Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-29
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY

Justin York, q well-known Jockey, wac
fatally injured in New York.
The Young Peoples National Methodist
Alliance is in session in Chicago
The cheese exporters and receivers in New
York are organizing for protection.
Three men met death in Little Rock, Ark.
by being buried under an cmbanklnent
Five convicts broke from Jail at Dallas,
Tex, two were killed by the guards and two
escaped.
Thomas Winsey met terrible death at
Ottawa, Ont, by falling one Thousand 1eet
from balloon.
Oliver S. Powell of River Falls, Wis, was
instantly killed in the machinery OF his
sugar mill.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Walton, residing near Lynch.
burg, Va. was killed by u train on tue NOR
folk and Western Railroad.
Lombard s. Ayres, extensive oil re6ners,
of New y ork, have sold out to the Tidewater
Pipe Line Company, o: Philadelphia.
James w. Brown was convicted of hisaiaiil51
in Detroit Mich, he having since 1883 mar
ried no less than thirty-three women.
The schooner Abbe B. Cranmer, from
Baltimore, went ashore near Gloucester,
Mass, and all hands were rescued after ter
rihle experience.
The yellow fever record ut Jacksonville
was one hundred and three new cases ana
seven deaths. a more hopeful feeling per-
vades the South.
The window glass factories of the West,
which have been closed since Juno, VIII re-
sumo operations next Monday, giving EN-
poyment to six thousand persons.
The tug Graham, while trying TO get along.
side of the steamer Arccuna, Ill Delaware
river, was caught in the suction and capslzed,
Seth Long, the engineer, being drowned.
The sixth annual meeting of the Lake
Mohawk Conference of fri nds to the Indians
opened at Luku Mohawk, n. Y. and Genera.
Clinton B. Fisk was elected president.
Ex-Associate Judge james L. Black died
at Chambershurg, Pa
G. Thornton Wood, tho old wandering
scientist, has been found at Bedford, N. H.
One hundred and forty persons are pros
truted with typoi fever i'll Kingston, Ont.
Two hundred AID fifty Mormons were
landed ut Castle Garden, many of whom
were destitute.
In n quarrel about woman, Peter Cider
was shot and kiilel by William Stevens ut
Pe,ersvile, fleming county, Va.
A bronze statue of LonSfellow was re-
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State Street Square, PORTLAND, Me.
Tho courthouse at Hot Springs, Ark,
was destroyed by fire, the Intention being to
burn the records OF Garland county.
Ives and Stnyner have been declared not
guilty of the charges of embs zzlement of
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
property.
The killing of George Fulljames, tho pugil-
I;,rI,c md D1Entn
has terribly frightened tho other participants.
Milton Weston, the Chicago millionaire,
who is serving q five year sentence i'll Penn
sylvan,l for contributory murder, has been
pardoned.
Elmer E. and Walter Corning have been
indicted by the grand jury Of Cairo, ILL.,,
charged with embezzlement of S20 ,O0O from
the New York Stove Company.
Many business firms Of San Francisco hayo
had their letter boxes robbed of letters con-
tanning large SUMS of money, the Thieves
working by an ingenious method.
TIE attorney gen raj of Kansas has pro-
ceeded TO obtain q lien against tho property
of q saloon keeper, now i'll prison, to recover
the amount of his fines, $4,000.
Charles NJ. Dodge, cashier of the law, firm
of Shipmau, Barlow, Laroque IL Choate,
New York, whose real estate clerk recently
cmbezzled large sums, has committed suicide.
George Crocker, q son of the late California
millionaire, was seriously injured IN Chicago
by being thrown through the window OF q
cab. tho horse of which had stumbled and
fell.
A passenger train on the Pennsylvapia
Railroad was thrown from the track by q
COW near Uniontown, Pa, overturning the
engine, killing Leader Miller and in1uring
several others
"Dutch Gus" Chopaz and "Big Charlien
Wilson have been indicted at Media, Pa,
charged with the murder of Farmer John
Slarpless, for whom Samuel johnson, col
orcd. is now under sentence OF death.
St. Johns new Catholic Church OF Wood
stock, Va, was dedicated.
Five men were drowned by the laundering
of yacht near Brockville, Ont.
Henry Elias brewery, in New York city,
was destroyed by fire; loss $500, OOl.
Three prisoners from the Nashville peniten
tiary escaped by scaling forty foot wall
Policeman Thomas LedJy, of Chicago, shot
and killed Dennis WEIGH, who had attacked
him.
By the careening of the steam packet Gold
man, near Natchez, four dock hands were
drowned.
Francis Warren Rice, and old and prom
inent journalist, died at Saco, Maine, aged
seventy-three years.
David Reese, fifty years of age, fell from q
scatfolding OIL the New City Hall IN CHI
mond, Va, and was killed.
An italian railroad gang murdered G. F,
Hubbard, their foreman at station on the
Omaha line, near Superior, Wis.
The ferrJbo Jay Gouj, in New York
harbor, ran down small boat and droW@ ed
young Frenchman and n French girl.
A Chinaman and his white wife have beeI
arrested in Chicago, charged with furnish
ing white wives to Cinnamon at SIS each.
Edward Crowley, aged scventy-fve years,
committed suicide by jumping from the roof
of his residence. in Willalnsburgh, N. Y,
The consolidated Street Railway Company's
stal,les at Columbus, o., were burned, and
thirty-one horses and mules were roasted
alive.
The three children OF Calvin Du Binson, of
Kent county, n. B., were burned to death in
their holIe during the absence of their par
ents.
Meyer Goldsteln, aged tweuty.six years,
clerk for Morris Greenbaum, an auctioneer
of New York, has been arrested on the charge
of having swinded his employer out of $780,
0JU.
Charles Graham Sons builders, New York
city, Fl d themselves unable to carry $780,
QUO worth of real estate, an their creditors
have organized a stock company to conduct
the business.
The yellow fever excitement throughout
the South continues, and The strctest sort of
quarantine has Leen established by the cities
in Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia
and Alabama.
pittsburg is celebrating its one hundredth
anniversary.
Lewis Davis was lynched at CUBE, Mo-, for
The murder of David Miller
Dar. Shelby's circus. from Chicago, is
stranded in Richmond, Va.
Wollert johnson, crazy man, nearly
killed his aged mother in Chicago.
John Thornton Woo "a noted scientist, has
nlysteriouSly disappeared from Boston.