Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-07-22
South and West,

THE class of 1892 at the Unitei States
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Nd, having
finished the four years acade mic course. re-
ceived their diplomas from the hands Of
Secretary Tracy. The class numbered
forty.
FIRST LIEUTENANT WILDER LovERIDGE,
of the Third Artillery, Unite States Army.
shot himself through the heart while in his
quarters at Fort Sam Houston, San An
tonic, Texas. He was thirty-two wears old
His death is directly traceable 10 the use OF
intoxicants.
The Florida Democratic State Convention
at Tampa placed Judge Henry w. Mitchell.
of Hillsboru, in nomination for Governor
The delegates to the National Convention,
at Chicago, were sent uninstructed.
AT Ammonia, Texas, Charles Brittle, in
drunken quarrel shot and killed Ben Yelly
and was in turn shot dead by Yelly's son.
THE Tennessee Prohibition State Conven-
ton, consisting of aDDut $50 delegates, met
at the State Capitol, Nashville f. II. East,
a lawyer of Nashville. was nominated for
Governor. The convention indorse1 St.
John as a candidate for the Presidency and
recommended the Rev. ID. S. Kelly, of
Nashville, for the nomination for Vice
President.
THE steamer John Mathews. loaded with
corn, bound for Pine Bluff, Ark, ran against
the pier on the bridge over the Arkansas
River and sank. Four boat hands were
drowned.
COMMODORE W. ". HUNTER died in New
Orleans, La, aged ninety years. He en-
tered the United States Navy as a midship-
man May l, 1922.
AN excursion train of colored people ran
into passenger train at South Carrolton,
KY. and killed five persons and wounded
thirty.
j. F. MosELLY, County Recorder, has dis
appeared from Stockton, Cal. His debts
amounted to 100000. He has also given
nine forged notes, aggregating $780, 600.
CONFEDERATE Memorial Day was appro.
priately observed in all the Southern States
MOB of about one hundred and fifty men
from Willard, KY, compelled the jailer at
Grayson to deliver the keys and then nn-
locked the Jail, securing Austin Porter the
wife murderer, whom they lynched.
The Platte Valley Bank, one of the Oldest
and wealthiest institutions in Nebraska, has
been closed. 1t is said that Cashier Starrett
has lost $50, 900 bulling cora at Chicago.
WYOMING cattlemen report that they
found the bodies of four men hanging to the
limbs of trees near the seat of the recent
war between the cattlemen and rust!ers.
A CLoUDBURsT between Harold and Blunt
In South Dakota flooded a large section of
country, doing damage to crops and wash
ing out a stretch of the Northwestern Rail-
road track Mrs. K. NJ. Foote and three
children, while returning from a visit, were
drowned in attempting to cross a ravine
with their team. ~
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RETURNS IRON the Oregon elections show
that Hermann, Republican, in the First
Congressional District, is elected to Congress
by $500 plurality. Ellis, Republican, is
elected from the SeconG District by about
1000 plurality. Moore, Republican, is
elected Supreme Judge by at least 5000
plurality. The Republicans control both
branches of the legislature
FERTILE district in Illinois, twenty
miles long by four miles wide, has been
Hooded by the giving way Of a Mississippi
levee
The boiler in Kinzie & Coughill's tile
works, tive and half miles south of Ida
vile, Ind, exploded, four men being killed