Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-23
South and West.


the International Typographical Union has
been held at the Board of Trade Hall, kansas
City, William Amson, the International
President, presiding. Mayor kumpf made
speech of welcome to the visiting delegates.
JAMES FOSTER tcolorod) was taken from
iail at Henderson, KY, by q mob and hanged
for brutal crime which he had confessed
Ii n difficulty over tritle at Longvicw,
Texas, Watson Rosson, aged eighteen years,
shot and killed Fletcher WEIGH, an old man.
RorERTsoN,a co!ored soldier at Fort Shaw,
Montana, quarreled with another man and,
shooting, killed n bystander. At night he
was lynched by fifty maske1 men.
THE Prohibition Convention of Missouri
was held at Kansas City and State ticket
was nominated headed by j. NJ. Lowe for
Governor
PETER ALT, proprietor of the Arlington
House. Baltimore, while drunk made muir
derous assault upon his wife, when his fifteen
year-old son shot him dead
EIGHTEEN State convicts employed in
railroad construction near Georgetown, KY,
overpowered the guards and escaped.
THE mother of General Philip H. Sheridan
has died of old age at Somerset, Ohio.
DENNIS WILLIAMS coloredl who shot and
seriously wounded Superintendent McCor-
mack at, Ellersvil!e, Fla. was taken to the
woods by u mob and lynched. His body was
afterward found in the river.
TIE recent severe rains have caused the
gre;ssest flood ever known in Northern Mime
Sofa At the village of Cloquet the portion
of the town on tho island was engulfed, only
the tops of the houses being visible. All the
sawmills being Hooded were abandoned,
and in the booms 2OO,O00,00O logs were
damned. All county bridges have been
carried away.
THE stone monument marking the site
where Stonewall Jackson was shot has been
dedicated in Charlottesville, Va.
A CLAY bank in brick yard at Menomi-
nce Wis, caved in, and seven men wers
buried beneath it. Two brothers named
Jansen were taken out dead and terribly
mangled Two more were fatally hurt and
the other three have legs or arms broken and
internal injuries
JOHN MCCULLoCH shot his wife and killed
himself in st. Louis, Mo.
Two young German ranchers, Hans Tidge
and August Michaeson, were boating ut
Fullerton, Neb, when Nicholson, to brighten
Tidge, who was unable to swim, tipped the
boat Both lost their balance, fell in, and
were drowned.
JOHN j. HAYS, for eight years Treasurer of
-
second story window while asleep and was
killed.
NINETEEN persons were poisoned at Kasola,
Mimi, from eating diseased cheese.
Two children in the house of Beriet
Gunderom. four miles from Clarl1feld,
Mimi, were killed by lightning, the other
inmates of the house sustaining severe
shocks.
SOLOMON G. CoMsroCK has been nomi-
mated for Congress on the forty fifth ballot
by the Republicans of the Fifth District of
Minnesota, and if elected will succeed Knute
Nelson.
Miss AMEL1E RIvEs, the famous Virginia
authoress, has been married to John A.
Chanler, of New York.
AT Mentor, Ohio on Thursday, occurred
the double marriage Of two children OF the
late President James A. Garfield The high
contracting parties were Mr.. Harry Gar
field and Miss Belle Mason, of Cleveland,
and Mr.. ]. Stanley Brown, of Washington,
and Miss Mary Garfield.
PROMPTED by jealousy, Farmer Lawray.
of West Point, Ill, killed his wife, his hired
man and himself.
HoRATIo HATFIELD aged twelve years,
shot and fatally wounded Thomas j. Allen,
aged ten. at Excelsior Springs, Mo-, on ac-
COUNT OI du Oilt Huuil "haS'A ~ 1880
several times threatened to kill Allen.
MYRIADs of grasshoppers have appeared in
many rarLs of Southern Indiana Indie and T they
DESTROY meadows first then the foliage of
the trees and next corn, oats and garden
vegetables. Thousands of acres of meadows
have been devastated by them.
AMOS Cox and Arthur Hands Of Walk
esha, Wis, were drowned by the upsetting
of a boat in which they were fishing.
AT Durham, N. c., on Saturday, York
Gibson, Henry Battle, Dam Simmons and
John Justice were sentenced to be sinulta-
neously hung, August Sd, for the murder of a
mulatto girl.
SEVEN men attempted to rob train at
Muskogee, Indian Territory. They killed "ne
passenger and wounded the news!,oy and
mail agent, but fled without securing any
booty.
FOUR train hands were killed and three
passengers injured by the derailment of an
engine at Pope's Head, Va.