Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Texas fever is alarmingly preyalentamong
the cattle in Indiana.
Fire destroyed eight blocks of buildings in
the town Of Suisin, Cal.
Moritz Ladderer's brewery has been seized
of Newark, N. j., for violation OF tile Stamp
act
Fire DESTROYED q number of buildings at
Patterson. N. j., causing losses aggreSatlng
S25, 600.
Edward Alonzo Deacons was hanged at
Rochester, N. Y, for the murder OF Slrs.
Ada Stone.
A uaphtha tank exploded in the oil works
of D. b. Armstrong g. Co., Chicago, and
Alexander johnson was killed.
Charles Coyne and Joseph Carruthers,
stone masons Of Orange, N. j., fell from
scatfold forty-6ve feet and were fatally IN
jured.
The heavy rains have caused disastrous
floods in West Virginia and the Baltl n
and Ohio Railroads MAIN line between Graf 8
ton and Wheeling is blocked; -
Ont. charged with counterfeiting, and 1T IS 5,
believed that he is the leader OF gang OF
counterfeiters.
The Chicago syndicate that purchased
Libby prison will not likely carry out the
remain in Richmond.
A battle between two rival crowds Of Ten
nessee cutthroats interrupted church SER
vice in Whiteley county, Tenn, and severaP;
mon were killed in the fight y
/,..%red A. Forsatb, matrss CT of the Webster
Fuse. Portsmouth, n H., went TO bis room,
undressed, tied one end Of a strip OF cloth 10
his feet, the other to the trigger OF gun,
nlaced the muzzle in his mouth and blew MS
brains out. -
tra By the hsar cas5 Eas u Rock isaD
Chicago and Pacific Railroad construction
train, with seventeen men, was precipltated
to the ground, Fireman Richard Jones being
killed outright und several others injured
David Clark and wife were found hanging
in corn crib at Sandwich, LII.
Myers Opera House, in FL Paso, Texas
gave wey and fell. Loss $50, 900.
The annual convention of the Flint Glass
Workers Union began in Canton, o.
Henry w. Moore, who ..eloped with Mrs;
Norton, OF st. Louis, hos been arrested al
Topeka, KS.
All the pool selling rooms in Pittsburs
will be closed July H. and all appeal be naue
to the Supreme Court by the pool seller :"
Henry Powell, of Cincinnati, saloon pas
senger on the steamship Servia, lcaped over
board in midccean while temporarily insane
General Master Workman Powderly calls
upon the laboring classes to boycott conee
until the speculative corner III the trade Is
broken.
Louis Bur, aged twenty-five years, was
arrested at New Brunswick, N. j., charged
with outrageous assault upon Katie Meme,
aged ten years.
By the explosion of boiler at the Adelaide
silk mill at Allentown, Pa, Frank Steiner
and Henry Borreo, firemen, were killed, and
Hiram Sell, the engineer, was fatally injured.
Judge A. NJ. Pulliam, of Hardinsburg, KY,
killed Junes Miller because the latter would
not pay over IS 900 AMI declare that he had
been criminally intimate with Pulliams
wife.
Mrs. Eva Kensliug, forty-seven years Of ?.
CARRYING her graudchid, aged six months,
attempted to cross the tracks OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad in Philadelphia, and both
were instantly killed.
Sunday evening Edward Sparks called
Charles Myers out of the Goldman House
parlor at Nichoiasville, KY, and insu. ted
Lin, whereupon Myers struck Sparks, who
then drew revolver and killed Myers.
The gambling houses at Long Branch N.
j., are in full blast.
Martin R. Hoffman, Of West Virginia, was
killed on the railroad in Cumberland, Mo.
J. R. Balch, aged twenty-five years, died
at Fairfield, S. c., of hydrophobia In Its WORST
form
William lambeth was hanged at Dallas
Oregon, for the murder of his step-daughter
Silnmie Ellis Antle.
T. A. Ridenour will be tried q third time
for murder ut the August term OF the lock
ingham county, Va, court
Captain William NJ. Scraun, at Whining
ton, N. c., was struck by lumber failing
from moving car and killed.
George L. Colwell's saw mill and CoLweil
s. Sons grist mill, at Harrlsville, MICH,
were destroyed by fire. Loss $3.50
Charles Korn, of New York, committed
suicide by leaping naked into the river, ana
with knife stabbing himself to DEATH
Mrs. Eliza Watson, widow, in drunken
carousal, was thrown over the railing OF her
sioop, in Long Island City, and instantly
killed
The Academy Of Music building, In
Guiding several business establishments, at
Haverhill, Mass, were burned. Losses
100000.
Robert Bryan, colored, aged sixteen years,
stabbed Riley Hancock, aged nineteen, near
Smiths Mills, Ky, and mob promptly
lynched the young murderer.
Governor Hill has called all extra session
of the New York legislature for July II to
appropriate funds to provide work for the
convicts in the state prison.
The Missouri, Kansas an Texas Railroad
Company has bsgun suit to eject two
hundred settlers in Allen county, KS, who
have occupied their farms for twelve years.