Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-08
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY,

George O. Grady & Co., of Eastport, Me-,
the largest snriine packers i'll Maine, have
made nm assignment for the benefit OF cr1d-
itors. Liabilities about $300OO.
The casting of the PROV of the now United
States cruiser San Francisco ut tho Union
Iron Works, Sun Francisco. has been found
TO DO :, complete SUCCESS. The Prov weighs
l2,0O0 pounds
In Chicago Frank Z. McGuerrin, OF Salt
Lake City, made record of l0S ID words
minlltn ON n typewriter from dictation,
heating all previous records. Blihulolded lie
wrote lO7 words in II nnu9.
Before the National TelephoMe Exchange
Also. a.iol in New York, G. T.. McClLe',
OF Richmond, Va. read II paper on dynamo
Current interference with Telephone Cir
cults and mems OF Relief.
Tho stables of the Summit County Asri
cultural So iety, at Akron, o., burned.
Three horses persisted. A. b. Ewal who
was in charge of the stables, is missing, and
it was thought he was burned TO death; loss
$S,C00.
White. swimming in tho Hudson river.
near Troy, N. Y, Arthur Oathout and a
number OF companions were chased by q
cfocodic.-. The reptile was captured. It's
thought to have belonged to some one in the
vicinity.
James NJ. Ordwny, an old and inolrensive
rnan was standing Un one OF The principal
thoroughIareS of Clinton, Iowa, when four
tough characters came along. One oil them
STIR OK the old man under the chin and he
died instantly.
The telegl aph operators along the line
of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
in, inf nj mt n
cent order from the company To sever their
connection with the Order of Railway Tele
graphers or vacate their positions.
Lonis Larsen, Il workman for Crane Bros,
Chicago, crawled into II iron cylinder used
for the piston Of n hydraulic elevator for tho
purpose Of cleaning it, He TOOK Il lighted
can,i,e and II bucket Of benZine. The cylinder
soon filled with nllammable gas All explo-
sion followed, and the man was cnveloped
in flames, which burned BIN to death. Ow-
ing to his situation it was impossible to help
him.
Samuel Scanlon, Of Louisville, Ky, shot
his wife aud himself, both fatally, while
wild will liquor.
William Miller, a private wntcllman Of
Allegheny City, a, WAS shot anu Killed by
john Demmly, colored
Tho Birkhead hosiery mill at Beverly, N.
j., together with the machinery was de-
stroycd by fire: les $4,000.
Tie labor organizat ons of Chicago are
about tn construct II handsome uuiluiiiS us
their headquarters in that city.
James Shaw, aged seventythrce years,
committed suicide i'll Patterson, n. j., and
his aged wife will not likely survive the
shock.
julie List, secretary of the Duckworth
Building Association of Cincinnati, has en-
hczzlod over twenty thousand dollars and
escaped.
Rev. jams S. Greene, eighty years of
age, was turned out of 4 Chicago hotel with
lis bride, u former wife, charging him with
Iigamy.
Henry Bedcll. William Mckay and Will
lam Vanc were killed and several Others in
jurcd by the fall OF an cnibanklnent at ST.
Johnsbury, VT.
j. C. Payne, of Covington, Wyoming
county, ~ ", ana n former uicmbtr Of tEo
New York st te Legislature, committed
suicide while laboriug under mental trouble.
Frost in Michigan has badly injured the
corn and ruined the buckwleat.
Martin Moran was accidentally killed in
the Lotten coal mine, near Piedmont.
Henry Tanner, John Tanner and Alonzc
Smith, all colored, wore lynched at oxford,
N. C.
Patrick Flynn, B. s. 0. brakeman. WINS
killed by falling between the cars near Pied
mont, w. Va
By boiler explosion in the Perry Stove
Works, at South Pittsburg, Tenn, five meh
were killed.
The Globe Hotel, Norfolk, Va, was burned
and Thomas Jones, who jumped from win
dow, was injured.
Receiving Teller Andy, of the Bank Ma
tionale Of Quebec, is missing, and his cnsh
account is $4,000 short
Charles Allen and Miss Matte Scoville, o.
Youngstown, o., clipped. and the girls father
pursued them with n shot gan
Lieutenant Commander Longnecker, as
Sulne1 bis duties rs executive officer OF the
training ship New Hampshire ut Newport
Anarchist Haunted their red flag Mt a labor
picnic in Cleveland, o., and indiGnlnt work
inglncn tramplcd it under foot and whipped
tie reds"
Thirty-scven new cases of yellow fever are
reported in Jacksonville. The physicians
are SURPRISING reports Of cases in their
private practice.
DIR. Frederick G. Perpente, accused oT
completely in the death OF Miss An, eri
meusing prison, Philadelphia.
While Mrs Maggie Collins was attendin !;
her dau: hter, WHO hal just given birth to Il
child, tt Circeville, o., she was shot dead,
the ball cute. ing the window. 1t is not def
ni;ely knoAn who fired tue fatal Shot.
Charles Chester, of Antwerp, Ohio, was
at acked by highwaymen, near Fort Wayne,
Ind, ana robbed Of fifteen hundred dollars,
his mouth filled with sand, and i'll IN uncoI-
8 :ious condition he was laid on II railroad
Track, narrowly escaping terrible death.
mrs Sarah Althea Sharon Terry the plain.
till i'll tie celebrated California divorce case,
creited Il scene in the United States Court
at San Francisco by insulting Justica Fields,
md when the United States Marshall triel
TO put her out of the courtroom, Judge Terry,
her husband knocked him down.
Complaints of too much rain from tho
cotton bel6.
Mrs Steimlc, of Delhi, Ohio, drowned her
two children and herself
Six section men were killed by a freight
train jumping the track near Bonneville
Missouri.
The American Hotel at West Superior,
Mimi, was burned and three men persisted
in the flames.
Jay Gould is going to construct a new
union depot in st. Louis, to cost over half q
million dollars.
The Southwest Coke Company, of Pitts
burg, has voluntarily advanced the wages
of their employees five per cent.
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