Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-10
LATER NEWS,

ALEXANDER BECK & Son. carpet manu-
focturers of Philadelphia, have assigned.
with liabilities estimated at $3.50, 900 and as
sets of 10000.
WILL AND CALVIN ODELL- brothers. of
Burnet County, Texas, charged with murder
and robbery, were killed by deputy sheriff
while resisting arrest.
WARSIE BURNS and Johnnie Finlayson,
both aged seven years, were drowned in the
bay at Washburn, Wis, while coasting from
the shore on to the ice.
THE Citizens Warehouse at Yazoo City,
Miss, GOO bales of cotton and seven freight
cars, with contents, have been burned The
Yazoo Oil Works. near by, were saved by
change in the wind. The loss on the cotton
is estimated at 800 900; on building, $40, 0OC;
on cars and freight, SO. 500.
TEN persons were killed and several in
iured in the wreck OF a train on the Chess
peake and Ohio Railroad, near White
Sulphur Springs, Va.
By an explosion of molten metal at the
MOsher Machine Company's foundry at
Dallas Tex, nine men were horribly burned,
some OF them fatally.
THE annual meeting of the American
Historical Association began in Washing
ton.
a REVOLUTION has broken out in San Sal
va1or. The Government has sent about
5000 men to suppr ess it.
THE ex-Empress of Brazil, wife of the ex-
lied Dom Pedro, died at Oporto, Portugal.
DURING a fog on the River Clyde, Scot
land. the steamer Ovington came into coils
ion with the steamer Queen Victoria and the
former sank. Five persons were drowned.
CARLOS I has been proclaimed King of
Portugal, at Lisbon.
The General Term of the New York Su-
preme Court at Rochester, in the case of
Ke1nmler, the murderer condemned to death
under the new State law providing for the
execution Of criminals by electricity, decides
the law to be constitutional.
THE international Copyright League held
its annual meeting in Boston.
THREE car loads of Pinkerton detectives
have gone to Watson, a mining town six
miles from Punxsatawney, Penn, where it
is said trouble is feared from the striking
| miners.
ALFRED E. BEMIs, aged about fifty, of
/ Marlboro Mass, was Instantly killed by a
beam falling on his head while at work in the
| barn of Daniel Hayden.
JOHN DASvER, alias New York Slim, " of
| Dubois Penn, was shot by Constable George
! W. Wiley in York Penn, and almost in
stantly killed. Danver was endeavoring to
escape after being under arrest.
JERRY ONEIL and his wife were murdered
in bed at Boscobel Wis, by unknown assas-
sins
| MRS. ERWIN and her two daughters, Mary
| and Bessie of Benton County Mo, were
found asphyxiated in their room in hotel
at Oakland Cal. They had only partially
turned off the gas.
Mr.. AND MRS. ALLEN SANDERsON and
their two children were driving from their
farm to Muncie, Ind, when a tree fell across
| the road crushing their wagon and killing
| Mr.. Allen and one of the children.
MISS Lucy WOMBLE, about twenty years
of age, who has for some time past been en-
gagged in teaching school at Goldsboro, N.
c., committed suicide in Raleigh by shoot
ing herself through the head with pistol.
GOVERNOR RICHARDSON, of South Caro-
lima, has issued a proclamation Offering re-
ward of $500 for the apprehension and con
vctiOn of the men who IynChed the eight
negroes in jail at BarnwelI.
A CIRCULAR Offering a reward of $1,000 for
the apprehension of Silcott, the defauIting
cashier of the Sergeant-at-Arms' office Of the
| House of Representatives has been sent to
the various police headquarters throughout
the country. Attached to the circular is a
portrait of the defaulter
Two French missionaries and their escort
of eight Greeks have been murdered by ma
tives in East Africa.
| Mr.. GLADSTONE received 200 telegram
and 800 letters congratulating him upon hiss
cightieth birthday. The earliest telegram to
arrive was from the Prince and Princess of
| Wales.
IN escaping from burning building at Ha-
vana, Cuba, twenty-five tiremen were Sc
riously injured.
EXPLORER HENRY NJ. STANLEY sailed from
Zanzibar on his return voyage to Europe.
AT q bull fight at Villa Lerdo, in the City of
Mexico the amphitheatre fell and nearly one
hundred persons were injured, several fatally.