Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-03-08

characterization OF silver and dealings IN
futures.
The Ways and Means Committee recon-
mends that England. Russia and japan he
requested to cooperate with IN" United
States In protecting the seals.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND decided the boun-
Diary dispute between Brazil and Argentina,
in favor OF Brazil.
Foreign Notes.
CoMMANDANT LECHArrELIER, of the marin"
force fought IA duel with NJ Perchor. an cd
itor in Paris. iphicting wound from the ef-
fects of which Percher died Ia few moments
The weapons We're swords.
THE German Reirh-tag approved the ap-
preparation for the four new cruiser.
THE loss of life in the wreck OF tine Inter
Oceanic Railway. in Mexico, has just beer
made. known. Sixty-tive person w"r" killed
instead Of forty-two. a. first stated, and forty
were injured.
PRINCE LoEANoFr RosrovsKY has h,N'n aIe
pointed Russian Minister OF Foreign Affair
to succeed the late NJ. 1t" Gi"rs.
SIR HERCULES ROBINSON has been reap
pointed Governor Of Cape Colony, South
Africa : Cecil Rhodes could not get a'on:
with Sir Henry Loeb.
FIRE at Halifax. Nova Scotia. destroyed Hn
elevator and a wharf stored with merchan-
disc. Loss. II 000, 600.
The Japanese Government has ordered all
its officers now serving in the German army
to return home at once for duty in China.
NEWS has been received of battle near
Cali, Colombia. in which the rebels were
defeated Many were killed on both sides.
The Government forces captured u large
body of prisoners.
A BILL to make American goods pay at
least twice as much duty IN Germany rs the
goods Of other countries IS before the Reich
stag.
MILD type Of influenza has spread over
England The public offices have brcom"
short of hands, and the service is, cons"-
quently, crippled.
THE importation Of American cattle into
France has been forbidden.
Ii HUNa CHANa's yellow jacket. peacock
feathers, etc, have been restored 80 him by
the Emperor of China.
MAX II. GRAUER, the tirebug, convicted Of
arson in the first degree, was sentenced in
New York to hard labor III Sing Sing Prison
for thirty years. As Grauer is forty odd
years of age, this is practicallya life sentence.
Mrs. Licbermann. his accomplice, was sen
fenced for SIX years.
The Washington express of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey ran into coal cars
near BayOnne, n. j., and two men, Winfield
Holland fireman and William Thomas, en-
gineer, were killed and three injured.
THE doors of the HoIdredge (Neb.) } National
Bank We're closed and the Government was
notified to assume charge. The capital stock
is $50 900
THE United States cruiser Montgomery
sailed from Mobile, Ala, for IruXillo, Hon
duras, on a secret mission.
FREsHETs i'll Pennsylvania and Onto have
done great damage.
AT Kingston, n. c., fire, which originated
in Bryanteld's stables. spread to the wooden
buildings in the rear of Oettedger Brothers
store and to the Opera House. Tn" two
main business blocks of the town were de-
stroyed. The loss is fully 1925, 900 and the
insurance small,
The experiment Of sending weather in
dications by fash light from the tower OF the
Chicago Auditorium proved 4 success.
Two farmers from Texas, one Of whom had
big revolver conveniently tucked away in
the leg Of his boot, and who said they Ind
come to get money from green goods men,
were arrested in Jersey City, n. j., together
with sixteen-ycar-old lad who acted Is
''steerer."
TWENTY-FIVE men were killed by the mine
explosion at Ccrrillos, New Mexico.
The Michigan Democratic State Conven-
tiOn adopted Il free silver resolution, with
only one dissenting vote.
MoRGAHFIELD the Aqua Creek (Va.) train
robber, was found guilty and sentenced 20
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
HEAVY rain has broken the drought in
Northern Texas.
Court OFFICER RICHARD NORRIS was fatally
wounded at Cincinnati. Ohio. while serving
a warrant on Louis Stozenherger, black
smith and PatroIman Fred Shaffer instantly
killed Stolzenberger.
LEROY FERNoLD, aged thirty-eight. an
insane son. first killed his mother with I'll
axe and then set fire to their home at East
Lebanon, Ne, where the body lay.
DETECTIVES JACOB AND McMASUs. Of Sup
erintendent Byrnes's staff, New York CITY,
were arrested and held in $1,000 each on II
charge made by Parkhurst Society agents. 10
the effect that they had allowed a burglary I"
take place and received money therefore.
A CUBAN mass meeting at New York City
developed wild enthusiasm for tn" rebel
cause and much money was contributed.
AN explosion in three empty ramaharkle
buildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which
nobody could explain. killed one boy, John
FIuhr: fatally hurt another, Peter Wenz; in
jured six persons and broke windows blocks
away.
The cupola Of BrOOklyD's City Hall burned
and with 1t went the figure Of Justice. the
two-ton bell and the clock. Loss ESQ 70
$4,000, mostly by water.
The bids for the city three per cent. gold
bonds. on being opened in New York CITY.
were found TO amount to almost four times
the amount Of the issue.
WILLIAM HAvERLY was shot and fatally in
jured at Engel's Pavilion Chicago, by PRO
fessor' Alfred Rieckhoff alleged 'champiOn
rife shot Of the world" The men were per
forming the human target act.
WHILE skylarking at Louisville, Ky. Ma
Brunn shot TO death through the heart Ola
ence Watts, with supposedly empty r.
vOlver.
THOMAS CAvASAUGH and his wife. who live /
In Hogs Hui, Conn. were burned to death
in their house Their charred bodies wcrr
found in the ruins.
The new naval dry dock at Port Royal. $.
c. mas been com plete aud t-stei with highly
satisfactory results.
AT Mansfield Ohio Fred J. Crooks. aged
nineteen and his sister, Mary L. Crooks.
aged twenty. Were out driving when they
were struck by freight train and instantly
killed.
died Of grief two hours after the death Of his
wife.
CORDELIA HILL. the eleven-ye Old cOlOred
child who shot and killed her father in de-
fense of her mother in Charleston. Va. has
been acquitted. the trial lasted about three
hours and a verdict was reached in half an
hour.
The dr1uth district OF Nebraska has been
blessed with heavy rain.
FARMER FRANK HESDRIcK aud his wife wera
found mysteriOusly murdered in their houS+,
two miles south Of Lebanon. Ind.