Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-05-20
South and West.

The bridge across the Tennessee River at
Florence, Tenn, fell in, precipitating
freight train sixty feet into the water. The
fireman was killed and the engineer and two
brakemen fatally hurt.
L. D. SLAUGHTER and Thomas Bailey, col
ored murderers, were hanged at Little Rock,
Ark.
THE United States war vessel Concord is
at Helena, Ark. The residents have not seen
a man-of-war there for thirty years.
The only witnesses in the case against the
Wyoming cattlemen have mysteriously dis
appeared.
The water is nearly twenty feet above low
water mark in the Illinois valley.
The Republicans of Virginia met in State
Convention at Roanoke, and after two
days session sent dn uninstructed delegation
to the National Convention, headed by ex-
Senator William Malone.
The Arkansas Prohibition State Conven-
ton at Little Rock nominated Judge w. j.
Nelson, OF Rogers, Benton County, for
Governor. The convention also nominated
delegates to the National Convention at Gin
cnnati and full SGT of Presidential Electors
for the State.
A COLLEGE Interstate oratorica1 contest
was held at Minneapolis, Mimi, ten States
contesting. Miss E. Jean Nelson, of Green
castle. Ind, captured first prize, 500, and
Charles E. Geyer of Wesleyan College,
AT Butler, Miss, George II. Ross, colored,
was lynched few days ago for an at
tempted assault on a white woman. Ross
was hanged to tree.
AT Wellington, Kan, John Timm shot
and seriously wounded w. r. Warren, pro
prietor of a bank at Mulvane, which had
failed soon after receiving large deposit
from Timm.
THE United States gunboat Concord
in Of p1rhi
Tenn. She is the largest naval vessel
that ever reached that city, and the
first since the days of the war.
The United States war vessel Kearsage
anchored off Savannah, Ga. The Philadel-
phia anchored off Tybee, Ga, and was
Joined by the Newark and the Vesuvius. The
Kearsage was piloted by the old pilot of the
Confederate Alabama.
REPORT from Western Kentucky is that
Buffalo gnaGs are causing great loss. 1t IS
estimated that 1000 horses have been killed
by them.
The Worlds Fair Commission, Chicago.
ILL.,, has now only about $1,000 on hand to pay
salaries, rent etc, for the remainder of the
fiscal year ending June 30th The expense
account now averages about $4,000 month
THE United States man Of war Adams and
the revenue cutter RuSk sailed from Port
Townsend, Washington, for the Boring Sea.
MISS ALICE LA RUE and Miss Katie Clark
were drowned by the capSlZlng OF UhelF boat
at Hamilton, Ohio.
The strike of the 200 ironworkers on the
Worlds Fair buildings at Chicago, ILL.,, re-
suited in a bloody collision with the P2lice.
The riot was due to the importation of men
from New York, Pittsburg and Baltimore
to take the place Of the strikers who were
employed in the Manufacturers Building.
The great Morgauza Levee in Pointe
Coupee Parish, the biggest levee in louisiana,
broke during a rain storm. The levee is
twenty-five feet high and from sixty to $50
feet wide. It is one of the most important
along the lower Mississippi, and at point
where break must cause great damage.
NEWS was received of a terrible explosion
which occurred in the coal mines at ROslyn
Washington. Forty-two miners, according
to the first report, were killed in the disas-
ter. The men were working on the fourth
level. Roslyn is in Kittitass County, about
seventy miles east Of Tacoma. 1t is on a
branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and
has population of about 1900.
THE Democratic Convention of New Mex
leo met at Albuquerque. The Committee on
Resolutions reported in favor Of the abso-
lutely free and unlimited coinage of silver.
| The delegates to Chicago were selected, and,
although they were uninStructed, all but one
man favored Cleveland.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL W ELL
MAN, OF the Blair Cattle Company, was shot
near Cheyenne. Wyoming, and killed from
ambush while on his way TO Buffalo. Well
man has been in the employ of the cattle
men, and is the first victim Of the vengeance
Of the rustlerS-
DURING the might at the site of the old Foek-
Ter Brewery in West Dubuque, Iowa, sound