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

gress, committed suicide at Rochester ". V
by cutting artery. He had been drink.
ing. He was formerly welLknown labor
man.
THE Comte de Paris was entertained at a
dinner of officers OF the Army Of the Po-
tomac, at the Plaza Hotel, New York city.
ELMER OLIVER, of Charlton, Penn, while
under the influence Of liquor, proposed to tbs
daughter Of Farmer TuttIe, to whom he had
been paying attention. Miss Tuttle refused
him, and Elmer drew a revolver and shot
her In the head. He then fired bullet intI
his own brain Both died almost instantly
DE- JOHN FARNHAM BoYNToS died a,
Syracuse, n. Y, q few days ago, aged seventy.
nine years. He was one of the first OF tn,
popular lecturers on scientific subjects. He
patented thirty important and successful in.
ventions, including the Babcock fire extin.
guisher. He was the companion and adviser
Of Professor Agassiz for years.
BURGLARS at jacksonville, Penn, broke
into the Office of lumber firm, san dragged,
gagged and bound the watchman and robbed
the safe of $1,000.
ISAAC FISHER, leading Dunkar6 minis
ter and a pioneer in Indiana, fell dead in the
Mexico Ind.
The annual convention of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen was opened at Los
Angeles, Cal.
THE police of New Orleans, La, have Sc
cured evidence sufficient TO convict several Of
a. Of
Chief of Police Hennessy.
THE dry goods store of Frank Brothers, in
St. Louis. No., was burned; loss S425, 900.
HENRY KRoN, living near BlairsvilIe, Ind,
and his wife quarreied and the husband took
a double barrelled gun and murdered his
wife in the presence Of his three children.
He then killed himself.
A B. MULLErT, ex-Suparvising Architect
of the Treasury, committed suicide in Wash
ington.
THE Supreme Council of the thirty-thiri
degree of Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite of Free Masonry held its regular bien-
NAL session in the Holy House of the Tenn.
pie, Washington, Venerable Grand Com
mander Albert Pike presiding.
THE Commissioner of Pensions has just ap.
pointed eighty-four clerks at $1,000 per an
mum each, through the Civil Service.
The Census Bureau announces that the
population of Oregon is 312, 400; Of Wiscon
sin, 1,6S3,697.
CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON
the traveller and African explorer, died at
Trieste Italy.
Mr.. GLADSTONE travelled to Scotland t.
open his election campaign.
A NURSE in Bellevue Hospital, New York
city, struck patient in the face, the man dy-
ing few hours afterward
THE centennial celebration of Methodism
IN New England began in Boston, Mass.
GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, removed
from office the Sheriff of Madison County,
Leander w Burroughs and appointed in his
place William T Manchester of Hamilton.
The removal is based upon charges of irregu-
larities. In his opinion the Governor says
that he is satisfied that charges in the
Sheriff's bill amounting to at least $500 are
false and fraudulent.
MAYOR GRANT sent a letter to Secretary
Noble, asking that the latter honor the de-
mand of New York city for recount which
shall be an accurate census of the popula-
ton.
CHARLES ARMSTRONG, seventy-seven
years old, is charged with embezzling $685.
900 belonging to his friends in Harvard, III.
He admitted his guilt.
A BAND of 200 Indians, about twenty
miles from Pierre South Dakota, is sick
with mountain fever. Thirteen have al
ready died. and unless relief is afforded soon
the entire band will die
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL's plan to abolish the
Cincinnati Board of improvements was
embodied in bill which passed the Ohio
Senate.
GENERAL j. G.. SULLIVAN, who command
ed division under Rosecrans and who
fought the battle Of Iuka, died at Oakland,
CAL, recently from hemorrhage. He was
brevetted brigader-general after the battle
of Kernstown. He leaves a widow and
daughter.
MAJOR 81. c. SEYMOUR, connected with
the United States Signal Service. at Calves
ton, Texas. died after one days illness. He
was a native of England. He was fifty-eight
years old.
PETE MCCARTNEY, the greatest counter
feiter the world has ever produced, died a
few DAYS ago in the Columbus Ohio Peni-
tertiary, where he was serving out a ten