Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-03-29
Domestic.

THE New Jersey Legislature took recess
10 June f. when it will meet to hear the re-
port of the Voorhees, Investigating Com
mittea.
The Oyer and Terminer Extraordinary
Grand Jury brought in another batch of in
dictmcnts against New York police officials
A SPECIAL freight train comprising twenty
nine cars, all loaded with cotton goods con-
signed to Shanghai, China, left Biddeford, Me.
WALLACE & Sons brass works at AnsOnia,
Conn. have been bought for 81 ,000, 900 by
W. A. Clark. Of Butte, Montana.
THREE children, all under three years. Of
Charles Ross, were left locked in their home
at Springfield. Mo. The house caught fire
and all the children were burned to death.
AT Buffalo. N Y. Clarence Robinson was
found guilty Of murder in the second degree,
and Sadie Robinson of manSlaughter in the
first degree for the murder of Lawyer Mont
gomery Gibbs. Clarence Robinson was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment and Sadie Robin
son to twenty years.
GENERAL PHILIP ST. GEORGE COOKE the
Oldest general officer in the United States
Army, died a few days ago in Detroit,
Mich. He was born near Leesburgh, Va,
June 49, 1909. In 1927 he was graduated
from West Point.
TEN of the eleven New York City police Of
fcals indicted by the Extraordinary Grand
Jury appeared before Justice InSraham and
pleu nOt guilty 10 the Inc Ouly
absentee was ex-Wardman James Burns, who
jumped his bail.
The strike of about ten thousand men in
the building trades in New York City was de-
clared off and the new agreement between
the bosses and the mon was signed. The
settlement was brought about through the
efforts Ofthe New York Council of Concilia-
ton and Mediation. An eight-hOur day will
be granted on May1.
AT New Orleans. La. the Grand Jury
which has been investigating the levee riots
returned indictments for murder against
twenty-eight OF the participants.
In the Maine Senate, at Augusta, the Wo-
mans Suffrage bill. which had already
passed the House, was rejected by vote of
II to Is.
GENERAL NEAI. Dow. "the father of Pro-
hibition." celebrated az Portland Me-, his
ninety-first birthday. He had many callers.
A TERRIFIC simeon, filing the air with
sand swept over DeniSOn. Texas. Houses
We're unroofed. trees blown down, and a
great deal Of damage done.
BY the explosion OF a sawnil boiler near
Eight Mile Creek. Texas, six persons were
killed and as many more manned.
The National Bank OF Kansas City, No,
failed to open its doors. The assets are
81 800, ,000 with liabilities Of 81 100000.
i. E. BUTLER. Cashier OF the Arlington
(Jass.) National Bank and an Alderman.
committed suicide by shooting. Mr.. Butler
was taken i'll a few weeks before with grip
and had been suffering mentally.
JOHN kURTZ a salOoG-kecper, and Anthony
Ketchum. an insurance agent, were killed at
a fire in New York City, and other tenants
were rescued by heroic frsmen. hartz lost
| his life while brayeIy attempting to save his
wife and children.
The Populist Convention of the Tenth
Georgia Congress District met az Thomson.
the home Of Thomas E. Watson, and nomi-
mated him unanimously for Congress, to
make the race in the special eiect0n made
necessary by the resignation Of Congressman
Black.
THE Danish steamship H2rsa left Savan-
| nah, GA, bound for MonrOvia, Liberia, with
1876 coiored passengers, men, women and
children, on board.
PREsIDESF-BRowSsoN and Cashier Morgan,
of the wrecked Chenango Valley Savings
Bank, BinghamtOn. were arrested.
WHILE Frederick Marcott, the inventor OF
Il patent rope fire-escape, and his cousin.
George Marcott aged twelve. were giving
an exhibition at Duluth Mimi. the rope
broke. and they fell sixty feet. The boy was
| instantly killed. Marcott was fatally in
juTed.
PASSENGERS from Cuba brought IL report 10
Key West. Fla. that the Spanish gunboat
Arcedo fired on and sank an American
schooner off Puerto del Padre and that the
crew of sixteen was lost.