Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-18
South and West.

GEORGE w PECK, the humorist, author of
the Bad Boy" articles, has been elected
Mayor of Milwaukee, Wis, on the Democratic
ticket The same party was successful In the
Chicago municipal election.
WHILE sig boys of B. H. Baskerville and
K. P Wommack, ranging in age from eleven
to nineteen years, were playing in sand
cave near Vernon, Texas the bank caved III
on them and all were killed
THE United States Express Company lost
a package containing $4,000 while it was
being conveyed from their Chicago office to
the National Bank of Illinois, in the same
city.
A WHITE man named Redd was fogged by
citizens of Williston, S. c., for abusing his
family and refusing to provide for them.
A MAN went into saloon in Denver Col,
and shot himself dead. The body was after
ward identified as that of Connt Schimmer
man Won Hartman, of Hamburg, Germany.
A BOILER exploded in the stave mill of j.
x. Hussing, at Hustonville, Ind, killing the
proprietor and one of his workmen. Nine
others were wounded, three fatally.
WILL HICKS and Robert Mccoy both coll
ored, were hanged at HOmerville Ga. for
the murder of William Hughes and wife, an
aged white couple, on November 6 last.
THE arrest of the murderers Of the railroad
station agent at Poseyville Ind, led to revela-
lions that gang of murderers contemplated
the destruction of the town by fire and the
murder of several Of its inhabitants.
THE house of Wilhelm Brown, near Huron,
South Dakota, was burned, and his three
children persisted in the flames.
ONE of the worst storms that ever visited
Dallas, Texas. ragged in that neighborhood
All the water courses were over their banks,
and many bridges were swept away. The
crops were badly damaged.
A LIVELY contest occurred among the stock.
holders of the Worlds Fair in Chicago over
tue election of directors
A WHIRLWIND struck Monmouth ILL.,.
sweeping over the principal portion of the
city. Part of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy round-house was blown down. Sew
eral buildings were damaged and their roofs
blown away.
PROFESSOR CYRUS, Principal of the
schools in Huntingdon, W. Va, was about
to punish boy named Ernest Welsh for
misbehavior, when Welsh drew knife and
stabbed Cyrus in six places in the arms
chest and back.
A HUNDRED Northern born citizens met at
the Chamber OF Commerce in Atlanta, Ga.
and took preliminary steps toward the
organization of Northern society.
GOVERNMENT boats have been busily en-
gagged in taking the people and stock from
the overhOwed districts of the Mississippi
Another break was reported in the levee
near Greenville. This time it was at Catfish
Point, and the water added greatly to that
already in the Yazoo Delta Railroad travel
was much impeded.
THE Sioux held their last council on the
old reservation in South Dakota.
GEORGE E. NOONAN and wife. of Chicago.
ILL.,, have died from the effects of poison.
placed in their food by demented servant
girl
EAGLE HORSE. a crazy Indian, shot and
killed at Rushville, Neb., Frank E. Lewis,
Government school teacher and then com.
mitted suicide
THREE colored thieves were killed in Biz
mingham, Ala, for resisting arrest anC
fatally shooting an officer
THE town marshal of Irondale, Ala. was
shot by three colored thieves whom he tried
to arrest; the colored men were killed by his
deputy.