Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-02-16
LATER NEWS,

SAMUEL NICHOLAS. a driver for Pitt Il Scott,
English importers, New York City. was ar
rested and charged with tampering with i'm
ported merchandise packages and defraud-
ing the Governm ent OF about s2Oo, 900 In Gus
toms duties.
FIVE OF q party OF seven men who were re-
turning TO Pensacola, Fla. In sail boat from Big
Sabine were drowned by the capsizing Of the
boat. The men drowned are W. r. Rollins,
G. N. washburn, Ted Mobley, Hiram Brown
and q man named MossicK.
Hon. A. j. MCLAUR1N was nominated for
United States Senator on the sixty-seventh
ballot in the Mississippi Democratic LsgIsla-
tive caucus.
COPPER lands have been discovered in
Tama County, Iowa.
DECLINE in wheat in Chicago made
king quotation. May broke early
to 6S1s cents, selling 4 cent lower than ever
before. On late drive the price went 10
625s cents, g cents under any previous rec
ord.
TIE Senate has confirmed the nomination
OF Thomas Moonlight, OF Kansas, 10 be Minis
ter 70 Bolivia.
BILL 10 restore 1000 railway mail clerks
who were dismissed from the service In the
spring of 1889 to their former places was
ordered fnyorably reported 10y the House
Judiciary Committee.
The Senate Judiciary Committee adjourned
without acting on the Peckham Supreme
Court nomination.
SECRETARY LAMONT sent TO the House Of
Representatives report showing that g.
223, 997 men are available for military duty
in the United States.
Dr. TnEoDoDE BuLRoTH Is dead In
Austria. He was everywhere recognized as
one of the leading surgeons of the world.
He was called in consultation to Paris, Con-
stantinopIe. st. Petersburg, and even TO
Egypt. He was the son of a clergyman, and
was born nearly sixty-f1ve years ago.
PRESIDENT PEIxoTo has offered to pardon
privates belonging TO the Brazilian insurgent
forces who apply for clomency within two
months.
CITIZENS of Honolulu celebrated their
Abrogati on Day with enthusiasm, and still
hope for annexation.
W. H. QUAcKENBoss fell 1876 feet from tt,
Newark IN. J.) Postoffice building tower an j
was instantly killed.
ANDREW caves and wife. an aged couple
who lived alone in the borough of Muncy
Pennsylvania, were found dead in their HON.
by neighbor having been asphyxated by
gas that escaped from a stove in their bed
DIT
eighty years of age
THE trial of Peter Neville, the Chairman of
the Board of Election Inspectors in the
Twenty-seventh Election District in the
Fourth Assembly District. New York City, on
the charge of making false count of the
vote last fall, was concluded. After being
out six hours the jury brought in a verdict
of guilty. with a strong recommendation for
mercy.
A. J. McLAURIN was elected United States
Senator by the Mississippi Legislature.
ANDREW PIKNALLEN, a Russian Finn, was
Ivnched at Even, Wis, for assaulting a
young girl at Bruce's Crossing.
The home of Louis Kuecher. at Indiana
polls. Ind. was demolished by an explosion
of natural gas his daughter, Rosa, thirteen,
was killed.
GEORGE GIILIs fell into Il grave i'll Birm-
ingham, Ala, and the coffin crushed him to
death.
THE vault in the private bank of J. c. N.
Elder at Deshler, Ohio, was blown open and
completely demolished with dynamite and
scraps of currency were found in the debris.
The robbers secured $4,000 in coin and S120)
in paper is thought to have beeen blown to
pieces.
THE House bill repeating Federal Election
laws was passed by the Senate by a vote of
80 to %.
BY a vote of 176 to IS the House adopted
the resolution condemninS Minister Stevens
and sustaining the Hawaiian policy of Pres
ident Cleveland.
GERMANY will have war with Russia within
three months, the Kaiser says, if the COM
mercial treaty is rejected.
THREE persons were killed and twenty in
iured in railroad wreck near Compiegne,
France.
A HURRICANE prevailed in the countries
bordering the North Sea much damage was
done to property in Englani.
An election for President of Brazil is to be
held on March DR.. De Moraes, now Presi
dent of the Senate is the only candidate yet
in the field. Five more torpedo boats
rived at Pernambuco for President Peixoto.