Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-01-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wedne esday, Jan. e.

In Porto Rico astonished the natives.
An attempt by Chicago anarchists to
blow up the La Sale street tunr Il was
frustrated by detectives.
Lavish preparations are being made
at Newport for the marriage Of Alfred
G. Vanderbilt to Miss Elsie French on
Jan. IA.
s. Fred Nixon, of Chautauqua, was
chosen speaker of the New York as
sembly. Senator Thomas +. Grady, of
New York, is leader of the minority.
The joint caucus of Pennsylvania Re
publican legislators selected NJ. S. Quay
as the senatorial candidate, he receiv-
ing 1913 votes, four less than a plurality.
The fight Is still on.
The late Lord William Beresford Is
said to have accumulated $500, 900,
mainly on the turf, which he bequeaths
to his son, for whom he had also in
sured his life for s35O,00o.
Thursday, Jan. 3.
Judge Kohlsaat granted a ten. porary
injunction restraining Chicago from en-
forcing rs cent gas ordinance
It is asserted in Dover that the legis-
lature will on Jan. Is elect Col Du-
Pont and ]. Edward Addicks to the
United States senate from Delaware
The senate committee will report ia
vorably the bill to retire Gen. Shafter
as a major general and Gems. Lee and
Wilson as brigadier gene.%Si.
Mrs. Maria Sittser, wife of Hon. John
A. Sittser ex-president Judge of the
Forty-fourtE Pennsylvania district,
died at Eureka Springs, Ark, yesterday.
In = irin
nor Pingree, of Michigan, predicts
bloody revolution within 25 years un-
less present unequal conditions are
changed.
Friday, Jan. 4.
Bishop w. x. Ninde, of the M. E.
church, died in Detroit, aged 6S
The striking structural steel work.
ers in Pittsburg have resumed work,
having been victorious.
Gen. r. N. Batchelder, former quar-
termaster general OF the army, died in
Washington, aged 67. He retired in
1896.
Two carloads Of negroes left Mont
gomery, Ala, last night for the Ha-
waiian islands. They go to take en-
ployment on the sugar plantations
there.
John Bilikis, a Greek, who stabbed
and killed Peter Giovanis, fellow
countryman, on June 10 last, in Phil
adelphia, was sentenced to Is years in
the Eastern penitentiary.
Saturday, Jan. >.
Miss Belle Fremont, prima donna
soprano of the Bostonians, died in Den
yer last night Of pneumonia.
According to Consul LiStoe, at Rot
terdam, there is now good field open
in Europe for American zine ore.
Among the bills introduced in the
Colorado legislature was one for the
restoration of capital punishment.
Ali Ferrouh Bey, who was recently
displaced as Turkish minister in Wash
ington in favor of Mustapha Bey, has
been reinStated.
The navy department yesterday is
sued the expected order announce g
the retirement of Rear Admiral A
Kautz, to take effect Jan. 20.
Monday, Jan. z.
Suffocated by smoke in a hotel fire
at Minneapolis, eight men were taken
out dead.
Bishop Wigger, of the Catholic dio-
cese of Newark, died at South Orange,
N. j., aged 40.
John c. Sims, secretary of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, died yes
terday in Philadelphia.
James Ware Bradbury, United States
senator from Maine in 1846, died at
Augusta, Me-, aged SO.
Assistant District Attorney Maurice
B. Blumenthal, at New York, refused to
resign when requested, and was given
notice Of dismissal.
Daniel F. Davis, father of Webster
Davis, former assistant secretary of the
interior. died yesterday at Kansas City,
Mo-, of consumption, aged "a years.
Tuesday, Jan. 8.
Forty new engines have been ordered
from the Pittsburg locomotive works
by the Illinois Central Railroad COM
pany.
Congressman R. j. Gamble has been
selected as the unanimous choice of
South Dakota's legislature for United
States senator.
Queen Marie Henriette, of Belgium,
is in an extremely weak condition from
the after results of her recent attack
of pneumonia.
The Spanish government is project
ing the establishment of wireless tele
graphy in Spain. Morocco and Ten
eriffe and the other Canary Islands.
At Denver Judge Butler fined the
members OF the board of county COM
missioners $3.50 each for contempt of
court in violating a court order by for
bidding the sheriff to appoint deputies
to guard the polls on election day.