The Durham daily globe., 1892-08-10
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John Fitzgerald, of New Orleans, was
fatally shot in the back Monday in trying
10 arrest gang of hoodlums.
The boil worm is doing great damage
to the crops in Texas. The planters offer
hundreds Of acres in cotton at one dollar
an acre.
a pater familias with eight marriage
able daughters advertised as a last resort
to get them off his hands. He received
the following answer: Am a bachelor
and wealthy. viii gladly marry one of
your daughters. Send sample at once"
Mary Ann Meeton, white, of Wilkes
barre, Pa, under the influence of LIQUOR,
sunday afternoon attempted to brain her
infant by dashing its head on the ground.
An officer caught her in the act, arrested
her and she was committed to the county
prison. The child was fatally injured.
The body of white man was found at
the Charleston, Sumpter and Northern
railroad at Bennettsville, s. c., Sunday
morning. He had been shot and killed
during the previous night. For what
cause and by whom it is not known. The
name Of the dead man could not be
learned.
Mrs. d. w. Herring, wife of Rev. D.
W. Herring, a Baptist missionary to China
from this state, died of typhoid fever last
Sunday evening at o'clock at her TEN.
porary home in Mount Airy. Mrs Her
ring was about 80 years of age and has
been in China assisting her husband for
the past seven years.
Andrew II. Burke, who has just been
re-nominated for governor by the repub-
licans of North Dakota, was once a New
York newsboy. He was a homeless, bare
footed orphan when he secured his first
situation as an errand boy thirty-five
years ago. He once said that since he
was ten years old he had not one dollar
Of assistance from any man.
Governor Buchanan received callers
yesterday morning in behalf of II. Clay
King, the Memphis murderer. w. II.
PCston, uncle of the dead Poston entered
vigorous protest against executive
clemency and against the circulating of
a petition for Communication by capital
emplOye. Judge X. M. Green, Lucas
Clapp and Senator |. c. Harris were to
see the governor Monday night. The
general opinion is that the sentence will
be committed. Mrs. King and her
daughter are still here.
A special to The News and Observer
from Fayetteville August 8 says: In a
family row near here late last night Hugh
Jackson shot and killed Sam McFadyn,
his fatber-in. law. The trouble grew out
of McFadyn's threats and efforts to kill
Jackson's mother. Jackson at once sur
rendered himself to the officers and says
the killing was done in self-defense.
Jackson is now in jail and will be given
a hearing at the next term of Cumberland
superior court. Great excitement pre-
walls in the community where the killing
took place.
The Fort Worth, Tex, Daily Gazette
has for some time been paying its com
pOsitOrs 30 per cent. Of wages one week
and settling in full on the second. The
printers demand full weekly payment
and The Gazette refuses to accede, say
ing it is an imposibility. The typos
walked out to a man and the doors we've
locked The manager wired to Kansas
City for force of non union men and
proposes to issue the paper on Thursday
morning The union carried the nine
offices, and if they refuse to comply a
general strike will take place at once all
over the city. The Evening Gazette is
similarly affected
The locked out men at Homestead are
exceedingly jubilant over the continued
desertions Of the new men from the Car
negie mill. Vice Chairman Crawford,
of the advisory committee, said Monday
morning: There is no longer any doubt
that we have the strike almost won.
From information received from the in
side, thus early the firm is greatly handi-
capped by the desertions, and it is
believed that fully nine-tenths of the men
now at work inside the mill will come
out within the next week. Manager Pot
ter denies the wholesale desertions from
the works, as claimed by the advisory