Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-20
THE NEWS.

Calvin NJ Dcllnger, of Lancaster Pa, who
! had been charged with the murder of his
nineteen-y ear-old wife, whose body was found
| Oh tho banks OF q creek, WAS discharged from
custody for want of evidence against him.
-Geo:ge Rowe, e;gh teen years old, of Ma
homet, ILL.,, fatally shot his fatller.-L II.
Sloanakcr, cashier in the Chi:ago and North.
western freight Office ut Sioux City, Iowa,
has disappeared, and large shortage has
been discovered in his accounts.-The resi-
! dence OF c. B. Smith, at FiIield, Wis, was
burned, and his two children were burnel
to DEATH The entire family of Obal Osleni
of Pierce county, Wis, were poisoned, and
foul play is s,ispecto..-Elward Walsh,
proprietor of tho Central Hotel, Mt Long
Branch, has failed, and the hotol has been
closed LIABILITIES, 5000; assets, nothing.
The E9st Tennessee Railro ID has finally
been leased to the Richmond and Danyille
/ Company.--Presiden Yerses, of the Chi
cago street railway, still refuses to put the
Old men who were on strike on full timc,
and another strike may rcsult.-Genei al
| Rutherford B. Hayes was elected commander
s, in-chiof Of the Loyal Legion, to fill the va
cancy causol by the death of General Sheri-
,n.-Edward Fitzpatrick, of Albany, N.
Y. while temporary insane, killed his broth
sr's child, aged three years, because the little
oae had tcased him.
Tho Cameron colliery at Shamokin Pa,
owned by the Mineral Mining Company of
Philadelphia, was destroyed b. fire; loss SO,
| 900, and one thousand men thrown out OF
| employment The boiler of the Superior
| Mills, ut Ypsilanti, Mich, exploded, instant
! " killing fireman John Slawson and injur-
ing another fireman; damage So, O00.-The
warehouses of the Standard Oil Company at
Minneapolis took fire from sparks OF loco
motive and we're consumed TO :ethcr with
% 900 barrels of oil; loss $50, 900. "A
tlozon women were arrested in Thompson,
Dakota, for attacking saloons AMI splitting
the liquors. ninth annual report Of
! the Indian Government Training School at
Carlisle, Pa, shows that there are G31 Indian
bows and girls in the school, and that the
Apaches constitute the largesI clement Of
any one triLe--A Pennsylvania Railroad
fast freight train ran into gravel train on
the I,ehigh Valley Railroad, ana in TIE wreck
six Hungariai.s were killed, and twenty-six
] injured TWO of the latter fatal y.-The rail-
road coal operators of the PittS1lirg district
nave agreed to advance the price of mining
from a to 20 cents per ton on November /,
i,,n tb,.p nj
make simila: advance. a number Of
liquor dealers in Warren county, y. j., have
been forced by the Local Option laws to
make assignments.
Miss Mamie Carroll, of Troy, \. y, was
brutally assaulted by Daniel Sheehan, q no.
lorious Rutlian, who kicked her in the abio-
men ana inflicted injuries from which she
will die john H. Knapp, the great lurl-
Der millionaire of Wisconsin, and Senior OF
the firm of Knapp Stout IL Co., died a.
Menominee of Cancer OF the facc.-kobcr9
Davidson, passenger OH tie steamer Ethl-
opia, from Glasgow is supposed to have COM
mitted suicide by jumping overboard,-
Mrs VIM Morse, of Pawtucket, R. l., who
had but recently been brought home from
an insane asylum set fire to her clothing and
was fatally burned--Jarnes Jeyior, aged
thirty-five OF East Boston, who killed his
wife, aged seventy, pleaded guilty of man.
slaug hter, and was sentenced to state prison
for three years-The corner stone Of the
new library building of the University OF
Pennsylvania, in Phi adelphia YVES laid with
imposing Masonic ceremonial. William
Rue, wealthy farmer, aged eighty-5wo
was instantly killed by Pennsylvania Rail
road train, near Asbury Park, n. J.-Pro'
fessor Frederick A. Porcber, for forty years
professor OF Englisl and modern languages
in Charleston College, died in that city =
The Fieldhause & butcher Manufacturing
Company, OF Chicago, made an assignment
Liabilities about SO, OOJ; assets the same
Judge Sawyer, in the United States
Court of San Francisco, declared the Chinese
exclusion act constitutional, and the counsel
for the Chinese gave notice of III appeal to
the United States Supreme Court.
Ex-Supervisor Clovis iSoncy, OF st Clair
county, H.. has been inflicted, charged with
cmbezzing $4o,0i0.--The grand jury of
Rawlns, Wyoming, has ini:ctel a number
OF conductors and brakcmen Of the Union
) Pacific Railroad on the charge OF robbing
freight trains. -Slinnic Bond, aged seven
We rs. was burned to death at Mexico, Mo-,
her ,lress catching fire from or tic, and the
! smoke sufTocating her baby sisters Tho
Yandalia Lines freight dapot, in Eass st.
Louis, was burned with fifteen cars and three
hundred bales Of cotton; loss t0,00O.-
Michael Faherty. of Jersey City, was sen
fenced to twenty years hard labor for beat
! ing his mother to death. Typhoid fever is
epidemic at Tobyhanna Mills, Pa.-By an
explosion of gas in the D FRANCE shaft Of tic
Lchigh Valley Coal Company, near Wilkes
barre, Pa, Benjamin Markey was fatally
burned and several others injured--The
Kane county, ILL.,, grand jury indicted sew,
era leading members of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers on the charge of con-
spiracy in connection with the recent Bur-
iington Railroad strke.-ArguS Morrison,
'vhiio Investigating the slo ness of large
granite blast to explode at the Lithonia
Granite Works. near Atlanta, Co., was
blown to Atoms.-Four hundred employees
of tls Elson Glass-works, at Wheeling, w.
Va, have gone on strike.-The United Boss
Bakers Association of New York raised the
price of bread, and the .ourneymen bakers
held meeting and denounced the raise as
the frs move toward forming bread trust.
The great Chicago street-car mems strike
has ended fairly satisfactory to all CO cerned.
Captain Frederick L. Whitehead, of the
subsistence department of the army, died in
Washington.-Logan York, while attemp
ting to rob Jesse Mason, an aged farmer of
Hendricks county, Ind. was shot and killed
by the farmers son.
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