Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-13
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Twenty thousand dollars is now stated to
be tie amount taken from the Stafford mills
by a. L. Bosworth tho defaulting treas
urer. FRANCIS w. Williams, senior men,
bcr OF the New York Banking house OF VIII
Jams, Black &; Co, that was forced TO sns.
pond by Hutchnsons wheatcorner, has CON-
United suicide,-Fifty new ses of fever
and three deaths at Jacksonville In
quarrel over woman, David C. Hunter,
aged 10, was shot and killed by Victor Cor
don at Chattanooga, Tenn.--N. B. Wade
was found dying in his blazing home at
NightStown, Ind. lie is supposed to have
murdered his mother and Mrs. Martha Gates,
and then committed suicide after firing the
house. Timothy Kelly shot and fatally
wounded Thomas Reynolds, his business part
ner at Morris, H.. having first charged him
with being short in his nccoun!s.-Mathias
Bechtold, Of Pckin, ILL.,, whilo out hunting
with party of friends, WAS accidentally
shot and killed 10y ohc of another party of
hunters .-Harvey Wolff, n heavy deposit
tor i'll the Traders bank Of Chicago, that
recently faile, has apple to the courts for
an investigation OF tho banks affairs, charg-
ing fraud on the part of the officers. Potter
Marsch, OF South Evanston, I'll. killed Peter
kowse in qu 'rre over gathering nuts on
tho Kowse farm "A fire originating in
Julius Troy'S grocery store at Scranton, Fa.,
destroyed several buildings, cntaling total
loss of $40, 010-Jonathan E. Bass, of New
York, aged tifty-sevcn years. is Effected with
u disease which is slowly turning him into
stone. P. Miller q chrk for Stern II
Stern, diamond brokers Of New York, has
disappeared, and SD, 600 worth Of tho firms
diamonds have been found in pawn sholS.-
Attorney General i'aber, of New York, has
begun legal proceedings against the Have
meyers & Elder Sugar Refining Company,
to nnul the charter and break the sugar
truSt.-The Monongahela river miners and
the Kanawha river miners are to be united
in one district, In ghtS of Labor.
James I. Clark Il Co, clrriage manufac-
turerS, of Racine, Wis, failed with liabilities
100000 Tho Somerset Wooden Mills,
operated by V. ]. Brennan, at East Madison,
Me-, were burned. Loss. $4,000; insurance
l9OOO--Bcnjamin C.. Hgdon, night
manager or tie Western Union telegraph
Office in New Orleans, is dead.-A livery
Stable was burned in New York city, and
Thomas Carr, newsboy, eighteen years old,
and twenty-seven horses were roasted alive.
--The shops Of the Cincinnati AMI Northern
Railway at Cincinnati, were destroyed by
fire. Loss :25,0 William B. Smith,
cashier in the Erie Railway freight house, at
Mansfield, o., has left with 5000 of tho
company's money.-Superintend y. B.
Starr, of the Fort Wayne Railroad, has been
arrested, charged with being Grimm lily liza
ble for the death OF Miss Harriet Wayman,
who was killed i'll n collsion.--An over
turned lamp in the butterine factory caused
the destruc ion by fire of Schureman's pack
ing-house, in Chicago. Loss, s125,000.--
Burglars poisoned Il pair of bulldogs, in Illig
& Bro S dry goods store, at Reading, Pa,
and r;insacked the silk and lace department.
--Thomas j. Callman g. Co., dealers i'll
taiors' trimmings, Chicago, have made an
assignment Liabilities 75000.-G. w.
Dawley, of Princess Anne county, Va, was
killed by the bursting of grindstone. =
Work has been begun on the now railroad
bridge of the Wheeling and Harrisburg Rail.
road across the Ohio river at Wheeling
The friends OF the late General VIM. G.
Wickmau met in Richmond, Va, to tako
steps to erect monument to his IN emory. -
The Duquesne Furniture Company's works in
Pittsburg burned. Loss s26OOQ.-Ths
Union Veterans Union is i'll session at Nc
Keesport, Pa.-Henry Moaett, general
passenger agent of the New York Central
Railroad, died at Yonkers, n Y.-Theo
dore Magargee, fifty-ive years old, q mem
Der of one Of the oldest paper establishments
in Philadelphia. was thrown from his horse
and instantly killed. Mr.. and Mrs. Robt.
Ford, of Philadelphia, have obtained damages
of $500 against tue Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for the death of their daughter Oh
the railroad. Mrs. Sarah Pratt, wife of
Slas G.. Pratt, the composer of the opera
.'Zenobia," has been granted u divorce from
her husband in Chicago.
Weadly & Ceary, tho oldest wholesale
liquor firm in Chicago. have make an assign
nt.-Gold has been discovered in neena,
Montana citizens of Charleston, Ill.
have been indct( d for tho lynching Of VIM
Moore, an alleged ravisher net earn
ings of the Western Union last year were
5000 571-Mary Griffin died at the AIeri-
den. CT, almshousa, after fifty five days of
voluntary tarvation.-Grand Mast
Workman Powderly, in an article on the
"Chicago Wheat Corner," calls on the Presi-
dent and Congress to abolish institutions that
gamble in food.-The jury in the else of
Colfey, the slayer of Agnes Smith, his mis-
tress, in jersey City, brought in n verdict of
murder in the first degree. steamer
Queen ran down and cut in twain the fishing
schooner Madeline oil the banks of New
foundland. Twenty of the crew were lost
--Adolph Reiche, the convicted wife muir
derer, has been sentenced to death.-The
Adams Express Company has secured the
express facilities over the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Railroad Rowe, the
bcylist, won the second trial for the worlds
championship, at Boston james 5. Caunce
bookkeeper of the Dolphin silk Manufac-
turing Company embezzled $40, OOO-Forty
persons were killed and as many more Sc