Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-16

BROADER GENERAL JAaES HUGHES
Stokes, q hero of the Seminole and Civil
Wars, died at New York City, aged seventy
seven.
WINsIE kRoPPER was brutality murdered
and hacked TO pieces at Bohemiaville, Long
Island, n. Y, by Frank Kraiich.
Dr.. GEORGE F. SHRADY has inoculated
eight patients for cancar with the Koch
lymph at the New York City Cancer Hos
pital.
The Fishing Greek Lumber Company. of
Lancaster, Penn, with capital Of 500, 900,
made an assignment to William B. Given.
THE racing stud of the late Hon. August
Belmont comprising twenty-eight head in
all, was disposed of by auction at the MUIR
sery Stud near Babylon, Long Island, n Y,
the lot realizing total of S123,6O0 OF which
Potomac, the Futurity winner and champion
of his age on this continent brought
S25, 600.
CLAUDE MCCARTHY, aged thirteen, and
John Mahar, twelve years old, were dI owned
while skating at Muskegon, Mich.
BIG Foor's band of Indians have surren-
dered; the hostiles are returning to Pine
Ridge Agency from the Bad Lands
DR.. M. A DAUPHIN, a native of Alsace-
Lorraine, and for twenty years President of
the Louisiana Lottery Company, died in
New Orleans, La, at the age of fifty-three
years.
THE annual report of William ". Bates,
Commissioner of Navigation, has been filed
in the Navy Department.
THE Secretary of Agriculture has made an
order closing all the ports except ST.
Adams. in the collection district of Vermont
against the importation of cattle, sheep, and
other ruminants and swine, and requiring
that all such animals imported through that
collection district must enter ct the Port of
ST. Albans, where they must be inspected.
THE recent heavy fall of snow was utilized
in Washington for an impromptu carnival
on Pennsylvania avenue, between the Capitol
and the Treasury Department, participated
in by nearly 200 sleighs.
AT a public meeting held in Edinburgh
resolutions were passed expressing sympathy
with the Scotch railway strikers. Many
clergymen were present and delivered adj
dresses.
ACCORDING to the Constitution DR.. Roberto
Sacasa resigned the Presidency of Nicaragua
on December Is to Colonel Ignacio Chacez,
who will be Chief Magistrate for two
months, when DR.. Sacasa will resume office
as President for four years.
MARTIN CURLEY, his wife, Annie, and
Michael Hudak, Hungarians were shot dead
in the mining hamlet of Brodericks Patch,
near Wilkesbarre, Penn. John Trallo was
supposed to have done the shooting.
FIRE destroyed $3.50. 900 worth of PROPERTY
in the business part of Burlington, Iowa.
THREE men, pistol in hand, robbed a bank
in Chicago of $4,000. After a hard chase
through the streets they were captured.
The United States Government has
bought for $50, 900 ninety acres of land at
Growers Cliff for long range gun fortifica-
ton.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
Judge Brown to be Associate Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
THE American Historical Association held
its annual session at Washington. President
John Jay at the opening meeting delivered
his inaugural address.
A BOILER in the Irvens lard factory at
Liverpool England, exploded. Three men
were killed and the building badly wrecked
by the explosion.
ITALIAN railway travel was much i'm
peded by foods which followed the heavy
snow. In the district of Naples traffic was
almost completely at a standstill.
OCTAVE FEUILLET, the great French
novelist dramatist and Academician is dead.
He was born at st. Lo, the capital of the De
partment Of Manche in August, 1872.
AN epidemic of black smallpox prevails in
the Transcaspian Turkish) territories.
HON W. GLADSTONE celebrated at
Hawarden, England, his eighty-first birthd, .