Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-07
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Harry Skinner, Boston broker, choke(
himself to death

Harry Skinner, Boston broker, choked
himself to death.
A flre.craclcr fire destroyed the Opera
House at Dayton, Ohio.
A soldiers and sailors monument was UNI
yelled ut Binghamton, n. Y.
Large amounts have been subscribed in
Havana for the flood sufferers in Mexico.
Tho Cincinnati Exposition was opened
There was large attendance OF state COVER
nors.
Robert w FIacI, i'll endcayorng to nav
gatc the Niagara rapids, wus drowned in the
whirlpool.
The committee to notify General Harrison
of his nomination discharged their duty at
indianapolis
Tho results of Fourth of July celebration
footed up thirty-tlirce fires and over fifty
persons injured i'll New York.
Stage robbers compelled tile driver of q
Stage in California to hand over the express
box, containing ten thousand dollars.
John FL. Van Loan, OF the Second National
Bank, New Jersey, left on u vacation, and
hisaccounts show large shortage
The celebrated criminal libel case of Post
master General Villas against William WEIGH
OF Minneapolis, Mimi, has been discontinued.
S. S. Brodlield, proprietor of tho Bushnell
House, at Bushnell, ILL.,, was fatally SHOT by
Charles Foster, i'll quarrel about matter
of wages.
A terrific electrical storm passed through
the Northwest Sunday, and half dozen lives
were lost and many buildings struck by
lightning.
War las broken out between two factions
oil the higlbinders i'll Chinatown, San Fran-
cisco, caused by the abduction of the young
mistress Of wealthy old Chinaman
Richard NcvinS, Jr., cx-rcsi,lcnt govern
lnent architect of the United States Court
house ut Pittsburg, has been arrested,
charged with making fraudulent claims
ug;linst the government.
Fire Mt Norfolk, Va, destroyed q block OF
unfinished buildings. Loss s1O,OUO
The reading Hardware Works. at Reading,
Pa, wcro destroyed by fire. Loss S53o,o oo'
John Zochbar, young farmer. Of Raclne
Wis, has existed forty days without iooi'
Captain Dunlap, OF the Pittsburg Base
Ball Club, was struck by ball that broke
his right jaw.
Mrs. Edward Cousins, of Lockand, O.,
! and her child were killed by her hall para
lyzed husband.
Clara Williams, Of Cincinnati, rather than
face the disgrace of trinl for larceny, Kliieu
herself with Clloroform.
Henry j. Overall, an insurance agent, OF
Scranton, Pa, has been arrested i'll New
York, charged with fraud.
Twenty -two business houses and residences
! in the town of P.lragould, Ark, burned.
Losses aggregate SG2,OOJ.
Justice Charles L. Fennimore, OF Mount
Holly, n j., died of hydrophobia from dog
bite received several months ago.
A steam barge blew ont her steam chest,
| on Lake Michigan, severely burning Il. ROD
iIlson, the engineer, S. Thomas the fireman.,
and others.
Negro thieves knocked c. L. Avery, the
cashier of the Armour Company ut Birnins-
! ham Ala, insensible, then rlled inc sales
and set the place on tire.
Cotton worms are doing damage in South
ern Arkansas.
Grasslloppers by the million are destroying
the crops i'll Minnesota.
Philip Hamucrschmdt shot his wife, i'll st
Louis, and killed himself.
Patrick Coffee shot Agnes Smith in Jersey
City, and then committed SUICIDE
Robert Kelly was shot and killed at Navo-
sofa, Texas, while trying to escape deputy
sheriff.
Eight iron manufacturing 6rms have
signed the Amalgamated Association scale
OF wages.
All the flint glass factories banked their fires
Sunday, and six thousand workers take O
six months rest
Fire at Montgomery, Ala, destroyed the
electric street railroad building, causing
loss of S30,0 900.
Claudius Banner, aged four years, Of. Har
risburg, Pa while playing with revolver
killed,himSelf.
Charles Whitehead shot and instantly killci
Minnie HILL near Denver, Col, and then ble"
bis own brains out
In the burning of n large livery stable II
West Harrisburg, Pa., L. S. Mehrbach
nine horses persisted.
Joseph Brown, n consumptive, committed
suicide at the Philadelphia almShouse, BY
leaping out the window
Judge Bank, of Iowa, has decided that inn
porters of liq.or in Iowa from other state:
can sell the original casks or packages
jeff carp. school teacher, and young
farmer named Heard quarrelei at Carrolisoi
Mo-, and fatally shot each other
Rev Charles II. wheeler and wife, of Win
chendon, Mass, were instantly killed by theil
carriage Doing SCruck ny u lOcoiiio1iNc'
Policeman Thomas Woods was shot ant
almost instantly killed. in New York city, bJ
Frank Brouty, whom he had been sent t'
arrest
A seventy-year-old woman took her two
little grand children out in boat on st
Albans Bay, Vermont, and the boat capsiz
ing, all three were drowned.
Jacob Boltz, Jr., a son of the late jacob
Boltz, the Philadelphia brewer, was drownet
in the Schuylkill river, by the oarlock OF III
boat breaking and the boat capsizlng.
Mrs. Eva Harsch, sixty-two years Old. o
, Wiliansport Pa, fell from box on whici
she was standing in Il loft Of barn, ami he
head was caught i'll such way chat she wa
cloked to death.
Ida johnson, who elopcd from lndianapoll
last winter, returned TO that city, and wa
shot Saturday by her divorced husband
while DR.. A. M. Alexander, her paramour
has been sent to prison for forgery.
COLD WATER VICTORY,