Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-12
THE NEWS.

| West, the young man who shot William l rli-
npoc, at dance near Berkeley Springs, W.
VA, committed suicide the next duy.-John
Moody, colorcd, WIS drowned in the Susquc-
hanna river, ut Wilkesbarrc, Pa, while try
ing to save IL white child that had fallen into
the watcr.-Ilarrv Marsh, u miner, ut Al
toona, Pa, in jealous rage, cut the throat OF
Clara Jones, aged nineteen years.-Georsc
Seals, Il Desperate of Perry county, Ind, beat
his wife 10 deathaud Sheriff Gardner, who at
tempted to arrest him.--Mrs. John L. Wright,
the American Presbyterian missionary at Sal
mos, Western Persia, was murdered by a
native school tcachcr.-Thc assessed value
Of real cstatein New York city for this year is
i,S9S, 300, 000.--Therc were Isl business fail
urcs in the United Stutcsand lSn Canada tho
past wccl.--Patrick Landrigan was killed
Mt his home in Brooklyn, n. y, by Philip
Eayanugh, boardcr at the house, who got
into dispute with Mrs. Tantifigan about his
board bill.-ProirsSo Robert II. Bishop, one
of the carly presidents of Miami University,
died in Oxford, O.-Wiliam Seybcrt, sell
! fenced ut Wheeling, w. Va, to three years
Imprisonment for raising silver certificates,
confessed to huving passed large amounts OF
bogus money in West Virginia John Peiil-
lot, of Columbus, Ind, quarrclcd with his wife,
and shot her dcad--D. Tindal of Canada,
and his grandson, Edward Baker, of Fall
River, Mass. were found osphyxiated in n
hotel at Newport, r. I.-Thc Atlantic Iuris-
dcion of the Young Mems Institute began
its first grand council in Cncinnati.-The
village of Duntcld, Warren county, \. j., is
infested with observation-disclosures Wilcox
aged twenty years, was killed, at South Dam
by, y. y, by the premature explosion of n
cannon--Two men were killed by Il west
bound train on the Long Island Railroad, near
Rockville Centre, I..I.-Joscph Shannon,
aged sixty-thrcc years, was swindlcd out OF
$1,000 by sharpcrs at Beaver Falls, Pa.--A
steamer dock AT lake resort in Michigan gave
away, and acrowdofpcopc were prccipitated
into the water baby being nearly crushed
to dcath-.An express train Oh the Louis
Vile Southern RAILROAD at Louisville struck
wagon containing score of people, and two
young men and little girl were killed.
Samuel Black AN acronaut, was killed while de-
scending with parachute by the balloon burn
ing ut Bcardstown Ill.
Freddie Barringer, aged six years, died in
Philadelphia from hyd'ophobia, developing
from the bite of dog six weeks ago.-Ncw'
York veterans dedicated monumental at Gcttys-
burg-Ncttic Clark, of Providence, Il. l.,
was arrested in New York, charged with OBJ
tanning 5000 from Il Providence bank on "
forged note.-Rcv Peter Mninger, aged
cighty-six years, prominent minister of the
Dunkard Church, died at Roanoke, Na.--W.
J.Applcby, Of Nantucliet, Massachusetts, tried
TO drown q child because her mother refused
TO marry him.-The San Francisco Erdmi-
7ter exposes an alleged fraudulent scheme in
furnishing supplies to the Mare Island Navy
Yard.-Fivc hundred freight handlers on
roads ccntering in Cincinnati have struck
work.-Two men in lard factory at Gut
tenberg, n. j., fell into a vat of causic soda,
and were fatally burncd.--Nicholas Won
Bonnhorst, treasurer of the Peoples Savings
Bank of Pittsburg, committed suicidc.-
Judge Kavanaugh, of Iowa, has rendered adc-
cision that an alien canacquirc by inheritance
no-right or interest to real estate in Iowa.
Reuben McCombcr, a banker, aged sixty years,
committed suicide at Three Rivers Mich
The people Of Boosting little Denver arc owl
ing with rage because the census shows the
population to not exceed 1l5,000-Kansas
City is to have Masonic temple costing $780,,
00O-For the third time William Kcmmlcr
was re-sentcnced to death By electricity
The creditors of the great jewelry house of
Clamp & Davies have led bill declaring
that the firms failure was an attempt to de-
fraud the creditors.
Samuel Smith, the Lewiston (N. ~ boat
man, who was TO have gone through the Nj
ugara whirlpool rapids in arrowhead with John
l.. Soules of Michigan, backed down, but
! Soules swan the rapids alone, but was so bcdly
injured BY striking rock that he would not
attempt the whirlpool.-A national con
ference of lcttcr.carriers VAS held in New
York to consider the question of an increase
sing, Philadelphia, manufactured plumbing
material was burned. Loss 0O,OO0-An
attempt to rescue prisoner from policeman
in Alexandria, Va, led to disturbance, in
which two negroes were shot Icy the police
mun.-Mrs. Catharine McAialon was fatally
shot by some unknown person while sitting
on her doorstep in Philadelphia. -Chcago's
grand jury did not find any Indictment in the
charges Of Doodle made against certain cx-
officio officials,-Thc works of the Columbia
Flint Mill Company at Columbia, Pa, were
destroyed by fire. Loss ,000.-Gcorgc
Cunningham, of Millvillc, n. J., and Jacob
Cunningham, of Philadelphia, were drowned
while swimming in the Dclaware.-The re-
port comes from Pittsburg that Mrs. Harrison
is dissatisfied with her Cape May home, and
will shortly removcto Crcsson Springs for the
remainder of the scason.-Hon. Beverly
Tucker, the noted Virginia politician, died at
Richmond The Randolph Mason Academy
at Roanoke, Va, was dedicated
The Democrats orrennsylvaniain state con-
ycntion nominated Robert L. Pattison for gov
crnor, Chauncey L. Black for lieutenantgov-
crnor, and Vim. II. Barclay for secretary Of
! internal affairs. Pattison subsequently ap-
pearcd before the convention and made a
speech accepting the nomination.-The
National Fair Commission has accepted the
Lake Front in Chicago for the Columbia En-
| position.-Thcrc were three fatal cases of
sunstroke in Buflalo-Thc strike of the East
ST. Louis Railroad platform men is over and
! busincssi is fully rcsumcd.-IgnatzB B. Lourtz
and Robert L. Wallace who pleaded guilty to
the theft of $4,000 worth of bonds from the
vaults of Wm Wallace, proprietor of JFaltacc's
Monthly, were sentenced in New York each to
eight years and eleven months Imprisonment,
with hard labor.--The National Sulphur
Company, with a capital of ten million dol
lars, has been Incorporated in Cincinnati
The striking carpenters in Cincinnati have
, agreed to return to work for the bosses who