Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-15
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY


large number of counterfeit silver dollars
nnd quarters i'll circulation i'll New York
City.
w. II. Rasmussen was instantly killed near
Salt Lake. Utah, by the earth giving way
beneath him while standing OIL the brink OF
precipco in tho Rockies.
y locomotive on the GAINESVILLE anu Ohio
River Railroad jumped the track near Har-
mon, and Engineer Frank Hamilton and
Fireman S. S. Cook were fatally injured.
The steelings of Joseph Breed, tho assis
tant cashier OF the Hartford National Bank
who recently committed suicide, will reach
Sl0S,500, instead of SD COO us first reported.
The annual convention of the liquor dis
tillers, representing ono hundred and fifty
millions of invested capital, began i'll New
York city. The cornerstone of the new
Masonic Temple in Pittsburg was laid with
grand ceremonies, participated IN by prom
inent members OF the fraternity.
I. Trimble Quigley's.. morocco factories IN
Wilmington, Del, were burned; loss $50. 0CO.
Two blocks of buildings burned in San
Francisco Cal: loss estimated at 81, 250, 900.
In n quarrel about u dog, Robert Obey shot
George Taber dead III Mercer county, w.
Va.
Kate Carroll was murdered by her hus-
band ut Providence, r. l., after drunken
brawl.
The safe at the postolcc at Wyoming, O.,
was blown open aud 500 worth of stamps
stolen.
James Dillworth, aged seventy eight years,
committed suicide by hanging himself in
Brooklyn.
Atlanta is making an effort to secure the
next national encampment Of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Wilbur w. Carter, of Syracuse. N. Y,
despondent over tho loss of his wife, also
ended his life by strangulntion.
a freight train dashed into the John Rob
inson Circus train, fifty miles from Cincin-
natl. Four mon were killed AMI eighteen
injured.
The government sloop-of-war Antietam,
which though never finished cost S52l ,4Sl,
has been sold for old iron 10 G.. Ii. Gregory,
of Long Island, for SG,7OO.
VIM. a. Drown & Co., umbrella manu-
facturers, of Philadelphia, mIde an assign
ment. Liabilities Sill, 100 Two hundred
and fifty hands thrown out Of employment.
\ freight locomotive was thrown from
the track of the Long Branch division of the
Central Railroad in Elizabeth, N. j., and
Fireman J i Vannessdale waS nearly scald-
ell to death.
The Houston and Texas Railroad main
line and branches, with the exception of the
Waco branch, were sold Mt public sale by the
receiver at Galveston, Texas, for $40, 3S0,0OO
to Fred F. Olcott, president of the New York
Central Trust Company.
Andrew Zintel and Annie Haas, with
whom Zinte's son, aged twenty-one years,
has been intimate, fell from the third story
wooden porch Mt the Zintel homo in New
The father was enraged at the woman, charg-
ing her with leading his son astray, and was
trying to throw her from the porch when
both went down together.
Sixty miles OF ranges have been swept by
prairie fires in Montana.
Two thousand men arc thrown out of en-
ploymcnt by the San Francisco fire.
Hank Farris, of Greenwood, KY, shot
and instantly killed Thomas Young.
Augusta, Ga, is flooded, the Savannah
river having overlooked its banks and doing
great damage.
Sitting Bull is in rage about the reports
that be has signed the treaty. But few Of
the chiefs favor the treaty.
By the fall of n trestle OH the Huntington
Railroad, near Newport, KY, John Coma
way and Samuel Singec were killed.
Mrs. DIR. Waters, of Bloomington, I'LL, was
killed by the accidental discharge of q re-
volver in The hands of her adopted son.
Henry Risley, of Heriimer county, N.
Y, is wanted for a brutal and inhuman as
sault upon his clve-year-old daughter.
VIM. P. Emory, of Pennington, N. j.,
aged seventy. eight years, committed suicide,
caused by sorrow over the death of his wife.
j. Colby Drew, of Lynn, Mass, gave him
self up 10 the authorities, confessing that he
had forged notes for SIS, 900 on his employer,
w. F. Monroe.
Miles Flynn, six;y-two years old, in q
drunken quarrel with his son ut their home
in New York was fatally stabbed by the boy.
who is but nineteen years old.
The Episcopal ministers of Chicago had a
lively discussion over how to remedy What
they called the evils of that city, being gov.
erned principally by foreigli-born citizens.
New Hampshire ponds are covered with
ice.
The frost did great damage in New Eng
land.
Miss Ada Flynn was murdered by thieves
at her home in Glasgow, Fa.
Thieves attempted w DluW up uuo pOoeoIilCe
at Cutler, Ind, with dynamite.
Seventy seven new cases and eight deaths
from yellow fever at Jacksonville, Fla.
The postoilice at Newton, Nj, was broken
ken into and robbed Of l ,2O0 worth OF stamps.
There were 1914 business failures in the
United States and 80 i'll Canada the past week.
An attempt has been made to steal the re
mains of Brooks tho murderer, ut st. Louis.
Mrs. f. w. Anderson was struck by q
railroad train aud Instantly killed near Den
nison, Ohio.
A boiler in a brick yard in Herllmer
county, N Y, exploded, killing Alfred Key.
ser and Arthur Leavitt.
Fire did considerable damage to tho Yueng.
ling Brewery, at louisville, Pa, and John
Adler, workmen was badly burned
Thomas Carlislo's house near Milford, Del.
was burned, and William Hopkins, aged
fifty years and little girl persisted
james Bath, a plumber, while at work in
the Park Avenue Hotel, New York city, was
caught i'll the elevator and crushed to death.
Five hundred colored .ongshoremen on a
strike at Fernandina, Fla, mobbed the new
men put to work, and the Governor ordered
out several companies of state troops to put
down the riot, which they sooTl succeeded IN
doing