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Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-21
JOHN w. DUNCAN,
PRACTICAL
MATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER
Main Street, Onancock. Va.
p = - - " Is,
DAVIS WHARF,

-Accomac county, Va
Invites the attention of the pub
lie to the following facts:
l. That lie keeps constantly on
hand u large select and cheap stock
Of merchandise.
9. That -four, speciality with
him. is delivered to him at a very
small expense, and can therefore
be sold as cheap as anywhere on
Eastern Shore.
8. That he sells coal during the
entire year, and always at bottom
prices.
4. That he always has CLAIMS on
hand for sale when in season-also
oysters.
5. That he has for sale at private
contract, several valuable houses
and lots at Davis wharf, contain
ing 3 acres eacl, improved by dwell
ings and all necessary outhouses,
etc, on reasonable terms.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-21
ACCOMAC STEAM FIGURING
MILLS,
Temperanceville, Va.
Flour, Meal, Bran, Shorts, Homina-
and Mill Feed, Corn and Oats,)
and Chops for sale at
fair DriCoS.

The public Will please take no
lice that the mill property desig.
mated above, which formerly be-
Ionged to Mr.. d. II. Dennis, is now
owned by the undersigned who
Will continue to do business at the
old stand, and will eudeavor to
give entire satisfaction to all who
may favor him with their custom.
Thanks for former patronage. Flu
turu tavors solicited.
! r@esreutftl1ys Nor
JOSEPH Il. JONES.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-21

FRSTYwe and handsamer line of Dress Goods and
Trimmings than before consisting of HENRIETTA
CLOTHS TRcoTs SUAs NolEEs, SATEENs CHAL
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
COERCING CONDUCTORS,
Petty Tyranny Exercised BY Pullman
nvop His Epnn1nveS

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.-[Special Telegram to
the BEE. u. p Carbe"ry, a Pullman con-
ductor whose run is between here and New
Orleans, is on trial before the criminal court
charged with having failed to account for
the proceeds of a sleeping berth At the
preliminary hearing number of Pullman
conductors were present, they having heard
of the case and naturally feeling an
interest in it, The second trial was set for
to day in the criminal court, and when the
Pullman conductors arrived in this city from
their different runs this morning, they We're
confronted with an order on ''the black
boardn to report at headquarters. AS each
man obcyed the command and entered the
supermtendent's Office he was told in unms-
takably significant language that it
was the wish of the Pullman company
that no conductor in its service attend the
trial of exec nductor Carberry which would
probably come up in this city to-day. Some
of the conductors are very indignant as Il re-
suit of such an order
"Of course we dare not be seen there if we
want to hold our jobs said one conductor,
but Just the same it is an impudent piece of
business upon the part of the Pullman COM
pany. Had the company prohibited the boys
from going to the theater or church it could
not have made them feel any hotter. We
work hard enough, as it is, while we are on
duty, without being told what we shall do
and not do after turning in our reports"
'Wby is it that the company does not wish
you to attend the trial!n was asked.
"That's simple enough was the reply
at is likely that a half dozen or, may be,
more, of the company's spoilers and special
agents will be there to testify and they do
not want the boys to take mental photo
graph of their faces A spotter who is un-
known to n conductor thinks he stands so
much the better chance of catching our boys
in criminal action in some little neglect of
duty and they have got to earn their money,
| suppose, by reporting unfavorably certain
percentage of us in order to hold their jobs
To-days order, however, is but a very slight
sample of the arbitrary methods employed
employees
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
FAMINE THREATENS A FORT.
COmmissary Stores at Mckinney De
strOyed BY Fire.

Fort MCKINNEY, Wyo, Jan. 7-[Special
Telegram to the BEE. "A disastrous fire oc-
Cured this morning at / o'clock. The post
commissary building was entirely consumed
with its contents. Estimated loss, 800, 600;
no insurance. The building was stocked with
commissary supplies to last until May next.
The companies at the post have supply of
rations to last ten Giys, not including officers
families. The fire originated IN some way
from fire kept in the building to keep the
goods from freezing-supposed to be defec-
tive hue. The garrison has been ordered on
half rations. Flour, pork and fresh beef can
be purchased in oper market, but of sugar,
coffee and canned goods there are none in
the country. The snow both ways,
north and south, is drifted five to
ten feet deep, and it is al
most impossible to run goods into
the country Oning to the extreme cold
weather Water could not be got onto the
fire and for some time the headquarters build
ings and quartermaster's store houses were
in great danger. There was no wind at the
time or the post would have been entirely de-
stroyed. The post traders store and mer-
chants in Buffalo have only a small
stock of groceries and canned goods
and the prospects are for famine. The
commanding officer Of the post, General Bris-
bin, has telegraphed to the department head
quarters for provisions to be forwarded by
fast freight from the nearest post, but OWN g
to the extreme cold and deep snow it is i'm
possible to say when supplies can get here.
The Wyoming Inland telegraph and tele-
phone wires We're burned and prostrated. The
thermometer at some places registered so de
greeS below
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
TERRIBLE CoAsTING ACCIDENT.
Seventeen Persons Injured by Sled
Collision at Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. IL Special Telegram
to the BEE, "A fearful coastlng accident oc-
Cured about II o'clock tonight at Eigh-
tcenth and Broadway by which seventeen
persons were injured, three badly. a large
traverse sled-52 feet long by 314 wide,
and containing tifty-two persons was
going down the hill at terrific rate of speed,
when it collided with another sled, both
being overturned. The seriously injured
We're Miss Maud Mcdonald, left leg broken
below the knee, collar bone broken and
wrist sprained; Miss Maud Wolsey, left arm
broken above the elbow and "A severe scalp
wound; Miss Jennie Tracy, three fingers of
right hand broken, left arm broken below
the elbow and face cut.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
STOLE GOLD NUGGETS.
Grave Charges Brought Against a
Young Mining SpeculatOr.

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 17.-TSpecial Tele-
gram to the BEE. AS Oliver Grafton, a
prominent mining man from Breckenridge,
stepped from a South Park train at the
union depot this morning he was very much
surprised to find officers awaiting him with a
warrant for his arrest. MIR. Grafton is
charged by Colonel Ware, of Breckenridge,
Colo, with stealing gold nuggets from the
property of the Victoria mining company of
that place and secreting them until he could
dispose of them with safety, and that he had
disposed of considerable amount. Grafton
has been suspected of these thcfts for long
time and has been watched until yesterday
when it was ascertained that he would pass
through the city on his way to Canada. HIS
effects were seized and searched and in his
trunks were found $4,000 in mint certificates
the proceeds of his latest speculations The
sum of his robberieS, it is stated, will
amount up into the thousands, as they have
been continued over considerable period of
time, and most of the money it is said, has
been invested in real estate somewhere in
Canada, where it is supposed he was found.
He was placed in the county jail pending
trial, which will probably come up soon. His
wife, who is with him, is young lady not
over sixteen, and but recently married to
Grafton. In an interview this afternoon the
prisoner said the whole matter was case of
malicious persecution, resulting from some
trouble he had with Colones Ware last sum
mer. The property in question is what is
known as the Grafton placer, and
until some time last summer he and Col
onel Ware had each half interest in it.
The colonel and himself could not agree as
to the management of the mine and the col
onel sued him in the court of Summit
county. After the case was settled he sold
his half interest to Colonel Ware and has
since had nothing to do with the property.
He says he started yesterday from Brecken-
ridge to go east with his wife to spend the re-
mander of the winter and that his arrest was
total surprise to him, as he never suspected
that Colonel Ware was contemplating move
of the kind. Mr.. Grafton is pleasant in
telligent looking young man of good address
and has not at all the look of felon.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
IIangtry'S High Fence.

New YORK, Jan. II Special Telegram to
the BEE. Mrs. Langtry is involved with
the city authorities in consequence of u high
fence she recently erected in front of her
residence on West Twenty-tnird street. The
fence is the result of Mrs. Langtry's dstaste
to the curiosity which a certain class of the
general public manifcsts in her movements.
Her pretty little house, to which she was
driven by her liveried servants, in her own
carriage, when she, then a subject of the
queen, LANDED on a second visit to this
country, stands some distance back from tho
street and an iron railing formerly drew the
line between the yard and the sidewalk
Along this railing crowd was wont to
gather nightly to stare at the ex-Jersey, now
the California lily, as she walked from the
front door to the carriage, to be driven to
the theater She possessed "a soul of patience,
hoping the custom would glut the curious
and enable her to move about like an Ord-
nary mortal, not as she expressed it, like u
hunted animal. Though the nuisance abated
considerably and the nightly gatherings
grew smaller with the passage of time, they
were by no means discontinued. So the fair
actress, a month ago, in desperation had "a
high board fence erected, shutting off the
view of the house from the street, enabling
her to reach the gate at least, upobscrved.
The fence by no means lacks picturesque
ness, The gate post is of brick, surmounted
by aesthetic lanterns But alas; it is outside
the stoop line and the authorities said she
must move ii back. A young man first called
attention to the encroachment of the side
walk. Whether he was one of the usual
nightly throng, and complained out of spite
because his gazing had been interrupted, il
not recorded.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
An Illinois Central ACQUISITION.

New YORK, Jan. 1T.-Rairoad officials here
state that the Illinois Central has acquired
control of the St Louis, Arkansas X Texas
and will extend that line to st. Louis. The
Illinois Central also practically controls the
Mobile x Ohio and both the Mobile & Ohio
and st. Louis, Arkansas & Texas will be
operated together. Attempts have also been
made by the Illinois Central people to secure
control of the st. Louis * Chicago which is
absolutely necessary in order to connect the
Illinois Central with the St Louis, Arkansas
4 Texas, but the owners of the st. Louis Il
Chicago refused TO give up control.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Want Chcap Rates TO Denver.

DENVER, Colo, Jan, H. - Special Telegram
to the BEE. The committee appointed by
the chamber of commerce to go to Chicago
and confer with President Gable with refer
ence to the Rock Islands entrance into Den
yer and to consult with regard to a S25 rate
to Dever and return over all roads into Den
Yer, are this afternoon arranging a plan of
procedure Mr.. Fisher, the chairman of the
committee, is now in Chicago, where he will
be joined by his colleagues. The other mem
bers of the committee are Hon, n. +. Hill,
Hon. T. NJ Patterson, c. $ Morey, l.. G..
Ellsworth and H. G.. Lowere. The commit
tee will leave for Chicago tonight.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Mrs. Keen Satisfied.

LoSG ISLAND CITY, Jan. l7.--Coroner Rob
inson has granted the application of Mrs.
Mary T. Keep to have the body of Charles ID.
Keep exhumed, and has issued summons to
the authorities of Calvary cemetery to open
the grave and take up the casket. This morn
ing the order was carried out and the caskct
taken to the receiving vault, where, in the
presence of Mrs. Keep, Coroner Robinson
and a reporter of the Associated press, it
was opened. Though the body was evidently
in an advanced stage of decomposition, the
features We're as perfect almost as in life,
and Mrs. Keep Immediately recognized the
body as that of her deceased husband
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Perished On the Way Home.

NORFOLK, Jan. 17.-[Special to the BEE. -
Normal winter weather has succeeded the
stormy period of last week and with it come
the reports from every hand of serious disas-
ter. Edwin Record, IA farmer living five miles
from this city, was frozen to death on Thurs
day in the effort to reach home. His team
mad refused to CO. and he had put up at
brothers and started off on foot, but perished
after making the first mile.
There is heavy loss of live stock among the
farmers.
Trains are running on all roads leading
from this city to-day, the Union Pacific
breaking the blockade between here and
Columbus Sunday noon.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
BURNED AT SEA.
Fate of an American Ship-A Number
OfLivcs Lost.

lCopWight 1883 by James Gordon Bennott.l
PARIS, Jan. 1S,-TNew York Herald Gable
Special to the BEE. "A telegram from
Sydney, n. S. W., states that the American
ship, j. Il. Berry, was burned at sea January
. in latitude 81 : south, longitude l643 east.
Fourteel persons are known to have been
saved, and one boat with eleven or board is
missing. Part of the crew and passengers
have been landed at Nambruccria Heads
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Buckingthe knights.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 1.-THE movement
against the knights of Labor, headed by the
capitalists of the province of Quebec, has
been organized II has been decided to in
troduce bill at the coming meeting of the
legislature at Quebec to regulate the Knights
Of Labor and all combinations having for
their object compulsory and arbitrary
stoppage of industrial and mercantile es-
tuhi iShmpntS
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Close OF the Bnai Birth Convention.

CHICAGO, Jan, 1.-THE annual convention
of District No q, Independent Order of Bnai
Birth, ended tonight with secret session.
The proposition TO increase the membership
by admitting young men to the order without
compelling them TO undertake the response
bilities of endowment members was lost by
tie vote. The proposition to employ the
$4,000 now in the surplus fund for the erec-
tion of "A building for the purposes of the Or
der in Chicago was defeated An additional
1000 was voted for the extension of the
building which will shortly be erected in
Cleveland for the orphan asylum, as the
original sum of sl50,0OO appropriated was
found TO be Inadequate.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Kenrcscntatiycs Meet.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. l7-The passenger agents
Of the transcontinental lines met today and
practically completed their work. adopting
circulars ahd rules for the guidance of the
commissioner and members. A general
meeting will be held tomorrow and followed
BY freight meeting, at which all the details
win bc arranged and the association be in
working order
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Other Fires,

MONTREAL, Jan. IA disastrous fire
which broke out this morning in Thompson's
auction room burned out several other estab
lishments, causing loss of Sl5o,OOO, which is
partly covered by insurance.
ST.. PAUL, Jan. 17.-Beaupre, Keogh, &
Davis wholesale grocery house, with stock,
was entirely destroyed by fire this afternoon
Loss on stock 100000 on building, $4,000;
both fully insured.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Mexico Wants the SMinllcr.

CITY OF MEXICo, Jan. 1.-THE government
has forwarded to Washington papers request
ing the extradition of Mayer alias Bourtone.
There is great anxiety here to have Bour-
tU2e brought TO this city to answer for his
stupenGSus swindle, and if he is cxtradited
he will receive extraordinary punishment
should he be proven guilty.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
The Oil Market.

New YORK, Jan. 1.-THE oil market was
pancky again to-day, after steady opening
Within a few minutes the price of pipe line
certificates dropped from 9O4@Ssl4c. At IL
o'clock the widest excitement prevailed
Toward noon the market became little bet
ter and quotations were SIC
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
The Bradford Disaster.

HAvERHILL, Mass, Jan. l7.-John Madden,
the fourteenth victim of the Bradford disas-
ter who was intt:.,rad at the tank house, died
at the hospital this morning. tuie belonged at
Bradford, and leaves wife and four c.e.l'-
dren.
Charles f. Emerson, injured while coast
ing last evening, is dead,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
The Cold in Taylor County.

LENox, Ia, Jan. l1-[Special Telegram to
the BEE. The thermometer dropped to 32-
below zero this morning, making the coolest
weather of the season. Stock unsheltered is
suffering greatly. The loss is not yet known.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Cremated at n Christening.

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, Jan. l7.-Early this
morning three men were burned to death in
a fire which consumed seven frame houses.
The fire started in house where Hungarans
were congregatlng for christening.
woman and child are also missing
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Another Burt County Victim.

OAKLAND, Neb,, Jan. l7.-[Special Tele-
gram to the BEE. Another Burt county
victim of Thursdays storm, Chas. Gray,
near Tekamah, died to-day. He was hauling
ha;' from the Missouri bottom and was un-
able to get noe, He walked all night be-
tween his horses to keep from freezing. He
was half "A mile from home when ic-.nd next
morning He leaves family
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Two Hunters MISSING.

SIOUX CITY, Ia, Jan. 17.-[Special Tele
gram to the BEE. George w, Miller and l..
g. DeGuibert, of this city, have probably
perished in the blizzard. The men left for
over the river,to hunt jack rabbits on Tues
day, intending also to search for deer in the
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
A Committee of Corporation.

New YoRK, Jan. IA meeting Of indi-
vidu2l bondhoders of the Cedar Falls &
Minnesota railroad compnny was held here
to-day and an auxiliary defense committee
was formed for the purpose cooperating
with the bondholdcrs' compjttec nominated
by the trustees,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Ringing a Mexican Il ellie.

City OF MEXICO, Jan. 1.-THE daughter of
the president, Amanda Diaz, was married
yesterday to De La Tore. The ceremony
was private. there were many superb we'd
ding gifts, The bride is one OF the bellies of
Mexican society and Is very han dsome.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Patents For Western Inven;:cc-s.

WAsmNGToN, Jan. l7,-[Spocial Telegram
to the BEE. Patents were issued for the
following Nebraska and Iowa inventors to-
day; Lewis Burg, Far:nington, Ia, road
cart William ii. II. Dobney, Oakland, Ia,
attachment for windmill pump rods; Richard
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
An Internal Machine.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 1.-THE mysteri-
Gus box sent TO Judge Woods, of the federal
court, before whom the trial of the tally
sheet forgers began yesterday, proves to be
tan Internal machine. Investigation will be
made To discover the sender, il possible
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18

vicinity Of jackson. Nothing has been heard
of them since leaving. Mrs. Miller and Mrs.
DeGuibert have waited, almost crazed but
expecting TO hear from their husbands. To.
day they could bear the great strain and
agony no longer and appealed to the officers
to institute search for the missing men.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Collision of Trains.

ROCHESTER, n. ", Jan. IA collision
occurred early this morning an the Erie rail
road between Avoca and Kenna between
two trains. Engineer Maynard was killed
outright and Fireman Marsh was seriously
injured. Several passengers are reported in
iulpl
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18

Lukins, Randolph, Neb, car pushing
machine; Edward =. Lynch, Davenport, Ia,
combined corn and cotton planter and wheel
pow: James Peterson, Burlington, Ia, run
guard for harness; Edward f. Stevens and
j. Packard, Greene, Ia, draft eQBalizcr;
Thomas B. Swan, Atlantic. Ia, devloe for
feeding and watering hogs; William r.
White, Washington, Ia, gate latch John c.
Williams and H. c. Hooper, Neb., device for
sharpening toe calks; Edwin &. Woodruff,
Knoxville, Ia, tuc top or spark catcher.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
ENicIinns In Ireland.

DUBLIN, Jan. l7.-Eiectment notices have
been posted on the Countess of Kingston's
estate at MitchellstOwn against l20 tenants
who adopted the plan Of campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Wyoming Cattle All Right.

RAwLINs, Wyo., Jan. 1.-THE storm of
last week had but little effect on cattle. Re
ports from the Platte valley are very salts
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
WCathec Indications.

For Nebraska: Warmer, followed by
colder, fair weather, light to fresh winds, be-
coming northerly.
For Iowa: Colder, fair weather, light to
fresh northwesterly winds.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18

FREMONT, Neb. Jan. F.-[Special to the
BEE. The bodies of the two children be-
longing to Jacob Westphalen, of this county,
lost on their return from school in the storm
Thursday night, We're found by the search
ing party last evening. They were lying on
the open prairie some distance from their
direct route home. This family seems to be
pursued by relentless fate. Two members
of it were killed few years ago in the Chey
enne Indian raid in western Kansas and stock
stolen and driven off. Later another mem
ber committed suicide and now the loss of
the two children fills their cup of sorrow
full
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Showing a Frozen Corpse.

SILVER CREEK, Neb., Jan. l7.-[Special
Telegram to the BEE. during the storm of
last Saturday an Indian, one of the Omahas,
was frozen to death near here. The band of
twenty were here to-day exhibiting the body
for a nickel a look. They departed for
Omaha and will exhibit their dead brother in
the towns east along the Union Pacific line.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Army Orders.

WAsuINGToN Jan. IT Especial Telegram
to the BEE Lieutenant Colonel John G..
Chandler, deputy quartermaster general, is
ordered to assume charge of the general
depot of the quartermaster's department in
this city.
Private Fred A. Schroter, battery I, Sec
ond artillery, and Hospital Steward Joseph
Walters have been placed on the retired
list
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
The Blizzard Disastrous to Texas.

ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 17.-Reports from differ
ent sections of Texas note cessation of the
blizzard. Several deaths of farmers are re-
ported. News comes from every part of
northern Texas of unheard of suffering
among the people, and wholesale destruction
among cattle, many of which were frozen to
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Other Northwestern Fatalities.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 11-Dispatches from Alex
andria Mimi, say the frozen body of Handy
Countryman were found this morning. The
death of Edwin Kylling, farm boy, has been
reported from Canton, Oak, and it is re-
ported that thirty -one school children are
missing IN Turner county. Three children of
Mr.. Heines, northwest of Lennox, perished
while going home from school. The lady
teacher argued and pleaded with the scholars
not to leave the schoolroom and finally
locked the door, but they were too many for
her and had their own way. This makes
seven children lost in the vicinity of Lennox.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-18
Nebraska and Iowa Pensions.

WAsHINGToN, jan 11.-lSpecial Telegram
to the BEE. Pensions were granted to
the following Nebraskans to-day: Minors of
John Williams, Tekamah. Mexican war
Joshua b. Walsh, Creighton; Stephen Wood
row, Wayne. Orginal-John Williams,
(deceased) Tekamah.
Pensions for Iowans; Sarah, mother of
John w. Garland, Chariton Mary, mother of
Thomas w. Titus, Vinton; Nancy d., widow
of Sylvester A. Kimball, Harper's Ferry.
Original-Edward Maule, Foote; Samuel
Moody, Clemens; Peter Gates, Staurt
(navy); Francis Stewart, Lake City.