Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-01
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.


his wife.
JOSEPH Breed, cashier of the Hartford Ma,
tional Bank, ut Hartford, Ct, cohlmltIeu
suicide by cutting his throat.
Mary Ann Mcnamara and Julia Terry, or
Chicago, had smuggling match according 10
prize-ring rules
The Sioux Indians, driven Off the Sh oshones
reservation, had donned their war paint ana
murdered several persons
Herbert L. Smith has been arrested in
New York, charged with forgeries committed
i'll Washington.
A collision between freight trains on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad resulted in
the death of an engineer and two brakemen.
One hundred and fifty rug weayers, mostly
girls, employed at w. I. Smiths mill, Phil
adelphia, have gone on strike because mex
perienced boys have been employed as
winders.
The bronze statue of the poet Burns, the
gift of Miss Mary Mcpherson, has been
placed on its Scotch and American'pedestal
in Albany, n. Y.
Mrs. Ann Jackson, whose husband met
with violent death just one year ago, was
struck by an express train and instantly
killed at Eatontown, n. j..
The Chicago West Division Elevated Rail-
road Company was Incorporated and 1t VIII
cross the river with tunnel line, thus
connecting tho western section with the
other parts of the city.
Fire DESTROYED a block of buildings at
Lancaster, Wis, doing $4,000 damage.
The mother and sister of Hugh n. Brown,
who was recently hanged at st. Louis for
the Preller murder, have left for their home
in England.
Pony Poe, negro, was lynched at Belle
fontaine, Miss, for assaulting three women.
Mrs. Mary Charlirk Hume dropped dead
while preparing to battle in the ocean at
Long Island.
A Lehigh Valley railroad locomotive
boiler exploded as the train was going up
the mountain near WilSesbarre, Pa, and
Joseph Vanborn. q brakeman was killed.
The lower portion of Luzerne county. Pa,
has been flooded with bogus coin and Frank
Layalley has been arrested, and has peached
on the rest of the gang.
While partridge hunting at Lake Placide.
II. Y, Daniel OConnell assistant United
States district attorney of New York city,
accidentally shot and fatally injured John
Shey, his guide.
Thirty-seven new cases Of yellow fever at
Jacksonville, Fla.
The late Charles Crocl1er, Of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, left an estate to
his family valued OF over twenty-five
millions.
Mrs. Lucinda Fletcher, Of Springfield, VT.
celebrated the one hundredth anniversary OF
her birth.
Forest fires are doing great damage in
Michigan.
VIM. II. Clark, clever forger, has been
arrested in New York.
Charles W. Waldron, bank manager, of
Hillsdale, Mich, has absconded.
Michael Council died at LYnchburg, Va,
aged one hundred and two years.
Freeman G. Cary, founder Of Farmers
College, Ohio, died at Cincinnati.
In q playful manner, Mrs. Frazer, of st.
John, n B., shot young girl fatally.
Maggie Punzle, aged twenty years, was
killed on railroad trest!e near GAINESVILLE,
Wis.
Labor leaders are arranging for a more
complete organization OF miners III the coal
and coke fields.
There have been 107 cases of yellow fever,
II Of which were fatal, curing thepast month
aG Jacksonville, Fla.
Isaac May, of the firm of Elsas, May s. Co.
owners of the Fulton Cotton Spinning Com
pany, of Atlanta, GA. is dead.
BY the falling of large derrick at East
Saginaw, Mich, two brothers, named Collier
were killed and several other persons injured,
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
begun suit against the Arthur Kill Bridge
Company for five millions Of dollars dam
ages.
A man calling himself e. S. Burns, bought
one hundred and thirty-eight steers Mt South
Omaha, Neb.. and passed bogus draft in
payment.
Major J. j. Cummings, n prominent rail
road contractor, was found dead in bed,
victim Of delrium tremens, at hotel in at
lanta, Ca
The flagstaff Of the New Jersey Rubl g:
Works bui ding, ct New Brunswick, N. j
was struck by lightning, and panic caused
among the employees
A sixteen-year-old colored boy was lynched
at Brownstown, Sewer county, Ark, for
outraging the five .year-old daughter OF Far.
mer Joseph A. FOLLY.
Admiral Porter is i'll.
A report comes from Pressure Isle county,
Michigan, that cholera is raging there.
An electric car ran away on Pittsbure
city railway, aud seven persons were lady
injured.
Tie extensive stocking mannfactory OF
Herman Klein & Son, Cincinnati, was
burned. Loss, 100000.
H. S. Benjamin and F. A. Bates, members
of bankrupt mining firm, were arrested IN
Chicago on the charge of conspiracy.
The old Libby prison will not likely De
removed from Richmond to Chicago. as the
Chicago syndicate who were to purchase IL
have not come to terms.
President Fitzgerald, of the Irish National
hoe to
the state delegates to raise Parnell defense
fund among the Irish Americans.
Houck g. Comstocks manufacturing works
at 1Iechanicsburg, Pa, destroyed by fire,
and Jacob Evans, discharged employe, ar
rested on suspicion of causing the fire.
The barge Governor Jackson foundered
at sea, between Cape Henry and Delaware
Brcokwater, and the colored cook and MS
wife and child were drowned.
A Pinkerton detective spoiled the escape
of n couple of Chicago bursla by capturing
their tools and the booty they had just Sc
cured from Henry w. King g. Cos clothing
store.
John D. elliott, the cattle king CT Illinois,
is dead.
Four tranlps were run down ct HackensacK,
N j. Two of thcm viii die.
William Johns, n cattle buyer, OF Ciark6-
burg, W. Va, was robbed of STO0.
Robert Coulton Davis, of Philadelphia, the
oldest druggist in the Country, is dea'l.
The saloon keepers of Cleveland, Ohio,
have resolved to ignore all Sunday laws -.
Joseph Chumlcy was hilled Ivy his father
in-law, Quincy Harbor, near Collinsviiie, Ala.
The town of Clinton, Ind, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire. One block OF business houses
was destroyed.
Appropriate resolutions were adopted on
the death OF General Sheridan, at O nieating
held in London.
Thos. Kelly was stabbed eight times by
Thomas Sweeney, ct Lowell, class, IN
quarrel about woman.
During fox hunt of miners, near Union
town, Pa, the men quarreled, and Thomas
Jefrrics shot and killel Jacob Gollock.
The drying house of tue Giant Powder
Company, Of San Francisco, exploded, Kill
ing two white men and three Cinnamon.