Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-07-28
TIE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


A BRIDE AMI groom, while spending their
honeymoon at New onion, r. H., were nc
cidentaly drowned in Sunapee Lake.
A CRIPPLE woke mp John Gushannon, at
Bennington, VT and asked for drink OF
whisky Failing to get the liquor he muir,
, dered him with his crutch
PATRICK KELLY. seaman on tho Atlantic
steamer Erin, for New York. stabbed two OF
his Shipmates to death in the vessels fore
castle Willie on the high seas.
MICHAEL DUNrHY, of Brooklyn n. Y,
While in 4 drunken rage, murdered his half.
brother John and then killed himself.
THE Democratic National Campaign Com
mittec met at the headquarters in New York
city, and elected Colonel Calvin S. Brice, OF
Ohio, Chairman.
Two women were burned to death and
three persons injuie through the explosion
of an oil lamp at Buffalo, ~ Y.
THE great strike OF the Amalgamated
Iron and Steel workers which commenced
on June has terminated in the uncondl.
ton. surrender of the manufacturers. All
works have resumed operations
HENRY G. EBERT, the wife-murderer, has
eXpiated his crime OIL the gallows in Jersey
City, N. j.
RICHARD KEARSEY, who murdered
Margaret Purcell, the agei Irish house.
keeper Of Mrs Daniel R. Lydly, at Long
| Branch in February last, has been hanged at
Freehold, N. j.
AFTER n deadlock of thres months the Re-
publican Congressional Convention Of the
Twenty. fourth District Of Pennsylvania has
, nominated J. Warren Ray, of Greene Coun.
. ty Over 200 ballots were taken before the
break occurred.
A GIRL sixteen years old was burned to
death While attempting to escape from q
crowded New YORK tenement house that was
on fire.
Mis- T. J. TULLY, q handsome young mar
red woman of Macon, Ga. went sailing at
Niagara Falls, with Will Fl. Barber, OF the
International Hotel. The yacht capsized and
Mrs. fully took the plunge over the tails
being drowned in sight OF her husband, while
her companion was rescued.
TIE Rev. f. P. ROE. the popular and
prolific novelist. died suddenly at his home
| 10 Cornwall. n. Y. of neuralgia of the heart.
South and West.
A FitoLIc at Axiom, Va, ended in the
murder OF two young men by drunken ruff
fan.
FRED GLEASON, aged twenty, John Will
, ianson aged eighteen, and Louis Burnam,
aged sixteen, were drowned at Wilkes Lake,
Mich, while bathing. Gleason got into
deep water and the other two were drowned
while attempting to save him.
A. MExIcAx boy, Pedro Zones, aged Is,
shot and killed George Stevenson, post
master AMI station agent at Glamis, Arizona.
CONRAD JAcKsoX, colored, has been hanged
at Waco, Texas, for the murder OF John
Taley, a prominent white planter, one year
ago Jackson, who was nineteen years old,
made n confession OH the gIilOwS.
w. A. PORTS, who was to have been hanged
at Washington, n. c., escaped the gallows by
committing suicide on the day he was
doomed to die.
PUTNAM DARDEN. Grand Master of the
| National Grange of the Unitel States, died
recently at his residence in Fayctte. Miss.
IL order to exterminate the chinch bug the
farmers of Crawford county, Ill.,. have
agreed to plant no wheat, rye or barley Tor
three years
A cLoUDBunST at vincennes, Ind, caused
q train of cars to be deralcd
JACOB DAuclER, charged with the muir
der of Louis Shoenherg at Denver, COL, has
killed himself in Jail at San Bernardino,
CAL
THEY'VE story piano warehouse of Julius
Bauer, in Chicago, was destroyed by fire,
causing q loss of 300, 900.
SAMUEL W. HAWKINS has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans for Governor OF
Tennessee.
THREE young girls we're drowned while
bathing near Jefferson, Iowa.
FIRE at Rockingham, n. c., destroyed the
! Court House, Postoilice, seven stores and nu-
merous dwellings.
THE young man passing himself for Fred
| erick Remington, the artist on HdrperS
| VephIy, and who committed suicide recently
at Trinidad, Col. has bean identified as
Baron Raymond Won Rohiwis!ii, the son of
Colonel in the German Army.
THE United States cruiser Charleston, the
| first man of.war constructed on the Pacific
coast has been successfully launched at San
Francisco.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Michigan met at Detroit for the purpose OF
nominating q State ticket, The Greenbackers
were also in session at Grand Rapids and
the two parties agreed to fuse and nominate
o joint ticket, division being made OF the
offices. Wellington r. Burt, of Saginaw,
was nominated for Governor.
NINE steamboat hands were scalded to
death while aseepin the cabin by the ex.
plosion of n Steam pipe on the towboat
Canary" at West Point, Ky.
HICKS CARMICHAEL was hanged at Knox
vile, Tenn, for the murder of Deputy Sheriff
Slire
GENERAL THOMAS L. You've, Ex-Governor
O, Ohio. and n member of the Forty sixth
and Forty-seventh Congresses, died recently
Mt Cincinnati
C. j. BrcHANNAN, of Kentucky, and W.
Brewer were drowned in the Platte River, at
Bel!ewood Neb., while bathing
THE Kansas Prohibition State Convention
has nominated for Governor the Rev. J. D.
Botkin, and also put in the field full State
tirtrt