Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-10-24
LATER NEWS.


Company c. New Hampshire Militia, has
left Nashua, and several forgeries Of notes.
| amounting to 5000, are charged against
him.
Dr.. WALTER FLEMING and General Milton
s. Littlefield were arrested in New York city
and held on charge made by Mrs Spephani
VI receiving $3.50 froz1 her TO have a lunacy
commission appointed thu case of her in
sane son Alphonse and q. lying the money
to other purposes. Alphonse is the murderer
Of Lawyer Reynolds.
Two babies children Of Mrs Anna AL
drich, were burned 10 death In a BROOKLYN
IN. ~ tene" I. They were twin sisters,
and their little four-year-old brother was the
innocent cause Of their death
THE first heavy frost of the season oc-
CURED at Bellows Falls, vt.
SERIOUS damage by floods occurred in the
Kanawha Valley, W. Va
E. e SWEARING GIN. State Senator from
Cloud County, Kan, committed suicide at
Kansas City, Mo-, by shooting. He was a
Republican.
A RACE war broke out near Middleton
ough, KY, and, but for the interference Of
the police and troops, it might have proved
disastrous conflict. As it was, three men
lost their lives. one white man and two col
ored men.
WILLIAM E. TRUDEAU and Miss Beatrice
Harrig, of Louisville, KY, chartered loco
motive and eloped to Jacksonville, Ind,
where they were married
THE only son of Colonel Charles Fred
Croker, Second Vice-President of the
Southern Pacific, was killed at San Fran
cisco, Cal, by falling over the nanister in
his fathers house. The lad was under ten
years of age. The boy would have inherited
the bulk Of his fathers large estate. now es-
timated at $4,000, 900, and growing every
year.
THE Supreme Court of the United States
met pursuant to law for the Fall Term, the
Chief Justice and all the Associate Justices,
except Mr. Justice Miller and Mr.. Justice
Field, being present.
THE President returned to Washington
from Indianapolis, Ind; he made several
speeches in Indiana and Ohio, en- route
The Census Bureau issued the following
figures. The population, complete, of Illinois
is 3,81s, $50, increase, 74O,665; of Louisiana,
1,116, s2S, increase, 176, 8S2; of Mississippi
/, 1884, 1877, increase, 153, 800
JUSTIN S. MORRILL, has been reelected as
United States Senator from Vermont
THE completion of the police count shows
the population of New York city to be /, no.
us, as against 1913, sol returned by the
federal census takers, an increase of 1917, 214.
The Comte de Paris visited the battlefields
around Gettysburg, Penn.
THE Ohio Legislature met in extraordi-
nary session at Columbus. and received
message from Governor Campbell recon-
mending the abolition of two Cincinnati
Boards
CONGRESSMAN JOHN L. WILSON, of Wash
ington, who returned to Spokane Falls few
days ago, reports the loss of his pocketbook,
containing $4,000 in securities, $3.50 i'll
greenbacks and gold and other valuable pc
Ders.
WALLACE WAGGONER & Co., wholesale
grocers, assigned at Houston, Texas. Liabili-
ties, $500, 900. The bank of F. H. Haggerty
e Co., suspended at Aberdeen, South
Dakota Liabilities S230000.
JUSTICE MILLERs chair was draDed
heavily in black when the Supreme Court
met No business was transacted, and the
court, as mark Of respect to the memory of
its eminent associate, adjourned. All the
District courts also adjourned out Of respect
to the dead iurist.
The Treasury Department has decided
that books imported for the use of colleges,
schools, etc, are admitted to this country
under the new tariff law substantially as
they were admitted under the old tariff law,
and subject to the same restrictions.
THE census of the City of Mexico has been
completed, and it is officially announced
that the population numbers 1924, 00O
ACTING SECRETARY OF WAR GRANT is
sued an order reciting the military services
of the late General William w. Bellznap, and
directing that the War Department be draped
in mourning for thirty days, that all bust
ness be suspended therein on the day of the
funeral, and that upon the day after the re-
ceipt of the order at each military post
seventeen guns be fired at intervals of one
half hour, commencing at A. n. 1t was de-
cided to bury the late General in Arlington
Cemetery.
The Navy Department has awarded the
contract for building coast line battle ship
No 2 Tn the Union Iron Works of San Fran