Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-12-14
LATER NEWS.

SUITS have been begun in the Second Dis
trict Court of New Jersey at Newark against
LOG corporations to recover 5000 fine from
each for violating the law requiring them to
file annually list of all their officers and
directors with the Secretary of State.
THE Omaha (Neb. y Exposition Hall, COW
ering three-quarters Of a block, was de-
stroyed by fire, with a Baptist church ad-
joining.
IN an attempt to escape from the convict
camp at Wells. Texas, Convicts Brandon
and Freese fatally shot Guard Foster, who
killed Brandon AMI fatally shot Freese.
Freeze afterward fired pistol ball into his
own heart.
JOHN GARY EVANS Tillmanite) was in
augurated Governor of South Carolina at
Charleston. He declared that the Dispen-
sary law must be enforced. and recommended
special courts to try that class of offenders
who are now victims of lynch law.
Ex-GovERNoR ODEN BOWIE died at his
home, Fairview, Bowie, Md. He was born
at Fairview on November 10, 1926.
THE death of Stanislaus Gautier, United
States Consul at Cape Hayti, is reported at
the State Department.
THE clerks of the Senate and House
Appropriation Committees have prepared
Joint statement showing the estimates for
appropriations by bills for 1896. which show
an increase of 81 .O35, ,696 over the estimates
for 1895, and of S17, 800, 1872 over the actual
appropriations for 1895. The principal in
crease is in the Sundry Civil bill.
A CAUCUS of Democratic Senators failed
at Washington to decide upon legislative
policy.
FIVE men were killed and score of peo-
pie injured by an explosion of dynamite in
Hull, Qubec, Canada.
JAMES CANAAN READ, the convicted mur-
derer of Miss Florence Dennis, was hanged
at Chelmsford, England.
SCHOONER CLARA E. SIMPSON was run down
in Long Island Sound by the steamer Dorian
and three OF her crew, John Aikland, sailor
Hans Hontvet. OF Portsmouth, N. II. W
Williams, Of East Boston. Mass.. were
drowned.
HIGHwAYMEN robbed 4 woman in one OF
Boston's fashionable streets. and one OF
them shot two men who pursued him.
THE Treasury Department determined
upon the reorganization of the Philadelphia
(Penn.) Mint.
HARRY GooDLoE, a student of Central Uni
versity, died at Richmond, Ky, Of injuries
received while playing football. He was a
son of State Senator John D. Goodloe.
The jury in the case of Numa Dudoussat,
n member of the New Orleans 0a.) City
Council, charged with bribery, returned a
verdict of guilty.
MRS. LOUIS ALBERT, the insane wife OF
butcher in Galveston. Texas, poisoned hex
five children. four of them dying.
THE annual report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission was ma ie public.
THE President nominated E. Fl. Strobel
of New York, now Minister to Ecuador, to
be Minister to Chile.
REPRESENTATIVE GEISsENHAINER, OF New
Jersey, succeeded Amos J. Cummings, of
New York, in the Craftsmanship of the
House Naval Committee.
toned in the Presidents message. upon the
German protest against the discriminating
duty of sne-tenth of a cent per pound on
sugar coming from countries paying an ex-
port bounty thereon, was transmitted to
Congress.
EMPEROR WILLIAM made speech in Ber-
lin at the openin: of the Reichstag AMI an
Of
new palace of the German Imperial Parlia-
ment.
THE Occidental Bank, of Salvador. has
been robbed of 800, 900. and two Of ire en-
ployes have been arrested.
LORD DUSRAvEN announced IN London
That challenge Tor the America'3 Cup had
Lcen issued.