Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-04-17
South and West.

GENERAL JAMES A. EKIN, Of the United
States army, died at Louisville, KY, few
days ago. He was born in Pittsburg in 1919.
He was member of the commission which
tried Mrs. SurratU and was for many years
Quartermaster OF the Government at JeHer-
sonville Ind.
HENRY SMITH, colored, was hanged at
Louisville, KY, for the murder of Louis j.
Specht. Specht was saloon keeper, and
employed Smith Specht asked Smith to do
some work. Smith grabbed a pistol and
beat Specht to death.
CAPTAIN W. D. DowEL1. a well-to- do
farmer and State Treasurer of the Farmers
Alliance of Arka nsas, was buncoed out Of
$4,000 at Fayetteville, Ark. It was the same
sid game. Captain Dowell loaned one of the
men the money with which to cover a wager
on a game of cards.
Two landslides have occurred on the Spar
tanburg branch of the Richmond and Dan
vile Railroad, in North Carolina, and
through traffic has been discontinued. The
rack is covered to depth of forty feet for
distance of quarter of a mile.
CAPTAIN HENRY E. Galley, Of the Second
Infantry. United States Army, tried at
Omaha, Neb., on the charge of feigning
sickness at Pine Ridge, has been acquitted.
General Brooke disapproves the finding and
lcquittal.
COLONEL JOHN McENERY, who, the Demo-
Gratis claimed, was elected Governor of
Louisiana in 1872, died at New Orleans, La,
lged fifty-eight.
AMoB of $50 armed men at Belgreen, Ala.
>verpowered Jailer Waltrep, and took jeff
Oenzmore and "Ep' Hudson, two colored
nen arrested for burning the town of Rus
iellville. to a neighboring tree, swung them
rom a limb, filed them full of bullets, and
eft them.
A HOLE was blown in the port boiler of the
steamer Farmer, which was on her way to
Savannah, Ca, from Brunswick. The noise
IF the escaping steam caused panic among
The colored deck hands, several of whom
'ushed overheard, and four of them were
drowned.
THE Italians employed by the Constr1c-
Hon Company building Camden's road
through Upshur County, W. Va, incensed
1t the remark made B. 6. McCauley, track
BOSS, justifying the New Orleans lyinching,
shot him dead and mutilated his body in
horrible manner There are over 500
italians engaged on the job.
CHICAGO, H., reports three hundred deaths
rom the grip during a recent twenty-four
hours
A BLAST furnace in Terre Haute, Ind, full
IF molten iron, burst. Two men were i'll
rtantly killed by being swept under the hot
ron and much damage to property resulted.
A WHOLE family, consisting of Adam Bar
ey, his wife, sister and daughter, have
lied in the past week after few days ILL
,ess of ''la grippe" followed by pneumonia.
They lived near Stephens City, Va.
ONE of the heaviest transforms that have
occurred since the memorable Centennial
iood visited the region around about Galena.
ILL.,, doing great damage to the railroads
and other property.
CITIZENS of Decatur Ill.,, are boycotting
the local cemetery because the body of 0.
W. Crawford, who was hanged for murder,
is buried there.
WILL FIELD, colored was lynched at
Mineola, Texas, for making q criminal as
Sault upon an estimable lady residing near
the city.
G. W. PORTER, Of Kansas City. High
Chief Ranger of the Missouri Order of For
rosters, has disappeared with the Orders
money.