged about the Flora Concert Hall, which
is being erected in Hamburg the new cupola
fell, burying thirty-eight men in the ruins.
Five were taken out dead, and eight were
rescued severely injured. Five others were
missing.
WHILE the schooner Marion Grimes, from
Georges Bay to Gloucester, was at anchor
during a heavy gale three sailors were
washed overheard and drowned.
HEAVY rams have occurred at Bowling
Green and Hopkinsville, KY. The streams
were swollen, and at Bowling Green the
flood from Green River drove many families
from their homes. At Hopkinsville about
COUNTY TREASURER FLYNN, of Custer
County S. D.. is short in his accounts $12
OOO
DURING a revenue raid on an illicit dis
tillery near Hillsboro, N. c., a colored man
connected with the distillery was shot and
killed by the officers, and Revenue Agent
kirkpatrick was shot in the face and had one
eye put out.
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn, was visited by q
severe cyclone and five minutes later the
| town was almost in ruins.
LATER news received at Phoenix Ariz
from the scene of the Walnut Grove disaster
is more appalling than the first reports
! Four couriers arrived from the dam and
| brought tidings that fully $50 lives were lost
and 81, OOO 600 worth of property destroyed.
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over part
of Northern Texas The Masonic Hall in
! Gainesville was tom to pieces, the Court
! House uprooted, the Santa Fe Railroad depot
wrecked and twenty buildings blown down.
| Nobody was killed but several persona were
injured. The damage will aggregate $780,
! 600.
A LITTLE colored girl, aged seven years,
was burned to death at Clayton, ILL.,, by
matches having set fire to her clothing. In
her death agonies the child tore large strips
of burned flesh from her body.
THREE Louisville (Ky.) physicians and two
colOred assistants were surprised in a New
! Albany Qnd) cemetery robbing graves. One
of the assistants was killed, two of tie doc
tors arrested with one of the colored men,
| and one doctor escaped.
| A PASSENGER train was wrecked above
Vincennes, Ind, by the giving away of a
/ bridge over small stream. The whole train
excepting sleeper went through into the
water and mud. Theengineer and fireman
were killed, and several other persons were
injured.
| ADDITIONAL nominations by the Presi-
| dent: Harold NJ. Sewall, of Maine, Consul
| General at Apia; Henry w. Andrews of
| Ohio, Consul at Hankow; John Fowler of
| Massachusetts, Consul at Ningpo; William
| b. McCreery, of Michigan, Consul at Val
| parisO; John S. Tweels, of Pennsylvania,
| Consul at Naples; Charles E. Fitch, of Roch-
ester. Collector of Internal Revenue Twenty
| eighth District of New York: Richard c..
Banks. Collector of Customs for the District
of Norfork aud Portsmouth, Va.
SEVENTY murdered bodies of infants were
found on the premises of SkOhiski, at War
saw. Poland, whose house was recently