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

IT is proposed when the statue OF General
Robert E. Lee reaches Richmond, Va, to
place it in a wagon to be drawn through the
city by rope mile long. Men, and women
even, are clamorous to have hold Of the
rope.
HOMER II. BROWN l@an sixty years old,
who had been confined in insane asylums in
Seattle, Wash, for twenty years by his rich
brothers, has been declared sane.
THE bill establishing the Australian system
of ballot has passed the Washington State
Senate.
MARDI GRAs was celebrated at Mobile,
Ala, by elaborate paradeS, Examinations and
q costume ball
The Montana Legislature has adjourned
after ninety days spent III the Capitol and
not bill passed. The Republican Senators
issued an address to the people, as did the
Democratic representatives.
REV. JOHN H. LANCE has been murdered
in Union County, Ga. The crime is be-
heved to have been committed by moon
sinners fearful of exposure
GEORGE MCBRIETY, a wife beaten, was
tied to an electric light pole at Salisbury,
Nd, stripped of his coat and vest, and
severely horsewhipped.
MARTIN AND HUGH BRAINERD, brothers,
were instantly killed by falling to the bottom
of a shaft in the Mollie Gibson Mine, at
Aspen. Col, distance of $50 feet. Both men
were at work on a scaffolding when it gave
way and precipitated them to the bottom.
THE Indiana Prohibitionists held their
State Convention and nominated full State
ticket. Their platform declares against local
option and favors the exemption from tax
alton of clothes and necessities of life.
THE bill to exclude meat killed out of the
State has been signed by the Governor of
Virginia.
THE long deadlock over the appointment
of officers in the Iowa Legislature has been
broken, the Democrats getting the Speaker
and Second Assistant Clerk, and the Repub
licans all the other important officials and
five leading committees.
THE seventeen men found guilty of murder
and rioting on the Island of Navassa have
been sentenced at Baltimore. Three received
the death penalty. and the other fourteen
were sentenced to terms of imprisonment in
the Albany IN. " Penitentiary, ranging
from two to ten years
MRS. EzELL, wife of Milt Ezell, a we'll
known Democratic politician, was killed at
Tama!cC, Ill, by a stroke of lightning.
The village of Aurora, Iowa, has been en-
tirely wiped out by fire.
FRANK TROwBRIDGE, of Big Rapids,
Mich, shot his wife and then put bullet in
his own body. No cause for the deed is
known.
HENRY DUNCAN, a white Free Will Bap-
fist preacher, was hanged at Ozark, Ala,
confessed giving his wife morphine to kill
her.
THE Mississippi Legislature has rejected
Representative Vests memorial to Congress
asking for the repeal of the Fifteenth
Amendment.
SIXTEEN persons-thirteen women and
three men-were fined IS each and costs for
wrecking liquor saloons at Spickardsville,
Mo. An appeal was taken.
THE tobacco factory of Cameron & Sizor,
at Richmond, Va, has been burned. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
THE Supreme Court of Tennessee has de-
cjded that the making of books and the sell
ing of pools on races run outside of the State
is i'll violation of law, and therefore in
dictable
AN explosion occurred at the Armour
Cudahy packing-house at Sonth Omaha,
Neb. It resulted in the instant death Of at
least one man, the subsequent death of a
second and the probably fatal injury of
others.