Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-11-07
South and West.

THE third fair Of the Piedmont Exposition
Association was formally opened at Atlanta.
Ga, in the presence Of a large crowd. The
procession to the grounds was made up of
military companies. Senator Colquitt and
John Temple Graves were the orators of the
day, and Mayor Glenn was master Of cere-
monies.
THE Consolidated Ice Machine Company
of Chicago ILL.,, has made an assignment.
Assets $475, COO; liabilities $3.50, O00
CoNCoRDIA COLLEGE, at Milwaukee, Wis,
has been closed because of an epidemic of
diphtheria among the students.
OFFICER THOMAS J. MADDEN shot and
mortaIly wounded brother policeman, AL
bert Junge in Chicago Ill. The shooting
was the outcome of differences between the
men over politics.
J. BAILEY, William r. Davis and J. Fisher
were killed. and two other men were hurt by
a fall of rock in the Ludington mine at Iron
Mountain Mich.
Four horse thieves were captured in the
Iowa Reservation by three Deputy Marshals
after a desperate fight. One of the thieves
was killed. When they saw that they could
not get away with the horses, eleven in all,
they shot them.
LIEUTENANT ALPHEUs ROBERT FRENCH.
the last survivor of the Black Hawk War,
and a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
Wars, was buried at Baltimore, Md. Lieu
tenant French was born at Chittenango, n.
7 :, November 25, 1908.
DAVID G.. HENNEssEY, Chief of Police of
New Orleans, La, was shot and killed by an
unknown man, supposed to be an Italian.
THE r. G.. Peters salt and Lumber Com
pany, of Manistee, Mich, has failed, with
liabilities of over So 900, OO0 1t is the biggest
crash in the State for many years.
MRS. WILLIAM WELLHAUsEN and her
seven-year-old son were drowned at the we'll
at her home in Marine City, Mich. The boy
fell in the we'll and the mother hearing his
cries, grew frantic, plunged into the water
and was also drowned before help came.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made of the compile
ton of the Mussel Shoals tAla.) Canal
CONRAD FoLz, who has been Cook County
(Ill) jailer for nearly thirty years, died in
Chicago few days ago of pneumonia. He
leaves fortune of about 1925, 900, having in
vested in paying real estate in the early days
of Chicago.
FIRE at Ludlow, KY, destroyed one ma
chine shop, two Pullman sieepers, one Mann
boudoir car and two box cars. A conserva-
tive estimate of the entire loss is $65, 600. The
fire started from play fires built by boys
near the shop
LOUISA ALWARDT, twenty years old, was
fonnd dead in her bed at Manitowoc, Wis,
few days before the date set for her mar
riage with man she dfsliked. An analysis
of the contents of her stomach showed that
she had taken arsenic.
OFFICIAL returns show the total number
of votes cast at the recent Idaho State cleo
ton to be 49, O08. The majorities received by
the Republican candidate for Congress and
Governor are as follows: Sweet, Congress
man, 2171; Shoup, Governor, 1872. Upon
joint ballot the Legislature will stand: Re-
publicans, forty-fve; Democrats nine.
CARL VENDER, a German residing near
Chill, Ohio shot his wife fatally with a shot
gun. Shortly afterward Vender was found
dead near his house with shotgun wound
in his side. The pair had been living IN
happily for some time.